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We had a successful meeting of the BQF Innovation Unit today in London where the topic was Knowledge Management for Innovation. Professor Michael Kelleher gave a comprehensive explanation of KM. Some of the points he made were: The cost of ignorance is high. NASA and the British Nuclear Industry both lost important early knowledge. You [...]  The UK Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) has recently issued a White Paper on how the government plans to help the UK ‘excel at all types of innovation.’ You can download the press release, the executive summary or the full report (all 98 pages). The role of the Department is ‘to champion innovation across the [...] Do you watch The Apprentice? Candidates for the position of apprentice to Sir Alan Sugar are set business tasks in teams. The losing team then has to face trial by ordeal by Sugar and his henchman and henchwoman. Ultimately, with a great dramatic flourish and an accusatory pointed finger, Sir Alan announces, ‘You’re fired!’ [...] According to this report from the BBC, coffee chain giant Starbucks is hoping its loyal customers may be able to brew up the bright ideas to help turn around its struggling fortunes. The company recently launched a website offering its US customers the chance to pitch ideas for how the firm can improve its stores [...] In this entertaining and challenging talk Sir Kenneth Robinson argues that creativity is as important as literacy and that our education system is failing in this regard. He points out the many ways our schools fail to recognize — much less cultivate — the talents of many brilliant people. “We are educating people out of their [...] |
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