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[29 Aug 2009 | No Comment | ]

Nature has come-up with elegant solutions of today’s problems.
Janine Benyus tells us about a research field that is called Biomimicry. In this field they look at strategies nature has come-up with to solve different problems, just by trail and error during the process of evolution. Let evolution work for us. www.asknature.org is a website one can post different strategies that can be used by humans to solve problems of teoday in an elegant and natural way that keeps the planet eurth in its equilibrium.

Besides that one can innovate just by …

Innovation, Professional »

[29 Aug 2009 | No Comment | ]

Dan Pink spoke on TED.com about the way traditional businesses are build is often still with the old mindset from the industrial era using incentives like the “carrot and the stick” model to increase production performance. However for more complex tasks people get paralysed when put under pressure to perform by higher rewards. Rewarding systems work better when the task is simple and the details are well scripted, like in repetitive manufacturing work.
In this clip he explains the concept, and the statistics behind it.

Since I am working at SURFfoundation, I …