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How to Storm through Innovation
Robyn M Bolton
In this article, Robyn Bolton guides the pursuit of innovation through various storms.
Everyone knows about brainstorms but did you know there are three other types of storms that can blow you to your innovation destination?
Questionstorms
First introduced in The Innovator's DNA, these storms happen at the start of an innovation effort and seek to surface all the assumptions, expectations, concerns, and actual questions currently locked in individuals' brains.
The value of this session is that it makes the implicit explicit, removes hidden agendas, eliminates guessing games, and establishes a culture of curiosity, exploration, and learning versus demands and fear.
You run Questionstorms just like brainstorms – give everyone 3-5 minutes to silently write a long list of thoughts. Then, give everyone another 3-5 minutes to turn each thought into a question and write the question on a sticky note. For example, "We need to realize $250M revenue in Year 3 to make this work" becomes "How might we design and run an innovation function that generates $250M in Year 3?" Then, each person reads their sticky notes to the group before placing them on a wall. The goal is to ask 50 questions before you start grouping and prioritizing.
Intuition-storms
I first learned about this storm from IDEO and am genuinely surprised by how effectively they re-energize teams and propel the work forward. These storms happen after the first phase of a project, usually the research phase.
An Intuition-storm's value comes from its ability to pull the team out of the minutiae of the previous weeks and months of work and back up to seeing the big picture. In the process, they rapidly synthesize insights that may have gotten lost in the more traditional left-brained approach of gathering and summarizing details.
Again, just like brainstorms, start by posing the big question that the project intends to answer, then give people 3-5 minutes to write down their answers. Too much time and they may dig into documents and details, too little time and you'll get recency bias in the responses. Then go around the room and share. Once everyone has shared, discuss the elements in common and the unique ones. Be clear that this isn't about getting to THE answer, but about tapping into the full of everyone's experience, expertise, and wisdom.
By now, we all know what it means to brainstorm, and we've all probably been part of one or two brainstorming sessions. But do you know where it all started?
In the mid-nineteenth century, "brainstorm" was a colloquial term for "fit of acute delirious mania; sudden dethronement of reason and will under the stress of strong emotion, usually accompanied by manifestations of violence." Not exactly the type of thing most businesspeople aim for.
However, in 1939, advertising executive Alex F. Osborn got so frustrated with his employees' ability to generate creative ideas for ad campaigns that he developed a new approach dubbed "organized ideation." This approach, later renamed to "brainstorm" by his employees, was governed by four rules:
Go for quantity
Withhold criticism
Welcome wild ideas
Combine and improve ideas
While the methods and tools for brainstorming have evolved over the past 80+ years, it's a testament to Osborn's approach that the rules have not.
Read the full article, 4 Storms that Accelerate Innovation, on MileZero.io.
TAGS: Innovation, Innovation Consulting, Innovation Strategy
An Unconventional Innovation Hackathon
Kaihan Krippendorff
Kaihan Krippendorff provides an article that offers a new twist on innovation development.
To keep up with today's rapid pace of disruption, every company feels the pressure to innovate. Most of them, when trying to shift to an innovative culture, feel like they have to pursue brand new ideas. But when I was recently invited to judge an innovation competition for Macmillan Learning, I saw that there is another way.
An innovation competition without any new ideas? This was the case for Macmillan's Innovation Tournament. The goal was to celebrate the existing innovations from over the past 12 months.
As it turns out, there was already plenty of innovation going on inside the company: 217 employees submitted 46 projects—overall representing 25% of the workforce. Sometimes innovation isn't about coming up with completely novel ideas, but instead making room to celebrate what is already there.
What they did and why
I spoke to Kate Geraghty, VP of Communications and Training, to find out more about how the company designed and spread the word about the untraditional hackathon.
She told me, "Our Innovation Tournament required teams of two or more employees to send in a project highlighting an innovation that happened in the last 12 months or one that was currently in flight. The goal was to celebrate the work and the results, even if failure was a part of those results."
Employees were invited to submit ideas in the following categories: What We Create; What, How, & Where We Deliver; Our Customers, Our Markets; and Our People & Culture. Macmillan brought in speakers like Dr. Linda Hill, co-author of Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation, to motivate and inspire teams. Tournament leaders sent promotional emails and opened Slack channels for participants, judges, and finalists. Weekly office hours were set up for employees to refine their submissions.
Driving innovation from within
Celebration amplifies innovation
Launching an innovation tournament
Read the full article, An Innovation Tournament Without New Ideas? Macmillan Offers a Fresh Twist, on Kaihan.net.
TAGS: employee innovation, Innovation, Innovation Strategy
Welcoming new member Ana Maricevic
Ana Maricevic
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Ana Maricevic with Partners for Life. Ana is a research immunologist by training and still fascinated by all things medical. She started out at McKinsey and moved on to be an independent consultant, investor and board director in Life Science companies. She has expertise in innovation, new business development and oncology among others. Having recently arrived in Boston she is looking forward to potential collaboration.
TAGS: Innovation, Life Science, new business development, oncology
Identify the Constraints that Drive Creativity
Robyn Bolton shares a post on where innovation happens and why.
"Innovation happens in the gaps."
It's a statement so simple yet so profound that as soon as my client said it, I wrote it down.*
It's not sexy to innovate in the gaps.
Most people and companies believe that innovation must be something entirely new for the world. That innovation is all about filling a white space, thinking blue sky, or swimming in a blue ocean. That innovation must be free of constraints, that it must be pure creation.
Most people will argue that CEOs rarely get on the front page of the Wall Street Journal because their company introduced something better than what exists today. Innovators rarely win design awards for an improved version of an existing solution. Scientists and engineers are rarely celebrated for receiving improvement patents.
Rarely.
Steve Jobs made the front page for the iPod, an MP3 player that offered better storage and user experience than the dozens of MP3 players that existed before it.
Charles and Ray Eames were named "The Most Influential Designer of the 20th Century" by the Industrial Designers Society of America, and they're best known for designing chairs.
Thomas Edison is hailed as the inventor of the electric lightbulb when, in truth, he significantly improved a decades-old product that was too expensive, too unreliable, and too short-lived to be commercially viable.
It's necessary (and profitable) to innovate in the gaps.
Gaps exist because of real and perceived constraints. Innovation thrives in constraints because it is the constraints that drive creativity.
In the gap between what is and what is good enough lies a problem that needs a solution. That solution, something new that creates value, is innovation.
In the gap between what is and what is delightful lies an opportunity that wants a better solution. Innovation can deliver that solution."
Innovation through improvisation
Identifying the constraints
Read the full article, Innovation Happens in the Gaps, on MileZero.io.
TAGS: Business Intelligence, Innovation, Innovation Consulting
Leadership Skills for Fostering Innovation
Robyn Bolton shares one simple rule that can help build a culture of innovation and a solid team.
I do. We do. You do.
My Mom taught pre-school. It wasn't a job; it was her calling. Kids gravitated to her like she was the Pied Piper, and she greeted them with unequaled patience, acceptance, and love. Years later, her students would talk about how she changed their lives when they were only four years old. And she did it by following one simple rule.
Whatever she was teaching, whether it was sitting still at a table and eating a snack or writing the alphabet, she always did it first so the kids would know that it's possible and not be afraid to try.
Then, they would do the activity together. Side-by-side, they would eat a snack or draw letters, the kids occasionally glancing to the side to mimic her and my Mom gently coaching and encouraging.
Finally, she would step back, never disappearing completely, always within sight, but no longer right there. By doing this, she created the space for them to be independent and to build confidence.
It is easy to say that she was teaching.
It is more accurate to say that she was leading.
It is precisely what executives need to do if they want to build a culture and capability of innovation within their teams and businesses.
It is not enough to encourage your team to take risks. YOU need to take risks. Ask a question in a meeting. Say, "I don't know." Challenge the status quo. Be the first to do something different or uncertain, so your people know that it's possible and aren't afraid to try.
Fostering confidence
Avoiding judgment
Stepping back
Read the full article, Follow This 1 Simple Rule to Build a Culture and Capability of Innovation, on Milezero.io.
TAGS: company culture, Innovation, team leadership
How to Get Things Right
Robyn Bolton shares a well-balanced post that explains why 95% of new products fail and how to do the right things in the right ways at the right times to ensure success.
Most people know that 95% of new products fail within three years of launch. It's often cited as evidence of big companies' inability to be innovative, keep up with changing consumer demands, and respond to the nimbleness of start-ups.
Naturally, companies don't want to fail in the market, so they try to get better at listening and responding to customers, more comfortable investing in unproven but potentially market-defining technology, and more willing to question and change their business models.
Yet, the market failure rate stays essentially the same.
"Ah-ha!" the experts proclaim, "if companies are doing everything right and 95% of innovation projects are still failing, that means that projects are launching that shouldn't be. That means we must get better at killing projects before they launch!"
Suddenly, Fail Fast becomes the corporate mantra. More projects start because it's ok to fail. More projects get killed, a mind-boggling 99.9%, according to one study. Fewer projects get launched.
Why? Why does the market failure rate stick stubbornly at 95% if companies are doing all the right things, including killing 99.9% of ideas and projects before they even get to market?
Because it's not enough to do the right things.
You must do the right things in the right ways at the right times.
Here are the three most important ones:
Right Thing #1
Read the full article, 3 Things To Do in the Right Way at the Right Time for Innovation Success, MileZero.io.
TAGS: Business Innovation, Innovation, Innovation Consulting
Welcoming new member Rob Mann
Rob Mann
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Rob Mann with MilestonCVC.
Having worked across the globe, Rob has over 20 years of consulting and industry experience focused on growth and innovation, product development and related operations. He previously worked at McKinsey as a Senior Expert in Product Development & Design. He led North Highland's Growth & Innovation Practice which became an ALM Top 10 practice under his leadership. While working at PwC (PRTM), SapientRazorfish and Kearney, his work entailed growth and innovation, digital enablement, and strategic sourcing. In addition to advisory services, approximately half of his consulting career entails interim management roles where he's conceived, developed and launched new products and businesses for mature brands and start-up companies.
Along with his consulting work, Rob taught in the Marketing Department at the Wharton School for nearly 20 years, where he served as the Director of Consulting and Strategy in Wharton's GCP. He was the Global Conference Chairman for the Product Development and Management Association where he led events and seminars. Known for immersive consulting experiences mixing fun and learning, Rob is a sought-out mentor enjoying long, deep developmental relationships with trusted clients, colleagues and students. Rob travels the globe with his family, enjoys baseball, teaches Bourbon design/development and is an avid hiker.
TAGS: Growth, Innovation, Operations, Product Development
The Benefits of Ethics-driven Innovation
Peet van Biljon
Peet van Biljon shares a white paper on the benefits of ethics-driven innovation.
Is your company innovative? No doubt, you would like to say yes. Everyone wants to be innovative, which is why the word "innovation" appears frequently in annual reports and press releases. However, there can be a large gap between saying we are good at innovation and being truly good at it. How to close this gap is the topic of a multitude of publications on innovation management, and keeps many innovation consultants busy.
Is your company a force for good in society? Again, yes is probably your answer. Claims about how a company's business activities benefit society are quite common, as evidenced by the promotion of corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives in glossy publications, press releases, and well-produced videos. But again there can be a gap between words and reality, as seen in corporate scandals and day-to-day business actions that contradict claims of caring for stakeholders and communities.
Now let us combine these two questions and ask a third one: Do your company's innovations contribute to the greater good of humanity? This is an important question that needs to be asked more often, because innovation and ethics are deeply intertwined.
While it is possible to be "innovative" without serving a positive social purpose, and conversely possible to be "socially responsible" without being innovative, most companies strive to be both. So how can a company achieve these values? This paper introduces Ethics-driven Innovation®[i], an innovation process designed to meet this challenge. The good news – as we shall see – is that knowing why you want to innovate, and whom you want to serve in society, will make you better at both innovation and ethics.
The inadequacy of traditional CSR
Portfolio of initiatives
Constraints-based creativity
Access the white paper, Good at Innovation or Innovating for Good, on EthicsDrivenInnovation.com.
TAGS: Business ethics, Business Innovation, Innovation
Home-grown Innovation – Thanks Mom
With Mother's Day comes memories of small moments that had a big impact. Robyn Bolton shares a wholly amusing, moving, and inspirational story on innovation found in unlikely places.
My Mom was a nursery-school teacher. It was more than her profession, it was her gift. Long after my sister and I were grown and out of the house, my mom chose to spend her days with 4-year olds, teaching them everything from the ABCs to how to use the WC.
Like all moms, she was an innovator. She was constantly creating something different that had impact. Admittedly, sometimes "different" was just weird and "impact" wasn't always ideal, but it's only just recently that I've realized how much my mom (probably accidentally) role-modeled the traits of a world-class innovator.
The genius of stealth prototyping
In an effort to save a bit of money, I spent the summer before business school living with my parents. One day, while folding the laundry (it took less than 20 minutes!), I found one of my Dad's white athletic tube socks. But it wasn't like the other white athletic tube socks. This one had three circles drawn on the bottom of it in what appeared to be black Sharpie.
"Mom, what's up with this sock?"
"Oh, I needed a ghost puppet for school so I just used one of your dad's socks."
When my dad got home from work, I showed him the sock and asked if he had noticed the black circles on the foot. He had not.
The infectious nature of optimism
The life-changing power of empathy
Read the full article, Mom: Innovation's OG, on MileZero.io.
TAGS: Growth, Innovation, professional development
Welcoming new member Berthold Hannes
Berthold Hannes
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Berthold Hannes with Dr. Hannes Consulting. Berthold spent 15 years with A.T. Kearney in the Munich and Duesseldorf offices, leading A.T.Kearney's Utility practice in Germany, Switzerland and Austria for many years. He was also a member of the European and global Utility practice leadership team. From 2006 until 2013 he was a Bain & Company partner in the Duesseldorf office, leading the Utility practice in GSA. In 2014 he started his own consulting business, based in Cologne.
Berthold works with medium-sized and large Utility companies, investors in the energy space and innovators. He has particular expertise in corporate and business unit strategy, business model development and innovation. For investors he is working on CDDs. He is invested in an Energy start-up in Zurich.
Berthold lives in Cologne, Germany, with his family. He has become an enthusiastic runner and finished his first half-marathon in 2019. Berthold is happy to work on projects in the German speaking region.
TAGS: business model development, Innovation, investor relations, utilities
Is Up the Only Way to Grow?
Indranil Ghosh takes the pulse of the future and delivers it through the podcast Powering Prosperity Weekly. This week, he interviews Louis Ferro, vertical farming entrepreneur, on vertical farming and the inevitable transformation of agriculture.
You know by now that I'm passionate about companies that are addressing the planet's major issues, including the climate crisis, population growth and food and water scarcity.
My book, Powering Prosperity (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Powering-Prosperity-Citizens-Shaping-Century/dp/1642933082), outlines my thoughts on these matters – as do my vlog and newsletter (https://www.tigerhillcapital.com/powering-prosperity#thinking2).
One company I feature in my book is called Empire State Greenhouses, a semi-rural vertical farm in the Catskills in New York. It's the largest completely closed-loop vertical farm system I've seen and, based on my experience in sustainable infrastructure investing, I believe it's a model that could transform agriculture.
One company I feature in my book is called Empire State Greenhouses, a semi-rural vertical farm in the Catskills in New York. It's the largest completely closed-loop vertical farm system I've seen and, based on my experience in sustainable infrastructure investing, I believe it's a model that could transform agriculture. National Geographic estimates that the global population will pass 10bn by 2050, which current agricultural systems could not feed. Vertical farms are yet to solve this issue, but with ESG, we think we have a key solution:
Volume of produce
Access the podcast and read the full article, Large Scale Vertical Farming comes of Age, on LinkedIn.
TAGS: Innovation, Sustainable Business, vertical farming
"As You Wish" Innovation
Robyn Bolton draws innovation inspiration from the Princess Bride to illustrate how the innovator embarks on a hero's journey within a corporate setting.
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post using quotes from "Moneyball" (the movie, not the book) to describe the experience of trying to innovate within a corporate setting.
It was great fun to write, I received tons of feedback, and had many fascinating conversations (plus a fact check on the year the Red Sox broke the Curse of the Bambino), so I started searching for other movies that inadvertently but accurately describe the journey of corporate innovators.
If you have not seen The Princess Bride, stop reading and immediately go watch it. Seriously, there is nothing more important for you to do right now than to crawl out from the cultural rock you've been under since 1987 and watch this movie.
If you're reading this, you've clearly watched the movie and know that it is packed with life lessons and quotable quotes. It also captures the reality of innovation within the walls of large companies
"You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means." – Inigo Montoya
A company's focus on Innovation usually begins the moment a senior executive, usually the CEO, declares it to be a key strategic priority and promises Wall Street analysts that significant investments will be made.
It then trickles down to business units and functions, with each subsequent layer told to "be more innovative" and "come up with more innovation."
Then, one day, the responsibility for innovation lands in someone's lap and stays there. To be honest, it's usually an exciting day for the person because they've been asking questions, suggesting ideas, and pushing for innovation for a long time, and now the powers that be have permitted them to do something about it. They may even have been given a title and budget specific for innovation."
But "innovation" was never defined.
The CEO may think it is an entirely new business, something flashy and new that rivals anything coming out of Silicon Valley.
Defining the expectations of innovation
Supporters and champions
Courageous innovators
Read the full article, What "The Princess Bride" Teaches About the Corporate Innovation Experience, on milezero.io.
TAGS: Business Intelligence, Innovation, Innovative leadership
Welcoming new member Derek Robinson
Derek Robinson
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Derek Robinson with Renegade. Derek is a hands-on Strategy advisor with a track record of developing high-impact new business ventures. Derek trained at Bain, Coca-Cola and Cox Media Group before launching Renegade – a boutique collective of ace consultants, built to drive explosive growth for their clients.
He lives in Atlanta with his husband, Eric, and can't wait to travel again once the dust clears. Derek is always up for a collaboration, either in Atlanta or remotely, and is especially keen on the consumer goods + media sectors. Learn more about Derek (and his team) at www.renegade.llc.
TAGS: Growth, Innovation, new business, Strategy
The Productive Power of Love
Susan Meier
Susan Meier asks us simply to think about love and how it works when we want to bring positive and productive energy into play.
"Think about love.
In the early days of running my own company, I was feeling nervous about a pitch meeting with a potential new client. My friend suggested matter-of-factly, "Just think about love." I laughed at first, because love seemed like an odd thing to be thinking about while discussing digital media strategies in the pharmaceutical industry. But I decided to give it a try. I took a deep breath as I sat down to the meeting and called the word 'love' to mind. I felt my chest broaden and my shoulders release. It wasn't romantic love, but rather the sensation of pure joy that comes when you hug your puppy, the feeling that anything is possible when the sun shines on your shoulders. I nailed the presentation and won the work.
It worked because love is what you bring to your very best work – the passion you feel for something you truly care about, the sense of integrity that comes with fulfilling your purpose, the patience and tenacity that get conjured up when you are determined to make good on a commitment.
Don't think about robots.
While we may worry about machine learning and artificial intelligence taking jobs and dehumanizing work, we need not. It's true that machines and algorithms have quick computing power and no pesky egos to contend with. However, the unique gifts of the human heart – empathy, vulnerability, emotional literacy – can't be replicated."
Working without fear
Aligning with passion
Read the full article, How Love Works, on SusanMeierStudio.com.
TAGS: Innovation, personal growth, professional development
Innovative Strategies Trump Industry Experience
Barry Horwitz
Barry Horwitz explains why he believes industry experience is overrated and provides examples from Ford, Staples, and health organizations to back up the claim.
"In September of 2006, Boeing executive Alan Mullaly was named the new CEO of Ford Motor Company. Not only did he have zero experience in the auto industry, he drove a Lexus (shocking!).
The hiring decision was widely panned by industry experts and "regular people" alike. But Mullaly wasn't fazed. When asked how he was going to tackle something as complex and unfamiliar as the auto industry, particularly given the financial shape Ford was in at the time, he replied, "An automobile has about 10,000 moving parts, right? An airplane has two million, and it has to stay up in the air."
In the end, Mullaly was credited with having led a significant turnaround of Ford, which was also the only major auto manufacturer that didn't require a government bailout during the great recession.
Industry Expertise is Overrated
When speaking with prospective clients, I am often asked whether I am an expert in their particular industry. While there are a few industries in which I have spent a number of years (e.g., retail, consumer products, health & human services, disease-based nonprofits), there are many more in which I have not.
In practice, however, lack of industry-specific experience is not usually a limitation. While it's true that some understanding of the industry is critical, an outside resource can draw on the expertise that resides within the client organization, and from speaking with industry participants and analysts.
The truth is, if you are seeking creative and innovative ideas, they often come from looking at things from a different perspective — a perspective that is more likely in the possession of those with experiences across multiple and different industries.
There are many examples of this…"
The benefit of a broad experience
The intersection of industry innovation
Hiring strategically
Read the full article, Respect the Unexpected, on HorwitzandCo.com.
TAGS: Business Growth, Business strategy, Innovation
Welcoming new member Guilherme R Bcheche
Guilherme Bcheche
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Guilherme Bcheche. Guilherme has already dedicated more than 12 years to supporting leaders and teams in complex strategic and organizational challenges. Having worked for several years at McKinsey & Company leading projects for large corporations around the world, Guilherme is focused on supporting leaders and their businesses in their transformation journeys. He is a professor at Fundação Dom Cabral Business School, where he teaches leadership and strategy. He is a psychoanalyst, executive coach, specialist in entrepreneurship and innovation from Stanford Graduate School of Business and has his masters degree in Consulting and Coaching for Change from Insead with distinction.
He lives in Sao Paulo and spend the weekends in the countryside close to the nature. Guilherme is happy to collaborate on organizational transformation and leadership development projects worldwide.
TAGS: Entrepreneurship, executive coach, Innovation, Leadership Development, Organizational Transformation
Welcoming new member Willem Koelewijn
Willem Koelewijn
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Willem Koelewijn. Willem is an independent healthcare services entrepreneur. After several years in management consulting (McKinsey) and telecoms, marketing 3G equipment to operators in Europe, Willem set a several Ambulatory Surgery Centres in the Netherland under the Alant Medical brand name. These clinics were merged with Bergman Clinics to become the largest chain of private clinics in the Netherlands. He served on the board as COO. He subsequently became an independent healthcare entrepreneur working in various parts of the Dutch healthcare system: from pain clinics, to midwife led maternity care to developing assisted living facilities for seniors.
TAGS: E-Health, Healthcare, Innovation, Strategy
How Co-creator Bias Affects Innovation
In this article, Robyn M. Bolton illuminates how our personal bias comes into play with the co-creator syndrome and how it can affect innovation.
When I was a senior in college, I took a pottery class.
One of our assignments, before learning to throw on the wheel, was to create a functional piece using slabs of clay. I designed an Alice in Wonderland-inspired vase and built something that somewhat resembled the design.
Obviously impressed by my innate talent, the instructor offered to teach me a special glazing technique that used highly toxic chemicals to create…well…I stopped listening as soon as I heard "toxic chemicals." It was dangerous, so I was in.
The result was a rather misshapen (not Alice in Wonderland-inspired) vase that looked like it was made out of chunks of rusted metal.
My roommate hated it.
She declared it the ugliest thing she ever saw and forbid me from placing it anywhere in the apartment where she might have the misfortune of laying eyes on it.
To this day, she swears it's the ugliest thing she's ever seen.
I display it proudly on the bookshelf in my office.
It would be easy to explain our different reactions to my work of art as simply the result of different aesthetic preferences. And while there may be some truth in it, I suspect the better explanation is the IKEA Effect.
The Ikea effect
Meatballs and lingonberries
Objective governance
Read the full article, The IKEA Effect is Creating Zombies. Here's How to Fight Them, on the MileZero website.
TAGS: Cognitive Bias, Innovation, professional development
When Opportunity Arises from Obstacles
Susan Hamilton unlocks the beautiful paradox hidden in the boundaries that constrain us, whether physical, intellectual, or emotional, and reveals a few obstacles that have stimulated creativity.
At the moment, many of us are encountering more constraints than we have ever experienced in our lifetimes. Options and freedoms of all kinds are limited. Your summer vacation plans? Canceled. Back to school in the fall? Not so sure. Even a simple trip to the grocery store has become a somewhat complicated maneuver.
But there may yet be reason to rejoice. We might just be entering the most energized and accelerated period of innovation in recent history.
It may seem counter-intuitive that constraints spark innovation. It flies in the face of the traditional approach to strategy. With the classic SWOT analysis, for example, you identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats an organization faces in order to exploit the strengths and opportunities and mitigate the weaknesses and threats.
But those weaknesses and threats may, paradoxically, be what activate your imagination and unearth opportunity. Constraints encourage idea generation by applying focus and urgency to the task at hand. Through the lens of constraints, you can think about how your limitations can be turned to your advantage.
Artists do this when they choose to work exclusively within a particular structure or medium. Theodore Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss) famously wrote Green Eggs and Ham after Random House founder Bennett Cerf bet him that he couldn't write a children's book with just 50 different words. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein when she found herself trapped indoors during an unusually cold and stormy summer near Lake Geneva with nothing else to do.
Video conferencing apps
Core incompetencies
Read the full article, The Beauty of Constraints, on SusanMeierStudio.com.
TAGS: creativity, Innovation, Opportunity
Welcoming new member Bart Sichel
Bart Sichel
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Bart Sichel with bps Captura. Bart is President of bps Captura, which provides independent advisory and consulting to corporate senior leaders, private equity firms, and boards across multiple consumer facing industries. Bart has hands on experience driving growth, and provides expertise in Marketing, Digital Transformation, Ecommerce, Innovation, Format Renewal, and Customer Loyalty.
Bart was Chief Marketing Officer at Burlington Stores, leading Marketing, Ecommerce, and Corporate Strategy, and he was part of the dedicated executive management team that turned the business around under private equity ownership, took the company public, and increased shareholder value over ten-fold.
Prior to Burlington, Bart was a Principal at McKinsey & Company where he co-led McKinsey's North American Retail Marketing Practice among other leadership roles. Before McKinsey, Bart was involved in several startups, and was a Vice President at Chemical Bank. Bart also teaches graduate classes on the topic of leadership at NYU, and serves on the National Board of Directors for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
Bart holds a B.A. in Economics from Vassar College, and an M.B.A. in Marketing and Finance from Columbia University.
TAGS: Digital transformation, Ecommerce, Innovation, Marketing, private equity
Why a Leading Edge Strategy May Bleed You to Death
Dan Markovitz
In this article, Dan Markovitz identifies the problem with striving to be on the leading edge and why focusing on achieving lean operations is a better strategy.
Don't be seduced by the siren song of the leading edge. While it's a nice concept, it's not nicknamed "the bleeding edge" for nothing. All too often, companies that strive for first mover advantage bleed their products—or their entire organization—to death.
Peter Golder and Gerard Tellis's seminal study of 500 brands in 50 product categories reveals that almost half of market pioneers fail. In fact, the greatest long-term success belongs to companies that enter a market and become leaders about 13 years after these first movers. MITS introduced the first personal computer in 1975. Bell Labs brought out the first color TV in 1929. 3M had the first copy machine in 1950. Good luck finding any of those products today.
In follow-up work, Tellis shows that even now there's little evidence to support the idea of first mover advantage: MySpace and Friendster were ahead of Facebook, Books.com was online before Amazon, AltaVista (among others) beat Google in search, and Sony, Blackberry, and others hit the shelves before Apple in mobile music, smartphones, and tablets. That's quite a collection of corporate carcasses.
Forget about the leading edge. Instead, focus on becoming faster and more nimble, so that you can get to the head of the market quickly, when the timing is right. That means eliminating the bureaucratic barnacles that encrust so many organizations. Here are a few areas that are probably creating lethal operational drag on the corporate ship.
Key points in this article include:
The hoshin kanri solution
Assessing the skills and traits
Misaligned decision rights
Read the full article, Want To Be On The Leading Edge? Forget About It., on Markovitzconsulting.com
TAGS: Growth Management, Innovation, Lean Operations
Welcoming new member Agnes Allotey
Agnes Allotey
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Agnes Allotey with Stratosphere. Agnes is a Strategy, Innovation, Product and Organizational Development expert and a Management Consultant with 19 years of experience at firms including McKinsey and Company, Bloomberg L.P., Dow Jones & Company and Milvik (BIMA). She has exposure to multiple industries and functions including the development of Public-Private Sector Partnerships, Insurance, Mining, Banking, Sustainable Enterprises and Media. She is currently the Founder and Executive Director of Stratosphere, a management consulting firm focused on serving companies with interests in Africa. Some of her recent work include working on a transformation for a sovereign wealth fund and helping a large international foundation decide on which sectors to invest in. Agnes is also a Project Manager for CGAP, a think tank housed at the World Bank focusing on financial inclusion.
She also contributed to articles for the McKinsey Global Institute, carrying out key pieces of research into South Africa's economy and McKinsey Women where she studied gender imbalances at work and the effect on company EBITDA. She has also published hundreds of articles on the Bloomberg Terminal for consumption by traders in real-time and edited copy for the Wall Street Journal as a National Copyreader for Dow Jones & Company.
Agnes is also a career coach and served on the Boards of the Kuenyehia Prize for Contemporary Art and Unryddle, a technology-enabled educational development agency for university students. She has an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business where she specialized in Finance and Strategy and a Bachelor of Arts from Bryn Mawr College in English Literature with a minor in Physics.
TAGS: Innovation, Organizational Development, Product, Strategy
Welcoming new member Przemek Czerklewicz
Przemek Czerklewicz
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Przemek Czerklewicz. Przemek worked as a specialist consultant focused on end-to-end support for M&As in the strategy practice at McKinsey. In 2017 he started his independent consultancy, advising on transactions, technology strategy and innovation.
Przemek has been responsible for over 30 due diligence and acquisition screening studies, both for financial and industrial buyers. Most of his Clients are healthcare institutions, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, as well as high tech and social sector organizations. He has also managed pro bono projects in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, helping rising startups, local producers and farmers.
TAGS: continuity plan, Healthcare, Innovation, technology strategy, transactions
Why Creativity Is Important in Every Role
In a recent interview on The Transformative Leader Podcast, Susan Meier discusses the importance of integrating creativity at work even, and especially, in jobs not traditionally considered creative.
I always had these two very strong, for a long time, parallel and separate tracks of things that I was interested in. I was always interested in the arts, both in making art and studying the history of art, and then I was also really captivated by the problem solving analytical thinking piece that drew me into consulting. And that was my first job as an undergrad at the Boston Consulting group. So I loved the nature of my work, but that job by itself didn't activate that visual piece for me, so for many years I had these two parallel worlds where I would go to my art studio, I would paint, I would exhibit my work, inhabit a space with a completely different set of people from this other world where I was in management consulting and working with Fortune 500 companies, making spreadsheets, thinking about operations and logistics. And then I discovered branding.
Merging the creative with the analytical
Why activating both sides of the brain is key to unlocking creativity
How integrating creative and artistic practices into standard business processes can prime the brain for innovative thinking and solutions
How creativity and fulfillment are related, at home and at work.
Listen to the podcast, "Embracing Creativity in the Workplace" on the Ghannad Group website.
TAGS: Branding, company culture, creativity, Ecommerce strategy, Executive Voice Coaching, Innovation, Mining Industry, telecom
Welcoming new member Elias Boustani
Elias Boustani
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Elias Boustani. Elias is a Strategy Consultant with 13 years of experience. He has led the design and implementation of Tech entrepreneurship programs for the World Bank, General Electric, the American University of Beirut (AUB), Expo 2020 Dubai, MCIT KSA, and Beirut Digital District among others.
Prior to that, Elias was a Senior Associate for Strategy& (previously booz&co) working in the Telecom practice on Corporate strategy, Marketing strategy, Demand analytics, Business Planning, Human Capital and SME strategies across clients in K.S.A., Indonesia and India.
Prior to Strategy&, Elias was a Consultant for Accenture France, where he worked as a system integration consultant for major French companies in different industries: Louis Vuitton Malletier and Shiseido in the luxury industry, Faurecia in the automotive industry and Paris City Hall in the public sector.
Elias is a mentor of startups and a university lecturer at AUB and ESA Business Schools.
He is happy to collaborate on projects involving Strategy, Tech, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in France or the Middle East
TAGS: Electronics, Energy, Entrepreneurship, Executive Voice Coaching, Innovation, Recovery Strategy, Strategy, Technology
The Creative Destruction of COVID-19
Alex Sharpe
Alex Sharpe takes a look at where we are, where we're going, and why history can help us identify possible opportunities.
The CORONA Virus is rocking our worlds – no doubt. It is a scary time with lots of uncertainty. Fortunately, times like this cause a disruption which also means opportunity. For many of us that is not easy to hear as we watch businesses struggle and industries change. It is even harder as we hear about the loss of life and we watch the stress placed on the healthcare system. Business owners and entrepreneurs are starting to ask questions like
'What opportunities will exist that did not exist before?'
'What voids can I fill for customers in a post-pandemic world?'
'How do I keep my staff engaged if this goes on for another 2 months?'
'I just started a new business. Should I stick with it?'
Spoiler alert, history tells us situations like this, afford a great opportunity.
Do not miss out. Opportunity is knocking.
Included in this article:
Apple, Microsoft, Disney
Read the full article, Disruption – What a Great Time to Pivot, on LinkedIn.
TAGS: Business Opportunities, COVID-19, Executive Voice Coaching, Innovation, Primary Research, Technological innovation
Welcoming new member Sean O'Toole
Sean O'Toole
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Sean O'Toole with Forge. Sean O'Toole is a Partner at Forge > Outcomes, a growth innovation firm to F1000 companies. Sean specializes in deploying coaching leadership teams through change, building innovation capabilities, and launching new businesses.
A former McKinsey consultant, Sean has over 15 years P&L experience with American Express, Progressive Insurance, and Western Union. founded and sold a fintech company; and is an EIR
Sean is happy to collaborate and provide input on projects relating to innovation, growth, and strategic change.
TAGS: B2B Subscription Business, Cultural fit, Energy, Executive Voice Coaching, Experimentation, Growth, Innovation, P&L, Strategic Change
Welcoming new member Surbhee Grover
Surbhee Grover
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Surbhee Grover with Steel & Graffiti Strategy consulting. With 18 years experience in consulting and brand management, Surbhee Grover provides growth strategy, innovation, digital and marketing advice to leading companies across consumer oriented industries (incl. food & beverage, beauty/ cosmetics, education, hospitality, luxury and digital media). She gained considerable experience during her six year tenure with Booz & Company (2004-2010). Her work has included projects such as the development of an innovation strategy & processes for a global beverage firm; creating a digital strategy for a leading educational entity focused on its international markets; determining global sales capabilities and Go-To-Market strategies in emerging markets for a leading consumer electronics company; and developing a growth product roadmap for a leading European food player.
In addition to this, Ms. Grover honed her product management expertise with firms such as L'Oreal and Marico Industries (Asia) and Colgate Palmolive (N. America). Finally, in partnering with clients across Asia, North America and Europe (UK, Denmark, Netherlands, and Ireland), Surbhee has developed a nuanced understanding of the challenges and opportunities that confront global businesses. Apart from advising senior leaders at global corporations, Surbhee advises several early stage start-ups. She is also a freelance travel writer for the Forbes (Asia).
TAGS: Brand Relationship, corporate storytelling, Cosmetics, design thinking, Energy, Executive Voice Coaching, Food & Beverage, Go-To-Market Strategy, Growth Strategy, Innovation, subscription apps
Welcoming new member Uma Sethi
Uma Sethi
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Uma Sethi. Uma was a Founding member and Principal at BCG Digital Ventures, where she led multi-disciplinary teams to innovate and launch new startups, digital products or experiences.
Prior to that, she was at McKinsey for nearly 10 years. She served as the America's Retail Practice Manager for 4 years and the remainder as a classic strategy consultant. Uma was also a Founding Member of globalgiving.com.
Uma currently lives in Redondo Beach, California with her husband and 2 young boys. Uma is looking to collaborate on innovation or strategy projects.
TAGS: Digital product, Electronics, Energy, Executive Voice Coaching, financial performance management, Innovation, risk, Startups, Strategy
Don't Plan for Innovation – Discover It
Kaihan Krippendorff takes a left turn off a straight road to discover the benefits of not planning as a fundamental benefit to innovation.
Twenty years ago, long before we had children, my wife and I decided to spend Valentine's Day weekend in Tuscany. We were living just a two-hour flight away in London at the time, so leaving on a Friday and returning on a Monday would still mean two days and three nights of rolling hills, wineries, and amazing cuisine.
We booked our flights and rented a car, but our search for a hotel revealed nothing really inspiring within our budget. We narrowed our choices down to a property a little larger than a bed-and-breakfast on the outskirts of Lucca. But we still felt it was a "plan B," our fallback plan.
We had dreamed of a hotel that would be truly memorable, not necessarily luxurious, but that would give us an authentic and memorable experience of the Italian countryside. So we set out, without confirmed accommodations, in the hopes of stumbling upon our 'plan A.'
In this article, Kaihan explains:
The limitations of data to predict outcomes
The benefits of flipping your mindset
Engineering luck
Discovering Plan A
Read the full article, For 2020, Consider the Wisdom of not Planning, on Kaihan's blog.
TAGS: Evalusys report, Executive Voice Coaching, Innovation, professional development, team leadership, Visual Training
How to Build Muscle that Makes Resolutions Happen
With New Year in the rear view mirror, are you driving forward with your resolutions?
Robyn Bolton provides five ways to improve your resolve.
According to research by Strava, the social network for athletes, most people will have given up on their New Year's Resolutions by Sunday, January 19.
While that's probably good news for all the dedicated workout enthusiasts who will be glad to get their gyms back, given that the most common New Year's resolution is to exercise more, it's a bit discouraging for the rest of us.
But just because you're about to stop hitting the gym to drop weight and build muscle (or whatever your resolutions are), it doesn't mean that you can't focus on improving other muscles. May I suggest, your innovation muscles?
Innovation mindsets, skills and behaviors can be learned, but if you don't continuously use them, like muscles, they can weaken and atrophy. That's why it's important to create opportunities to flex them.
In this post, Robyn shares what you can do to build and sustain innovation:
Read the full article, 5 Resolutions to Make 2020 the Year that Innovation Actually Happens, on Medium.
TAGS: Evalusys report, Executive Voice Coaching, Innovation, Primary Research, professional development, team leadership, Visual Training
Welcoming new member Ricardo Fernandez
Ricardo Fernandez
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Ricardo Fernandez to our community. Ricardo Fernandez spent 10 years in consulting in BCG, Accenture and KPMG focusing on strategic projects, due diligences, innovation, integrations and business plans.
The last 8 years he has been focusing on digital growth technology companies where he has experience in Growth, Sales, Marketing Operations and mostly in Financial Services. He recently left Prodigy Finance a Fintech marketplace that has originated $1B to lend to international students going to the top masters around the world.
Ricardo was CSMO and led up strategic partnerships for the company while sitting on the executive committee. Ricardo is based in Madrid and has 2 kids. He is an Engineer from UC Berkeley (with Honors) & MBA from INSEAD with a scholarship from Fundación Rafael del Pino.
Ricardo is happy to collaborate on projects focused on growth, sales and strategy in Europe
TAGS: Competitive Intelligence, Due Diligence, Energy, Enneagramm, Executive Voice Coaching, Financial Services, Fintech, Innovation, Productivity


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Rangapara Assembly constituency is one of the 126 assembly constituencies of Assam Legislative Assembly. Rangapara forms part of the Tezpur Lok Sabha constituency.

Members of Legislative Assembly
 1978: Golok Rajbanshi, Indian National Congress
 1983: Golok Rajbanshi, Indian National Congress
 1985: Golok Rajbanshi, Indian National Congress
 1991: Golok Rajbanshi, Indian National Congress
 1996: Bhimananda Tanti, Indian National Congress
 2001: Bhimananda Tanti, Indian National Congress
 2006: Abhjit Hazarika,Bharatiya Janata Party
 2011: Bhimananda Tanti, Indian National Congress
 2016: Pallab Lochan Das,Bharatiya Janata Party
 2021: Krishna Kamal Tanti, Bharatiya Janata Party

References

Assembly constituencies of Assam

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Courtney Love has an uncanny ability to push herself to the edge and make it back alive time after time. It's reflected in her chaotic life and her fashion sense, which ranges from hot mess to rocker chic.
Love, 48, enlists the help of model Chloe Norgaard, a native New Yorker by way of Los Angeles, to wear Love's niche clothing line, Never the Bride.
Norgaard stunned fashionistas with her rainbow-colored hair for Nicole Miller at New York Fashion Week. Together, they pose for photographer Magnus Magnusson for Contributor magazine's latest issue.
Love calls her line repurposed "Edwardian, Victorian" with an edge. Brittany Berger handles styling while Lisa Caccavale fusses over hair and makeup.
Like her fashion, Love also pushes the limit on her music, art, relationships and life. "The thing about being an artist is that you have to keep going no matter what," she tells the magazine.
She's always at the vanguard of the battle between the sexes, but can see herself as a man. "I have always felt if I were a man, I'd be Sean Penn," she says. "He and Gwyneth [Paltrow] are probably my two biggest inspirations when it comes to acting.
The Hole frontwoman and widow of Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain has never bothered to be a role model in the conventional sense. She admitted in a now infamous Vanity Fair interview of shooting heroin while pregnant with daughter Frances Bean Cobain.
Love has a habit of going to war with everyone and being nasty and outspoken about it.
"When Twitter first got started, I said something on Twitter and got in trouble for it," she says.
Ironically, Twitter is at the heart of her latest controversy. She's being sued by former lawyer Rhonda Holmes for defamation, because of things she wrote on the social media site.
Check out her photos above, and click here to follow TheImproper on Twitter for more celebrity updates.


On this episode we mourn the loss of Leonard Nimoy, check out that Walking Dead town that's for sale, discuss the Power Rangers fan film of the moment, ponder Wonder Woman's production schedule, and discuss the latest news about CBS's Supergirl.
Nick also went to PlattCon, and had a good time.
We're sorry for the audio quality this episode (with the clickings and poppings). There was a software glitch which we didn't have time to fix.
Just pretend it's on vinyl or something.


This is so spot on Ralph and I wish I hadn't written it, but of course you have done it so perfectly – so much truth in what you say.
Yes, spot on indeed ! Well done, Ralph. I agree: we all need to step up and demand answers plus get rid of that one making a career of snooping into private lifes.
All so sadly true Ralph. Well rendered my friend. Cheers!


This application will allow you to create and select a vibration pattern which can essentially be different for every contact on your contact list. Interesting thoughts, but your sense of touch needs to be heightened at all times in order to gather those minor changes in your compositions in order to help guess who might be calling. Once you open the application, you will notice a big circle in the middle of the screen. Tapping that big circle, vibrations can be recorded. You will have a playback button to hear what you recorded. There is another button dedicated to allowing you to assign the vibration to a contact. The concept is really easy and simple, yet it is quite brilliant at the same time. You will also be able to watch a tutorial when you initially startup which can later be accessed via settings within the application again, in case you forget how to use the app.
The application is very high acclaimed in major blogs for example CNET, thedroidclub etc. The user interface is quite easy to understand and play with. The application is very clean and polished and should work flawlessly without a glitch. If you are attracted to the idea of having custom vibrations, then this one is especially for you. The application is available for free but as with most applications, the free version supports ads and all you need to do to fix that is head on over to the Google Play Store and buy vybe unlocker for a mere £0.65. Both the versions of this application should be compatible with Android devices running Android 2.2 or higher and should pose no problem when it comes to functionality. One thing you must keep in mind is that if you have longer vibrate patterns, the battery will go down really quick. Let us know what you think and we will keep you updated on our part.


Ailunce HD1 Dual Band DMR Digital DCDM TDMA Waterproof Two Way Radio. Description: HD1 dual band digital radio uses Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) Tier 2 Standard protocol. It is compatible with the popular MOTO TRBO series Tier I and II using standard encryption, as well as other makes and models of DMR supported radios.
It is also compatible with any existing analog two-way radio operating on the supported UHF and VHF frequencies for easy migration to digital technology. And almost all the operations can be done via radio keypad. VFO mode display Supports VFO display and easy to change from Chanel mode to VFO via EXIT key.
Private/Group call match(Promiscuous) You can make more free call without group restrictions. Dual time slot for point to point You can make 2 group calls in one channel with this function when you are under direct model. ID Setting It can save total 32 radio IDs, and you can also edit radio ID via keypad.
FM Function Support receive signal from other radios when you listening radio. Main Feature Dual Band DMR Radio Analog and Digital Combined Compatible with Motorola Tier? Comply with Digital Protocol ETSI TS 102 361-1,-2,-3 Use Time-Division Multiple-Access(TDMA) Digital Function Frequency Band:136-174 & 400-480MHz& 76-107.95MHz(Receive only) 100,000 Contacts + 1000 Priority Contacts Up to 3000 channels Dual Time Slot for Repeater Dual Time Slot for Point to Point Firmware Upgradeable IP67 Waterproof High/Medium/Low Power:10/5/1w Scan:Time/Search/Carrier Encryption Function Lone Worker Single/Group/All call Remote kill/stun/activate Color LCD Display Transmit/Transceive interruption Promiscuous Function CTCSS/DCS Analog Monitor VOX TOT Talkaround Squelch Keypad Lock LED Indicator Password Lock Battery Save Voice Annunciation 1000/1450/1750/2100Hz Single tone ID Setting. 136-174&400-480MHz &76-107.95MHz(Receive only). UHF:8w:4w:1w VHF:10w:5w:1w. 12.5KHz(data only):7K60FXD 12.5KHz(data and voice):7K60FXW. 0.35uV/-116dBm(20dB SINAD) 0.22uV/-120dBm(Type). 0.30uV/-117dBm(BER 5%) 0.70uV/-110dBm(BER 1%). 10k, 12.5k, 2.5k, 20k, 25k, 50k, 5k, 6.25k. Remote activate, Remote kill, Remote stun. How to hand programme HD1 in digital mode? Programming by hand, we must make sure radio is in frequency mode. Short press Exit key to switch between frequency and channel mode. First we need add priority contacts inside radio. Menu->Contacts->Hand write the contacts info. Like ID, Type(private call/group call/all call), Name, City, Province, Country.
Step 1: Long press Exit key to switch between DMR and FM. FM means analog mode, DMR means digital mode. Step 2: Hand write the frequency you want to communicate, such as 136.2375. Step 3: BandA Set, or BandB Set, based on the frequency you are programming is in BandA or Band B.
Step 5: Choose Color code. Step 6: Shift Up A.
Off means no shift transmitting frequency=receiving frequency B. Plus means: transmitting frequeny figure is bigger than receiving frequency. Mimus means: transmitting frequeny figure is smaller than receiving frequency D. Shift frequency: transmitting frequency- receiving frequency. Step 7: Encrypt Type->Normal or Enhanced or Off (no encryption). Choose from 1 to 16(the password for each group is presetted in software). Step 9: Dmr mode: A.
Direct-direct communication between radio(not via repeater) B. DMR slot-choose time slot 1 or 2. Step 10: Contacts-choose private call or group call contacts in this programming channel.
Step11: Main Set Save channel->Save CH. To save channel name and channel no. 1 x HD1 two way radio.
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Translation: Meiko Maruyama, a vivid area where everyone is shopping, having lunch, biking and so forth. Locals call it Götgatsbacken. In your walk eventually you will find Brunogallerian a cute shopping mall with a few of the top local brands. The galleria is an space where brands can create a new concept dissociated from their established context. So Filippa K store at Brunogallerian http://www.filippa-k.com/news/brunogallerian.html is the first to be refurbished in the new concept.
Generally, Filippa K have stores divided into men or women, at Bruno you will find both men's and women's collection. It has established a concept pioneer ambassador for the Scandinavian fashion style – clean design for modern times, so to speak.
On an interview we did with her, she defined –" Minimalistic, clean design for modern men and women who value style, simplicity and quality rather than fast paced trends that quickly become outdated". It is one of the most internationally acclaimed and globally expanded Swedish brands, nevertheless nothing like visiting someone at their place.


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New knowledge on economic methods receives LUSEM 2020 thesis prize
"A remarkably deep and impressive thesis improving our ability to analyse data in economics and other disciplines." This is how Yana Petrova's thesis is described by the Research Education Council at LUSEM in their motivation for why Yana Petrova is commended with the annual LUSEM thesis prize.
Scroll down on this page, for a video where Yana introduces her research.
Many and important economic data contain information about firms or workers collected over time and space. Developing statistical methods that are appropriate for such data is essential for understanding a range of core economic questions, such as how firms or individuals respond to changes in monetary policy.
"My research focuses on developing suitable quantitative methods for dealing with a specific type of data, namely panel data. Such data contain information on a number of units, such as individuals, firms or countries observed repeatedly over a period of time," says economist Yana Petrova.
In her doctoral thesis "Essays on Panel Data with Multidimensional Unobserved Heterogeneity", Yana Petrova provides fundamental new knowledge on how to analyse panels of this type of data. She identifies shortcomings of established methods and provides new, improved, approaches.
"I examine the potential consequences for the estimation of the effect under consideration when the commonly made assumptions are not met. I then propose a set of solutions to bring the theoretical and the empirical worlds closer to each other," Yana Petrova comments.
Yana Petrova shows the appeal of her methods by deriving their theoretical properties and validates their usefulness by means of simulations. The Research Education Council also notes how she then "takes theory to data and applies the new methods to a series of economic issues, not only of interest for state-of-the-art research but also for policy making, public authorities, and private businesses."
Learn more about Yana Petrova's research in this 4-minute video (Youtube)
The prize money consists of SEK 25,000. The award will be recognized during a small corona-adapted ceremony late spring 2021.
Comments on the prize
"I would like to thank the School and everyone involved in the process for the award. It's a great honour! I would also like to take the opportunity and thank my supervisor Joakim Westerlund for all the guidance and support during my PhD studies. It was a great pleasure working under your supervision," Yana Petrova comments when reached with the news of the award.
"Congratulations to Yana, her supervisor – and to the Department of Economics. This really is something to be proud of, and the important work that PhD students do should be made visible," says Maria Stanfors, Deputy Dean of LUSEM.
"Yana has been a brilliant colleague, not only in research, but in all respects and has affected everyone here at the Department. She will be sorely missed now when she leaves for Aarhus University. I'm therefore very happy that we are able to present her with this prize," Joakim Westerlund comments.
Read more about the thesis
Yana Petrova
yana.petrova@nek.lu.se
Yana Petrova defended her thesis on 20 May 2020. She is currently employed both by LUSEM and Aarhus University, but since 1 February she has started a full-time position as an assistant professor at Aarhus University.
More about Yana Petrova's research
The jury's motivation to the 2020 best thesis at LUSEM:
Many and important economic data contain information about firms or workers collected over time and space. Developing statistical methods that are appropriate for such data is essential for understanding a range of core economic questions, such as how firms or individuals respond to changes in monetary policy. In her excellent thesis, Yana Petrova provides fundamental new knowledge on how to analyze panels of this type of data. She identifies shortcomings of established methods and provides new, improved, approaches. She shows the appeal of her methods by deriving their theoretical properties and validates their usefulness by means of simulations. Moreover, she takes theory to data and applies the new methods to a series of economic issues, not only of interest for state-of-the-art research but also for policy making, public authorities, and private businesses. All in all, Yana Petrova has written a remarkably deep and impressive thesis improving our ability to analyze data in economics and other disciplines.
Essays on Panel Data with Multidimensional Unobserved Heterogeneity
By: Yana Petrova
More about the award and its recipients
The winner of the award 2019

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63% of over 100,000 bookings made by Intrepid Travel last year were made by women.
54% of travelers considered affluent by a MMGY Global study are women.
65% of clients booking adventure trips on TourRadar.com are women.
66% of US women polled by Booking.com have vacationed without her partner.
53% increase in demand is what Small Luxury Hotels noticed for single female bookings between 2011 and 2012.
We've entered the era of the female traveler. Over the past few years women have tipped the scales and have become the majority of travelers in a number of categories. There are a few factors in play here. Just because women are booking more travel, don't be tempted to think that it's because they are holding the credit card for their partners. This increase is a reflection of a contingency of women traveling alone.
This contingency is a mix of business and leisure travelers, and this is a change that the industry can't ignore. There are no best practices for accommodating this new majority, but operators who pay attention to the needs of the solo female traveler will likely see rewards when she speaks favorably about you to her cohort.
Staying connected to friends and family while traveling is either a cause or effect of the phenomenon of the rise of the solo female traveler. A study by Booking.com brought this to light in April 2014. Even though the study was part of an ad campaign to encourage bookings by women (their "Booking Brianless" video is worth a view to see how the accommodation sector is treating this trend), the findings make sense. The study looked at women aged 25 – 45 from the U.K., U.S., Australia, Canada and Germany. Of the 500 U.S. participants of the study, 58% said that social media made them feel safer when traveling on their own. While it's not clear what the relationship is between safety and connectivity, this feeling of virtual connection is spurring many changes in traveler behavior, including the trend of "flashpacking". Staying tethered to home through mobile devices and social media, travelers feel less alone when they are on the road by themselves and more likely to travel solo as a result.
Whether or not a woman is documenting her every move on social media or blogging her way through a journey, the U.S. Travel Insurance Association website TRIP recommends that women traveling alone have a mobile phone with them at the very least that can be used in all the countries on her itinerary in case of emergency. Other safety tips include taking photos of things like your hotel entrance and room number and any train stations or bus stops you've recently visited, so that authorities can retrace your steps in case you get into trouble.
While there is a market for luxury vacations for women that focus on relaxation and spa treatments (leading some hotels to create women-only floors and stock rooms with things like women's magazines and hair straighteners), most women are looking to have "experiences" when they travel. They want to leave the hotel as much or more than the next traveler and they want to feel safe when they go out.
Phyllis Stoller of the Women's Travel Group, which specializes in women-only tours, told Solimar that women are more adventurous than men: "Women are always seeking unusual and new destinations while men are more satisfied with the more predictable golf resort destinations." She says 75% of those who book adventure travel or trips that have a focus on culture or nature are women.
Adventure-seeking is what is leading women to book trips through TourRadar.com, which specializes in adventure travel (including many ATTA members). TourRadar also focuses on group trips, which is the perfect compromise for solo female travelers who need equal parts safety and adventure.
TourRadar's data also shows that women are willing to spend more money on solo travel than men (perhaps paying for additional security or peace of mind) and that they often join group travel for only a portion of their trip — especially more experienced female solo travelers. They will tend to use group travel initially on a trip and then continue on exploring on their own.
When it comes to marketing to female solo travelers on business or vacation, there is agreement that getting rid of single supplements is key to attracting this growing demographic. "Women are frustrated with the premium applied by some travel companies for traveling alone," says Phyllis Stoller. "Some trips actually penalize solo travelers." Cruise lines are especially guilty of this practice. It's not always financially possible for operators to charge one person the same price as a couple, but it is certainly something to consider for travel organizations that want to appeal to this rising demographic.
Women are traveling solo at all ages. The Booking.com survey focused on women ages 25 – 45; this is the group that is growing because of shifting demographics in countries like the U.S. and Australia toward more single, financially independent women. But older women are part of this trend, too, due to the "growing longevity and vitality of those in their senior years," according to Phyllis Stoller.
In June, the Adventure Travel Trade Association plans to release AdventurePulse, our original research profiling adventure travelers in the U.S. Preliminary data shows evidence of corroborating many of these trends regarding female travelers. We found that women tend to like peer-to-peer recommendations and after a trip they are highly likely to use word-of-mouth channels like social media or traditional face-to-face communication to tell their friends about their trip. To access more specific data about female travelers and more about adventure travel trends, visit the ATTA's research page, where AdventurePulse will be available for download when it is released.
A solo adventurer is another thing you can experience as traveler aside from intrepid traveling. Going alone will let you experience a time of meditation and feel connected to the world for some time.


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The idea that print is dead or dying has been floating around for years. Yet here we are today with the modern printing industry alive and thriving. In today's marketing landscape, digital fatigue has set in. One in five people surveyed needing "digital detox" and 70%1 of people admitting they are reducing their consumption of digital media.
Meanwhile, 70%2 of people are more likely to remember a brand that they see in print vs. online advertising. Print is also seen as a more trusted form of media than online platforms. Social media lags behind both print and online advertising.
Here are three reasons why the modern printing industry remains strong and how you can use print to market your business and establish brand awareness.
1. Direct Mail connects your brand with recipients in a way that sparks action.
According to the latest DMA Direct Mail Response Rate Report3, the average response rate for direct mail is 9% for house lists and 5% for prospect lists. Compare that with email hovering around 0.12% and you can see why direct mail is a popular marketing channel for businesses who are looking to grow their brands.
DID YOU KNOW? 70% of people surveyed4 say that receiving mail is more personal than the Internet. Furthermore, 73% of consumers say5 they prefer direct mail for brand communication because they can read it at their convenience.
2. The Modern Printing Industry incorporates cost-effective full-color digital printing and large format printing that strengthens brand awareness and trust.
According to the Content Marketing Institute6, 89% of B2B Marketers say brand awareness is their most important goal. Printing helps achieve that goal because it is a tangible product that people can touch, feel, and trust. In fact, Marketing Sherpa reports7 that 82% of Internet users say they trust print ads when making purchasing decisions. This makes print media the most trusted form of advertising.
Digital printing and wide format printing innovations make it easier than ever for businesses to use print to their advantage. Color is also a huge factor in promoting your brand and making a lasting impression on customers. Color Matters indicates8 that a signature color or design boosts brand recognition by 80% so it is important for brands to show their true colors across all channels and touchpoints.
DID YOU KNOW? Over 60% of online searches are conducted because of print marketing campaigns9.
3. Today's printing industry goes beyond traditional print and incorporates custom branded apparel and promotional products that are useful, functional, and highly influential.
The printing industry is not dying! It is far from dead because of print's versatility and flexibility as a marketing tool. Custom branded apparel is a popular form of print marketing. It enables customers to wear your brand and gives them a tangible way to show brand loyalty. Promotional apparel such as T-shirts and outerwear are top brand influencers that helps your brand travel further.
Promotional products as a whole allow your brand to be displayed in people's homes, cars, and offices in a meaningful way and have tremendous staying power. Pens, calendars, mobile phone power banks, mugs, and thousands more promotional items are able to be imprinted with your logo and banding. Adding promotional products to your marketing program will help you connect your brand to your clients in a way that is fondly remembered when they need your products and services.
DID YOU KNOW? It takes 5 to 7 brand impressions10 for consumers to remember your company logo and branding.
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Aloha High School is a suburban public high school in Aloha, Oregon, United States. It is part of the Beaverton School District.

History

In the 1950s, the Beaverton area had separate high school and elementary school districts. The high school district served Beaverton High School and Sunset High School. There were also twelve elementary school districts. In 1960, the thirteen districts were unified after a vote of the people.

The Beaverton area was one of the fastest growing in the state, and in 1962, the district determined that a new high school was needed. The former Kinnaman Dairy Farm was purchased, and in 1966, construction began on a new building. There were construction delays, so in September 1968, the first Aloha High School tenth and eleventh grade students used the former Merle Davies Elementary School and parts of Beaverton High School. The Aloha High School building, though incomplete, held its first classes in 1970.

School crest
The community of Aloha (pronounced Ah-LO-wa) was likely named for a place in the state of Wisconsin, and not for the Hawaiian word aloha. The association with Hawaii, however, gives the school its mascot, a Hawaiian warrior, and the design of the school crest, which includes a warrior and a conch shell, a symbol associated with Hawaii. The crest was designed by students during the 1968–69 and 1969–1970 school years.

Demographics
As of the 2012–13 school year, the school was 1% American Indian/Alaskan Native, 7% Asian, 4% Black, 1% Hawaiian Native/Pacific Islander, 32% Hispanic, 49% White, and 6% multiracial. Approximately 53% of students qualified for free or reduced lunch.

Athletics and activities
School activities sanctioned by the Oregon School Activities Association include football, volleyball, soccer, cross country, basketball, swimming, wrestling, dance/drill, cheerleading, baseball, softball, track and field, tennis, golf, band, choir, solo music, and speech.

State championships
 Football: 2011
 Boys' track and field: 1978, 2012
 Boys' golf: 1977
 Cheerleading 6A/5A Large division: 2013, 2014, 2016
 Girls' cross country: AAA, 1980, 1981, 1983

Notable alumni

 Wally Backman (Class of 1977), baseball player, member of Oregon Sports Hall of Fame
 Michael Crooke, businessperson and academic
 Brad Fitzpatrick (Class of 1998), founder of LiveJournal
 Jen-Hsun Huang (Class of 1981), co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA
 Brian Joelson, former tennis player
 Greg McMackin, former head football coach at Hawaii from 1968 to 1972
 Thomas Tyner, (Class of 2013), former football player at the University of Oregon
 Joe Wolfinger, basketball player

References

External links

 Aloha High School (official website)
 Aloha High School from The Oregonian "Your Schools" series

1968 establishments in Oregon
Beaverton School District
Educational institutions established in 1968
High schools in Washington County, Oregon
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World Cup 2018: The Football Jerseys You Love To Hate
By Ghbase Staff
There is no denying that the essence of football lies in the actual playtime. Appearance does not really matter because it does not affect the quality of the game.
However, when the tournament it as huge as the FIFA World Cup 2018, every little detail matters. It is the ultimate clash of the countries and no aspect can be ignored, not even their jerseys. The players may not be in charge of the design, but they are sporting them, and so they automatically become worthy of our attention.
The Jerseys that Just Don't Make the Cut
As any sports bettor on https://www.betway.com.gh would tell you, there is a lot at stake in the World Cup. For them, the players, the countries – everyone involved. And yet, when it comes to choosing a jersey, some teams did not seem to have paid as much attention as they should have.
In view of the World Cup 2018 which is to be held in Russia and is just a month away, we decode the football jerseys we love to hate!
Croatia:
The check pattern is undoubtedly nice and makes for great apparel. But when it comes to Croatian jersey, it backfires somewhat because the design looks like a Sudoku puzzle or a chessboard which carries the symbol of Nike to increase the cool quotient.
Peru:
There is nothing wrong with the combination of white and red. In fact, it is one of the most loved duos of a large number of designers. However, the red diagonal stripe on the white jersey resembles something of a sash reminiscent more of a pageant than a football game.
We have nothing against yellow. It is a warm and sunny colour that can lift your mood in seconds. However, there is something called too much yellow and the Colombian jersey stands testimony to that. The bright yellow just does not fit the spirit of a football field, does it?
To be honest, the jersey does look aesthetic. The combination of red and green does not look bad, and even the metallic gold trimmings are a nice addition. But the jersey also looks more Christmasy than what a soccer player would want to wear when he is fighting for his country.
Nigeria:
The dull green does not pair well with the pattern that covers almost the entire jersey in two different colours. It looks more like a sweater vest from the athleisure section than a football jersey.
That being said, it might just be a little more comfortable for their players on the field, so perhaps it was more of a strategic choice than an aesthetics one. We do hope it works out for them!
To be fair, footballers can rock whatever they wear. Moreover, jerseys are never a measure for talent and we wish all the teams the best of luck!
Now that you know about some of the jerseys you wouldn't like as much, which team do you think has the most lovable jersey? Let us know in the comments below!
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Getting college students to engage with peer-run organizations that focus on mental health awareness can improve college students' knowledge about mental health, reduce stigma and may play an important role in improving the campus climate toward mental health, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
The study, which involved 1,129 students from 12 California college campuses, is the largest longitudinal study examining the impact of a student mental health peer organization on students' mental health stigma, knowledge and helping behaviors.
Researchers found that students' familiarity with Active Minds, one such student mental health peer organization, was linked to a decrease in stigma about mental health issues over time, while involvement with the program was associated with an increase in helping behaviors. The study was published online by the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
"Student-run organizations aimed at teaching peers about mental health issues may be instrumental in shaping a more-supportive climate toward mental health issues on college campuses over the course of a single academic year," said Dr. Bradley D. Stein, the study's corresponding author and a senior physician scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.
"College is a challenging time in the lives of the state's young adults so it's important to make sure students' mental health needs are adequately addressed," said Wayne Clark, executive director of CalMHSA. "We're pleased that the investment by counties statewide in these peer-run programs are improving students' views about mental health and their coping skills."
Students completed surveys three times over the 2016-17 academic year, and were asked about their familiarity with Active Minds and their knowledge of and attitudes toward a number of mental health issues. More than 60 percent of the students surveyed had little familiarity or involvement with the Active Minds program at the study's onset.
Researchers say the findings suggest that student peer organizations that use a combination of individual, small-group and large-scale education programs can meaningfully influence not only students' perceived knowledge and attitudes, but also their behaviors within a single academic year.
"It appears that involvement in the types of activities conducted by Active Minds may translate into positive changes for many students," said Lisa Sontag-Padilla, the study's lead author and a behavioral social scientist at RAND. "Further research should examine what types of activities trigger the biggest changes, as well as to what extent involvement increases a student's own mental health and their ability to seek help."
Support for the study was provided by the California Mental Health Services Authority.
Other authors of the study are Lisa Sontag-Padilla, Michael Dunbar, Feifei Ye, Courtney Kase and Rachana Seelam, all of RAND, Rebecca Fein of Active Minds and Sara Abelson of the University of Michigan.


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A middle-school student's Science Fair font project could possibly save millions of dollars from the U.S. federal government's 2014 printing budget. It simply just requires the government to change the font that they are using in their documents.
Suvir Mirchandani, a fourteen-year-old student of Dorseyville Middle School in Pittsburgh, is the proponent of this study. He started this as his 6th grade school science project. The study is about the cost savings gained by switching their school's paper handout font to Garamond. He then proposed this concept to the officials in Washington, D.C. and encouraged them to adapt this new finding in order to incur considerable savings.
The Journal Investigators' editors were greatly impressed by Mirchandani's finding and urged him to further his study and prove if his study also applies to a wider scale such as the U.S. government. Dr. Sarah Fankhauser, the journal's founder saw an immense potential in the said research and said that she can really see the real-word application in Mirchandani's research. Base on the proposed budget by the Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. government allots an estimated $1.8 billion budget for printing for the year 2014.
Mirchandani listened to the advice of the journal and proceeded to test his font theory with five papers from the Government Printing Office (GPO) and he arrived to a conclusion that switching the font style from Times News Roman and Century Gothic to Garamond reduced the ink cost. He surmised that the government can save up to $234 million yearly.