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Functional fixedness bias, and how to overcome it

Idea to Value

As described by Anthony McCaffrey in 2012 , the GPT asks a series of two questions to participants when they are being challenges with describing an object: “Can this be decomposed further?”. One potential method to overcome functional fixedness is called the Generic Parts Technique. Does this description imply a use?”.

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How to understand and define user needs

Sopheon

In 2012, Google announced Google Glass, its futuristic voice- and motion-controlled smart glasses that display information directly in its user’s field of vision when they need it. With this product, they’d hoped to create the next revolutionary hardware platform. But when the product was released in 2014, it failed miserably.

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

The books range from old classics like How to Win Friends and Influence People, right up to modern bestsellers like Start with Why and Atomic Habits. With this new online Udemy course you can quickly absorb the key ideas and principles in best-selling busines books by watching short video lectures.

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How to Take Meaning from a Black Swan Event

The Inovo Group

. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, 2012. Normally, Inovo’s subscribers turn to us to understand strategic innovation – how to create growth and manage uncertainty. The answer to this question lies in Taleb’s follow-on book called Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012).

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KaiNexus Office Relocating to Antarctica, Summer 2021

Kainexus

Companies around the world have spent the last year learning how to manage a remote workforce as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe. Jacobson first visited Antarctica back in 2012, where he fell in love with the solitude and expansive views. There’s room to think out here.”.

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How to Use Big Data For Improving Driver Safety

Acuvate

The results saw a 33% drop in crash response time by the highway patrol between 2012 and 2016. The post How to Use Big Data For Improving Driver Safety appeared first on Acuvate. The response time was reduced from 37 minutes to 25 minutes and fatalities dropped by 3%.

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Examining the State of Crowdsourced Innovation in 2019

IdeaScale

From 2012 through 2017, companies started devoting less innovation management resources to core innovations, and more to core-adjacent and transformational innovations. Learn how to manage innovation to stay on the leading edge of your industry. We also invite you to get our Innovation Starter Kit. There is no time like the present.