Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Assignment 10

Blog Assignment 10 (Due: April 28, 11:59 pm): How are you inspired by Steve Job's life story?

Steve Job's life story inspired me in many ways, but the main way was how he didnt let failure stop him from continuing to strive for success. Steve Job dropped out of college which to many people would have meant they would never succeeded in life. However, Steve Job's kept attending class and kept a strong interest in learning which led him to be one of the most succesfull people in the world. This is inspiring for me because it means one failure will not keep you from doing bigger and better things in life. Steve Job's accepted the challenge and succeeded. He passed everyone's expectations and showed how good you can be if you beleive in yourself. This is revelalant in knowledge management becasue new ideas and experimenting is a major part of knowledge management. Steve Job is a great example of someone taking full advantage of knowledge management.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Assignment 9

Blog Assignment 9 (Due April 20 11:59 pm): Post a blog to answer any one of the two questions listed above.  How can knowledge management support design-driven innovation?


Knowledge management supports design driven innovation by allowing employees to think outside of the box. Knowledge managers do not want traditional employees that only perform the tasks asked of them. Knowledge managers like employees that have new ideas and try out new theories. Employees in a design driven environment are encourage to try out new ideas and if they fail they are encouraged to try again. Tim Brown the CEO of IDEO says the success of innovation lies in the appeal to an instinctive desire to put money aside in a painless invisible way. When you try to develop a new system, you need  to exhibit many characteristics of design thinking. In an example of implementing a new system at a hospital, shift changes had nurses passing out information about the patients in front of the pateints rooms instead of the nurse stand. In only a week there was a new procedure where nurses could call up previous shift change notes with the help of their new software. They could put patient information into the system throughout their shift instead of waiting to the end of their shift to do this. The result was higher quality of information and reduced prep time which benefited nurses and patients.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Assignment 8

Blog Assignment 8: Find and describe a real-world application of neural networking technology.

ALYUDA uses neural networking technology with their innovative algorithms and acknowledged expertise. They are a trusted provider of software soltions that uses artificial intelligence. The company's products are used globally in financial application, budgeting, planning, human resources, process control, and scientific applications. The tools and solutions of ALYUDA are based on the algorithms of neural networking. Theire algorithms can be applied in a wide range of neural network based solutions from forecasting tools to data anylsis. They use neural networking because it is the most efficient artificial intelligence for pattern recognition. These pattern recognitions can be directly applied for business purposes.