Invierno, Innovatividad, Ingenio :-)

Estar desocupado es condición para ser invitado a ocuparse (paradojas de la acción; otro tip en competencias básicas :-)

En el lenguaje popular se suele decir: "no dejes para mañana lo que puedes hacer hoy"; y también, "el maestro aparece cuando el discípulo está listo".

El punto es que mientras uno está en deuda con lo que había que hacer, nada nuevo para hacer se presenta y/o si se presenta no es factible hacerlo; o sea uno corre el riesgo de seguir haciendo por siempre lo mismo; así de obvio como puede sonar (y lo es).

Sin embargo trate usted de actuar para estar siempre desocupado... ¡y verá lo arduo que es! :-):-):-)

Visualización y Memoria (futuro y pasado; un tip en competencias básicas :-)

Cuando ud. necesite NO olvidarse de algo que tiene que hacer en un futuro cercano "grábeselo" construyendo desde su imaginación la escena (una imagen por supuesto) de aquello que hará cuando esté en el sitio, en el momento, frente a la persona, etc., donde lo hará. Cuando uno o más de esos detalles acudan a presencia acudirá así mismo el recuerdo de lo que tenía que hacer :-):-):-) (¡En serio!)

Innosoñando: la billetera

Lo que quiero (esta vez :-) es poder cambiar todos los días de billetera, así como cambio de correa o zapatos... pero sin tener que sacar de una, y volver a acomodar en la otra, todo lo que va dentro (¡qué pereza!) Parece (más o menos) fácil ¿no? :-) :-) :-)

Sobre la crisis en ciernes

Aquí la entrada completa

"These days, virtually everyone agrees that economies are a mess in the United States, Europe and much of the rest of the world.

On October 25, the Conference Board reported that sentiment among U.S. consumers had sunk to lows not seen since the height of the recession. A “super-committee” of 12 members of Congress is at loggerheads, with only weeks to find ways to slash U.S. budget deficits before Draconian cuts kick in automatically. And in Europe, governments are wrestling over how to deal with the debt crisis in Greece and other countries.

Are things as bad as they seem?

..."

Los 10 mitos de la innovación por Scott Anthony

Aquí la entrada completa

Aquí decimos que en efecto, si estos no son los 10 mitos (o sea si la verdad es que hay 11 o 12 o 13, etc.) al menos sí con toda seguridad son los 10 más importantes :-) :-) :-)

Paper.li

Aquí el sitio

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¿Cuál sería ese períodico que todos quisiéramos leer?

¡Exactamente! R/ Aquel que haríamos sólo para que nosotros (cada uno) leyéramos en el máximo disfrute... y que por tanto probablemente nadie más leería :-)

PS. De todas formas es una innovación que merece todo nuestro aplauso :-)

Lo de Boeing en los últimos 10 días es impresionante...

...aunque lo impresionante debe estar en verdad en el trabajo duro de los últimos 10 años.

Aquí y aquí y aquí la noticia desde la fuente oficial: la compañía misma

Primero, en Nov.13, un pedido de USD 18 billones... Y luego, en Nov.17, una pre-orden por otros USD 21,7 billones. Para que los lectores tengan una referencia, USD 40 billones es lo que Colombia entera produce hoy más o menos en 4 meses.

El trabajo duro no es otra cosa que la INNOVACIÓN; que da respuesta efectiva a los Jobs-To-Be-Done del cliente (en este caso las aerolíneas).

¿Cuál es el secreto? See that my friends....



Aquí el detalle de lo presentado en la imagen.

Magos de la innovación estos "señores"

En la foto hay menos $COL 100.000 del bolsillo de la familia (papás, ahorros del niño, abuelos,etc.), y más $COL 100.000 para Disney :-)

Club Penguin por supuesto


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Combinación magistral del mundo virtual y del físico.

Combinación magistral del juego en solitario y en grupo.

Combinación magistral del narrar historias y permitir crear historias.

10 sobre 10 esta vez para Disney :-)

Sencilla (y maravillosa) innovación

Aquí el sitio de la editorial

"Phaidon Press is the world’s leading publisher of books on the visual arts, with offices in London, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, Milan, New York and Tokyo, and distributors worldwide. It has had a long and fascinating history, as recorded by art historian Nigel Spivey for Phaidon's 75th anniversary in 1998."

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Lo mostrado son dos ejemplos del producto.

Cada libro reúne la totalidad (o en todo caso una gran cantidad) de las obras de pintura alrededor del mismo tema.

Así podemos apreciar cómo vió cada artista (y a través del tiempo, cómo se vió en cada época) el tema.

¿Por qué me gustó?

1. Me mostró que en verdad hay "infinitas" posibilidades de realización (sobre el mismo "tema"), todas de excelencia.

2. Me mostró las virtudes de la re-creación respetuosa.

3. Me mostró el poder de la pintura (tal vez como lo veía mi madre; tal vez como siempre quizo que lo viera :-)

(esta es repetida :-) Todo, pero todo, es con el "otro", para el "otro", desde el "otro", etc.

Por lo tanto:

No quejarse
No preguntar por qué
No amenazar
No jactarse

Y ya.

¡Qué innovación tan sencilla y exitosa!

Aquí el sitio de la compañía

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Jobs-To-Be-Done

¿Cómo extender el disfrute de un "juguete" que es una fiebre desde hace 100 años entre los adolescentes ahora a los más pequeños?

¿Cómo vencer la restricción - problema de la seguridad del producto para los más pequeños?

¿Cómo lograr de contera que esos más pequeños sean luego al crecer los clientes del "juguete original"?

¡Genial la solución Tech Deck! :-)

Opssss!: no deja de impresionarnos este "señor Google" :-)

¿Esta es la clase de innovación que queremos? :-/

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La verdad quisiera trabajar y viajar menos y pasar más tiempo con mis hijos (cara a cara) y leyendo :-)

Innosoñando: la alcancía virtual

La idea es muy sencilla:

En cambio de estar donando las "vueltas" a las causas x, y, z en los supermercados y otros sitios, poder poner esas "moneditas" en la alcancía virtual de mis hijos.

Que también los abuelos (o cualquier otro autorizado) puedan hacerlo en cualquier lugar en donde ellos estén recibiendo vueltas.

Que también si deseo deshacerme de monedas en cualquier checkout me las reciban y abonen a la alcancía virtual.

Que también pueda (a un costo dado) convertir millas y otros premios de fidelidad en "monedas" para la alcancía virtual.

¿Qué recibe a cambio el administrador de la alcancía virtual?

(Que sería un banco por supuesto) mi compromiso de trasladar cada mes a una cuenta de sólo ahorros (programada a una meta dada en el tiempo y en el monto) todo lo que vaya entrando a la alcancía virtual :-) :-) :-)

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¿Qué banco se le medirá primero? :-)

Nasa images (always astonishing!)

The Giant Nebula, NGC 3603

"Thousands of sparkling young stars nestled within the giant nebula NGC 3603. This stellar "jewel box" is one of the most massive young star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy. NGC 3603 is a prominent star-forming region in the Carina spiral arm of the Milky Way, about 20,000 light-years away. This image shows a young star cluster surrounded by a vast region of dust and gas. The image reveals stages in the life cycle of stars. The nebula was first discovered by Sir John Herschel in 1834. The image spans roughly 17 light-years.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage "




The Space Station's First Crew

"Expedition 1 Commander Bill Shepherd (center) is flanked by Soyuz Commander Yuri Gidzenko (right) and Flight Engineer Sergei Krikalev (left) in this crew photograph. The three, seated in front of an artist's concept of the International Space Station, are wearing the Sokol space suits like those donned for trips in the Soyuz to the station. National flags representing all the international partners run along the bottom of the portrait. Expedition 1 was the first crew to live aboard the orbital platform and launched to the station on Oct. 31, 2000.

Image Credit: NASA"



When Galaxies Collide

"This interacting pair of galaxies is included in Arp's catalog of peculiar galaxies as number 148. Arp 148 is the staggering aftermath of an encounter between two galaxies, resulting in a ring-shaped galaxy and a long-tailed companion. The collision between the two parent galaxies produced a shockwave effect that first drew matter into the center and then caused it to propagate outwards in a ring. The elongated companion perpendicular to the ring suggests that Arp 148 is a unique snapshot of an ongoing collision. Infrared observations reveal a strong obscuration region that appears as a dark dust lane across the nucleus in optical light. Arp 148 is nicknamed Mayall's object and is located in the constellation of Ursa Major, the Great Bear, approximately 500 million light-years away. This image is part of a large collection of 59 images of merging galaxies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and released on April 24, 2008, the observatory's 18th anniversary.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)"

RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms (Ken Robinson)

Acerca del autor:

"Sir Ken Robinson, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in the development of education, creativity and innovation. He is also one of the world’s leading speakers with a profound impact on audiences everywhere. The videos of his famous 2006 and 2010 talks to the prestigious TED Conference have been seen by an estimated 200 million people in over 150 countries.

He works with governments in Europe, Asia and the USA, with international agencies, Fortune 500 companies and some of the world’s leading cultural organizations. In 1998, he led a national commission on creativity, education and the economy for the UK Government. All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education (The Robinson Report) was published to wide acclaim in 1999. He was the central figure in developing a strategy for creative and economic development as part of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland, working with the ministers for training, education enterprise and culture. The resulting blueprint for change, Unlocking Creativity, was adopted by politicians of all parties and by business, education and cultural leaders across the Province. He was one of four international advisors to the Singapore Government for its strategy to become the creative hub of South East Asia.

For twelve years, he was professor of education at the University of Warwick in the UK and is now professor emeritus. He has received honorary degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design, Ringling College of Arts and Design, the Open University and the Central School of Speech and Drama, Birmingham City University and the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. He was been honored with the Athena Award of the Rhode Island School of Design for services to the arts and education; the Peabody Medal for contributions to the arts and culture in the United States, the LEGO Prize for international achievement in education, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Royal Society of Arts for outstanding contributions to cultural relations between the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2005, he was named as one of Time/Fortune/CNN’s ‘Principal Voices’. In 2003, he received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts. He speaks to audiences throughout the world on the creative challenges facing business and education in the new global economies.

His book The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything (Penguin/Viking 2009) is a New York Times best seller and has been translated into twenty-one languages. His latest book is a 10th anniversary edition of his classic work on creativity and innovation, Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative (Capstone/Wiley). Sir Ken was born in Liverpool, UK, as one of seven children. He is married to Therese (Lady) Robinson. They have two children, James and Kate, and now live in Los Angeles, California."

RSA (an special kind of innovation)

Aquí

"The RSA: an enlightenment organisation committed to finding innovative practical solutions to today’s social challenges. Through its ideas, research and 27,000-strong Fellowship it seeks to understand and enhance human capability so we can close the gap between today’s reality and people’s hopes for a better world."

The divided brain

Acerca del autor:

"Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist and writer who works privately in London, and otherwise lives on the Isle of Skye.

He is committed to the idea that the mind and brain can be understood only by seeing them in the broadest possible context, that of the whole of our physical and spiritual existence, and of the wider human culture in which they arise – the culture which helps to mould, and in turn is moulded by, our minds and brains.

He was a late entrant to medicine. After a scholarship to Winchester College, he was awarded a scholarship to New College, Oxford, where he read English. He won the Chancellor’s English Essay Prize and the Charles Oldham Shakespeare Prize in 1974 and graduated (with congratulated 1st Class Hons) in 1975 (MA 1979). He was awarded a Prize Fellowship of All Souls College, Oxford in 1975, teaching English literature and pursuing interests in philosophy and psychology between 1975 and 1982. He then went on to train in medicine, and during this period All Souls generously re-elected him to a further Fellowship (1984-1991), and again in 2002 (to 2004).

He was formerly a Consultant Psychiatrist of the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley NHS Trust in London, where he was Clinical Director of their southern sector Acute Mental Health Services. He currently holds a Staff Consultant post at The Priory Hospital, Hayes Grove, where he was Medical Director till 2004. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and is specially approved by the Secretary of State under Section 12(2) of the Mental Health Act, 1983. He trained at the Maudsley Hospital in London, working on specialist units including the Neuropsychiatry and Epilepsy Unit, the Children’s Unit and the Forensic Unit, as well as, at Senior Registrar level, the National Psychosis Referral Unit and the National Eating Disorder Unit. During this period he also worked as a Research Fellow in neuroimaging at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, USA. His clinical experience has been broad-based, and he has run a busy Community Mental Health Team in an ethnically diverse and socially deprived area of south London. He is interested in a wide range of psychiatric conditions, including depression, psychosis, personality disorders (especially borderline personality disorder), anxiety disorders, chronic low self-esteem, phobias, alcohol and drug abuse, as well as neuropsychiatry.

He has a busy practice as a medico-legal expert.

He has published original articles in a wide range of papers and journals, including the Times Literary Supplement, The London Review of Books, The Listener, Essays in Criticism, Modern Language Review, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, BMJ, English Historical Review, British Journal of Psychiatry, and American Journal of Psychiatry, on topics in literature, medicine and psychiatry, and has published original research on neuroimaging in schizophrenia, the phenomenology of schizophrenia, and other topics. He took part in a two-part Channel 4 documentary, Soul Searching, in 2003. His first book, Against Criticism, was published by Faber in 1982, and dates from before his medical training, but deals with issues of the wholeness, uniqueness and embodied nature of the work of art, which are continuous with his current concern, the relationship between the history of ideas and shifts in brain hemisphere function, a topic which he has been researching for 20 years, and which is the subject of a recent book published by Yale University Press, The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.

His other interests include the relationship between creativity and mental illness, and he is currently working on a number of books: a critique of contemporary society and culture from the standpoint of neuropsychology; a study of the paintings of subjects with schizophrenia; a series of essays about culture and the brain with subjects from Andrew Marvell to Serge Gainsbourg; and a short book of reflections on spiritual experience."

El iPhone como parte de.... (¡todo!)

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"Congratulations, you’ve found the WVIL website. As you’ve most likely figured out, the WVIL camera is not a real product, but a Concept Camera envisioned by Artefact's award-winning design team. It answers the question: “what’s next for camera design?”

The WVIL represents Artefact's passion for creativity and strategic vision in the camera space. Learn more about Artefact’s take on the history of photography as well as where it’s going in the future."

Concept Camera: The WVIL from Artefact on Vimeo.