Social innovation

I yearned to view the world in a different perspective. I aim far beyond just experiencing the world first hand, seeing it through multiple lenses, and watching how it runs in the background. In fact, what I desire is to see where I must stand to give my maximum contribution to the global industry and multicultural understanding--a purpose I know I must serve. And this was what drove me to fly 8,500 miles from the Pearl of the Orient to the Land of the Free. I am Jolina Chiong, currently in a…

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, fourth 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 and not than the…

WARTIME ADAPTATION: AN EDGE OVER PEACETIME INNOVATION Do you know that, mere rodents beat the massive Dinosaurs into evolutionary dusts about 65 million years ago? Similarly, the strongest militaries will follow the Dinosaurs into oblivion if they fail to adapt to the changes. Though many scholars emphasize on innovations during peace, this paper argues that victory in the war depends more on wartime adaptation than peacetime innovation. Murray in his seminal book, “Military Adaptation in War:…

generate a social-theory of reintegration specific to Colombia. However, this is limited to this region, because contextually speaking DDR programs will differ in terms of what has worked where. Therefore, outside of Colombia, the use of their research can be questioned in terms of operability in a different context. A contrasting approach, used by Hazen (2007), is to use a broad non-case specific method, as she has with the use of a general civil war model. Hazen focuses solely on…

cage of rationality is a symbol of social pressure that constrains the behavior of an individual for the purpose of achieving a certain goal. Today, this social pressure, in a way, is a result of the rapid 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…

➢ Harley-Davidson Inc. The success of Harley-Davidson Inc. was achieved by adopting the design and positioning school strategy. From the design school strategy point of view, it shows that Harley-Davidson Inc. has used its strengths of Innovation to reach a balance between the internal opportunities and the external environment. Harley-Davidson they saw a need to be innovative to cater to the ever-changing market. Therefore they build motorcycle to suite the younger and international market…

“Change alone is unchanging,” according to Heraclitus, the ancient Greek philosopher (Polito, 2004). This a widely applied idea and is particularly relevant as we discuss the Net Generation’s use of what David Weinberger has called, “social knowledge (Weinberger, 2007).” We are in the midst of a major revolution equal in significance to the industrial revolutions of the past. Author Daniel Pink describes this as a monumental shift from the information age to the conceptual age in his book…

Here, they explain that true discipline requires mental autonomy or independence, also, the ability to stay consistent in the challenge of social pressures. Fanatic discipline can also be related to being a non-conformist. They connect discipline to the “20 Mile Marching”, a similitude that also teaches discipline. Reaching specific performance markers in the lieu of consistency for long periods…

Business strategies have been evolving with the course of time. In the last 20 years, there has been modifications in the business strategies that affect customers and competitors. As well, as the development of new IT systems and innovations in the business field. Customers and competitors weren’t the same in 1995 as they are today. Competition has been at the heart of corporate strategy. Today, one can hardly speak of strategy without involving the language of competition, as dictated in…

personal thoughts of learning technologies as used for academic purposes and broad-spectrum primary, secondary and tertiary education. The terms education and technology are currently, the penultimate buzzwords. If one was to reach for a new source or social media outlet one could come to the belief that six-year-olds can build their own Deathstars out of marbles and pre-chewed marshmallows because of the power of technology and its implementation of educational domain. Children who were once so…