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Interviews
Provide an overview of the Innovation landscape - Helping to identify and develop skills and knowledge essential for taking part in the 21st century interconnected world.
Innovation - Educating Innovators for Business
Commission ServicesInnovation Commission is here to help you to figure out what innovation means in our own situation. After you have identified your part of the innovation landscape, it offers guidance about how to respond to position yourself and your organisation to benefit from the opportunities which new technologies and ways of working are opening up .
The Commission System comes from the research-based Pedagogical Angle™ used by educators to optimise skills and knowledge acquisition.
Mitch Altman extends his keynote ideas of creativity, self-reliance and fun in making things. The interview includes a frank overview of the education systems in China and the US and the ways
in which being 'makers' can balance and enhance students' learning.
Set in the Wu's robotics laboratory, during the interview Mr. Wu explains in both English and Chinese the important lessons he has devised. His students learn about collaborating and problem-solving to design, make and test working models and systems. These activities also help to build self-reliance and resilience in his students.
Mr Richard Lewis outlines some effects of the Net-Generation paradigm shift on ways of working. Mr Lewis outlines how the age-old rules of business have stayed in place but are now expressed in different ways, especially when it comes to building project teams using specialised crowd-sourced labour.
Prashanth Hirematada is Kwestr CTO and Software engineer is working to integrate gaming methodologies into innovative businesses. Recasting common multi-step tasks, especially those with a social dimension can benefit from 'gamification' in the form of quests with small rewards, to enable progress tracking, make them more compelling and more fun! Check out
Kwestr.
Hannes Helander of Bgile is a specialist in the implementation of Lean/Agile methodologies for application development and other project management. He discusses the vital role played by frequent and close communication between members of the project team and with the end user of the system. This is especially important if the specification is ill-defined due to rapid operating environment or other changes.
Bgile.