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Ask an Absurd Question

Destination Innovation

The project is described in this article in Nature.com. The genius Stephen Hawking asked a ridiculous question in 2009 when he sent out invitations. “A strong case can be made that the signals are generated by an intelligent form of life on Earth,” Sagan’s team wrote, rather cheekily. ’ He held the event.

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Authority Bias: Why we submit to the ideas and orders of others

Idea to Value

This experiment has recently been replicated in a 2009 study , showing the authority bias is still strong in today’s society. Many participants would continue to increase the shocks even when they themselves were becoming nervous about what they were doing.

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IDEA 2009 - Day 2

Boxes and Arrows

Innovation Parkour – IDEA 2009 View more documents from Normative. Regardless of your current project, the principles behind these examples (from disciplines like social sciences, psychology, neuroscience and cognitive science) can be applied universally. The techo-geeky thing is old news, Lisa applies some human thinking.

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IDEA 2009 - Day 1

Boxes and Arrows

Download Making Virtual Worlds: Games and the Human for a Digital Age (IDEA 2009 Presentation) View more documents from tmmalaby. Instead of relying on top-down and procedural decision-making, these organizations contrive complex and game-like systems that promise to generate legitimate decisions from the ground up.

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Enhancing child and family well-being using Family Resource Centers

Christensen Institute

Harvard Business School Module Note, August 2009 (revised November 2021). She’s an Associate Professor at the Indiana University School of Social Work and Project Director of SIF. Figure 1: Business Model Components Source: This graphic was originally published by Clayton M. Christensen and Mark W. It has been modified.

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5 Reasons to Bring Your Team Together for a Remote Design Thinking Project Now

InnovationTraining.org

Here we share five reasons why now’s the time to bring your team together for a remote design thinking project. Research by McKinsey & Company found that organizations that maintained their focus on innovation during the 2009 financial crisis emerged stronger. Invest in innovation now, outperform your peers in the long term.

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Startups Platform Grow at Bosch: 3 Paths to Transition an Idea into an Innovation Project

Innovation Excellence

Peter Guse joined Bosch’s Research and Advance Engineering Sector as Innovation Manager in 2009. He co-developed the concept of the Bosch Start-up Platform, Grow, that he heads as founding CEO since 2013. Grow platform Gmbh, as the internal incubator, is the platform for start-ups, and an open space for entrepreneurs inside of Bosch.

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