The Creative Economy is the antidote to Wall Streets woes.
According to recent reports from the UNCTAD, the Creative Economy is undergoing unprecedented growth compared with traditional services and manufacturing.
What is the Creative Economy?
UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) defines the Creative Economy as a set of knowledge-based economic activities making intensive use of creativity [...]
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Integral City Book Launch Nov 5, 2008
University Women’s Club
7:00 pm– 9:30 pm
Hycroft 1489 McRae Ave.
Vancouver BC (Granville & 16 Ave.)
Limited Seating. Register by Oct. 30.
Register: Tel: 604 731-4661 or
Email: uwcv@uwcvancouver.ca
Cost: By Donation at the Door
My friend and colleague Marilyn Hamilton has written an important soon-to-be-published new book. Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, offers us a brilliant [...]
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The Conference Board of Canada’s Report Card on Canada: Underperforming in Most Subjects
Canada possesses huge natural resource wealth, skilled human capital, and next-door access to the world’s richest economy. We have a remarkable combination of social cohesion, and cultural and linguistic diversity; enjoy relative safety in a risky world; and are benefiting from our resource endowment at a [...]
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Posted in Innovation, Trends on Feb 4th, 2008
Paul Williams, in The Marketing Profs blog, says
The foundation of managing an innovative (company, brand, product, service, or individual) involves constantly monitoring and maintaining awareness of your broader environment - the big picture. On a regular basis, look away from the minutia found in the microscope of your day-to-day operations and use a telescope to [...]
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Posted in Design, Home, Innovation, Trends on Dec 22nd, 2007
Shilajeet (Banny) Banerjee, who runs the Joint Program in Design at Stanford, says complexity requires a new way of thinking and design thinking is the answer. This includes:
Collaborative Thinking
Process Mindedness
Holistic Multi-Disciplinary Approach
Human-centered
Tech/Business focus
Systems thinking
Synthesis
Rapid Concept Generation
Envisioning
Rapid Prototyping
Visualizing
Catalyzing decision-making
Storytelling
Realizing
Roadmapping
Managing transformation
Source: Nussbaum on Design
I would add empathy, aesthetics, creativity, and customer-focus to the list.
Stanford’s D school believes great [...]
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Posted in Innovation, Trends on May 29th, 2007
The Vancouver Police Department is poised to become the first real-life police force living in the virtual world. They plan to hold a Second Life recruiting session as a way to lure more tech-savvy recruits.
The Vancouver police officers involved in the recruitment on Second Life have their own avatars, or Second Life persona, dressed in [...]
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Posted in Design, Innovation, Trends on May 14th, 2007
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Posted in Innovation, Trends on May 14th, 2007
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