Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Creativity and Innovation - European Year 2009
European Union would like to promote creativity and innovation during the whole year 2009. If you are interested, take a look at the website - http://www.create2009.europa.eu
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Fascination by Innovation Facebook Page
We have prepared this Facebook page supporting our ebook Fascination by Innovation.
You can see several sample pages from the ebook modules. And there is a possibility of discussion and interaction too.
Stay connected and let the others know that you are the innovation fan too!
You can see several sample pages from the ebook modules. And there is a possibility of discussion and interaction too.
Stay connected and let the others know that you are the innovation fan too!
Fascination by Innovation - Module 3
Do you think that the current energy crisis could be solved by solar energy? And what are the possible ways of further development in this area? Also, is it possible now to know who will win?
If you are interested in answers to these questions, you should buy our third module of ebook Fascination by Innovation for $2.99 here (Windows compatible version only, 5.5 MB).
Fascination by Innovation - Module 2
Have you ever wondered why some industries, products and brands are in certain times more successful than the others? And why the situation could change suddenly? Do you know in what sense Rich Dad Robert Kiyosaki is wrong? And if it is possible to build a space elevator?
You can find the answers in our second module of ebook Fascination by Innovation devoted to s-curves development. In the innovation management field, the s-curve illustrates the introduction, growth and maturation of innovations as well as the technological cycles that most industries experience.
You can safely buy the ebook for $2.99 here (Windows compatible version only, 6.5 MB).
Monday, June 23, 2008
Fascination by Innovation - Module 1
Here you can find the ebook Fascination by Innovation. The first module is available for free and you can download it for Windows PCs here (size around 4 MB).
Its aim is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the area of innovations. There are two possible target audiences - innovators (managers and entrepreneurs) and MBA or PhD students.
The ebook contains practically oriented case studies (e.g. about ultrathin MacBook Air notebook by Apple) and is based on famous works of Michael E. Porter and Clayton M. Christensen.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Innovation Literacy
You must have heard the notions of computer literacy or financial literacy which were coined a decade or more ago. Why not speak about “innovation literacy” when referring to a deeper human understanding of a complex technological, economic, social, and possibly some changes in nature?
In his best selling books, Robert Kiyosaki offers attractive solutions to those who want to become investors in non-technological businesses, for example in real estate. On the contrary to Kiyosaki, in this blog, we would like to provide insights into technology-based businesses namely, not real estate. Think of possible stagnation consequences for technology, the economy and society if all people only became real estate experts.
Our insights may become valuable resource for both entrepreneurs as well as ambitious employees who want to support and speed up the technological, economical and social progress in their environment. With deeper insights in complex-systems dynamics, you may be better equipped for a successful entrepreneurial career (it means a creative-destruction career) - of course, if adequate personal characteristics inside and attractive business opportunities outside exist.
The future will be different than the past. To underline this fact, the investor Warren Buffet said: If history could make people rich, librarians would be billionaires. We have no crystal ball to predict the future. However, by analyzing past events, we can point out important principles which will guide your future. Risk is always present and we have to be comfortable with it as well. Unexpected serious events can still come (wars, pestilence, …).
Under normal conditions, your active life will be longer because your whole life will be longer. Because of advances in medicine, any younger reader of this web page (a girl or a boy of about 20 years old) can reasonably expect a full 50 years of active life before him/her. So what can happen over fifty years of a human life? If we look 50 years back, we can see many technological as well as a few social changes there.
In his best selling book, Richard Florida sees it vice versa. According to him, there were more visible social changes than technological ones. Be prepared for conflicting perceptions and explanations not only of the future but the past as well. However, for the next future 50 years we can expect many changes to come. Therefore, well educated people should understand them as much as possible.
For these reasons we have prepared a broadly conceived course on innovation in a form of an e-book. Using the e-book, we will try to increase your innovation literacy, and thus increase the probability of your survival and success in the future. It doesn't matter if you are in the U.S.A., EU, India, China or Angola. The changes are coming.
In June 2008, in the Czech Republic,
Miroslav Pivoda and Viktor Vojtko
In his best selling books, Robert Kiyosaki offers attractive solutions to those who want to become investors in non-technological businesses, for example in real estate. On the contrary to Kiyosaki, in this blog, we would like to provide insights into technology-based businesses namely, not real estate. Think of possible stagnation consequences for technology, the economy and society if all people only became real estate experts.
Our insights may become valuable resource for both entrepreneurs as well as ambitious employees who want to support and speed up the technological, economical and social progress in their environment. With deeper insights in complex-systems dynamics, you may be better equipped for a successful entrepreneurial career (it means a creative-destruction career) - of course, if adequate personal characteristics inside and attractive business opportunities outside exist.
The future will be different than the past. To underline this fact, the investor Warren Buffet said: If history could make people rich, librarians would be billionaires. We have no crystal ball to predict the future. However, by analyzing past events, we can point out important principles which will guide your future. Risk is always present and we have to be comfortable with it as well. Unexpected serious events can still come (wars, pestilence, …).
Under normal conditions, your active life will be longer because your whole life will be longer. Because of advances in medicine, any younger reader of this web page (a girl or a boy of about 20 years old) can reasonably expect a full 50 years of active life before him/her. So what can happen over fifty years of a human life? If we look 50 years back, we can see many technological as well as a few social changes there.
In his best selling book, Richard Florida sees it vice versa. According to him, there were more visible social changes than technological ones. Be prepared for conflicting perceptions and explanations not only of the future but the past as well. However, for the next future 50 years we can expect many changes to come. Therefore, well educated people should understand them as much as possible.
For these reasons we have prepared a broadly conceived course on innovation in a form of an e-book. Using the e-book, we will try to increase your innovation literacy, and thus increase the probability of your survival and success in the future. It doesn't matter if you are in the U.S.A., EU, India, China or Angola. The changes are coming.
In June 2008, in the Czech Republic,
Miroslav Pivoda and Viktor Vojtko
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