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Innovation

Saturday, August 09, 2008

Air Blade

James Dyson, inventor of the Dyson vacuum cleaner has invented a new hand dryer.   Take a look at the Fox Business video on the invention and how Mr.Dyson says he came up with it.

Bath Time Question:  What combination of incremental improvements and available technology from other applications could create something amazing?

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Failure and Learning

Homertryingis

Homer Simpson says that trying to do something is the first step on the road to failure.

James Dyson says his revolutionary vacuum cleaner took hundreds of prototypes.   And he points out that each prototype was a FAILURE until the last one.   Without the failure there is no learning.   Take a look at the video clip "Failure" on Mr.Dyson's website

James Dyson on Failure

Bath Time Question:  Today, will you try something so that you can learn from the failure or will you avoid trying anything to avoid the stigma of failure?  How do you want your people to behave?

Monday, July 28, 2008

Water Transportation

Take a look at this innovation.   Its a powerful idea which could impact millions of woman and children who have the responsibility for moving water long distances in communities across the African continent.

Obvious once you see it, simple, easy to integrate into the way people live and work.

Read about the Q Drum

Bath Time Question:  How can your product, service or process fit into your customers lives more simply than they do today?

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Sunday, July 27, 2008

Tom Peters - Innovation is Easy

Click Tom Peters for more.

Bath Time Question: How can you find your way to create something remarkable that becomes common place?

Corp Inc. invents the Stop Sign....

Courtesy of AgencyLifer on You Tube.   Truth or Fiction?  Take a look at the comments on You Tube and weep.

Bath Time Question:  What can you do to keep ideas simple, bold and powerful?