Inspiration to learn about yourself

Idea # 1: Use collaborative software, for example a blog Blogs like this one is just one method to speed up innovation in a company. Why? Because a blog adds flexibility to the way you work. The people who participate on the blog can participate anywhere and anytime. Time and geography becomes less relevant. Idea # 2: Let people, who are different, work together Don’t let people with identical competences, identical cultural backgrounds etc. work together. Mix up teams including internet communities, so people get to work with persons who think and act differently than they, themselves, do. That will make people think and act more innovatively. Idea # 3: Let people, who have the best arguments and show most interest, make decisions Example: Let the person(s) who, on a blog, comes up with the best arguments and make(s) more comments about the subject than others, decide what to do about the problem. Here are a couple of alternative collaborative software features for making decisions an...

Below are 6 trends that I, by doing research not least on the Internet and by communicating with competent people, have identified as important in the months/years to come. A trend implicit in more or less all the below mentioned trends is the use of collaborative software such as blogs. Trend suggestion # 1: Low cost products Low priced products will continue to be popular – not least because low cost products offer people the opportunity to do more with their money. Among the important drivers for making low cost products are information technology which is, continuously, becoming more powerful and cheaper, countries with low labour costs, as well as economies of scale of the companies making the products. Trend suggestion # 2: Individualization. Individualized products. Innovation driven by customer participation This trend is not least driven by information and communication technology such as blogs like this one – as well as the desire of customers to participate in making the pro...

“If you can dream it, you can do it!” That is the motto of the Swiss running talent Viktor Röthlin. http://www.viktor-roethlin.ch/ Last year’s Number 2 at the European Championships set a new Swiss record and a personal best time by running the 42,195 km. in 2 hours, 8 minutes and 20 seconds at this year’s Zurich Marathon http://www.zurichmarathon.ch/ on April 1st, 2007. To most people, this pace is more or less like sprinting through the whole course. The best female runner at Zurich Marathon was the Russian girl Nina Podnebesnova who finished in 2:36.59. Here are some photos from Zurich Marathon: http://www.swiss-image.ch/slideshow/?event=zuerichmarathon2007 A marathon is not only about professional, world class runners from Switzerland, Russia, and Africa. It is, indeed, also about many people who have running as a hobby and have decided to take on an enormous running challenge. In addition, a marathon is thousands of people who cheer up the runners along the road – clapping thei...