What made you smile today

Just harvest an idea from the happiness is earned posting ( paragraph 9 ) on Roemer's blog.

Roemer was blogging about how he makes himself happy. He does it by finding one thing that made him smile everyday. After taking a picture of that he writes down why it makes him feel that way.

What idea did I harvest?
Convert how Roemer make him happy into an idea. Give it a name. Describe its process step by step. Share the idea around.

Idea: What made you smile today?

Process:

1. Find one thing or event that made you smile everyday.
2. Take a picture of that. If you can’t, mark the memory down as a word or sentence on your mobile phone or a piece of paper.
3. Write why it make you smile.

The best idea is boss

This is something that you will often hear in the hallways at Crispin Porter + Bogusky. It means that an idea is judged solely on its own merit. A good idea can come from anywhere, from any person in any department at any level. If you've been here a long time, if you're overdue, or if you've worked on that account longer than anyone, that doesn't matter. And just because a person's title is associate creative director or management supervisor doesn't necessarily mean their ideas are automatically weighted more toward the good end of the scale. We hope that this attitude creates a wonderfully liberating environment where great ideas gush forth freely from each and every person. Or at least an environment where you feel like you can contribute even though you're not running the place.

Source:

Employee Handbook version 3.0

Crispin Porter + Bogusky

Page 13

High tech - high touch

What is high tech - high touch?

Sense from:

High tech - high touch

John Naisbitt, Nana Naisbitt, Douglas Philips

Page 26

Broadway Books

ISBN: 0767903838

It is a human lens.

It is embracing technology that preserves our humanness and rejecting technology that intrudes upon it. It is recognizing that technology is an integral part of the evolution of culture, the creative product of our imaginations, our dreams and aspirations - and that the desire to create new technologies is fundamentally instinctive. But is also recognizing that art, story, play, religion, nature, and time are equal partners in the evolution of technology because they nourish the soul and fulfill its yearnings.

• It is expressing what it means to be human and employing technology fruitfully in that expression. It's appreciating life and accepting death.
  
• It is knowing when we should push back on technology, in our work and our lives, to affirm our humanity.
  
• It is understanding that technology zealots are as shortsighted as technology bashers.
  
• It is creating significant paths for our lives, without fear of new technology or fear of falling behind it.
  
• It is recognizing that at its best, technology supports and improves human life; at its worse, it alienates, isolates, distorts, and destroys.
  
• It is questioning what place technology should have in our lives and what place it should have in society.
  
• It is consciously choosing to employ technology when it adds value to human lives.
  
• It is learning how to live as human beings in a technologically dominated time.
  
• It is knowing when simulated experiences add value to human life.
  
• It is recognizing when to avoid the layers of distractions and distance technology affords us.
  
• It is recognizing when technology is not neutral.
  
• It is knowing when to unplug and when to plug in.
  
• It is appropriate human scale.
  

High tech - high touch is enjoying the fruits of technological advancements and having it truly sit well with our god, our church, or our spiritual beliefs. It is understanding technology through the human lens of play, time, religion, and art.

Big6

Source:

Designer's research manual

Jenn O'Grady & Ken O'Grady

Page 71

Rockport

ISBN: 1592532578

Chief Beer Officer

What happened?
Four Points Hotels ( part of the Starwood Hotel Group ) is looking for a Chief Beer Officer ( CBO ). The position's role is to:
Evangelize Best Brew program
Tour breweries
Attend beer fests
Sample beers
Select beers for hotel's bar menus
Host beer fests
Document beer related activities
Impart beer related knowledge to other staff through a blog

What do I think about this happening?
This is a interesting idea. Guest can enjoy better taste experience at Four Points Hotels. Four Points can brand themselves as the top of the mind brand for beer at hotels. Staff can learn all about beer from their CBO.

What do you think this happening will cause?
Will the hotel industry starts to value other non work expertise besides drinking?
Will copy cat hotels come out with other drink chief officers ( like wine )?
Will the hotel industry starts to have other expertise specialists?
Will the hotel industry capitalized on inter-organization knowledge sharing?

10 laws of simplicity

10 laws of simplicity

1. Reduce

The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.

2. Organize

Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.

3. Time

Savings in time feel like simplicity.

4. Learn

Knowledge makes everything simpler.

5. Differences

Simplicity and complexity need each other.

6. Context

What lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral.

7. Emotion

More emotions are better than less.

8. Trust

In simplicity we trust.

9. Failure

Some things can never be made simple.

10. The One

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.

Source:

The laws of simplicity

John Maeda

Budget Airlines 3.0

On 26 Oct 2006 Oasis Hong Kong Airlines' first flight took off. It flew from Hong Kong to London. The travelling time was 14 hours and 20 minutes.

At the moment, budget airlines flew domestic ( Southwest Airlines ) or regional ( Tiger Airways ). Is this the beginning of Budget Airlines 2.0 where they start flying from from domestic and regional to global? The current airline industry is very competitive; will Budget Airlines 2.0 make it more competitive?

What happen if Southwest Airlines, Ryanair, Oasis Hong Kong Airlines, Tiger Airways and Virgin Blue form a global budget airlines alliance? This will be Budget Airlines 3.0. Will this make it even more competitive? How affordable will long distance air fares be? Will there be two distinct airline groups in the future - affordable and high cost?