...EFFECTS OF COMPUTER INNOVATION Introduction: Today man’s scientific knowledge is very wide and highly advanced. It has helped him to discover and invent many things for his ease, comfort and efficiency. Computer is the latest and most brilliant child of science. They used for work, school, hospital, industrial, office, shops, house etc. The Computer can be a helpful place to find information on certain topics. With their quick processing ability helping, it makes informed decisions more quickly and to perform our work faster and easier. That is why many people in the world were depending in computers. And yet computer is a very friendly use for us to do whatever and whenever task we want to do. The Computer has a great literacy for over fifty years; beginning with the famous ENIAC, a revolution has been taking place in the United States and the world. The personal computer has changed the way many people think and live. With its amazing versatility, it has found its way into every area of life, and knowing how to operate it is a requirement for today's world. Body of the Paper: Computers today are used in a way people commonly are doing work on it. There is more to computer typing there’s programming, troubleshooting, communications, and many of more uses from them people and I go through. People has know that there is more to computers then just typing more of it comes where in how other specific devices are used to convert data. Troubleshooting things such as...
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...| | |It is known that there are ergonomic issues regarding the use of computers in the workplace. People sit at computers for many hours and | |repetitive motion and other bodily strains result. One particular problem involves neck and back strain as people adjust the angle of | |their neck/and or their sitting posture to view the computer screen as the cursor makes its way from the top to the bottom of the screen. | |There are literally 100s of millions of people who now spend more than half their day sitting in front of a computer screen and experiencing| |all of the strain associated with this endeavour. | |We propose an innovation in computer screen design which keeps the cursor at a constant level relative to the user by either automatically | |adjusting the height through motor adjustment or through an automatic scroll feature embedded within the software. | | | |This prevents the user from having to adjust the angle of their head to view the point of data entry as it moves down the screen until there| |is a screen refresh or a page break occurs. ...
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...Innovation versus Speed Strategy The approach companies take in making strategic decisions regarding such critical aspects including their business model and value chain have direct implications on their ability to sustain themselves over time. The accumulated research shown by Dr. W. Chan Kim and Dr. Renee Mauborgne in their best selling book Blue Ocean Strategy (Kim & Mauborgne, 2005) illustrate that new, uncontested markets are created by the decisions companies make over time rather than high levels of research and development (R&D) spending or intensive mergers and acquisitions (M&A) to acquire patents. The differences between companies who rely on innovation-based strategies relative to those that rely on speed-based ones are most prevalent during the decision of when and how to launch new products. This specific decision is in fact quantified as the single greatest and profit-generating event in the analysis completed (Kim, Mauborgne, 2004). Apple dominates innovation-based decisions and often looks to completely redefine a given marketplace through the sequence of product and service innovations developed. This mindset and resulting decisions within Apple to pursue a strategy of innovation and the development of an entire ecosystem for digital content including iTunes, iPods, and iPhones/iTouch devices has created a platform the company capitalizes on with each product introduction (Jonash, Koehler, & Onassis, 2007). The decision of which features within...
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...homework, we save for retirement, and we take out insurance. The same principles should surely apply to society as a whole. But how can leaders weigh the present against the future? How can they avoid retrenchment by scientific uncertainty? Analysts have turned to techniques such as scenario planning that involve exploring different possible futures rather than gambling on a single prediction. This article speaks largely on technological innovations shaping the future. One needs to see how this approach works in practice and figure out what exactly the computer should calculate (Popper et al., 2005). The writer is in agreeance that the future is uncertain and the world is facing many challenges. Analysts are researching ways to preserve the environment, safeguard the future of social security, and shield against terrorism and manage the effects of novel technology. Popper et al. (2005) suggests that there should be constructed, rigorous, and systemic methods for dealing with deep uncertainty. Using computers and technological innovations was one of these researchers’ primary solutions. As the future will always be uncertain, Morselli (2013) reports we must assume that educators will continue to design learning opportunities and learners will participate in those learning opportunities and will learn in ways that they would not have done if educators were not involved. Morselli (2013) assumes that teachers will continue to have a central role, and that technology is not...
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...setting that is already installed unlike the iPad which makes business meeting easier and the detachable keyboard makes for easy pictures at a soccer game. The surface tablet does the same as a home computer and still works as an on the go tablet. Another innovation is the Microsoft Sync in which Microsoft joined with Ford to create a software that allows drivers to never take their eyes off the road. The Microsoft Sync depending on the package will allow the driver to answer calls, reply to text, play apps such as Pandora and receive turn by turn directions by simply talking to the software. Microsoft’s biggest innovation is Microsoft Office, almost every organization, college student and local business owner uses Microsoft Office to accomplish goals. Microsoft has made writing papers and creating power point presentations easy and fun. There are several innovation methods, a common method that Microsoft uses is incremental innovation. Innovating under this method allows the organizations to find ways to improve products that already exist. The iPad and kindle were already developed so Microsoft had to create a product that would allow them to be different, something as simple as a keyboard separates their products from the rest. Another method that Microsoft uses is user led innovation. Microsoft mastered...
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...Technology has been a primary driver of social change for thousands of years. In particular, four technological innovations were responsible for social revolutions: The domestication of plants and animals over ten thousand years ago, the invention of the plow, the invention of the steam engine, and the invention of the computer all led to massive social change (Henslin 390). The transition from hunting and gathering to a pastoral society changed earlier societies by enabling them to abandon migratory practices and establish fixed residences. The invention of the plow revolutionized agricultural techniques and increased yields, allowing societies to sustain larger populations. The invention of the steam engine in the 18th century transformed the transportation capabilities of society and spurred further innovation as people and materials could be quickly transported on land for distances previously unimaginable. Finally, it is difficult to understate the ways in which the microchip and personal computer have fundamentally altered the organization of society; the instant access to and constant flows of information have changed communication, education, and business in modern society. In light of the social change wrought by these technological innovations, sociologist William Ogburn argued that technology was the basic cause of social change. In particular, he identified three processes by which technology drove social change: Invention, discovery, and diffusion. While...
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...Apply I in 1975 and surprising the sale was pretty good. Then two years later the second, Apple II was designed and within a year the company has made $3 million. This is just the result that Apply always been working on creative and new things. Back in time, the Apple Inc. was not always big success. Couple years later Apple Inc. has design the pricey and unique product with the high price such as, Apple Lisa in 1983 or Macintosh TV in 1993. Both has ended up been the worse product due as a computer specs; it is lackluster and too expensive for Macintosh TV. Another flop is back in 1996 as network computer that can play game. The failures of Apple have been due to following; 1. Pricey Products 2. Poor marketing efforts 3. Too ambitious products The following products could be considered success for Apple; 1. IPod is one of the Apple’s biggest successes, it has completely changed the music industry and we can even say it has done a revolution in the technology innovation. 2. IPhone is the biggest success in my opinion since it is affordable, very popular and useful for everyone compare to other products Apple released. Created January 2007. 3. The Apple II 4. IPod 5. ITunes Apple Reinvented success by following these 4 principles such " Don't Follow your customer; Lead them " some Said that Apple doesn't Ask People what they needs but give them the products that they want by making market instead Addressing the Market. "Temper engineering with...
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...A RESEARCH AND DEVELOP AN INNOVATION SYSTEM GREAT INNOVATOR/INNOVATION Innovation is the process of putting an idea or invention into the service system which will create value to the consumers and will results to organisational profit. It is the process of creating something new that makes life better. Innovation is impossible without passion and innovators see the world differently. It is said to be crucial to the continuing process but yet beneficial for the community and profitable for the business organisation. In this modern history of computer age, the development and launching of GOOGLE search engine made a huge impact in every individual and to the community on all aspects of life. It was created to organise the world’s information and to make it universally and useful. Its goal is also to preserve history and making it available to everyone. Internet entrepreneur and computer scientist Larry Page teamed up with grad school buddy Sergey Brin to launch this search engine in 1998. Larry Page is the current CEO of Google and leading one of the most innovative and successful companies in the world, perhaps in history. Sergey Brin is the multi-billionaire co-founder of Google who has been involved with some of the company’s most innovative technologies including Google Glass, and Google’s self-driving cars. (www.startupguide.com , “Creating a Better World Through Entrepreneurship,”) (www.entrepreneur.com) As a research project at Stanford...
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...entrepreneurship and innovation in developing countries? (a) Haiti (b) Uganda (c) Ghana (d) Latvia 2) According to the article pertaining to innovation in developing nations, there is a positive relationship between ___________ and __________. (a) education, rate of income (b) cultural barriers, economic development (c) firm size, innovation 3) T/F As a benefit of service innovation, it is believed that users have valid, innovative, useful, and creative ideas. True A unique approach to innovations produces _______ innovation verse a typical strategy that produces ________ innovation. a) radical/incremental b) greater/less c)less/greater d) incremental/radical What is not one of Porters 5 forces for competitive strategy? a) Rivalry b) Substitutes c) Consumer power d) Barriers and entry 1. The adoption of a radical process innovation is significantly promoted THE MOST by: A. Large company size B. The presence of a champion C. Technology policies D. Sustainability Answer: B 2. Which of the following factors DOES NOT impact how well a company innovates? A. Company size B. Level of education C. Race D. Amount of resources Answer: C What factor could influence innovation? A. Size of firm B. Education C. Government Regulation D. All of the above Answer: D Rivalry, buyer power, supplier power, substitutes, and barriers of entry are the five forces for competitive strategy. T/F? Answer: True 1) In Ghana, innovation was greater...
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...International Journal of Innovation Management Vol. 5, No. 3 (September 2001) pp. 377–400 © Imperial College Press DEVELOPING INNOVATION CAPABILITY IN ORGANISATIONS: A DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES APPROACH BENN LAWSON Department of Accounting, The University of Melbourne Victoria, 3010, Australia e-mail: blawson@unimelb.edu.au DANNY SAMSON Department of Management, The University of Melbourne Victoria, 3010, Australia e-mail: d.samson@unimelb.edu.au Received 1 February 2001 Revised 18 August 2001 Accepted 21 August 2001 This paper draws together knowledge from a variety of fields to propose that innovation management can be viewed as a form of organisational capability. Excellent companies invest and nurture this capability, from which they execute effective innovation processes, leading to innovations in new product, services and processes, and superior business performance results. An extensive review of the literature on innovation management, along with a case study of Cisco Systems, develops a conceptual model of the firm as an innovation engine. This new operating model sees substantial investment in innovation capability as the primary engine for wealth creation, rather than the possession of physical assets. Building on the dynamic capabilities literature, an “innovation capability” construct is proposed with seven elements. These are vision and strategy, harnessing the competence base, organisational intelligence, creativity and idea management, organisational structures...
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...Sherman Computer Repair New Direction Kevin O'Brien MMPBL/550 October 29, 2011 Lois Whittaker Sherman Computer Repair New Direction When it comes to making changes to a business there are risks that need to be taken. Some of those risks will affect the stakeholders. More and more companies are going through changes to help move them in the right direction. As companies are going through these types of changes to help move the organization forward they are trying to be proactive to ensure they are staying ahead of the competitions. Companies that are not participating in change are slower to react and could leave the business setup for failure. As for the organization, Sherman Computer Repair, there is a need to plan for a new direction. When planning for the new direction there should be steps to ensure the plan is working the way it has been set out to do. When an organization is going through an organizational design change there will be some barriers. During that process there will need to be an evaluation of the organizations external environment of their strengths and their weaknesses. This evaluation will help the company get an assessment of Sherman Computer Repair current skills sets and talent level that will need to be changed to help the company move forward. Sherman Computer Repair Organizational Design The current state of Sherman Computer Repair is that the company has three locations in where their customer can bring their computer hardware in...
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...Service Innovation Proposal Abstract When a company’s main business focus is service and clients, service innovation becomes vital to the success of the company’s lifeline. The company can use an approach such as the one in the proposal, Innovation Business Design Model (IBDM), to create a 5-step roadmap (University of Phoenix, 2009) when applying the steps to create a service innovation proposal. The following proposal provides a definition of what service means to a company, a description of how a company such as Intelligent Office uses the roadmap for service innovation to assist with the company’s business needs, along with an explanation of how Intelligent Office uses unique nuances of service innovative to the IBDM. Service Innovation Proposal Service can be described as performing a type of work, duty, or labor for a superior, manager, or a client and receive compensation for the work performed. Service can be provided by any industry such as medical, bereavement, technical, hospitality, telecommunications, charities, retail stores, financial institutions, and public utilities. Much of service innovation in today’s businesses revolves around online services and e-business. However, some companies can combine brick and mortar and the Internet to accomplish a goal of providing service for customers. For a company to use service innovation, situational assessments and market analysis through flowcharts, graphs, interviews, surveys, trends, cultural awareness, and...
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...discuss how technological innovation and industry dynamics have influenced its emergence. (Answer due before 10:00 PM (PST), Sunday, November 18, 2012. No late assignments will be accepted.). The computer industry is a prime example of technological innovation and industry dynamics. For example due to constant evolution of the processor and its ability to multitask various programs simultaneously to complete complex jobs for let’s say engineers, academics and government. We have developed smaller faster desktops and laptops. Consumers are constantly searching for the next best piece of tech, thus creating a want for more efficient and compact hardware. The actors being machine tools and instruments powered with central processing units have dramatically increased efficiency, profits and overall workflow. In turn the computer industry further fuels the software and programmer industry, thus complementing industry dynamics. Universities and venture capitalists have lead the advancement of computers to a level unparalleled. This is due to the fact that universities develop new knowledge that could be a major input to innovation, train human capital that form the backbone of the R&D laboratories of firms, sometimes patent in certain technologies and often are a source of new firms in specific sectors (Malerba, F.). Finally, the role of different institutions — some of them national, other sectorial — has been acknowledged to be relevant for innovation and diffusion in industries...
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...The Role of Product Lifecycle Management Systems in Organizational Innovation Hamzeh K. Bani Milhim, Xiaoguang Deng, Andrea Schiffauerova, and Yong Zeng* Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University, 1455 Maisonneuve West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3G 1M8 yong.zeng@concordia.ca Abstract. Innovation is a critical ingredient of today’s organizations. Innovativeness helps organizations to maintain their success and position in the market. Numerous research studies examine the factors that impact successful organizational innovation, for example organizational learning capability, organizational structure, etc. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems have been widely implemented to support organizational innovation as well. In this paper, we will discuss the role of PLM systems in fostering the organizational innovation success. Moreover, future trends based on the current PLM systems that would provide further support to the organizational innovativeness will be explained. Keywords: organizational innovation, PLM systems, fostering innovation. 1 Introduction Innovation is considered as the major engine of organizational success. Organizations need to adopt and develop new products and services, and to improve their processes in order to maintain their goals such as profit, growth and continuous development. In addition, they are constantly required to increase their effectiveness...
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...Towards a new theory of innovation management: A case study comparing Canon, Inc. and Apple Computer, Inc. Ikujiro Nonaka Institute of Business Research, Hitotsuhashi University, Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan Martin Kenney Department of Applied Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA Abstract This paper argues that innovation can be best understood as an information process which is then concretized as a product that meets demand. Two very different firms, Canon Inc. and Apple Computer Inc., are used as case study illustrations. Innovation does not proceed through logical deduction, but rather is furthered by the use of metaphors and analogies. The bureaucratic and staid structures of the firm can be challenged and broken up to provide the space for innovations to emerge. The leader’s role in the innovating firm is as a catalyst and facilitator, not as an allknowing despot. The importance of innovations is not merely in the new product, but also the “ripple” effects of innovations which can propel the firm into a self-renewal process. Keywords: Innovation management, High-technology, Case study. 1. Introduction Increasingly, corporate competitive success is hinging upon the effective management of innovation. Innovation has been the object of considerable academic study from a variety of perspectives. However, innovations are usually considered as objects. We choose to look at innovation differently. For us, innovation is a process by which...
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