Saturday, September 15, 2007

Core

What is your core?

Who am I?
What do I value?
What am I passionate about?
What do I believe in?

Divergence

Two roads diverged in a wood,
and I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference
- Robert Frost

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive, and discovers - Jean Piaget

Sunday, September 9, 2007

Innovation 3.0

Innovation 1.0 = Invention + Products
Innovation 2.0 = Technology + Web
Innovation 3.0 = Mindset + Culture

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Water


We can never step in the same river twice - Heraclitus.
Each moment in life is also unique. We cannot recreate the same moment.

Hand Railing for a Child

A well conceived design.
I captured this image in Singapore. It is a picture of a staircase at an overhead bridge with two hand railings. The lower one is for children. Design begins with a heart or empathy, not technology.

What is creativity and innovation?

The answer would depend a lot on who you talk to.
Many equate creativity with art while innovation with an invention, product or R&D. 3M, one of the world's serial innovator defined it as "New Ideas - plus action or implementation - which results in an improvement, gain or profit".

Conception


What is the meaning of conception?

To have an insight
To see something new
To understand something new
To see a new problem
To see a new question
To see a new connection
To see a new obstacles
To see a new challenge