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“Design thinking is an approach that uses the designer’s sensibility and methods for problem solving to meet people’s needs in a technologically feasible and commercially viable way. In other words, design thinking is human-centered innovation.” —Tim Brown

FriendsClear Pro, le financement participatif de projets par Internet débarque le 1er février

We lately discussed in class about Amazon MTurk and Innocentive, many websites creating platforms for problem solving between two parties a company entity and a worker (any creative person).

FreindsClear is working on a platform for entrepreneurs. They can submit their project and get evaluated by companies and different people debating their ideas to get the opportunity of financing the project up to 15000euros.

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Hotel chain offers human bed warmers

What's worse than entering a cold bed? Besides beating legs for about ten minutes, the hot water bottle itself is the best way to get to sleep quickly. But on vacation, we do not always think of the ancillary heating source for a cozy night. In England, the Holiday Inn hotel chain thinks of all chilly. Better than a rubber hot water bottle which may get opened and scalding, the hotel staff that turns into heater for your sheets.

According to scientific studies, 20 ° to 24 ° is the ideal temperature for a good sleeping. It has been proven that human body must reach a certain warmth “to fall into the arms of Morpheus”. Problem: Your hotel’s bed is often cooled by abusive air conditioning, and winter and its attendant weather cools your body, such as after a journey on foot in the snow! Rather than using a hot water bottle or electric blanket, the Holiday Inn chain has decided to experiment, starting the end of January, in some of these institutions, the human hot water bottle.

No spitfire nor arsonists: do not worry! Just the hotel staff that is dedicated to warm your bed a few minutes before you dive in there. These water bottles are actually human dressed in integral heating suit and remain few minutes in your bed. The story does not say if the employee can remain at your side all night in case of sudden cold night. This free service is offered at this time in the hotel chain in London and Manchester.

Source: The Telegraph Online

Amazon mTurk

Class Project : Samuel Abergel, Baptiste Lebocq and Me

....InnoCentive....

Let us summarize it in 5 steps :


I have a problem : A Seeker identifies a Challenge and works with InnoCentive’s Client Services team to define it, articulate it, and post it on the InnoCentive@Work website.


I have a solution :
Each Challenge is connected to an open internal forum that makes it easy for Seekers to communicate freely with Solvers. Solvers can engage in intellectually stimulating problem solving while earning rewards and recognition.

Let's talk :
The entire discussion is fully open and available for all Solvers to read and contribute. Solvers are encouraged to critique and build on each other's ideas and thoughts, dramatically increasing the speed and quality of final solutions.

Great idea :
At the end of the discussion period the Seeker reviews the details and decides which Solvers have made the greatest contributions toward solving
the problem.

Thanks :
Solvers who provide the most valuable input based on active involvement, fresh thinking, and business impact are rewarded with cash, prizes, or points, as part of
an internal recognition program.

This is how InnoCentive team explains the procedure. Looking at the idea and the issue out of it seems to be great, powerful, interesting....but if we dig a bit and look behind the scene, we cannot miss the point that this business (InnoCentive, Yourencore, Tekscout...)can promote online work (less cost) and on another hand collaborate on less recruitment in R&D services (more expensive).

Although we say that innovation and ideas exchange can evolve through interaction, are we going into a new whole era of virtuality...

So again, the question to be asked : What Will TOMORROW Looks Like?!

Last but not least, if i was to think of a new InnoCentive strategy, I would have increased the commission of 10% on the rewards and utilize this amount of money to organize some gathering for all solvers in their respective areas for REAL exchanges of ideas and meetings.

A Tokyo-style "pod hotel" in central London

A Tokyo-style 'pod hotel' will open in central London's famous tourist spot the Trocadero.

Westminster Council has given planning permission for a 495-room hotel with rooms as small as 12sq m.

It takes its inspiration from Japanese hotels which have capsules for rooms to make use of space in crowded cities.

The hotel, between the second and seventh floors of the Grade II listed building, will be ready in time for the London 2012 Olympics.

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Have a New Business Idea? Here's What You Should Do First

Almost every great business, both big and small, can trace its roots to an entrepreneur (or more often, a couple of entrepreneurs) with only their determination and an idea for a new enterprise. The very first step for almost any entrepreneur tends to be the idea: finding something that other companies don’t do well or simply don’t do at all.

While you may be an entrepreneur who’s brimming with countless ideas, or maybe you’re a group of friends who see an opportunity, you should never just “jump right in.” Most of the time, that approach ends with heartbreak and a lot of lost cash.

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What Is Social Networking?

An interesting article that I would like to share with you.

Social networking web-sites allow registered users to upload profiles, post comments, join "networks" and add "friends." They give registered users the opportunity to form "links" between each other based on friendships, hobbies, personal interests, and business sector or academic affiliations. Social networking sites can be used both personally, to contact friends and find old classmates, and professionally, to look for employment or find someone with whom to collaborate. Most social networking systems are available to all users. Some are available by invitation (or special qualification) only. Most began with a personal focus on linking "friends," but many now focus on both business and personal networking.

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