Innovation Article Reviews Samples For Students

The article The Weird Rules of Creativity written by Robert I. Sutton and published in Harvard Business Review provides an insight into the management issues. Actually, author writes about creativity and special environment that should be achieved within the framework of the companies. Creativity demands special attitude to flourish. According to the author creativity appears in conditions, which cannot be called friendly, low-stressed and funny. His studies confirm this theory. Sutton states that good manager should take everything he or she knows about management and stand it on its head. Furthermore, his article is dedicated to three ideas for ...

Introduction

Internal audit refers to an objective declaration and independent activity consultative in nature and which is designed to enrich the value and advance the daily operations of an organization. This helps a given organization to achieve its desired ends since it brings in a disciplined and systematic approach on how to approach, improve and evaluate efficiency of managing risks, governance and control processes. (Picket 81).

Internal audit catalyses improvement in an organizations’ efficiency and effectiveness by giving room for recommendations and insights which are normally inclined upon assessment of data, analyses of such data and the processes of conducting such business. ...

A review of Contact Energy Limited: startup history, funding, market growth and failure, operations and globalization of the energy market in New Zealand.

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CONTACT ENERGY LIMITED

Contact energy limited is an incorporated and a diversified company that generates and sells electricity in New Zealand. The company is one of the biggest electric generators in New Zealand with up to 23% of retail generation as of 2012. Contact started as part of the division of the Electricity Corporation of New Zealand in late 1996 (Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, 2). It became publicly listed in the year 1999. ...

This video refers to modern art. Its message is that anything can be art if we call it. A man is supposed to be the creator of an artwork, but in this case, a machine is the creator. However, a man made the machine, so there are some dilemmas whether this can be called art or not.

This machine is exhibited in Museum Jean Tinguely and it is his invention.

At first we see an object that looks like a red computer mouse. This machine is an installation made of iron or some other metal. It has cords that pull the system and make the wheels turn. The final part is the canvas. There is ...

The implementation of a new system to replace an old system is not always the answer to an organization’s inefficient business operations. However, there have been several instances where migration from old legacy systems to ERP systems proved to be beneficial to companies. Summer Electric Light can be considered as one of the future beneficiaries of an ERP system if the development is studied and implemented properly.
In terms of operational efficiency, the new ERP system can improve this a lot. In the old legacy system, two systems have to be used and the data from these two different ...

Article Review

This article titled “4 Principles of marketing in the digital age” was written by Greg Satell and appeared in the Forbes magazine on the 16th of April 2013. It gives pointers to marketers on how to cope with the ever changing face of marketing especially in the digital age.
The second principle is “Use Innovation Teams to Identify, Evaluate and Activate Emerging Opportunities”. This principle will enable marketers to tap into new potential and stay ahead of the competition through taking advantage of new opportunities. Greg, however, advices companies to first test all innovations that come their way ...

Subsequent to technological advancements in the field of medicine, several machines helpful in increasing the rate and effectiveness of the cure have since been discovered. The most profound discovery in the field of surgery is the one that involved the introduction of Doctor Robot. This machine undertakes the operation procedure without the presence of a physician in the operation room but essentially in the robot control room. From the Fortune article entitled Meet your next surgeon: Dr. Robot, it is apparent that the robot surgeon was developed subsequent to deep research and an insightful consultation among the experts of the ...

Summary of Main Points

The article entitled “How to get paid twice for everything you do, part 2: Value appropriating innovations” written by Roos (2011) presented main points that focus on business model innovations. The model is more comprehensively evaluated in terms of finding out how business practitioners could create value from determined ways of innovation. As such, the business model was apparently examined through the identified four observable platform choices, to wit: device-centric, service-centric, telco-centric, and aggregate-centric . Concurrently, the author further expounded on the constituent parts of traditional business models; in conjunction with the reported business-ecosystem view of the world.
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Human beings, that were once referred to ‘’Tool using animals’’ have a long history that dates back to 2 Million years ago. However, the major source of economic development was initiated after the process of agriculture came into existence. Post the arrival of Agricultural era, Paleolithic Human largely survived on hunting animals using the tools that were directly derived from nature or were marginally modified using wooden hafts or handles by these groups. It is because of their high reliance solely on hunting, seventeenth-century philosopher Thomas Robbes, described the Paleolithic life as ‘’Nasty, Brutish and Short’’
However, the very ...

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Introduction

The economy of the world is rapidly changing. When this is the case, an enterprise’s ability to change or adjust is essential if it is to be successful. In the increasingly competitive business world, continuous innovation plays a crucial role in dictating global competition and ensuring one acquires the extra factors of production necessary to maintain a sustainable economic growth path. The conviction among humans is that a high standard of living ought to be determined by a high rate o employment so as to guarantee maximized utilization of resources and ensure wide participation in the wealth of ...

Article summary: Does servant leadership foster creativity and innovation? A multi-level mediation study of identification and prototypicality

The main goal of the multi-level study conducted by Yoshida D.T. et al. (2013) was to assess how servant leadership influences employee creativity and team innovation simultaneously. Businesses often gain their competitive advantage through employees that come up with creative, innovative ideas and work as a team to implement them. However, although these factors are highly interdependent, prior researches only focused on either creativity or innovation. No fundamental attempts were made to study how certain leadership behaviors simultaneously affect these two aspects on different levels. Former researches examined how transformational leadership or leader-member relationship influenced employee creativity. As it was ...

The Mandel Commission Report 2.00 am

The Mandal commission was absolutely unnecessary. The Mandal Commission report came in for nation-wide condemnation from one section of community, while is garnered support from the rest of the population. Parmanand Singh, in Mandal Report Will Only Perpetuate Stratification, in The Times of India, reports on the issues facing the V.P Singh government at the center, on the implementation of the Mandal commission. During his exhaustive report; tracing the history of caste system in India and the need for further reconciliation on reservations for other castes apart from Backward Castes (BCs) and Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Parmanand Singh ...

Immigration policies are put to try and control the amount of people being granted access or making illegal entry into other foreign countries. Different countries have implemented immigration policies in order to ensure there is a limitation to the growing trend of frequents and illegal immigration. Despite the regulations that have been put in place in order to regulate the immigration in the United States, there have been numerous setbacks that have led to the questioning of the effectiveness of the immigration policies. The implementation of the immigration policies has been affected by the labor market which views the immigration ...

The process of introducing design in an organization should be easy and the design should start producing its value on the first day of its introduction so that the people involved are kept motivated. Few tips that can help an individual get the best out of a design include keeping the whole thing simple, use of management tools, helping clients to familiarize with details of the design and integrating the design at all its operational levels. Design has been around for many years only that currently, many people have discovered design to be a valuable tool with which they can use ...

A mixed methods approach incorporates quantitative and qualitative elements in ways that the information gathered complements each other (Creswell, 2007). Using a qualitative approach, the researchers collect in-depth descriptions and information about the research topic. In most qualitative studies, researchers ask questions beginning with how, where, when, which that elicit descriptions and narrations of situations, places, people, events among other issues (Maxwell, 2012). Qualitative information may leave out bits of information about numbers. The quantitative approach complements the research by asking questions such as how much/how many? What is the frequency? These questions elicit numerical answers which when incorporated into ...

The advent of technological advancement in the field of medicine paved the way for the most sophisticated and powerful equipment that aids innovation in patient care. The article publish in diagnostic imaging by Howell (2012) describes the increasing popularity of the mobile X-Ray technology. The article emphasized that the new technology enabled the patient’s instant access to imaging. Primarily, image quality and mobility drives the continuous evolvement of medical technologies while battery life and wireless connectivity remain on the vendors’ continuous improvement. Analysis from KLAS suggests that vendors found greater significance of the mobile X-Ray in terms of ...

"Moving Beyond AYP: High School Performance Indicators" by Lyndsay M. Pinkys examines the effectiveness of AYP and reveals how performance indicators need to be established to determine a school's effectiveness. Adequate Yearly Progress is a measurement defined by the United States federal “No Child Left Behind Act” that allows the Department of Education to determine how every public school and school district in the country is performing academically. It is based on the improvement in the tests results and minimal increase in total graduation rates, but it does not show the students’ readiness for the college and future career. In order ...

The article reviews the strategic planning necessary in conducting research and development. It stresses the importance of creating projects that serve necessary both for the consumers and the commercial interest of the company. Setting aside competency and skill, management must focus on delivering on-time results and continue on a long term strategic development of new technology and processes in order to gain significant advantage on the market.
In operational management, new product development in necessary in order for the company to function in the long run. Product development arises from the increased competition and advance in technology (Mba-om.blogspot.com, 2010). ...

Innovation management

The term innovation has attained the status of a “mantra” in many developed nations. The aspects of innovation and creativity are commonly interlinked, yet confused with each other. Creativity is the ability to rethink an issue in a completely new way, backed by the profusion of relevant and diverse knowledge. Creativity calls for the ability to analyze the situation at hand with rationale. Innovation, on the contrary, can be termed as transformation of knowledge into material benefit. Innovation, therefore, creates new growth strategies, new products range, services or business models that can make the difference, thereby generating significant worth for all ...

The article ’How to Get Paid Twice for Everything You Do part 3’ discusses the methods and strategies that can be used to manage innovation in order to maximize the potential within that innovation. In the contemporary world of business, innovation and creativity are the key pillars of success. Without these two, there is a threat of losing relevance to competing forces due to production of obsolete products or services. The technology world in particular has changed the whole business setting. This it is crucial for any serious investors or entrepreneur to ensure they can keep up to speed with ...

Customers make purchases daily with no clue about the pricing. Several studies show that when a customer picks an item and immediately is approached and asked for the price, almost half of them cannot give an accurate answer. Some of the customers underestimated the price and others had no clue of the price. The reality game shows the price is right on Columbia Broadcasting System depicts customers not being able to predict the accurate prices of an item presenting the consumers have vague information about the market.
Consumers rely on the retailers for pricing and often do not check ...

Personal development plans (PDPs) are the major part of continuing professional development (CPD) and general practitioner’s appraisal. Together with practice professional development plans (PPDPs), personal development plans (PDPs) provide individual with a future development program and explain how to manage it. While PPDPs are aimed at the development of healthcare services and should have relation to patients’ needs and doctors’ professional development, PDPs should contain description of individual learning plans (Huw, 2010). However, while personal development plans (PDPs) and practice professional development plans (PPDPs) undertaking, there appear some factors that may help or hinder their successful implementation. The main ...

A visit to the National Air Force Museum is certainly an interesting experience that generates a fascinating admiration from everyone. Worth noting is the fact that the museum comprises of a wider array of exhibits ranging from rare kinds of aircrafts that are of immense technological significance. In addition, the museum has a variety of artifacts give a substantive history regarding the development of aviation. On another note, the museum has a section that is set aside for showcasing exhibits of the pioneer flights. Perhaps the most fascinating exhibit found in the national museum is that of the flight that dropped atomic bombs that ...

In her article, ‘From Pariah State to Global Protagonist: Argentina and the Struggle for Human Rights’, Kathryn Sikkink provides a luminous illustration on the role that Argentina has played in shaping the human rights discourse in the world. Sikkink’s main point is that most of the human rights practices and conventions of the world trace their roots to the Argentina. She notes that while many would naturally expect practices to flow from the more powerful countries to the less powerful countries, this has not necessarily been the case as far as the field of human rights is concerned. This ...

M. Revlon Alice, Systematic thinking of social action. (1971)
Thesis: The chapter deals with appropriate techniques that should be utilized to offer social services such as health services and education. It talks about the methods used to resolve the issue of incentives and reduce the task of trying to discover new efficient ways to offer social services. It emphasizes that the models stated cannot resolve all service production but proper implementation and newer viable methods should be introduced.
“The second cause is “positive failure’-the failure to build into federal programs a positive set of incentives to channel ...

Martin Landau, Redundancy, Rationality, and the Problem of Duplication and Overlap, 1969

THESIS: The main focus of the article is redundancy. Today the reformers are striving to achieve the goal of creating a smooth, efficient government with the exclusion of duplicative expenditures. The definition of redundancy is used by different authors with different perception. Landau explored the definition to get the right meaning by using it in government or political system context. The term redundancy generally has a negative implication. Landau gives his perception and considers redundancy a necessity when it will be used in the context government agencies and political system. Landau justified his perception by supporting its argument with some examples that ...

Martin Landau. Redundancy, Rationality, and the Problem of Duplication and Overlap. 1969.
Thesis: According to Martin, the government system of the United States of America is built on redundant structures. The author explores various definitions for redundancy and notes that all of them have a negative connotation. Such redundancy is explained by the overlap in the intelligence agencies and the branches of the government. According to Martin, redundancy and duplication are crucial for the lengthy functioning of the government given that the authorities swing around the pendulum of power.

“It is, however, the lexical evaluation of redundancy which prevails in public administration.” (303)

“Thus it is that the removal of redundancy is rarely, ...

The Boss Is Watching

A company owned by a man called Dennis Gray suspected that his workers spent too much time during the workday tending to personal matters (Ante & Webber, 2013). After discovering a monitoring device which can be installed on the cell phones of his workers, he was able to track their location on a map and view where they were at what given time. This type of technology helped him keep his workers in-check during the day and it allowed for more efficiency during the day. Technology and recent innovations have helped employers keep their workers on the short-leash. In order for them to ...

Article Review

The aim of this research is to investigate the implementation of multiple methods research in marketing. It is proposed that using multiple method of study produces a more robust and compelling results than single method study. The study is based on a content analysis of five leading marketing journals published from 1990 to 2008. The study aims at examining the implementation of multiple methods research in marketing.

Nature and Significance

Previous findings show that researchers rarely use multiple research methods in marketing and that it represents less than 4% of empirical studies over the last two decades (Davis, Golicic, & Boerstler, 2011). The significance of ...

Introduction

The dynamics of the society has resulted into several changes in the corporate world. This has necessitated the need of research, creativity and innovations to come up with novel and improved technologies which can be used to make life more comfortable. This has prompted the need for making constant innovations to improve the working conditions of the employees to enable them improve the quality of services. This is necessary for the survival of the organization in the highly competitive corporate sector.

Technological Innovations

In deed, research is an essential exercise for any business organization. It is the best way to come ...

Purpose of the article

The article seeks to find out the average energy that is required for every scintillation photon as well as the energy resolutions present in crystals of sodium iodide that is activated with thallium and cesium iodide that is doped with thallium for gamma rays. Through this information, that author can comprehend the pathways that radiation energy to luminescence takes in scintillators. This information is important if one is to draw a comparison between scintillation yields from various scintillators. As such, this article adduces that the use of quantities that are related to scintillation efficiency is appropriate in understanding these pathways. ...

Jane Addams. Problems of Municipal Administration. January 1905.
Thesis: According to Jane, the problems of municipal administration, and the shame of the cities in America is a result of the reformers’ persistent and over-reliance of outmoded ideas of the eighteenth century. The reformers have no or little faith in the people; hence rely on these ideas used in the ancient times. The author views those who draft the state constitutions and municipal regulations as the kind of authority who loves the people without seeking to know them.
“A man of this generation easily discerns the crudeness of that ...

Grand Canyon University

In research, there are many studies available on many topics. How reliable are they, really? How valid is the research? Can it be trusted. By checking further research using a previous study is one method that can be used to test this information.
In the article “Shopfloor innovation: Facilitating the suggestion and implementation of ideas,” authors Silke Eisenbeiss, Dean Van Knippenberg, and Sabine Boerner set out to prove the team atmosphere that is fostered in the transformational leadership process. The purpose of their study is to demonstrate that this leadership style stimulates supportive behavior among members of the team. ...

Business:

Question 1:
In managing organizations effectively leadership is important. Based on the reading it is clear that leadership is more concerned with effectiveness. This means that leadership concentrates on ensuring that people in the organization do right things. This means that mistakes cannot be easily made.

Question 2:

Yes, leaders are more important that managers. From the story the Chinese have adopted a managerial technique while the Greek have adopted leadership techniques. The outcome of their competition indicates that the Greek won since they did things right. As stated earlier, when people do things right it is not possible for them ...

Research Article Summary

Mouchawrab et al (2011), published an article in the journal of IEEE on transaction software engineering which was entitled “Assessing, Comparing, and Combining State Machine-Based Testing and Structural Testing: A Series of Experiments”. The main focus of the article was on the cost effective way of testing state machine on fault detection which is model-based in comparison with structural testing. The study uses controlled experiments and review of the previous findings to reach its conclusion. Uniform modeling language UML is the main focus in the study as a method of testing. UML according to the study is the most effective ...

An examination into reviews on use of no pharmacologic approaches in management of labor pain and child birth has cast aspiration on the safety and efficiency of these methods. It is hard to ascertain how safe and adequate these approaches are. The examination goes ahead to categorize these approaches into three based on efficiency.
In the category of those that have been found to work are the use of epidural injections, combined spinal epidurals and inhaled analgesic (Gail, 2012). Even with evidence from the reviews that these approaches adequately manage pain during labor and child birth, they’ve ...

Article Review

Article Review

Where They Stand” written by Urhuogo and Williams (2011), the authors emphasized the crucial roles that leaders take in leading both innovation and change in an organization. Likewise, the article discussed the relevant role of ethics, as a driving force and influential factor in change and innovation. Also, the challenges that were normally encountered in leading changes and innovation were expounded; including appropriate principles and practices that assist organizations towards successful implementation of changes and innovation.
One is convinced that the arguments asserted by the authors were commendable in terms of stressing the need for leaders to ...

Introduction

The article chosen for the purpose of critical analysis and evaluation is ‘Fewer People Mean Fewer Worries’. It was published in ‘The Australian’ edition of January 16, 2008 in the Higher Education Section of the newspaper. The author of the article is Allen Greer who is a famous zoologist of Australia and has produced research over biology and evolution of certain Australian animals including lizards, snakes and tigers. As the name indicates, the article is about growing world population and the number of limited resources available on the earth for its habitants. Greer is of the view that if this ...

The article corresponds to a study aimed at analyzing the effectiveness and efficiency of modern Pharmacy clinical decision-support (CDS) software, which contain and consist of drug-drug interaction (DDI) information. It is widely believed and accepted that these systems and software empower the pharmacists’ to detect clinically significant interactions in a much more refined and improved manner. But off-late studies have shown that these systems are not as effective and efficient as recognized and may miss some vital interaction. The article puts across a detailed and elaborate study to verify such claims about the performance of CDS systems or programs.
The study ...

Article Review

Article 1
Banas, Colin A, Erskine, Alistair R, Sun, Shumei and Retchin, SheldonM. Phase Implementation of Electronic Health Records Through an Office of Clinical Transformation. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2011; 18: 721-725.

Article Synopsis

This article is a case report that delves into the implementation of electronic health records. While electronic health records present various benefits to the health care system such as improved patient outcomes and cost savings, their uptake and diffusion through the healthcare sector has been rather slow and limited. Therefore, this article presents information on the phased implementation of electronic health records by examining a ...

Introduction

Affirmative action is a state of positive discrimination against individuals which is based on race, color, gender, ethnic background and religion. The article looks into a case in the U.S Supreme Court that a plaintiff filed against the implementation of affirmative action in the University of Michigan. The ruling comes out clear abolishing the quotas in admission based on racial grounds (Skrentny, 34). The author argues that it is wrong to give added points in the admission process to alumni children and varsity athletes. The implementation of affirmative action brings in the air a lot of public hostility and tension.
The ruling ...

Psychology:

APA Citation: Carlozzi, N. S. (2010). “Personality and Reaction Time after Sleep Deprivation”. CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY, 29(1), 24

Synopsis:

A series of experiments were carried out to determine the relationship between personality development, personality traits and reaction time for individuals due to sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation is a condition whereby an individual is not able to get enough sleep. The condition can be either chronic or acute and can lead to a number of problems. Problems include fatigue, anger, ineptness and depression. This is mainly because lack of enough sleep affects an individual’s cognitive function. In order to investigate the effects ...

A Reflection

Arguably, a product passes various stages before reaching the consumer. As a matter of fact, it passes many stages and personnel before becoming a final product that is ready for consumption. The primary message that the author is sending to the audience is about the back end of innovation. The author what the audience to comprehend on the process that a product of a service passes through after an idea has been found, designed as well as developed. In this case, the crucial message is to focus on the stages that a service of product passes, which include marketing, manufacturing, field support, logistics, as well ...

A Reflection

In their article “Innovating on the cheap” its authors Lance A.Bettencourt and Scott L.Bettencourt provide a comprehensive overview of different methods of creating innovations, creating a valuable guide on how to come up with an innovation without trying to invent something completely new to the world or even to the company. Authors claim that it is easy to make the innovation work even if such kind of product or services has already been on offer. The authors exemplify their statements, referring to innovation management strategies, used by “Rain Bird” business, which specializes on making sprinkles and other irrigation facilities. The reasons ...

Article ReviewPlay Modifications for Children with Disabilities

Introduction
The reviewed article by Susan Sandall published in Beyond the Journal – Young Children on the Web – May 2003, was published to communicate to other teachers a range of eight types of modifications to curricula, to help children having either disabilities or other special needs to be better able to join in with group play. This paper summarizes and reviews the article, provides a response to the ideas put forward, and considers if and how the information provided could be put to use in the classroom.

Article Summary

Sandall worked in collaboration with a number of her colleagues at the University of Washington ...

Analysis, Development, Implementation and Evaluation (ADDIE)

In deed, Analysis, Development, Implementation and Evaluation (ADDIE) is a very important approach in the designing of an educational program. An effective adoption of this strategy can be so instrumental in the design, development and use of an educational program. This can be evidenced in the research conducted by Waynesburg College in which it was fully applied in the Master’s of Education (Technology) course. After its full implementation, it came out that it is better than any other strategy.
As an educationist, I would like to agree that ADDIE can be so instrumental if used well. I would ...

Michael Porter tries to explain the real business meaning of the term strategy in his article. He explains several things known to many to be connected with the success and failure of businesses. The article majorly concentrates on the distinguishing factors between operational effectiveness and managerial strategic acting and thinking. With these two aspects, he shows what strategy means. Strategy is the creation of exclusive and valued position, involving a diverse set of activities, which means if there existed only a single ideal position, strategy would be nonexistent.
According to Porter (1996, p. 61), operational effectiveness should not be considered a ...

INTRODUCTION

Employees’ requirements from organization are extended much more than monetary compensations only. Among other important compensations is the need of trainings and developments. Trained employees are regarded as the most important capital asset to the firm as on job trainings nourish employees’ competencies. Despite the importance this aspect, for both parties, carries the dilemma with gap that exists in effectiveness of training. Views on aspects depict that effectiveness issues remain with all three components of training including participants, trainer as well as training process. Hence, considerate planning for all three components to make training sessions effective is an important.

TRAINER

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Annotated Bibliography

Hurley, R. F. & Hult, T. M. (1998, July). Innovation, market orientation, and

organizational learning: An integration and empirical examination. Journal of

Marketing, 62, 42-54.

In this article, the authors posited that a market-oriented organizational culture should focus on innovation and not on learning. They asserted that organizations that had a higher capacity for creating innovations were more capable of achieving high levels of performance and of gaining a competitive edge. To prove this, they conducted a survey research by distributing questionnaires in the 56 organizations of a large government agency where 9, 648 employees participated. The results of the study were statistically analyzed and they showed that a ...

SUMMARY

The article talks about two very important concepts that are gaining increasing importance day by day; the Total Quality Management (TQM) and the Management of Environment (EM). The idea is to design the products while keeping in view the related environmental concerns. Organizations are now determined to make environment friendly products because the customers are very skeptical and they evaluate the organization on the basis of its CSR. Both the concepts are now widely used in every step of production in order to be more cost effective and competitive. These two concepts run in parallel to each other so ...

The article ‘Examining the push for three year bachelor’s degree’ tries to examine whether the implementation of three year degree courses can be effective and favorable to the people. The article evaluates the benefits and the problems that can result to the various stakeholders in the education sector if the decision is implemented.
In the first place, implementing the program will not work immediately since adjusting the current system will be difficult. According to the article, the change needs additional resources in form of more instructors. In addition, some courses will require more than three years to ...

Summary of Acemoglu’s video

In this video, economist Daron Acemoglu explains why nations fail economically. He singles out “extractive” political institutions as the biggest impediment to a nation’s economic prosperity. Acemoglu defines “extractive” political institutions as those that place power in the hands of a few individuals. This scenario features unfair regulations and high market-entry barriers. These factors conjure to enrich a clique in the society, while inhibiting economic progress for the majority of the people (Acemoglu). He contrasts this with governments that have expanded democratic space by protecting property rights. Nations with such political institutions encourage entrepreneurship from their citizenry as well as attract ...

A Reflection by

Arguably, innovations have tremendously become part of the organizational development. As a matter of fact, organizations are fully taking advantage of the coming principles that are related to generational innovation. Right now, innovation has never been out of style, it has always been at the peak of organizational definition. The philosophies and tools are two different issues that are different today. The author primary to the reader is related on innovation, whereby the author elaborates on nine key opportunities of innovation management 2.0. Moreover, the author wants to elaborate on the experience, ideas, knowledge, as well as judgment of employees ...

A Reflection by Your Name

Innovation is a buzz word in modern day businesses and in fact it never went out of style. It is innovation that has enabled certain companies to stay ahead of the rest and command a premium in the marketplace, products, services and stock value. However, the lack of innovation process and management in an organization leads to underutilization of its most valuable assets in namely: knowledge, ideas, experience and judgment of the workforce. The article represents a framework of Innovation Management 2.0, incorporating the development of both tools and philosophies that enables the employees to be engaged much more fully in the ...

The author is trying to explain to the reader the innovative ways of management. The author explains to the reader how organizations are taking advantage of the next generation. In addition, on the ways of coming up with innovative principles that can make them successful in the market. Innovation as put by the author is what has always commanded or directed the company’s services and products in the market. The same applies to stoke exchange too. The difference of innovation today and before is that the development of philosophies and tools are what are used, by employees, to ...

A Reflective Writing

The primary message of this article is that the authors want to teach people how to cheaply innovate without beginning from scratch. The authors gave an example of Rain Bird business. This business is similar to so many other businesses. It is involved in the making of sprinklers and other irrigation systems. The message of the article informs readers that in order for a business to continue growing, it must introduce fresh offerings in the market, which appeal to the diverse needs of the clients (Lance, & Scott, 2011). It is thus good for any company to look for ways in ...

A Reflection

Innovating on the Cheap by Lance A. Bettencourt and Scott L. Bettencourt

In the article Innovating on the Cheap, the authors Bettencourt & Bettencourt (2011) pointed out that innovations didn’t have to be costly. They demonstrated how innovations were possible even during economic downturns. They asserted that innovations might already exist among a company’s previously rejected products and that the value of these innovations was just waiting to be realized.

The authors intended this article for entrepreneurs, that is, to help them realize that they don’t have to spend much on innovations, that they can still grow their ...

Leadership and Innovation by Barsh, J., Capozzi, M.M. & Davidson, J.

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Barsh et al. (N.d.), in their article called ‘Leadership and Innovation’, insist that innovation is just a term theoretically understood by senior executives, but not pragmatically applied. This is exhibited by a research where 70% of senior executives assert that innovation is critical in the next three years for expanding companies both financially and globally. However, despite the known fact, 65% senior executives are not conversant of how to apply innovation into transforming organizational fortunes to the better. Furthermore, the authors also positively relate leadership with innovation, where the presence of good leadership in ...

Who invented the Telephone

Mr. Beauchamp’s article recounts how United States patent law ensured Alexander Graham Bell came to be recognized as the sole inventor of the telephone and how the company/corporation he founded took a singular court argument and built it into a monopolistic enterprise, the premiere corporation in the world by mid-20th century. In particular, he claims that the development of U.S. patent law in the 19th century ensured this success while at the same time abetting litigation by numerous parties who wanted to secure the benefits of being recognized as the inventor of the telephone, or to undermine Bell’s claim ...

Genetically Modified Foods (GMFs)

GMFs are foods whose DNA has been manipulated by scientists to change the essential genetic constitution of plants and animals (Mather, 2012). This modification involves inserting genetic material from one species into another one so as to give it desired characteristics like pest resistance and resistance to herbicides. The use of GMFs is highly controversial; while they are accepted in countries like the United States, they cannot be sold in Australia and the European Union without labeling, and are banned in Egypt, Japan, and Ireland (Mather, 2012).
Proponents of GM foods cite several reasons to advance their cause. ...