Think for a Change Blog (August 18, 2010) – Scenario planning helps the organization visualize the future in an ordered way so that the strategic plan is valid and likely to occur as planned. Both strategic and scenario-based planning also allows an organization to prepare for unrealized futures. The futures explored, and the plans developed, can be used as a road...
Monthly Archives: August 2010
In Kenya, a devastating cycle of drought and flood reflects the worst that climate change has to offer. These and other more insiduous impacts of warming temperatures threaten the health and survival of the nation’s poorest and most at-risk inhabitants, namely women and children. The average yearly income in Kenya is less than US$1,000, 60 percent of the population...
We took this story from the World Institute blog. They run a feature called Innovation of the Week. This story captures the essence of innovation more than the others. :::::::: Zambian grocery stores are filled with processed foods from around the world, from crackers made in Argentina and soy milk from China to popular U.S. breakfast cereals. In addition to these foreign...
Apple Cup rivals collaborate on world’s main fruit crop PULLMAN, Wash. — An international team of scientists from Italy, France, New Zealand, Belgium and the USA have published a draft sequence of the domestic apple genome in the current issue of Nature Genetics. The availability of a genome sequence for apple will allow scientists to more rapidly identify which...
Image via Wikipedia Uganda hopes to become the region’s leader in rice research with the opening later this year of a US$6 million centre at its crop research institute. The National Crop Resources Research Institute (NACRRI) received the money from Japan in September last year for the construction of a training and research centre for rice farmers and scientists,...
Wall Street Journal Online (August 23, 2010) – Companies that have successfully made innovation part of their regular continuing strategy did so by harnessing the creative energies and the insights of their employees across functions and ranks. That’s easy to say. But how, exactly, did they do it? One powerful answer, WSJ found, is in what they like to call...
Image via Wikipedia ComputerWorld (August 23, 2010) – Cloud computing isn’t just a way to try to save money on IT infrastructure; it’s a way to accelerate business agility and innovation, according to a recent report by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Traditional, rigid IT infrastructures get in the way of innovation because they take months or years to...
