Innovation system

This visual essay focuses on how conflict has continually shaped design throughout history. This essay is divided into two sections to show the contrasts and similarities between our medieval history and our modern history, looking at our innovation and how we deal with the aftermath. Different periods of time led us to have different limitations and different levels of technology, we can see how our far ancestors adapted to conflict in a different way how we do today. However, we still hold…

Do you ever think about how different our lives would be if technology was never invented? At age 31, Bill Gates became the youngest billionaire ever at the time, having a networth of $12.9 billion. The 1970’s was a very popular time for new upcomings and new technologies. Bill Gates starting Microsoft, the beginning of VCR’s, Tom Persky inventing the floppy disk, and the pocket calculator was just the beginning of the new technologies to come. Technology in the 1970’s was just the beginning to…

contributions to society. These contributions helped to make life easier, safer, and better for those living in America at the time. One of these people to help was Nikola Tesla, who created many different inventions including alternating current systems. Nikola Tesla achieved many great things in his life through preparation and the push of his motivation. Motivation Nikola Tesla had to have a reason for inventing the things he did, a motivation that pushed him to achieve his accomplishments.…

from innovation in technology, merging over to different owners and working with different direct reports and leaders. With this career there is a lot of change due to so much competition so I had the pleasure to interview Mrs. Jeffrey and learn more about how she dealt with influences, challenges and strategies of innovation over the course of her career. Our interview began with discussing influences of innovation in banking. Cheyenne shared that she believe the major influence in innovation …

The missing use of technology in re-integration DDR processes begs the question of how modern technologies can have a positive impact on the re-socialization of ex-combatants. The under-utilization of modern capabilities demands scholarly answers to how gadgets can increase the success of ex-combatant reintegration. Unfortunately, the thought of combatants trading in guns for Iphones is not a strategy held by many practitioners, nor is it in the respective literature that they reference for…

The experiences that many individuals have with today's advanced technology differs dramatically from experiences of the past. This advancement of technology has provided the world with various ways of expressing their creative ideas. From movies to music, and even websites, the outpouring of creative information made has various ways of reaching the general public. Along with this, especially because of the internet and social media, it is now easier for an individual to share and express their…

expansion of technology, which forces individuals to make decisions based on the cost-benefit analysis of their social actions. For instance, in order for businesses to successfully compete and survive, there is an un-ending hunger for technological innovation and technical experts like doctors and engineers. This demand creates an opportunity for individuals to…

Originally, Fitbit’s unique selling position had a revolutionary approach thanks to the potential of the untapped market they envisioned. That brand-new market would yield vast monetary and technological returns. They saw the future need and wants of customers. That’s a corner stone of any marketing strategy. Those ideas paved the way for a future they hadn’t begun to fathom. It was best stated by Yakowicz (2015), “FITBIT LED THE explosion of wearable fitness trackers and the quantified-self…

Neil Postman expresses that society is affected in five major ways from the coming of technology; stating that first technology is a trade-off, second, technology is never distributed fairly, third there are forms of social and political prejudices in all technology, forth technology is not additive; but is ecological, and fifth, technology leads to become mythic. In the world’s society today, the five points of Neil Postman’s essay, is a tunneled viewpoint of specific events rather than the…

Technology has made almost each and everything today much easier than it was a century ago. Technology has enabled humans in accomplishing incredible goals, from travelling around the world faster than the speed of sound to cooling a room in five minutes is all what technology has given us today, and most importantly make medicines which cure fatal diseases. However, it also has its negative consequences, which have deeply affected the mankind, and will continue to do so at a faster rate in the…