Kinekt Design's Gear Ring
A stainless steel ring with six micro-precision stainless gears that turn in unison when the outer rims are spun. It is currently available for purchase in ten standard US ring sizes: 5 to 14. It can be purchased at http://www.kinektdesign.com/.
Jewelry in itself is an Abundance oriented item. For the most part jewelry doesn’t serve any purpose beyond entertainment. This ring utilizes the abundance of cheap high precision machining to make a personal art object.
Industrial Vending Machine Increases Efficiency Eliminates Jobs
This is great example of automation reducing unneeded work and at the same time improving results. I’m very glad that this is being used in a government facility. From an innovation perspective this is fabulous. It does more with less, that is the hallmark of abundance.
Now the trick is to find something useful to do with the extra time freed up from not needing to manage the inventory.
Staged Gate accepts failure instead of ensuring success
Innovation projects have many risks. Some of these risks are controlled with project management techniques. Other risks are assumed unavoidable. Staged Gate attempts to limit the impact of the risks by setting up regular intervals to fail and start over. That is a fancy way of saying trial and error. Predictive Innovation® can prevent the failures, thus saving time and money.
Projects like constructing a building have well known steps. Budgets and schedules can be accurately estimated because the tasks have been performed before. Innovation projects always deal with some aspect that has never been done before. That newness introduces two types of risk, first is what to do and second is how to do it. This breaks down into 6 mandatory sequential outcomes. All 6 must be completed successfully for the innovation project to succeed.
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Predictive Innovation Training
Predictive Innovation: Core Skills Book
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