What if the newspaper of tomorrow was invented today?
News+ is such concept, created by Bonnier a Swedish publishing organisation, to show what happens when old paradigms are left behind and shifting towards new possibilities.
News+ combines the depth and editorial choices of a daily newspaper with the web’s possibilities for interaction and quick updates, keeping the user in mind.
Watch the video below and give you opinion.
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Hij stelt daarbij vragen die je direct kan relateren aan je eigen verander- of innovatie-case.
Homan betoogt dat de focus van veranderingen meestal gericht is op de structuur, de processen en de systemen, terwijl er niet stil wordt gestaan bij wat werkelijk bepalende is bij de verandering.
Deze lezing gaat vooral over een derde aspect, naast doel en instrument, namelijk het “off-stage behavior” van de medewerkers. Homan noemt dat de “betekenis wolken” die werkelijk aangeven wat de medewerkers ervan denken.
Verandering vindt volgens hem alleen plaats in het spontane domein en dus niet in ‘een bedachte wereld’. De ‘betekenis wolken’ zijn niet te beïnvloeden door lineaire verandering op basis van een plan, terwijl ze essentieel zijn voor het veranderingsproces. Zijn oplossing: “Er zijn in de ‘betekenis bewolking’ ook altijd kleine wolkjes die een andere mening hebben en hoe kan je die verder onwikkelen of laten groeien?”.
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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 changing perspective. This talk is about the evolutionary perspective of grass.
This talk is about the aquatic-ape. A different perspective on the evolution of the homo sapience.
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 have noticed the same behaviour. People do not want to finish a project because of the large amount of money you put in to it, but because of the intrinsic motivation and a high level of autonomy. SURFfoundation subsidises innovative research projects, half paid by SURF, the other half by universities, but even on an unbalanced budgets (say 20% SURF, 80% universities), people are prepared to step in the project. Even when there is no money incentive at all, they want to work together with different universities to tackle a problem, because their intrinsic motivation is high. The only thing SURFfoundation has to do is to facilitate cooperation infrastructure (meeting rooms and synchronising agenda’s).
Daniel Pink points out that for higher performance on complex tasks the business model should thrive on intrinsic motivation. The elements that create intrinsic motivation are, according to Daniel Pink: Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose. This results in a completely new business model, abbreviated by ROWE (Results Only Work Environment).
Below you will find a thesis I have witten for the MasterClass course Innovation Management. This thesis is about how SURFfoundation (the organisation I work for) can improve the commitment of innovation of every employee throughout the organisation of every single University and Research institute that is a member of SURFfoundation.
Unfortunately for the English readers, this has been written in Dutch. For the Dutch readers, enjoy reading! 🙂
There is a Disclaimer: this thesis is only fictional, and does not reflect the way SURFfoundation is moving ahead in the future. So no rights or claims can be made or what so ever based on this thesis written below.
From their web site: “A ‘different perspective’ on things, a shift of perspective makes innovation possible. `To our concern hierarchical organization models and related tasks make ‘creative innovation’ impossible. That is why The Beach operates as a network of people and organizations that emrace openness, involvement and interaction. We are convinced that shaping the future requires different way of thinking, looking and interacting. Seeking and finding new shared meanings are central to our approach. ”
The authors Jaap Bloem and Menno van Doorn from the consultancy company Sogeti describe how to setup a Open Innovation business model based upon the Open Source Software model. It describes how one can use empowered employees with greater autonomy to create innovitive products or services and create greater trust due to the transparancy. Open for Business is only in Dutch.
