Implementation Of New Ideas Research Articles

Creative Management and Innovation

Nowadays, entrepreneurship is determined how fast innovations or creativity can be incorporated into company activities. Creativity is mean constantly aspiring process of innovation and progress. Creativity and innovation management these days are important keys to any effort how to be success in business world. Forces of creativity in company or in entrepreneurship should be able to provide innovation and contribute to solve problems. The new idea are often accepted as the main activity of creative management and the vision, strategy, goals or ideas are understands like equipment of creativity. Implementation of new ideas - innovation is the main activity of creative management. Visions, strategies, objectives and ideas are seen as tools of creativity.Because of differences in innovation process between EU and USA, innovation processes in EU are directly supported via framework programs. Currently FP7 is active, but new process for innovation called Horizon 2020 is under preparation. Last FP7 program is oriented for cooperation between science oriented organizations (universities) and SME, while future Horizon 2020 will be oriented for excellence science, competitive industries and better human society.In paper are presented real examples of companies/projects within the EU, including Slovakia. Three types of projects are compared. While project SAFER is supported by EU FP7, project Volvo Vision 2020 and Logomotion project are not supported and are commercial projects. Slovak project is supported by private investor. All projects are different, but have common line - to manage innovation process and implement it in real life. To manage innovation teams located around the world required creative concept in management.

An invaluable publication

‘Innovation’ has surpassed ‘industry’ as the principal driver of the American economy. The conception and implementation of new ideas and methods of performing the functions of our society are the keys to the prizes most highly treasured. It is thus not surprising that litigation turning on the scope and enforceability of patents, copyrights, trade marks, and trade secrets has boomed—or that defences against the efforts of the holders of such rights are eagerly sought and frequently invoked. Joel Davidow, a 40-plus year practitioner in this niche area of law practice (which included his appointment to related key positions in the Antitrust Section of the Justice Department), has prepared what every active litigator in the field will want to include in his or her library and bring to court when a client asserts IP claims or seeks to avoid them when they are asserted by others. His brief paperback is a concise and easy-to-understand outline of the numerous ways in which IP rights may be attacked and the critical times at which such efforts must be made if they are to receive appropriate consideration by a court. Written in a chatty style, the book will make the reader feel Joel is at the table reminding lead counsel of the details of, say, a Walker Process claim and the moment in the proceeding in which it must be advanced or can be rebuffed.

Psychometric Properties of the Turkish Adaptation of the Mathematics Teacher Efficacy Belief Instrument for In-Service Teachers

Teaching efficacy beliefs have attracted researchers' attention in recent decades because of its close association with and potential impact on the implementation of new ideas and skills in education. In the present study, we have explored the psychometric properties and construct validity of the Turkish adaptation of the Mathematics Teacher Efficacy Belief Instrument developed by Enochs, Smith, & Huinker (2000) for in-service mathematics teachers. The instrument distinguishes between two dimensions of efficacy beliefs for mathematics teachers: personal mathematics teaching efficacy and mathematics teaching outcome expectancy. The sample consisted of 1355 in-service elementary school teachers and middle school mathematics teachers from 368 schools. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis revealed a two-factor structure similar to that found in other studies. Also, scores from the two subscales indicated acceptable internal consistency.

END-TO-END INDIA-UK TRANSNATIONAL WIRELESS TESTBED

Wireless Communication is a fast growing technology area where tremendous amount of research is ongoing. It is also an area where the use of technology in the market has seen wide and far-reaching impact. The India-UK Advanced Technology Centre initiative is a collaborative research project between various institutes and companies across UK and India, which envisages, apart from several research outcomes, putting in place of a support infrastructure for facilitating R&D of Next Generation networks, Systems and Services. As part of this project, an end-to-end trans-national advanced wireless testbed is being developed which will facilitate and support research and implementation of new ideas, concepts and technologies. The testbed will provide a framework which can be used to rapidly prototype and evaluate emerging concepts and technologies, and enables researchers to investigate/demonstrate the feasibility of new ideas in a realistic test environment. The testbed complements analytical and simulation based studies undertaken as part of the initial study when new ideas are proposed. This paper gives the details of the testbed and shows how a 4G technology like LTE has been implemented as one of the realisations of the test bed.

Lessons learned through innovation in medical education

Lessons learned through innovation in medical education

Integration of Business and Healthcare Delivery Processes

Demand for performance improvement drives many healthcare organizations to learn as much as possible about continuous quality improvement. This case study examines the implementation of new ideas in Polish Healthcare systems, such as problem solving procedures, data collection, provision of patients satisfaction reports, employee satisfaction surveys, and management of various processes, with the use of clinical algorithms. The author examines monitoring and improvement of healthcare quality, emphasizing problem identification, development of standards, data collection, data analyses and evaluation, implementation of quality improvement in public healthcare with cost saving, and at the same time, improve the quality of patient care. Traditional forums for measuring performance have two aspects: i) Organization and ii) Patient. Organizations must measure three aspects: balance score, value-based cost management and Baldrige criteria, which lead to improvement of organizational performance and, in consequence, delivery of constantly improving value for patients—the anticipated outcome for improved healthcare quality. The method used in this article is intertwined with balance score and value based cost management in public healthcare within Poland.

The Structure of Design Revolutions: Kuhnian Paradigm Shifts in Creative Problem Solving

Introduction Researchers interested in understanding creative design have studied the genesis, development, and implementation of new ideas in design projects. The findings from such studies can be divided into those that emphasize the sudden emergence of new ideas, and those that emphasize how new ideas are gradually built upon those that precede them. In this article, a unification of these different perspectives is proposed by describing a general structure of creative design progress that accounts for both cumulative and disruptive episodes. This description is based on Thomas S. Kuhn’s book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,2 an historically informed account of scientific progress in which we can find many parallels with observed phenomena in creative design.3 It is argued that viewing creative design episodes through a Kuhnian lens yields two distinct benefits: first, it can sensitize researchers to the existence of phenomena that are not emphasized by existing accounts; and second, it can sensitize designers to the nature and dynamics of creative progress, and thereby aid reflective practice. Creativity and design are topics that are studied from a variety of perspectives, and before proceeding further it is worth clarifying our particular frame of reference and the scope of the arguments we will explore. First, because our interest is in design rather than technology, emphasis is placed on the activities that occur within particular design projects rather than historical design developments across different product generations.4 We are also only interested here in the structure of creative progress, and not in assessing the degree of creativity attained or in the efficacy of creative methods.5 It follows that our focus is on descriptive accounts of creative design as it occurs, rather than normative models of design as it should be.6 Finally, we shall be restricted to considering the production and acceptance of ideas that are somehow new to the individuals and groups involved in a design project; we are unconcerned with whether such ideas are also new to the world because it is psychological rather than historical phenomena that are Acknowledgment The author wishes to thank Professor Simon Schaffer from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge for his guidance on matters of Kuhn scholarship.

Модифікація життєвого рівня в Україні та мотиваційні чинники для його підвищення в умовах глобалізації

The dynamics of living standards in Ukraine and attempt to identify ways to overcome the tendencies of marginalization of society, strengthening of the motivation factors to the active participation of its functioning layers in the implementation of new ideas of social development, growth on this basis of their wealth are considered in this article.

Managing and Facilitating Innovation and Nurse Satisfaction

Behaviors and actions that foster innovation are complementary to those associated with managing and facilitating nurse satisfaction. These include creating an organizational climate that encourages the generation, sharing, and implementation of new ideas; managing with the skills to hire and retain competent and creative individuals; and establishing the infrastructure and processes to recognize and embed best and promising practices into the organization. The ability to innovate and to manage and facilitate nurse satisfaction is a necessary competency for organizational success.

Exploring education driven entrepreneurship in engineering graduates in India

Engineering education has an indomitable role in entrepreneurship development. Since entrepreneurship is a dynamic process of vision, change and creation – education provides energy and passion towards creation and implementation of new ideas on a continual basis. In India, engineering institutions have mostly played a passive role, resulting in many myths and fears among students on entrepreneurship. Survey reports amply indicate the abundant existence of entrepreneurial aptitude among students, but ironically entrepreneurial capability is lacking among them on account of poor inputs on entrepreneurship. The article dwells on, trends in engineering graduates towards wage employment/self-employment as career option; the prevalent myths and fears on entrepreneurship; inhibitors to sustainable growth of entrepreneurship. Taking a holistic approach of 'Entrepreneurship Development' as the key objective, a case study is cited to propose a strategic model for engineering institutions to evaluate performance in fostering entrepreneurship among engineering students in India.

Staircase Model for New Practice Implementation

Implementation of new ideas and new practices are essential for an organization to remain competitive in a changing business environment. The absence of these new ideas will eventually lead to stagnation, but the challenge to organizations remains how to overcome the many barriers that appear during an implementation process and successfully convert these ideas into sustainable practices. Within the capital facility industry, this challenge is amplified based on long-held industry practices, corporate culture, and a necessary focus on minimizing risk. However, even the capital facility industry is being forced to recognize the need to adapt to changing business conditions through the implementation of best practices. Specifically, organizations require an implementation plan that provides enough detail that all parties impacted by the process understand the process roadmap that is going to be followed during implementation. This paper introduces the development of the staircase implementation model and how it addresses the need for an implementation roadmap that is applicable to all implementation initiatives. The paper introduces the model components, the proposed application of the model, and the initial testing of the model that led to specific implementation considerations. This paper has significant relevance to industry as it gives a practical introduction to the important focus of implementing new practices.

Will the new competitive landscape cause your firm's decline? It depends on your mindset

A view of the new competitive landscape shows globalization, rapid technological change, and hypercompetition as conduits leading to either organizational decline or organizational growth. In this article we explain how managers can use four mindsets to convert potential threats posed by these environmental challenges into pathways of prosperity, instead of pathways of decline. A global mindset, or the ability to view the world using a broad perspective, converts globalization threats into growth opportunities by thinking beyond geographic boundaries, valuing integration across borders, and appreciating regional and cultural diversity. An innovation mindset, meaning a mental framework that fosters development and implementation of new ideas, transforms rapid technological change threats into opportunities by valuing constant generation of new ideas and business models, realizing sources of new ideas, and stressing next practices rather than best practices. A virtual mindset, or the ability of managers to hand over their firms’ activities to external providers, turns hypercompetition into prospects for growth by facilitating flexibility and responsiveness. Finally, a collaboration mindset, meaning a willingness to engage in business partnerships, converts all three challenges into opportunities by allowing firms to form successful partnerships that can lead to synergy by combining business complementarities.

Molecular Gastronomy: A Food Fad or an Interface for Science-based Cooking?

A review is given over the field of molecular gastronomy and its relation to science and cooking. We begin with a brief history of the field of molecular gastronomy, the definition of the term itself, and the current controversy surrounding this term. We then highlight the distinction between molecular gastronomy and science-based cooking, and we discuss both the similarities and the distinctions between science and cooking. In particular, we highlight the fact that the kitchen serves as an ideal place to foster interactions between scientists and chefs that lead to benefits for the general public in the form of novel and high-quality foods. On the one hand, it can facilitate the implementation of new ideas and recipes in restaurants. On the other hand, it challenges scientists to apply their fundamental scientific understanding to the complexities of cooking, and it challenges them to expand the scientific understanding of many chemical and physical mechanisms beyond the common mass-produced food products. In addition, molecular gastronomy forms an ideal base to educate the general public about the basic principles of science and cooking and how they can be utilized to improve the awareness of the role of food and nutrition for the quality of life.

Knowledge management and innovation in UK energy sector SMEs: is there a close link?

Knowledge Management (KM) is crucial in fostering and sustaining competitive innovation processes that create economic and social value through the generation, development and implementation of new ideas. Hence, there is an emerging interest in research linking KM and innovation. However, the organisations which have readily adopted and implemented KM are found to be the larger, well financed and better resourced ones. There are many success stories of KM in large organisations, but these have not been replicated in Small to Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). This paper aims at addressing this gap by reporting on a research project that focused on exploring how KM is linked to innovation processes in SMEs within the UK energy sector and consequently presents an extensive discussion of findings of the study. The research design for the project is based on a survey approach anchored on a conceptual model which was deduced from an extensive literature review process.

Rola innowacji w funkcjonowaniu przedsiębiorstw przemysłowych

Nowadays in Poland many enterprises use instruments of marketing. A part of larger, but especially the smallest enterprises include such operations as promotion for general strategy or advertising. Unfortunately, it does not ensure the achievement of constant, solid competition superiority on the market. From the point of view of marketing as well as industrial marketing, innovation is an implementation of new ideas, a new kind of market policy, new manners of distribution and promotion, entrance on new markets, release of a new product, or conscious, significant change of elements of marketing in the enterprise. Innovations play an important role in creation of the company image on the market. The scale of innovation is strictly related to the level of industrial investment and the economic growth rate. In the case when national economy is characterized by a small degree of industrial investment and low economic growth, considerable development of innovation is not possible.

Social Innovation: Enhancing Creative Performance Through Causal Analysis

ABSTRACT Prior qualitative research has indicated that social innovation, the generation and implementation of new ideas about social relationships and social organization, requires active analysis of the causes operative in a social system. To provide some quantitative evidence bearing on this proposition, 180 undergraduates were presented with six social innovation problems drawn from the business and educational domains. Training in the analysis of causes was provided and manipulations were made to induce analysis through distancing and forecasting. It was found that induction of causal analysis through training and distancing contributed to the originality of obtained problem solutions especially in less familiar domains. The implications of these findings for understanding social innovation are discussed.

Subject knowledge enhances the documentation of young children's mathematical learning

This article is informed by the findings from a recent research project that investigated how expertise in the teaching and learning of mathematics in early childhood could be enhanced. It involved five teachers from three West Auckland kindergartens. The teachers implemented one action-research cycle (Cardno, 2003; McNiff & Whitehead, 2005) to examine their practices with a view to making change in response to areas they self-identified for development. The teachers used a range of data-gathering methods to collect qualitative evidence of mathematics teaching and learning. These included reflective journals, learning stories, parent voice, note keeping, photographs, and small-scale surveys. This article discusses ideas unearthed through the research process: * Teachers' subject knowledge in mathematics is essential for effective mathematics teaching and learning. * Teachers' confident dispositions towards mathematics is fundamental for their engagement in mathematical teaching and learning. * (Pedagogical) documentation enhances the teaching and learning of mathematics in early childhood. * Visibility of children's work through documentation is an integral method for sharing children's mathematical thinking with parents and whanau, and the community. An important characteristic of this research project was that the reflective nature of the action-research process (identification of the research problem, implementation of new ideas, and evaluation of the progress), which acted as a useful learning tool for the teachers by provoking them to consider the teaching and learning of mathematics in their specific contexts. In all three kindergartens, teachers used their participation in the project to focus on how they could share children's mathematics learning with a range of stakeholders, in particular, the children themselves and the kindergarten community. One teacher surmised: We want to use this opportunity to work more closely with our [parents and whanau] and to share with them what maths their children are doing while at kindergarten. Early on in the project, data led the teachers to identify a variety of perceived barriers to enhancing children's mathematical experiences. After some analysis of this data, it was evident to the teachers that they needed to increase their documentation of children's mathematical thinking. This led them to the realisation that fundamental to effective documenting of learning and teaching episodes that demonstrated children's mathematical thinking was the issue of their own mathematical confidence, and this in turn was related to their own personal subject knowledge of mathematics (Anning & Edwards, 1999). The teachers recognised that these two attributes, subject knowledge and confidence, would enable them to enrich young children's mathematical experiences and provide strategies for sharing these with the children and their parents and wha nau. The teachers reflected: We've got to take a long hard look at ourselves, what we do and what we provide, before we move forward. If we agree that we can't be effective mathematics teachers in this culture, then it's a problem we can't change. That means we can't be a better maths teacher because of the barriers. I think we need to improve ourselves to get over these barriers. Hence, the research project unfolded in two directions: first, it explored how an increase in teachers' subject knowledge, and increased confidence, might affect their responses to children's mathematical thinking; and second, it explored how teachers supported, challenged, or extended children's mathematical learning. This was aligned with a focus on documenting what learning was noted and recognised as mathematics, together with strategies for sharing this learning with parents and whanau. Teachers' knowledge of mathematics The advantages of personal subject knowledge for early childhood teachers, and in particular in mathematics, are well documented internationally (Anning & Edwards, 1999; Aubrey, 1994; Baroody, 2004; Copple, 2004; Perry & Dockett, 2002). …

Implementation of knowledge management in organizations

In the context of learning implementation of new ideas e.g. knowledge management in organizations often is neglected. Concerning knowledge management measures we demonstrate its implementation in organizations. A theoretical framework was developed showing the necessary basic conditions for implementing knowledge management. Subsequently we integrate the framework into a process model illustrated by a case study.

Creativity and Planning: Training Interventions to Develop Creative Problem-Solving Skills

ABSTRACT: Creative thought requires planning to support the refinement and successful implementation of new ideas. In this study, 174 people were given training intended to provide more effective strategies for executing two key skills held to be involved in implementation planning—penetration (e.g., identification of key causes) and forecasting. The quality and originality of the plans obtained on a transfer task, involving implementation of a new educational curriculum, were assessed. It was found that training forecasting strategies and penetration strategies proved particularly beneficial for creative people, as defined by scores of divergent thinking tests. The implications of these findings for understanding the role of planning in creative thought are discussed.

Don't let training be a waste of time

We all like to think that we are achieving goals at work, but recently, after having just delivered reminiscence-based training courses to carers, I was reminded again by the question: just how far are carers able to implement what they have learnt on training courses in their workplace? How easy is this process, and what are the obstacles to the implementation of new ideas?