Week3, Day 1

Crowd-sourcing 

“There occurs the beautiful feeling that only humanity together is the true human being, and that the individual can be cheerful and happy only if he has the courage to feel himself in the Whole.” 

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Truth and Fiction: Relating to My Life

Group working was the highlight of my last seven months in IDBM. Truly speaking it was quite a brain cooking experience. Watched strong talkers taking over the projects and then screwing them, the quiet and silent people rescuing every body in the end to safe the face. So it was pretty much all that we discussed earlier today. Some points to remember

• Big groups good at choosing but small groups good at implementing the innovation
• In organizations where group thinking prevails, sometime young new entrants acts a refreshing opposition.
• group behavior crucial for futurist thinking. The masses projects the trends.
• imitation is good as long as people can stop imitating when benefits of it decreases.
• For future predictions timing is the key element.
• It important to understand the reason behind the change.
• Small changes can cause ripples and butterfly effects.
• Scenarios building can help to handle unexpected.
• weak signals are the signals of new emerging issues they identified by changed behavior like wow effect.
• The main reasons for ignoring the changes are tendency to take short cuts, inability to see the change and denial from reality. 

YLE - Web based digital media -Sami Kallinen

We had been having lectures on open innovation since last week. On conceptual level Sami Kallinen's lecture was almost the same as last week's lectures, highlighting the pros and cons of open innovation with the data relevant to his field of work. However for me the take away of the day was his statement on future services design that you have to design your services with easy access for every body, independent of what technology users are using and irrespective of what devices they possess.