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Moon Day Yoga PracticeAshtanga | By Jodi Blumstein on May 04 2012
In traditional Ashtanga yoga practice we take off the full moon and the new moon as rest days. However some times we need to get a practice in for practical purposes. This flow is a soft practice that speaks to the needs of the moon day and touches all the important places in the body. This is a great everyday flow for vinyasa students too.
- Gloriana Mejia Aug 11th, 2014Hi Jodi, can you please share the name of the book and the name of the translator? I loved the story and want to buy this book online. Thank you. BY the way, wonderful class.
- Lina Y Jun 27th, 2014I loved this practice, gentle yet strong... I also enjoyed how ashtanga principles are weaved into the class
- Jodi Blumstein Jul 6th, 2014Hi Lina!!
thank you! I haven't done this one in a while, and your comment has reminded me to do it this week.
much love
jodi b
- Cheryl Lyn Dec 31st, 2013Wonderful! Very mindful practice! Namaste
- Jodi Blumstein Jan 10th, 2014Cheryl! I am so happy you got to do this on New Years EVE! WHat a perfect day to honor the CYCLES.
Jodi B
- Jeanette Sealy Apr 2nd, 2013Amazing practice. I love the reading of the Radiance Sutras. Thank you so much for this healing offering.
- Jaz P Mar 7th, 2013Thank you, very relaxing. Namaste
- Jane M Aug 30th, 2012Beautiful blue moon practice.Thanks always
- Andressa Nóbrega May 5th, 2012Perfect! And tonight we have a beautiful full moon! :)
- Britt Amell May 4th, 2012Thank you for the gorgeous reading at the end :-) This was a beautiful practice. peace.


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BOISE, Idaho (AP) â¿¿ Three former dairy workers with Idaho's largest dairy operation have been charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty after undercover video shot by an animal rights group showed workers stomping, dragging and beating cows inside a milking barn.
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It shows workers at the dairy beating cows with a pink cane as the animals slipped and slid on the wet concrete floor; workers kicking and stomping cows that have fallen between the metal bars in the milking stalls; and a cow being dragged out of the barn by a chain around her neck as she lies on the concrete floor.Twin Falls County Prosecutor Grant Loebs said he filed misdemeanor animal cruelty charges against Jesus Garza, Jose Acensio and Javier Victor Rojas Loayza in late August after an investigation that was prompted by the video. If convicted, the men face fines of up to $5,000 each and six months of jail time on a first offense. Luis Bettencourt, the owner of the dairy, said that when the Idaho Department of Agriculture told him about the video and allegations, he was "sick about it." Bettencourt's dairy operation is the largest in Idaho, with 13 facilities and about 60,000 milk cows. "We don't tolerate animal abuse. That's a big issue for us," Bettencourt said. "Animal care is a No. 1 issue in our facilities." Bettencourt said he fired the five workers seen in the video the day after he viewed the footage. He's since installed video cameras throughout his facilities and hired an additional supervisor. "And we also showed the video to all the rest of the employees in our dairies, all 500 employees, and they had to sign a deal that said they understand that there's zero tolerance for animal abuse in our dairies," he said. "We've been in business 30 years, and we've never had this happen before. We're all devastated here."
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As was the case with the previous 2 body shapes, the FB holden was facelifted in 1961 and released as the "EK".
The list of refinements included revised interior trim, new exterior badges and mouldings (the rear-side colour flash of the FC and FB was deleted), a new fresh-air/heating unit, a new ventilation air intake located forward of the windscreen and a new grille with eight vertical bars instead of six. Parking lights were incorporated into the top grille bar.
At last the old "vacuum" wipers were replaced with electrically operated units, which were indeed far superior if not far safer! Most noteable was the availability of a new "Hydramatic" 3 speed
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Growth remained broadly flat in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2013, reflecting stable or declining commodity prices, the continued slowdown in China, the drop in first quarter US GDP growth and domestic challenges. The regional weakness carries over from 2013, weighing on merchandise exports in a number of countries. First quarter data for Brazil, Mexico and Peru was also weak reflecting a variety of influences including the weather-related decline in US GDP, the Chinese slowdown, and the recent tax increase in Mexico.
Despite the few weak outturns in the first quarter, industrial activity in early 2014 suggests a pickup in regional growth. Depreciations of regional currencies in the wake of the United States announcement of tapering intentions in May 2013 have persisted in 2014, with key currencies all remaining below their April 2013 level. Despite the mid-2013 financial volatility, gross capital flows to the region have increased, especially into domestic bond markets.
While still generally low across the region, inflation, being imported through depreciated exchange rates, has also been elevated in a handful of countries. Monetary tightening in Brazil to contain such inflationary pressures continued through the second half of 2013, and contributed to the ongoing slowdown and dampened growth in regional trading partners. In many countries, fiscal and monetary policies remained accommodative in an effort to support growth.
Regional growth is expected to strengthen steadily from 1.9 percent in 2014, to 2.9 percent in 2015 and 3.5 percent in 2016. The recovery that is taking hold in advanced countries will increasingly support regional exports, as well as increased tourism receipts and remittances to the region. In addition, depreciated local currencies in much of the region may help countries gain market share as global trade growth accelerates.
Capital flows are expected to slow initially as monetary tightening in the United States continues but are expected to resume their growth in 2015/16. These flows will fuel domestic demand, especially fixed investment across the region. This coupled with the continued robust investment growth along the Pacific coast of South America, will lift regional growth in the medium term. On the other hand, the slowdown in China and the extended decline in commodity prices will weigh on exports, export revenues and also investment to keep growth around potential. Overall, with largely closed output gaps and limited excess capacity, there is little scope for sustained accelerations in growth without generating macroeconomic imbalances.
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Lastly, more than a cyclical downturn, the key concern for the region is that slower long-term growth becomes the new normal. With the end of the double tailwind era of a booming commodity market supported by a surging China, and economies near or at full employment and domestic credit growing at slower rates, the region must turn to productivity growth in order to boost long-term GDP growth. Structural reforms such as upgrading the quality of the workforce, and fostering research, development and innovation, would go a long way in averting slower growth as the new normal.
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a. Growth rates over intervals are compound weighted averages; average growth contributions, ratios and deflators are calculated as simple averages of the annual weighted averages for the region.
b. GDP at market prices and expenditure components are measured in constant 2010 U.S. dollars.
c. Sub-region aggregate excludes Cuba, Grenada, and Suriname, for which data limitations prevent the forecasting of GDP components or Balance of Payments details.
d. Exports and imports of goods and non-factor services (GNFS).
e. Recently high-income countries include Chile, Trinidad and Tobago, and Uruguay.
f.South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela
g. Developing Central & North America: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador.
h. Caribbean: Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
i. Preliminary for long-term average. Data was recently rebased; missing data up to 2003 was spliced with the earlier data.
Latin America and the Caribbean country forecasts
(annual percent change unless indicated otherwise)
Source: World Bank.
World Bank forecasts are frequently updated based on new information and changing (global) circumstances. Consequently, projections presented here may differ from those contained in other Bank documents, even if basic assessments of countries' prospects do not significantly differ at any given moment in time.
Cuba, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, are not forecast owing to data limitations.
a. GDP growth rates over intervals are compound average; current account balance shares are simple averages over the period.
b. Preliminary for long-term average. Data was recently rebased; missing earlier data was spliced with previous series.
c. Ecuador's 2016 GDP growth in 2016 is expected to accelerate, and the current account to improve, as some of the ongoing hydroelectric and energy projects begin to come on stream.
d. The recently high-income countries are based on World Bank's country reclassification from 2004 to 2014.
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Triple D Does Oahu
Sundays are my lazy days - the days I use to catch up on my guilty pleasures – trashy reality shows and fun Food Network shows that make my mouth water. Somewhere between "Keeping Up with The Kardashians" and watching "The Real Housewives" duke it out, I always make time for my favorite Food Network show, "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives."
If you've never seen the show, "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" (DDD) is hosted by Guy Fieri, a bleached blonde, spiky haired California dude with a laid back attitude and rock star style and energy, who travels the country in search of the best local favorite restaurants. The show is captivating, addictive and introduces its audience to great eats that don't usually receive a lot of national attention. Don't watch on an empty stomach! If you do, be forewarned that for the rest of the day all you'll want is to eat a big, juicy, sauce-dripping-down-your-face cheeseburger and other deliciously dangerous foods.
While spending a Sunday afternoon watching DDD, thinking of all the yummy food I could eat at home on Oahu – boneless chicken plate from Rainbow Drive In, pork chops and sizzling rib eye at Side Street Inn, fried rice and Nalo greens house salad with seared ahi from Kanpai Bar & Grill, a SPAM musubi from Fukuya – I realized that Oahu has some really great diners, drive-ins and dives. Plate lunch-type food is one of many things that makes Hawaii special and is a part of our culture that should be shared with the world.
Keeping this in mind, I returned to work on Monday with a new goal – bring "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" to Oahu! The OVB team worked together to pitch the show's production company, Page Productions, on filming a few segments on Oahu. We thought it would be an easy sell – why wouldn't a crew from frigid Minnesota and a character like Guy want to visit Oahu?! It turned out to be a lot tougher than we thought. While the producers loved the idea of filming DDD in Hawaii, they were reluctant because of the costs and transport difficulties, the biggest of which was figuring out how to ship Guy's Camaro.
Our PR team spent countless hours researching, planning and finding some creative solutions, and after almost two years and many, many emails and phone calls… mission accomplished! "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" came to Hawaii in October 2009 to film an all-Oahu episode and additional segments to be used in other episodes during the show's eighth and ninth seasons.
The DDD/Page Production crew films at the Honolulu Fish Auction.
On Oahu, Guy visited Hank's Haute Dogs, Highway Inn, Murphy's Bar & Grill, Nico's at Pier 38, Poke Stop, Rainbow Drive In, and attended a luau. From what we saw during filming, Guy really hammed it up with the restaurant owners and chefs. At the fish auction, Guy was caught playing with leftover fish fins and playfully throwing fish guts at his camera man. He was so much fun to be around and genuinely as nice as he seems on TV. He and the Page Productions crewmembers made the entire filming experience great for everyone involved. We loved working with them!
Guy Fieri and Nico Chaize, owner/chef of Nico's Pier 38, inspect an Opah at the Honolulu Fish Auction. Guy called the Honolulu Fish Auction the equivalent of shopping on Rodeo Drive for chefs.
So what kind of car did Guy drive around Oahu? What dishes did he eat at each location? What goofy things did Guy do on air? Some of you may know, but to those who don't, you'll just have to tune in to DDD to find out!
For more information about the show's filming on Oahu and a schedule of when the all-Oahu and additional segments will air, check out HawaiiMagazine.com.
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Dear Diary,
Yeah, that's you, Diary.
That's me aunt Dot. In the picture there. She is me Godmother, too, like also.
She's a keeper she is. You can tell, can't ya just lookin at the picture. I'm like goin hey I gotta have a picture of me Godmother and she's just grabbin onto me beard and makin a mustachio fer herself!
My sweete wunderful Godmother is 90 today.
Love her dearly.
See ya later, Diary.
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WikiProject Open Barn Raising this Saturday
WikiProject Open is an online School of Open training program for new and seasoned Wikipedia volunteers to collaborate on improving Wikipedia articles related to openness. The aim of the project is two-fold: in addition to improving Wikipedia articles related to openness (such as open access publishing and open educational resources), volunteers seek to improve Wikimedia content generally with the aid of openly licensed materials.
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This Saturday, WikiProject Open's Pete Forsyth and Sara Frank Bristow invite you to join their Barn Raising event from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, at the Oakland Impact Hub on 2323 Broadway, Oakland, California. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. You can also join the event online. Sara says:
"At the Barn Raising, we will focus on high priority Wikipedia articles: articles that are widely read, but that — despite ongoing efforts — remain poorly sourced, incomplete, or out of date. (In the wiki world, we often borrow the term "Barn Raising" to evoke the idea of a community coming together to build something substantial in a short time. It's been described as a way to "make the impossible possible.")
This event is open to all! Our goal is to make significant improvements to OER related articles; so those who are brand new to Wikipedia and/or open education might want to take a little time to prepare. We will send out helpful resources for beginners as the date gets closer."
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School of Open: "Writing Wikipedia Articles" Course Now Open for Registration
Below, Sara Frank Bristow invites you to join "Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics & Beyond". Sara is a co-organizer of the course and a member of WikiProject Open. Both projects are part of the School of Open.
The School of Open will offer its popular "Writing Wikipedia Articles" course (WIKISOO) starting 25 February, 2014. This free introductory online course, now in its fourth incarnation, runs for six weeks. Enrollment is open to all.
WIKISOO students learn about the values and culture that have driven hundreds of thousands of volunteers to build Wikipedia. Through their work in the course, they join an effort that has generated millions of free articles in hundreds of languages since 2001.The course covers the technical skills needed to edit articles, and also offers practical insights into the site's collaborative norms and social dynamics. Students graduate with a sophisticated understanding of how to use Wikipedia both as a reader and as an active participant.
The course focuses on articles about openness in education: open educational resources (OER), MOOCs, Creative Commons licenses and more. Students will forge connections with WikiProject Open, a community of volunteers focused on this topic area. Upon successful completion, students earn the WIKISOO Burba Badge.
The course is sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the University of Mississippi. Course instructors are:
- Pete Forsyth, Wikipedia trainer & consultant (Wiki Strategies)
- Sara Frank Bristow, OER and online education researcher (Salient Research)
- Dr. Robert Cummings, Associate Professor (University of Mississippi)
Course registration is now open!
- More course information: http://enwp.org/WP:WIKISOO
- Enroll: http://enwp.org/WP:WIKISOO/NOW
University of Mississippi to incorporate School of Open's Wikipedia course
This is a guest post by Pete Forsyth, organizer of the School of Open's "Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics & Beyond" course and member of WikiProject Open.
The University of Mississippi's Spring 2014 course "Open Educational Resources and Practices" will include the module "Writing Wikipedia Articles" (aka WIKISOO), which I developed and taught through the School of Open; as well as "Open Content Licensing for Educators," developed and taught by Wayne Mackintosh as part of the OER university consortium. The new graduate level course (Edhe 670), taught by Dr. Robert Cummings, will invite learners from around the world to take these two course modules alongside graduate students, free of charge. This is the first time a university has adopted a School of Open course as part of a formal university course.
In the new course, both online learners and University of Mississippi students will actively participate in open educational practices, even as they learn the theory and history of open education and related concepts. Online learners will enjoy university-level instruction free of charge and without the need to enroll in a degree program.
Noting the advantages of this first-of-its-kind course, Associate Professor Robert Cummings said,
"University of Mississippi graduate students in the School of Education will prepare for their careers with this unique opportunity to engage the emerging global field of Open Educational Resources. UM students will not only learn about OER, its origins, and its role in the classrooms of the future, but they will have the opportunity to work with developers and theorists—both as fellow students and emerging practitioners—in a synchronous, global classroom of enrolled students and un-enrolled learners."
The course's subject matter should be of particular benefit to those interested in the future of education. Educators are embracing openness in education by using the increasingly interactive and ubiquitous Internet. In doing so, they aim to lower financial costs, reduce legal complexities, and otherwise eliminate barriers for learners worldwide.
"Open education signals a return to the core values of the academy, namely, to share knowledge freely," said OERu founder Wayne Mackintosh, who teaches the "Open Content Licensing for Educators" module. "Working together we achieve far more than working alone. This course is an exemplar of open collaboration widening learning opportunities for all."
The ability to engage and collaborate online and in real time, across geographical borders, presents opportunities that didn't exist a few years ago. Wikipedia in particular has enabled hundreds of thousands of people around the world to connect in meaningful ways, united by a shared passion for freely sharing knowledge. As part of the team that created the Wikipedia Education Program, Dr. Cummings, Dr. Mackintosh, and I have long worked to bring Wikipedia's community and the world of formal education closer, so that each may learn from the experience of the other.
…demonstrating Wikipedia use / Ellis Christopher / CC BY
Wikipedia is important not only as a publication, but also as a vibrant learning community, and as a collection of highly effective collaborative processes. Wikipedia offers many valuable case studies in effective online collaboration, both in connection with and independent of formal academic study. I'm looking forward to this opportunity to work with UM students alongside learners around the world.
If you would like to take one or both of the open modules, sign up to receive updates today!
- Open Content Licensing for Educators (OER university; 2 weeks in February)
- Writing Wikipedia Articles (WIKISOO) (School of Open, 6 weeks, starting in February)
WikiProject Open launches "Collaboration of the Week" for Open Access Week
Below is an invitation by members of WikiProject Open to help improve two Wikipedia articles related to openness. Wikiproject Open is a collaboration with the School of Open.
WikiProject Open is a community of new and experienced Wikipedians, dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of all things "open," and to using openly licensed content to improve Wikipedia articles in general. In celebration of Open Access Week, we invite you to join us in improving two Wikipedia articles this week:
- Open Access Week: We should have plenty of new news coverage to draw from in improving this article
- Creative Commons license: Let's make sure this central article is thorough and accurate; we will consider splitting off sub-articles, etc.
For those new to Wikipedia, you'll find some tips to get you started on our "welcome" page.
Then, just get to work on the "Open Access Week" and "Creative Commons license" articles! Be sure to check each article's talk page (you'll find the tab in the upper left), because we'll surely be discussing what needs to be improved and how we want to approach it as WikiProject Open's Collaboration of the Week (COTW) gets underway.
Collaboration of the Week programs have been implemented by a number of wiki communities over the years. Academic studies have found them to be a highly effective way to keep people engaged and productive, in addition to building a sense of community. We hope you will join us as we launch this program, and help us improve Wikipedia's coverage of important topics in the world of openness!Comments Off
Free Wikipedia course offered through the School of Open
Have you ever looked at an article on Wikipedia and thought, "this could really use some work"? With the free online course "Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond," offered through the School of Open, you have the opportunity to take the next step.
In the course, you will learn about both the technical and social underpinnings of this worldwide, volunteer-built resource, and how you can most effectively contribute to its vision to freely share knowledge. The six-week course will start its second round on 14 May (for those in the Americas) or 15 May (Asia/Australia).* Sign up here.
Sara and Pete, Communicate OER / Pete Forsyth / CC BY
While the course is free and open to everyone, it focuses on the topic of open educational resources (OER), and students work to improve relevant Wikipedia articles as part of their coursework. The first round of the course concluded last week. The course organizers, Pete Forsyth and Sara Frank Bristow of Communicate OER, had so much fun that they are diving right back in to facilitate a second round. Pete says,
"We learned a great deal in our first run: we were surprised by how few of our students knew about OER, but also how fully they embraced the topic. We hope you will agree, their efforts to improve the OER article have been successful: while there will always be room for improvement, today's version of the article is much improved from the version prior to the start of our class."
Several members of the CC community were proud to support this effort. In the first round, CC CEO Cathy Casserly participated in a panel discussion and CC Senior Project Manager Paul Stacey provided a review of the OER article around which the course participants shaped their improvements.
Creative Commons encourages you to take advantage of this opportunity to contribute to the world's understanding of open educational resources and the open licenses that make them possible. Sign up for the upcoming course today. You can also participate in a future course or engage in other ways by reaching out to the course organizers at the same link.
If you would like to be notified when other "open" courses launch their second rounds, make sure you're subscribed to the School of Open announcements list.
*If you're in Europe or Africa, the synchronous course sessions will be in the middle of the night. You are welcome to enroll and watch the archived sessions each week; join the third round of the course, expected to launch in July; or watch for the self-paced version of the course, to be announced in early June.2 Comments »
CC Talks With: Pete Forsyth and the Wikimedia Public Policy Initiative: Open Education and Policy
Pete Forsyth lives and breathes wikis. He is owner and lead consultant at Wiki Strategies, and has extensive experience in working within online peer production communities, specifically the production of open educational resources (OER) using wiki-based web sites like Wikipedia. Forsyth was the Wikimedia Foundation's first Public Outreach Officer and key architect of the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative, an innovative pilot project to support university faculty and students in the use of Wikipedia as a teaching and learning tool. With more than 17 million articles in over 270 languages, Wikipedia is the Wikimedia Foundation's largest and most visible project.
By Lane Hartwell CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Wiki as a Vehicle for Self-learning
Forsyth became interested in wikis in Oregon, where he was an editor and community organizer for Wikipedia. While he had long been interested in Open Source Software, he didn't know how to code. "Wikipedia was a natural entry point for me," he says, "because you don't have to be a computer programmer to contribute."
Forsyth spent five years creating and revising Oregon-related content on Wikipedia, and during this time a group of similarly-minded people came together to form a wiki project in the Portland area. "Portland is home of the wiki," notes Forsyth, referring to its invention in 1994 by Ward Cunningham.
The participants in the Oregon wiki project helped each other navigate their way around Wikipedia, mastered the art of good reference, and pieced together a better sense of the history of the state. Being in that group allowed Forsyth to explore intellectual pursuits he might not have explored if Wikipedia wasn't there as a vehicle to nurture them. "The process was in its own way every bit as educational as the college degree I earned," he said.
The Public Policy Initiative: Open Content, Open Practices
The Public Policy Initiative (PPI) is designed to engage professors in public policy programs at universities across the U.S. to work with their students and the Wikimedia community to improve articles on the English-language Wikipedia as part of their course curriculum. Forsyth notes that the PPI aligns with a set of Wikimedia's long term goals: it cultivates more Wikipedians, champions subject matter experts, and works toward improving the diversity of its contributor base. He says that the public policy arena has been an exemplary pilot initiative because it is such an interdisciplinary field. "Public policy cuts across so many areas, such as law, economics, and philosophy," says Forsyth, "and keeping this project open to people with different kinds of backgrounds was an important design consideration."
The characterization of Wikipedia as an open educational resource platform is at once completely obvious and also a departure from many of the traditional OER delivery mechanisms. While Forsyth agrees that Wikipedia is as valuable an open educational resource as any encyclopedia, he thinks that open educational practices (OEP) is where the value of the Public Policy Initiative really shines. He believes that the really transformative outcome enabled by the technical and legal innovation of wikis and open licensing is the process of being able to collaborate with a broad group of people quickly and seamlessly. "By participating in that kind of community," says Forsyth, "the student is learning skills from the process itself, rather than extracting information from a particular resource."
Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia sites represent the largest collection of CC licensed works on the web. Forsyth believes that a project like the PPI–and Wikipedia itself–couldn't exist without easy-to-understand open licensing. "Users clarifying their intent to work openly is the most important thing," he says. "The existence of Creative Commons opens up a new avenue for individuals and organizations to do things in the public interest."
Forsyth thinks that Creative Commons should attempt to provide more clarity about the consequences to using different CC licenses. "I'm not excited about the noncommercial condition," he admits. "It all boils down to clarity, and attaching a noncommercial condition onto content immediately creates exceptions to that clarity." He notes that many people new to open licensing are initially drawn to the more restrictive licenses, but don't realize until later that the content they are licensing is incompatible with Wikipedia or other projects they'd like to engage with.
Public Policy Initiative Ambassadors
In addition to partnering with interested faculty, the Public Policy Initiative involves members of both the university (via campus ambassadors) and the Wikimedia community (via online ambassadors) to provide assistance and guidance. Bonnie Mccallum volunteers as a campus ambassador for a participating class at Montana State University, where she is a web services technician at the University Library. Mccallum, who had no previous experience in creating or editing Wikipedia articles, teamed up with Mike Cline, a seasoned Wikipedian, to assist Professor Kristin Ruppel in her course on Federal Indian Law and Policy. While Mccallum and Cline worked as on-site campus ambassadors, various distributed online ambassadors helped mentor students on the ins and outs of editing Wikipedia.
By McMormor (Own work) CC-BY-SA-3.0 or GFDL, via Wikimedia Commons
"There was relatively little available on Wikipedia about the content taught in the course," said Mccallum. Professor Ruppel had the graduate students create a new article around the general topic of the course, stepping through the process of publishing and defending their articles on Wikipedia. The undergraduate students were responsible for editing articles that were already on Wikipedia. One example of an article worked on by the students is the Native American Languages Act of 1990.
Mccallum notes that Professor Ruppel believes participation in the PPI is a more worthwhile writing exercise for her students than cranking out a term paper. Ruppel feels that her students had to learn how to collaborate and communicate in a neutral voice, and learn how to monitor issues and discuss changes with other editors. Mccallum said she'll be continuing work with the PPI next year, and was excited that there were so many women participating in the project. There are a few things that she'd like to change for next year. She notes that some of the students got hung up on the technical issues around editing wikis, so they'll be structuring that course module differently next time around.
Mccallum proudly recounts a story passed on by one of the older students in the course, who has a child in middle school. The child's teacher discouraged her students from using Wikipedia at all. However, after the boy had gone back to the teacher and showed her how his mom was using and contributing to Wikipedia in her graduate school course at MSU, the teacher softened her position. According to Mccallum, those 'it might not be so bad after all' moments seem to become more common as teachers learn about the varied uses for teaching via Wikipedia.
Public Policy Initiative as a Bridge
Sometimes open source projects find it difficult to break into the mainstream, especially within the traditional higher education space. Forsyth says that one reason why the PPI has been initially successful in getting buy-in from faculty is because they tailored the project to the existing goals of the educators. He says that working with existing incentive systems as much as possible and providing support to faculty is an important baseline to making the project successful. Also bubbling around recently is the idea that a condition of tenure might be participating in an online community or contributing to a collaborative project like Wikipedia, in addition to the traditional publishing venues. "It will be a gradual shift," says Forsyth, "but the reality today is that both teachers and students need to possess the cultural fluency and information literacy skills to engage online." He thinks that these traits will come to represent a set of important skills that students will need to master in any field. "I believe that in time, tenure processes will come to reflect that."
The Future
Forsyth thinks the Public Policy Initiative is well on its way. "Professors are the experts in educating their students, and with a little nudge and some support, they can do great things with a tool like Wikipedia," he says. So far, the PPI has turned out to be an enlightening exercise and productive process. As it's seed funding winds down this September, the Public Policy Initiative will continue to transition from a staff-led to a volunteer-led project. The PPI aims to expand its reach of the Ambassador program to work with faculty and students in other countries, languages, and topic areas.
Forsyth is continuing his involvement in leveraging wikis within the education space, working to start the Center for Open Learning and Teaching (COLT), to be hosted at the University of Mississippi. The center will support the study and implementation of effective and open Internet-based learning practices in formal education. "As institutions of learning are engaging with concept of OER and online learning communities, they're going to want to figure out how to update their practices, reap the efficiency benefits of 'open,' and stay relevant as education evolves," says Forsyth. He notes that the goals of COLT include 1) setting up a cohort-based research network investigating open, online collaboration in education; and 2) establishing a teaching and learning center that would partially fund faculty salaries to explore OER and open collaborative practices in their classrooms and share what they've learned.
Forsyth believes that teaching and learning has very suddenly changed in only a few years. "The education system used to exist in a world in which information was scarce and access to information was hard to come by," he says. "Now, learning something about any topic is easy, and universities no longer have a monopoly on how we educate ourselves." Forsyth thinks that libraries, museums, governments, and news outlets still provide great value, but they're gradually waking up to the idea that they now have to compete. He thinks that these changes should be viewed as an exciting opportunity, not something to be disregarded because they challenge the status quo. "We need universities to embrace the changing landscape, not erect walls trying to protect the role they're used to playing."
CERN Library releases its book catalog into the public domain via CC0, and other bibliographic data news
Tape library, CERN, Geneva 2 by Cory Doctorow / CC BY-SA
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research that is home to the Large Hadron Collider and birthplace of the web, has released its book catalog into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication. This is not the first time that CERN has used CC tools to open its resources; earlier this year, CERN released the first results of the Large Hadron Collider experiments under CC licenses. In addition, CERN is a strong supporter of CC, having given corporate support at the "creator" level, and is currently featured as a CC Superhero in the campaign, where you can join them in the fight for openness and innovation!
Jens Vigen, the head of CERN Library, says in the press release,
"Books should only be catalogued once. Currently the public purse pays for having the same book catalogued over and over again. Librarians should act as they preach: data sets created through public funding should be made freely available to anyone interested. Open Access is natural for us, here at CERN we believe in openness and reuse… By getting academic libraries worldwide involved in this movement, it will lead to a natural atmosphere of sharing and reusing bibliographic data in a rich landscape of so-called mash-up services, where most of the actors who will be involved, both among the users and the providers, will not even be library users or librarians."
The data is available for download here, and will soon be available at the Open Library, the Internet Archive's online catalog with 20 million records to date under CC0.
Cologne-based libraries
In related news, the Cologne-based libraries have made the 5.4 million bibliographic records they released into the public domain earlier this year, also via CC0, available in various places. See the hbz wiki, lobid.org (and their files on CKAN), and OpenDATA at the Central Library of Sport Sciences of the German Sports University in Cologne. For more information, see the case study.
German Wikipedia
The German Wikipedia has also used CC0 to dedicate data into the public domain; specifically, their PND-BEACON files are available for download. Since Wikipedia links out to quite a number of external resources, and since a lot of articles link to the same external resources, PND-BEACON files are the German Wikipedia's way of organizing the various data. "In short a BEACON file contains a 1-to-1 (or 1-to-n) mapping from identifiers to links. Each link consists of at least an URL with optionally a link title and additional information such as the number of resources that are available behind a link." Learn more from the English description of the project.1 Comment »
The Revamped CC Case Studies Project
Last year, we kicked off our global case studies effort, inviting you to share your stories—individuals, projects, and companies who use Creative Commons for different reasons and to solve different problems. Through the CC wiki, we attempted to capture the diversity of CC creators and content by building a resource that inspires new works and informs free culture.
Thanks to your contributions, the Case Studies project has grown into an incredibly valuable resource. But like all wikis, the Case Studies wiki is evolving. Everyday, more people and projects are using CC, and existing projects are continuously making themselves over.
To keep up, we've made the Case Studies project easier to navigate and ultimately more useful and participatory for the community by revamping the portal and building a new rating system, implementing lessons we've learned from other successful wiki communities such as Wikipedia. What's new:
- We used Semantic MediaWiki (an extension of MediaWiki) to organize quantifiable elements into a few common properties. Take a look at the case study for Cory Doctorow and you'll see a new box on the right that provides an at-a-glance view of some of the project's main properties. These properties are common to all case studies and their values can now be easily browsed.
- The ability to evaluate each case study by Page Importance and Page Quality. We drafted an Evaluation Guide with some basic criteria for what determines whether a case study is of high, medium, or low importance and quality. These criteria are meant to serve as starting points; we want you to edit and improve them as more case studies are evaluated and added. Each criteria that is not met comes with suggested edits to improve existing case studies.
What you can do now:
- Visit the revamped Case Studies wiki!
- Evaluate a Case Study
- Improve a Case Study by adding relevant data, updating old information, or editing the prose so that it sparkles
- Translate the new instructions. See the Portuguese translation of the evaluations page as an example.
- And as always, add your CC story or one you're familiar with
The goal of the new features is to encourage better quality and contribution. Please use and help us improve them!Comments Off
Wikipedia on new Facebook community pages
Earlier this week, Facebook announced its launch of community pages, pages based on topics of interest to the community that are not maintained by a single author. Single author pages include band or company pages that intend to promote that band or company. Instead, community pages are based on the concept of "shared knowledge" that underlies Wikipedia. Community pages integrate Wikipedia content which retains the Creative Commons license.
For example, check out the community page for Cooking. The page has directly imported CC BY-SA licensed content from the Wikipedia entry on Cooking. All links to Wikipedia are retained, including direct links to edit the information. At the bottom of the page, the source of content is explicitly stated with links to the CC BY-SA license and history of the article:
For more information on how Wikipedia is integrated into community pages, check out Facebook's FAQ on Community pages and an email from Wikimedia Foundation's Head of Business Development, Kul Takanao Wadhwa:
Wikipedia articles on Facebook will further increase the reach of free knowledge on the internet. Facebook has hundreds of millions of users, and now more than 70% of their traffic is coming from outside of the US. Our hope is that many Facebook users (if they are not already) will also be inclined to join the large community of Wikipedia contributors. Facebook will follow the free licenses (CC-BY-SA) and help us find more ways people can share knowledge. Furthermore, we will be looking at other ways that both parties can cooperate in the future.
It's worth noting privacy concerns about they way Facebook has connected community pages to user profiles — these concerns have nothing to do with the reuse of Wikipedia content.17 Comments »
Creative Commons & Education Landing Page And Wiki Project
Today we launched two important resources for anyone interested in Creative Commons and education.
First, there's an education landing page prominently linked from our home page. Its goal is to quickly introduce our site visitors to the vast number and range of Open Educational Resources (OER) available for use as well as the role of Creative Commons licenses in enabling OER to reach its potential. We'll be testing various iterations of this page in the coming months as well as add further assets (e.g., video) to make it an effective introduction to OER for the general public.
The landing page also features a number of links for anyone who wants to learn more about OER & CC and/or wants to contribute their own knowledge. Most of those links point to the OER Portal/Project on our wiki. Our goal for this section is for our community to add useful information about OER as well as help curate this information. Ultimately, we hope processes for curating such information (e.g., a rating system for OER case studies) will develop, looking at the Wikipedia WikiProjects as an inspiration. Please dive in and help, from small corrective edits to designing and documenting curation processes.
These new resources are in-line with the education plans we posted about at the end of January. Watch here for more!Comments Off


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MAHARASHTRA HSC 2014 Result Date – 12th Class Result www.Mahresult.nic.in | www.msbshse.ac.in
Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Maharashtra HSC (12th) Results 2014 will be released at official website www.mahresult.nic.in MHBHSE department conducted HSC exam month of March 2014. HSC Board exam was attended by 9 lakhs students in Maharashtra State. As soon as possible Maharashtra State Board Secondary and Higher Secondary exam results will be declared by MHBSHSE.
MAHARASHTRA BOARD 12TH HSC RESULTS 2014 www.hscresult2013.co.in
HSC Examination Result March 2014
Has been announced on May 30, 2014 at 11:00 Hrs above Link
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Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBHSHSE) ressults 2014 will be published in all leading T.V. Channel, Online website, Online News, Maharashtra Board HSc results 2014 date will be fix by official website third week of May 2014. ( I mean month of May 20-28 May 2014) Maharashtra HSC Results 2014 will be published in scra2013.com month of May. Please bookmark us by pressing CTRL +D by Key Board.
The Results of Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (HSC Results) will be available in many website like www.schools9.com, www.manabadi.co.in, www.indiaresults.com, www.mahresults.nic.in etc. You can get the HSc results of Maharashtra Board 2014 any private site also because results day at official website generally slow. For Results you want to visit the website your roll number, date of birth etc and get your results HSC 2014.
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August 6 2012
Congratulate Henry on victory
J.J. Henry racked up 43 points to win by one at the Reno-Tahoe Open, where Modified Stableford scoring was used. The win is Henry's second and first since 2006. He earned 250 FedExCup points and a spot in next week's PGA Championship. Send your note of congratulations below and we'll pass it along to Henry.
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DUI court commemorates 10 years in Hall County
By Kelsey Williamson
The Hall County DUI court celebrates its 10th anniversary on Thursday, and over the past decade, the program has been able to reduce repeat DUI offenses by almost 10 percent.
The court began as one of three pilot programs for DUI courts in Georgia after the state saw the success of other drug courts around the nation.
Presiding Judge Larry Baldwin noted that the county was one of three selected areas, including Athens/Clarke County and the Savannah area that received grant money to start the DUI program.
"They selected the three areas to see if we would be interested in it, and one of the main goals is to reduce recidivism - how many people get DUIs - and try to keep them from getting new DUIs. We were in favor of that so we decided to take part," Baldwin said.
Over the first three to five years of the court-mandated program for repeat offenders, Baldwin and then-presiding Judge Charles Wynne saw recidivism in the region reduced by almost 10 percent, even though offenders do not necessarily like the program.
"Most of them don't like the program when they first come in because it is a very strenuous program," Baldwin said. "It is post-conviction, meaning they have to be found guilty or plead guilty to DUI, and they still get their sentence, including a fine and jail time, but then they have to go through the program.
"We hope that alone is helping to reduce the number of people who choose to drink and drive."
The program is 15 months long and the participants must go through treatment, attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, go to court meetings with Baldwin, and call a phone number each morning to find out if they have to go in for random drug and alcohol screenings.
The court has been successful at reducing incidences of DUIs, but other problems have developed in the past couple of years that require alterations to the program, such as increasing occurrences of driving under the influence of prescription drugs.
"We've noted that over the last couple years it has become an increasing problem, and when we first set up our program it was more thinking of the drinking and driving, so we've had to make changes," Baldwin said. "We hope to get the information out that even if you have a prescription, it's still not legal to drive while you're impaired by prescription drugs."
The frequency of these offenses has mandated a change in the court's drug screening procedure in order to detect the drugs in the system.
"We don't just screen people for alcohol," Baldwin said. "We actually take a urine test, and we have a lab here in Hall County that can test it for a number of different substances including some drugs, and then we also often send it out to a lab so that we can do a full panel and just try to find out what, if anything, our participants are using."
Baldwin and the DUI court will continue to improve their programs and procedures for the future in hopes of bringing these offenses down even more.
"I'm very committed to this program," Baldwin said. "I find it rewarding because a lot of times as a judge, you sentence someone and then you don't know if they succeed or fail in the future. With this program, I get to see these DUI offenders at least once a month if not twice a month for the full 15 months and see how they progress, and I find that to be rewarding."
"We're going to have our graduation on that day, and I've asked Judge Charlie Wynne who was the original judge for the DUI court program and, in fact, was the sitting judge for that program for the first eight years, to come and speak to our graduates," Baldwin said. "I want to recognize him because he put a lot of hard work and effort into the program."
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Engineering Innovation
Strange Bedfellows: Innovation and Risk Aversion
by Brian Christian, principal, DASO Consulting LLC
The age of innovation is clearly upon us. The cry for more innovation in all sectors of business around the world has grown to a deafening roar. The financial markets are clearly rewarding stockholders in companies that possess a healthy and demonstrable new product pipeline. The question is no longer what to do, but how to do it. While there are many obstacles to building a sustainable innovation capability, one almost insurmountable obstacle is an organization's aversion to risk.
All organizations have some degree of aversion to risk. At a certain level, it's a healthy instinct that protects us from betting the farm on brussel sprouts. However, in many organizations, there is an unhealthy level of risk aversion. It can be a major barrier to developing a sustainable innovation capability and the silent killer of many potentially great innovations.
For illustration, let's consider Google and Ford Motor. Why is the former an innovation dynamo and the latter mired in a life-threatening rut? The answer to this has much to do with their relative sizes (employees, not equity) and positions in their respective product and industry lifecycles. Google is young with much to gain and little to lose. It is growing rapidly, creating opportunities and wealth for multitudes of energetic young employees. Fear of losing one's job or a promotional opportunity or a bonus is nowhere to be found at Google.
At Ford Motor, I suspect, the culture is tinged with all of these fears. Ford Motor managers have much to protect. It has become more important to protect what is than to create what could be. And the result of this mindset is risk aversion. In simple economic terms, the costs of failure are greater than the rewards of success. It happens to every—yes, every—company that has ever succeeded long enough to become one of the surviving players in a saturated and slow-growth industry. But is Ford Motor doomed? Absolutely not. Just ask BMW.
Do you have a risk-averse organization? Nobody likes to admit this publicly but, in many companies, this self-criticism is often heard. Maybe you are not sure if your organization is risk-averse or not. Ask yourself these questions:
Is project management a role that is (A) viewed as subordinate to line management and not worth the career risk or (B) celebrated and rewarded as critical to the organization's success and a necessary leadership development step?
If you answered (A) to one or more of these questions, you are probably working in a fairly risk-averse organization. But not to worry: So are most of the rest of your peers in the corporate world. Whatever your risk aversion profile, it is likely that you have become more so in this new age of corporate scandals and accounting regulations.
At first, "risk-averse innovation" appears to be an oxymoron…like "short-term vision" or "strategic operating plan." Surely, if you hope to have a more innovative organization and culture, you are simply going to have to figure out how to reduce your aversion to risk. Right? Wrong. There simply is not enough time for Ford to transform its culture from timid giant to nimble Google. I prefer the approach that recognizes and accepts your aversion to risk and works to make innovation a less risky proposition. Over time, as innovation success occurs, the culture will also begin to change in the direction of reduced aversion to risk. So, the question I pose is this: How can you mitigate the risk inherent in innovation, thereby transforming your ability to innovate within your risk-averse culture? As you will find in the following paragraphs, the answer to this question is that there are many ways to mitigate these innovation risks.
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The panaceas usually offered in the business media rarely take risk into account. These pathways to greatness can usually be paraphrased as, "Do all things perfectly all the time," and are likely to make the reader or listener feel positively energized—for about a half a day. There is little recognition for the realities of running a business, as if resources were abundant, capital was free, competitors were scarce, and time was infinite (no short-term pressures). The pressures of budget, time and competition make tradeoffs and risks critical considerations for business leaders.
There are many ways to mitigate the risk inherent in a broad innovation effort. The most important six things to do to mitigate innovation risk are as follows:
Focus the Effort Avoid opening up the innovation funnel too broadly. Initially, it is important to keep a focus on areas of opportunity that play off existing capabilities, known customer insights and established brand positions. The business journals are full of recommendations to open up the innovation funnel all the way to "unleash the creative power of your people." Most organizations don't have the bandwidth to unleash all their people on an unbounded range of opportunities, nor the resources to sort through and develop them. For example, Toyota is getting significant innovation kudos for their work on fuel-efficient hybrid engines. This breakthrough technology is well within the range of Toyota's existing research and engineering capabilities and supports existing products and brands.
In addition, a strong focus on leveraging your current capabilities is more likely to lead to early momentum-building successes. Finally, as Geoffrey Moore states convincingly in Dealing with Darwin, specific types of innovation can only be successful at certain stages of industry and category life-cycle maturity.
Recruit Partners Avoid the natural tendency to do it alone. It is important to spread risk by bringing partners into the process. This not only can spread investment risk, but also greatly increases the odds of finding truly innovative, value-creating new products and services, as well as increases speed to market. This means forming partnerships with suppliers, trade partners, technologists, other adjacent businesses, and even competitors. While this may sound straightforward and logical, there are significant internal obstacles to forming external partnerships. Some of these obstacles include the following:
Product Development: The "not-invented-here" syndrome is alive and well in most product development organizations. Internal groups tend to believe that there is nothing that they cannot do given time and resources. However, speed depends on present capability, not the ability to develop the capability.
Legal: Legal organizations are inclined to see only the risk in partnership agreements. Typically, the legal staff is chartered with protecting against downside risk and do not have a commensurate reward for supporting upside opportunity. In their time-consuming effort to prevent downside risk, the legal group can cause partnership opportunities to wither on the vine.
Procurement: Where suppliers are the potential partners, procurement organizations can also be an obstacle. Traditional purchasing functions are narrowly focused on material cost productivity and have a well-developed competitive negotiation mindset. When involved in partnership agreement negotiations, this traditional mindset can sacrifice long-term value creation in the pursuit of short-term gain. The operative word with external partners is trust. It also helps to avoid the temptation to pre-specify the financial arrangements for all partners early in the process. It's a huge time waster and resource drain at a point when the odds of success are still low.
Create the ResourcesDo not confuse commitment to innovation with funding for innovation. It is possible to be very committed to innovation without throwing bags of money at it. In fact, a 2006 study of the 1,000 largest R&D spenders in the world by the consulting firm Booz, Allen & Hamilton found no correlation between R&D spending and shareholder return. In addition, it is healthy to challenge the organization to "create" the human and capital resources necessary to deliver more innovation. Most product development organizations want desperately to work on innovation opportunities rather than just incremental product improvements or cost and quality improvements. If the means to do this work lies in freeing internal resources or spending capital more wisely, these product development organizations will find a way to do it.
Finally, having a strong human and capital efficiency program in conjunction with your innovation effort provides a nice yin and yang strategic balance. The opportunities to create resources in today's world are plentiful, including global service centers (centralization), outsourcing, offshoring, and Six-Sigma or lean enterprise. A balanced approach that pursues any or all of these productivity programs in conjunction with an innovation program will help to accommodate the company's aversion to investment risk.
Streamline the Investment Decision Process Companies have limited resources, both human and capital. Consequently, decisions must be made about how to allocate these limited funds. This is often referred to as portfolio management. Making sound investment decisions poses a great challenge for most companies. Making these decisions quickly and decisively poses a secondary challenge that can increase investment risk if done poorly. Some of the challenges include the following:
Investment decision-making is like sales forecasting—it is very difficult to be right even half of the time. World-class performance in your industry might be improving your success rate from 5 percent to 25 percent. Ultimately, knowing what customers will be willing to pay for a new product or service is very difficult and uncontrollable. However, managing all of the other variables within your control can create a major competitive advantage. This requires an integrated combination of organization design, management process, information tools, and decision-making frameworks.
While this may sound difficult, it doesn't need to be. This is one of those instances in which perfect is the enemy of good enough. The low-hanging fruit is in the elimination of the really bad decisions; decisions to invest in opportunities that have no chance from the outset of leading to marketplace success. A clearly defined and disciplined portfolio management process can be implemented in 3 months time, even for very large companies. This will not achieve perfection in investment decision-making right away, but immediate benefits will accrue, your natural aversion to investment risk will be accommodated and you will be on your way toward competitive advantage.
ExperimentThe inclination in most companies is toward the big bang product launch of innovative new products. The sense of urgency, the limitation of investment dollars, the pressure for short-term performance, and the mobility of professionals within companies creates a "go-for-broke" tendency when it comes to new product launches. There is not much tolerance in these cultures for a more pragmatic approach that tests product innovations at various stages of development with limited customer trials. This experimentation approach dramatically reduces overall investment risk and speeds "time to profit," but often at the expense of "time to full-scale launch" and upfront product development and testing budgets. Companies must establish a culture of experimentation by instituting rules within their stage gate product development processes that contradict the natural go-for-broke tendency of product development managers. These rules should mandate a progression of experimentation types from the earliest concept development stages to the final pre-launch preparation stages.
Measure, Measure, Measure All business leaders know that the old cliché, "What gets measured, gets done," is a rule of law, not a quaint aphorism. Yet, so often we find reasons not to do it. In the innovation space, we know that measurement is fraught with challenges. How do you define which projects are innovative and which are not? How long after launch does a new product get to be counted as innovation for the purpose of measuring innovation-driven revenue or profit? How do you hold any one function accountable for innovation metrics when the responsibility is shared by many functions? These are all legitimate questions but should not get in the way of putting measurements into place and working. You can improve them over time as your experience and sophistication grows. Yes, measures can be misused and create unintended consequences. But getting measures in place quickly sends a clear message to the organization that you are serious about innovation and that you are going to reward those who support it. This will get the innovation crankshaft turning.
In summary, there are real risks inherent in pursuing a broad innovation program in your business. To the extent that your organization is risk-averse, you are swimming upstream and likely to run into hidden shoals or submerged trees lying just below the surface. It is better to expose these risks and openly address them than to pretend that they do not exist.
It can be difficult to admit publicly that your culture is risk-averse. Get over it. You are not alone. Admitting the problem is the first step toward recovery. The innovation risks that have been discussed here are mostly short-term risks. In the long run, not undertaking a broad innovation program may present the greatest risk to your business.
About the Author
Brian Christian is principal and founder of DASO Consulting LLC, a business management consultancy with a special focus in the areas of innovation, product strategy and sourcing strategy. Prior to launching DASO Consulting, Christian spent 11 years at Whirlpool Corporation, where his last role was vice president of Global Product Development for the home cleaning category. If you wish to contact Christian, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
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