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How Well-Connected Leaders Help Foster Creativity
In recent years organizations have increasingly come to recognize the importance of fostering innovation and creativity. The problem is, how?
New research suggests that the key might be dependent on the size of team leaders' social networks. By working with leaders who have substantial social networks within the organization, employees are granted access to more resources, ideas, and strategies to utilize in creative ways.
The new study, published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, examined 214 employees working in public technology and environmental services. The research focused on the impact of the social networks of the leaders and employees involved, as well as instances of radical creativity.
The study found that it's important that leaders be connected to the members of their team, but equally important that they be well-connected outside the team as well.
Leaders with expansive connections beyond the scope of the immediate work team provide access to a broader variety of resources, including new perspectives and ideas which the leader can then pass on to their team.
The importance of having a wide social network as a team leader hinges on the value of providing a broad-view strategy for employees. The more people a team leader knows, the more connected they become to Big Picture concepts rather than focusing solely on the current thoughts within a team.
Of course, it's not enough for the leader to merely make new connections. They also need to focus on sharing the insights and strategies these connections provide. By sharing diverse perspectives, team leaders can help battle the creative stagnancy that often happens with teams over time.
This research suggests that employee social networks can also be instrumental if they serve as liaison to individuals outside the team, especially when their leaders are less integral to the team or are not stepping up to the plate. But the interplay between employee and leader social networks needs to be better explored in the future in order to fully understand the different impacts of each.
The important info organizational leaders can glean from this research is that creativity is fostered by connectivity to others in the organization.
Access to additional outside perspectives help to provide unique resources and ideas that could lead to innovative creative development.
This research also supports the notion of a connected organization wherein ideas are shared freely between leaders in order to stimulate the creativity of the entire company.
The Negative Effects of Knowledge Hiding on Organizational Trust and Creativity
Have you ever encountered a situation where a colleague purposely withheld pertinent information? How did that change your interactions with them, or the dynamics within the office?
A recent study addresses the topic of Knowledge Hiding, and how consciously withholding information can affect both trust and creativity.
The act of hiding knowledge leads to what the researchers describe as "the distrust loop." In this cycle, employees who intentionally hide information lose the trust of their peers. In order to impart a sense of justice, the effected peers will then withhold information from the knowledge hiders. This, in turn, affects the knowledge hider's ability to collaborate effectively and generate creative ideas.
The researchers felt it was important that the organizational environment be factored into the equation, and examined two types– the mastery climate and the performance climate. A mastery climate is one in which cooperation, employee development, and mastery of skills are encouraged. A performance climate is based on an employee's ability to outperform colleagues and receive recognition/rewards relative to that of their peers.
The researchers conducted two studies to test their hypotheses. The first consisted of 240 employees and 34 supervisors. Employees were measured on their creativity, how they perceived the organizational climate, and if they considered themselves knowledge hiders. The supervisors were then asked to provide their perception of the creativity of their employees.
The second study consisted of 132 undergraduate students, who were asked to complete a business scenario in which students were places in three groups. The scenarios consisted of conditions that measured of the mastery climate, performance climate or no climate. Some students were also randomly selected to be knowledge hiders.
The researchers learned that knowledge hiders in a performance climate found themselves within the distrust loop, limiting their collaboration with peers and ultimately making them less creative than other groups. Knowledge hiders in this group were more concerned with protecting themselves, which hindered their ability to be creative in comparison with the other groups.
The groups without knowledge hiders proved more capable of freely exchanging ideas and, as a result, were more creative. Interestingly, in mastery climates, employees were generally less likely to be knowledge hiders. The mastery climate fosters such an environment of collaboration and knowledge sharing that it ultimately decreases the need for knowledge hiding, and thus does not affect creativity
In organizations in which innovation is important, encouraging employees to collaborate allows them opportunities to more readily engage each other. It allows employees to openly share ideas and drive organizational initiatives.
The big picture take-away from this study is that fostering an environment of collaboration in the workplace removes the necessity for knowledge hiding, which is ultimately beneficial to the creative progress of the entire organization.
Culture and Creativity: Is It All About Social Context?
In recent years, workplace creativity has become an area of interest to many employers.
With the increase in globalization within organizations, understanding employee creativity also requires an understanding of how and when individuals within various cultures exhibit this characteristic.
In a new study, researchers found that the manifestation of creativity differs between Eastern and Western cultures, which could be due to a number of cultural differences.
Two main differences between Eastern and Western cultures are power distance and collectivism.
Eastern cultures, such as China, tend to have higher levels of power distance, which is characterized by differential treatment based on social status. This could inhibit employees' willingness to take risks if they do not feel comfortable divulging their original creative ideas to a supervisor.
Western cultures, such as the United States, tend to have much lower levels of power distance. Because the culture typically has higher levels of equality regardless of social status, employees may not be as negatively influenced by the presence of a supervisor.
Additionally, East Asian societies are traditionally more collaborative, which may encourage creativity within a group. Whereas the Western focus on independence may lower creativity when employees operate within group scenarios.
To examine these cultural differences, the researchers conducted simultaneous studies in the United States and China.
Seventy-nine undergraduate students were asked to take part in a creativity task– either alone, in a group, or with a supervisor present. Responses were rated for creative output via originality, total number of ideas, and usefulness. The researchers then compared results for the two groups.
The results indicated that Chinese participants provided less original ideas while supervised, whereas American participants were not impacted by supervisor presence. Conversely, the American participants provided fewer ideas when in groups than they did when they were alone, while the Chinese participants were not impacted by the presence of peers.
This study highlights the importance of understanding social contexts within a diverse workplace, and how desired outcomes like creativity may be impacted by cultural differences.
While Chinese workers may benefit from a supervisor-free group environment when completing creative tasks, American workers may perform best when taking on these tasks individually.
The conclusion is that employers may not be able to simply take a one-size-fits-all approach to improving conditions for creativity in the workplace, especially if they have employees with diverse backgrounds or act as a multinational organization.
An Easy Recipe for Improving Team Performance on Creative Tasks
Leaders and I-O Psychologists are always trying to discover new ways to improve team performance. New research by Ellis, Mai, and Chrisitan (2013), has found an interesting new way to do this for creative tasks. When team members have different approaches to achieving goals, team performance may improve.
This research is rooted in goal setting theory (Locke & Latham, 1990), which asserts that people who set specific and challenging goals will outperform people who merely "try their best". Results of the current study also support this classic I-O Psychology theory, but in this case, the researchers went one step further. They also analyzed teams which had two members who set specific, challenging goals, and two other members who were trying their best.
What happened? When the teams were asked to perform creative tasks, these mixed teams outperformed everybody. When the teams performed routine tasks, the mixed teams were not very effective. The authors explain that creative work is best accomplished when team members are able to build on top of each other's ideas. When one team member has a novel suggestion, someone else will have to "reframe" the idea and offer a practical way of applying it to the problem at hand. This process is easiest to do when team members are approaching problems differently, which is the case when they are using different approaches to achieve goals. When work is more routine, team members will not benefit from having different approaches.
This research is practically important because it provides an easy recipe for improving team performance on creative tasks. Although creativity is naturally strengthened through diversity, the "diversity of perspective" that is suggested here may work better than "social category diversity", which the authors note can unfortunately sometimes lead to negative outcomes.
If you're happy and you know it, your boss doesn't matter: How a positive mood makes up for transformational leadership
One of the major areas of recent leadership research has been on the impact of transformational leaders. Transformational leaders exhibit behaviors that go above and beyond basic job requirements, including behaving in a manner that helps employees focus on group needs rather than individual, showing high levels of optimism and positive feelings, creating an intellectually stimulating work environment, and helping employees feel personally cared for at work. The behaviors of transformational leaders are seen to have positive outcomes within an organization, increasing creativity as well as helping behaviors. The current study suggests that a transformational leadership style may be less influential when employees have a naturally more positive demeanor, looking specifically at both employee creativity and helping behaviors.
In order to study this, surveys were collected from 212 pairs of supervisors and employees in China. Supervisor surveys measured the employee's creativity and helping behaviors, while employee surveys measured their own general demeanor (known as Positive Affectivity) and their supervisor's leadership style.
The researchers found that transformational leadership was not as impactful for predicting helping behaviors or creativity in employees who had more positive general demeanor. This suggests that organizations may be able to look at employee personality traits when pairing employees with supervisors in order to improve the work environment. If a group of employees tends to have a more negative attitude, pairing them with a supervisor who exhibits traits of a transformational leader may be more effective. On the other hand, employees who are generally in a positive mood do not need this specific leadership style in order to be effective. By paying attention to specific personality traits that may impact job performance, organizations may be able to increase levels of employee creativity and helping behaviors.
The Role of Social Networking for Cultural Entrepreneurs
The last few years have seen a growing trend of cultural business start-ups, globally. A cultural business (events, arts, music, theatre, etc.) is significantly different from a commercial business for more than one reason. Cultural businesses are usually at an agency level with a limited number of people. They still have their founding member(s) actively involved in the day to day dealings of the business. Additionally, the success measures for these businesses rely heavily on social networking and strong interpersonal connections in addition to fiscal outcomes. Constructing sturdy social ties lies at the very heart of a successful cultural venture. Maintaining healthy relations with competitors and building on personal networks directly helps a cultural business gather information and resources for mutual benefit.
Due to the nuance of this business sector however, there is an absence of a guided direction as to how much networking actually helps the cultural business and to the extent to which a cultural entrepreneur's reputation affects the business. The current paper explored this area, and reveals some interesting and constructive information.
It appears that the more favorable a business's reputation, the more likely it is to succeed and grow. A start-up's reputation hinges on that of its entrepreneur. The current research therefore suggests that the more actively (socially) involved a cultural entrepreneur is the better the chances are for the business to succeed. A cultural entrepreneur is expected to build strong social relations with competitors, as well as building a sturdy personal social network, in order to be in the loop on important shifts and developments in the cultural business landscape.
Two major obstacles affect cultural business: funding sources and competition with other similar businesses. In the face of limited funding, private cultural businesses find it difficult to compete with public institutions that receive more government funding. A strong networking specialist can greatly help to mitigate the disadvantages a for-profit culture enterprise might face. However, it appears that while a healthy network can help overcome the constraints posed due to limited funding, the benefit is not the same when the level of competitiveness increases. Since cultural entrepreneurs spend a tremendous amount of energy and time networking for mutual benefits with peers, who are also potentially competitors, there seems to exist a general supportive mindset among the cultural community. Unfortunately, when the level of competitiveness increases, perhaps due to a dearth of available funding, it poses a problem that cannot be resolved through social networking alone. In fact, social networking may negatively affect the business, at times of increased competitiveness, since social networking involves a mutual benefit factor.
With the limited research available on cultural entrepreneurship, the current study has contributed in a large way by pointing out the importance of social networking and its limitations as well. Cultural entrepreneurs should focus on building social networks, as part of their business strategy that can assist in overcoming some of the common issues faced by cultural start-ups. However, they should remain conscious that in times of increased competition, alternatives to these social networks will need to be explored.
Leading Creative People
Creative individuals value freedom, are highly specialized, self-motivated, and prefer to develop their own knowledge base rather than be taught. These characteristics can make leading creative people a challenge.
So far most research on leadership has been about objective knowledge, in other words, what is required to be a good leader. However, the how of leadership is more significant, when leading 'creative experts'.
The current study conducted 24 narrative interviews on creative artists, which helped build a social understanding of what it means to lead highly creative people. Results showed that leadership is socially different when dealing with a group of artists than when dealing with business professionals. However, important parallels were drawn which can be successfully adapted by all leaders. The following five themes emerged.
Success and Leadership
A creative person's success is highly dependent on his or her leader. While artists usually receive acclaim and feedback from the media and public, it is their leader's approval and feedback they really seek. Leaders who share in the failure and success of their teams provide impetus for continual improvement. While creative individuals seek autonomy in their working style, they need a leader who is available for guidance and genuine feedback.
Authenticity is of utmost value to artistic people; they must remain true to themselves during the good and bad phases. In order to guide them well, their leader must recognize the value an artistic person places on authenticity. Additionally, a leader's achievements and peculiarities are often the very elements with which creative people will identify. Hence, it is crucial that a leader remain honest and open.
The main foundations upon which creative workers build respect for their leaders is the leader's expertise, track record, and personality. Additionally Leaders are expected to create an environment of trust and mutual respect, honoring the diversity of a team by supporting the different working styles of varied personality types.
Autonomy and Freedom
Successful leaders of creative teams provide a solid support system, while allowing autonomy among the team members. Autonomy enriches a creative bent of mind, and strong support provides guidance, creating an environment conducive to nurturing creativity.
Dark Side of Leadership
In addition to the four positive themes, one negative aspect of leadership emerged that must be considered. Leaders who are concerned with self admiration and empowering themselves as a result of team work greatly dampen a creative environment. Therefore, it is important that leaders bear in mind that only by working with the team and for the team will they really achieve the greatest possible success.
While performing artists might be more creative than your average office worker, in a regular business context these themes can be applied by leaders to deal with those creative experts who usually form a small part of the team. The need of the hour is capturing different styles of leadership in order to bring out the best in the team. A 'One Size Fits All' style of leading is passé especially when leading creative people.
Implementing Creative Ideas at Work
Creativity is an interesting thing. It tends to strike people differently at different times. For me, I am most creative in the air; generally while enjoying my micro-pretzels from Delta.
But creativity is completely useless unless you can make your ideas a reality. In my job, I am lucky that I have a cool boss who lets me bring my weird, atypical ideas to life. (I'm also hoping I get props from my boss for calling her "cool" in print.)
Sadly, the implementation of creative ideas at work is not simple. Creativity challenges the status quo. Change can make people uncomfortable, even combative. People often resist creativity, because they aren't sure the results will be worth the risk.
In this study, researchers wanted to learn what factors lead to creative solutions. Specifically, they found that individuals with many creative ideas were more likely to have those ideas implemented when they also possessed a high motivation for successful completion, strong ties within the organization (for buy-in), and robust networking abilities. But when the researchers dug a little deeper, they found some factors predicted implementation more than others. Overall, the findings suggest that the link between creative ideas and their implementation is very complex, and must take into account individual, relationship, and situational factors.
Creativity does not equate to implementation; just as micro-pretzels do not equate to being in first class.
What do you think helps get creative ideas at work implemented?
Creativity and Firm Performance
The impact of creativity on firm performance depends on the riskiness of a firm's strategy, the firm's size, and the ability of the firm's employees to transform creative ideas into new products and services, according to a study by Yaping Gong, Jing Zhou, & Song Chang. When a company has a risky strategy, creativity leads to decreased firm performance. On the other hand, creativity leads to increased firm performance when the size of the company is small or when a company has a high capacity to transform creative ideas into novel products and services (a.k.a., absorptive capacity).
In their study, Gong, Zhou, & Chang collected data from 148 high-technology firms in China that had 100 or more employees and operated in sectors such as telecommunications and biotechnology. In regard to indicators of creativity, sample items included "[the core knowledge employees, such as engineers] generated novel, but operable work-related ideas." For firm performance, the firms' CEOs rated their companies along dimensions such as profit, sales growth, and market share. As rated by the CEOs, items such as "we search for big opportunities, and favor large, bold decisions despite the uncertainty of their outcomes" served as indicators of riskiness orientation. Number of employees served as the measure of firm size, and sample items such as "our [core knowledge employees, such as engineers] can easily implement new products and services" served as indicators of realized absorptive capacity.
Climate: A catalyst for innovation (IO Psychology)
Publication: The Journal of Creative Behavior (2011)
Article: Creative Climate: A Leadership Lever for Innovation
Authors: Scott G. Isaksen & Hans J. Akkermans
Reviewed By: Scott Charles Sitrin
Earlier this year, Marissa Mayer, the former Google employee and current Yahoo CEO, ordered employees who were working from home to now work in the office in an attempt to foster more innovation within the company. This raises the question: what fosters innovation? According to Mayer and likely based on her previous experience at Google, in-office attendance is key, and according to research by Isaksen and Akkermans, another relevant variable could be climate, which refers to the overall workplace environment.
Isaksen and Akkermans administered surveys to 140 respondents from 103 organizations and 31 industries, and these surveys had participants assess their work climate and the level of innovation of their companies. Innovation was measured by participants' responses to three questions graded on a four-point-Likert scale, and sample questions included "We are successful in implementing new ideas to obtain results in my work unit" and "In general, my organization has been successful at innovation." The Situational Outlook Questionnaire (SOQ) assessed climate, and it looks at the levels of involvement, autonomy, trust, idea-time, playfulness, conflict, idea-support, debate, and risk taking within a work environment. Results indicated that workplaces with good climates had higher levels of innovation.
Isaksen, S. G. & Akkermans, H. J. (2011). Creative Climate: A Leadership Lever for Innovation. The Journal of Creative Behavior, 45 (3), 161-187.
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Silly Sunday Survey: Who would replace Steve Jobs?
Douglas McIntyre over at Blogging Stocks posed an interesting question the other day, in light of the current issues surrounding Apple's option back-dating. If it were discovered that Steve Jobs played a key role in the option mishap and he was forced to resign as CEO, who would/should be his replacement?
Here are the candidates McIntyre suggests as possibilities:
Here are the candidates McIntyre suggests as possibilities:
- Phil Schiller -- He is the long-time head of global product marketing. He has been with the company since 1997 and has been critical in most product launches. (Update: Bob points out in the comments below that Phil started at Apple in 1987, then left for a few years during Spindler and Amelio's tenure, then returned in 1997)
- Tim Cook -- The company's COO. He had a long career at IBM. He also heads the Mac division.
- Tony Fadell -- One of the fathers of the iPod; he has an engineering background. He is a former executive at Philips Electronics.
- William Campbell -- One of Apple's leading directors. He has run a large public software company, Intuit.
- Jerome York -- Although he is over 70, York has experience operating troubled companies. He was CFO of IBM and a member of that company's board. He is also on the GM board. (Update: Alex alerts us in the comments that as of last week York is no longer on the GM Board)
- Jim Allchin -- Head of platforms and services at Microsoft. He intends to retire with the the launch of Vista. Allchin has an engineering background.
- Sue Decker -- The highly regarded CFO of Yahoo! She has a Wall St. background and now runs several key divisions at Yahoo!
- John Thompson -- The highly-regarded CEO of Symantec, has a background in running a large software company and is well liked on Wall Street.
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The sparring match between the Knockdown Center and the community over the arts and entertainment venue's liquor license application is over, for now, with the opposing residents and elected officials winning by way of knockout.
The State Liquor Authority denied the cabaret liquor license application from the Knockdown Center, the controversial former factory at 52-19 Flushing Ave. in Maspeth, on Tuesday afternoon, with the overwhelming community opposition to the venue cited as the main reason for denial.
"We have gotten strong community opposition from all corners," SLA chairman Dennis Rosen said. "As far as we know, they did not change their position."
Unlike the April 22 hearing, when oral arguments for and against the license were given and the vote was tabled, Knockdown Center manager Tyler Myers was present for the decision.
The venue's operators, represented by attorney Terence Flynn, promised at Tuesday's hearing to cut the building's capacity from 5,000 people to 3,100 and testified that only around a quarter of the events would be large, ticketed gatherings, but the pledge was not put in writing and the board was not swayed.
Continued community opposition from elected officials such as state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) and area civic groups proved to be too much for the SLA to ignore in making its decision.
Those representatives, including Addabbo and Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan (D-Sunnyside), who have rallied against the Knockdown Center for the last six months, applauded the SLA's decision.
"I would like to thank the State Liquor Authority for listening to the concerns my constituents and I had regarding the Knockdown Center," Addabbo said in a statement later Tuesday afternoon. "This is a vital step in preserving residents' quality of life and maintaining the needed level of neighborhood safety."
Nolan called the decision a "great victory for our community and for many groups including Community Board 5, the 104th Precinct and the many Maspeth residents who expressed serious concerns about this establishment."
Community Board 5 Chairman Vincent Arcuri stopped short of calling the decision a victory, but he did thank the SLA for considering the community opposition.
"I think the SLA was very responsive to the community's concerns," Arcuri said. "I think the next step is that we should work with the Economic Development Corporation to help the property owner continue the facility as an industrial site."
In addition to area opposition, Rosen also expressed uneasiness about the lack of late-night public transportation in the area around the Knockdown Center. The handful of buses that operate in the area don't run often after midnight and it is a nearly one-mile walk to the closest subway station.
According to a spokesman for Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Middle Village), she still supports the arts venue, but declined to comment on the SLA's decision.
"She continues to support the Knockdown Center as a cultural institution," the statement read. "She believes that it is the responsibility of the SLA to decide whether or not to issue a liquor license, and defers to their judgment."
A request for comment from Myers was not answered by press time.


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ACEEE: Utilities Save with Combined Natural Gas, Electric Energy Efficiency Programs
Utility sector energy-efficiency programs have been growing rapidly over the last decade. According to the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEE), gas and electric budgets have more than tripled since 2006. The most typical approach to utility energy-efficiency program delivery has been for electric and natural gas utilities to operate their own separate programs. Unfortunately, this approach misses opportunities for cross-fuel coordination that can save energy and money.
A new ACEEE report, Successful Practices in Combined Gas and Electric Utility Energy Efficiency Programs, examines the challenges utilities face and includes profiles of some of the leading combined programs and their performance results.
Challenges surrounding combined programs include such things as the cross-fuel competition that may arise. Tensions and competition may also grow between the electric and gas divisions of dual-fuel utilities. The administrative effort required for coordination among gas and electric utilities or divisions within the same organization is another concern, as is the reluctance to lose some of the marketing benefits utilities enjoy from being the sole sponsor of an energy efficiency program.
While there is no single arrangement for combined programs, ACEEE said there are many models to learn from, representing a variety of organizational structures:
- Combination utilities (providing both natural gas and electricity).
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Fundamentals of Database Management Systems. 2nd Edition
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The market for columnar databases was once a narrow niche that played a distant second to traditional row-based relational databases, as espoused by Oracle, IBM, Sybase, Microsoft, and others. However, organizations seeking to speed up data query and access are now looking more closely at this technology to meet the increased pressures put on business analytics - namely, performance and speed to insight. The exponential growth of data warehouses - from gigabytes to terabytes and even petabytes - is starting to take its toll on query performance. That is hindering companies from deeper analysis of their business data for fear of "runaway queries from hell" that take all night to process. To address this problem, columnar databases optimized for data analytics are now in development, and organizations are starting to implement them as an alternative or adjunct to data warehouses traditionally built around relational data structure constraints.
This report aims to introduce the basic concepts and benefits of columnar databases in a straightforward manner. Its value proposition should be balanced against limitations of the technology, and organizations should guard against swallowing vendor rhetoric. Hence, this report also presents a multidimensional evaluation model that highlights the key functional considerations that organizations should look out for when choosing a columnar database for analytics. It is important to remember that while columnar databases are applicable to several data problems, there are situations to which they are not suited. The report ends by providing practical advice for both IT end-user organizations thinking of buying and implementing a columnar database, and IT vendors developing and selling these systems.
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Optimized for business questions
The business benefits
Faster performance
Storage efficiency
Lowered DBA costs
Increased analytic productivity
A once-sleepy market is getting noisy
A practical evaluation model
Analytic performance
Data and end-user scalability
Data load times
Range of analytic functions
Data schema flexibility
Data access techniques
Data type support
Database administration overhead
System availability
The counter-argument
Other analytic options to consider
In-memory databases
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OLAP accelerators
Database clustering
Data-matching systems
Adaptive indexing
Associative databases
Recommendations for enterprises
Consider performance trade-offs between queries and data loads
Target query-intensive applications
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Millions in Africa could really do with PV but cannot afford it. Now a company in the UK reckons it has found a way to help them buy it, one dollar at a time.
Could a bunch of people who cannot even afford electric lighting become an important market for the PV industry? Let Simon Bransfield-Garth, chief executive of off-grid solar developer Eight19, do the sums for you.
"Something like 22% of the world's population doesn't have access to electricity," he says.
"People sometimes think of this as a niche market, but if you just add up the current spend on mobile charging and kerosene for lighting you come up with $50 billion, which is two and a half times the global PV market. It's a substantial opportunity."
The only problem with it is that these people rarely have $50 or thereabouts in ready cash to spend on PV panels. But Eight19 is aiming to get around that problem with some nifty technology and a novel business model.
In September it launched IndiGo, billed as "a pay-as-you-go personal solar electricity system for the developing world." Essentially, IndiGo is a basic polycrystalline solar cell powering a battery endowed with an electronic 'lock' and which can be charged in three to four hours.
To get power from the system, the user has to unlock it with a one-time-only code on a scratch-card that is validated with a mobile phone text. Once unlocked, the system provides power for a week before another code is needed. Each weekly top-up costs roughly $1.
The system comes with a phone battery charger and a high-efficiency light emitting diode lamp for lighting, and carries an upfront cost of $10.
"What we've done is to create a technology where we sell solar as a service," says Bransfield-Garth, noting that the company made a conscious decision to sell power on a per-week rather than per-watt basis to emulate broadband internet's all-you-can-eat model.
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"The user simply makes a substitution from what they were spending on kerosene to what they spend on solar."
In Kenya, where the system is being piloted with a few tens of users, families typically spend around $10 a week on kerosene for lighting, not to mention the travel costs involved in getting to places where they can recharge mobile handsets for services such as mobile banking.
On that basis, a $1 fee for a week's solar power starts to look like a pretty good deal. What is more, after two years Bransfield-Garth plans to swap out the systems and replace them with newer, more powerful technology.
"These customers typically don't have electricity, but they do have aspirations," he says. In time, he hopes they will rely on off-grid solar to power a growing range of home devices and appliances, taking the heat off Africa's already stretched grid resources.
As demand for energy grows across Africa, he says: "It is all they can do to service existing customers. But there's an argument that they don't even have to try."
Brett Prior, GTM Research senior analyst, says: "I get that in large parts of the world even small upfront costs for PV could be prohibitive. It's one of the things people get excited about with solar. There are huge chunks of the world that have no money, but a need for energy.
"They pay the equivalent of around $4 a kilowatt-hour to get their phones charged. If you can sell them the charger for $10 then there's a model there."
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However, he worries that canny customers might just hack into the system and get power for free. Bransfield-Garth counters that IndiGo has a couple of cryptographic links that will disable it if anyone tampers with it, and that the scrap value of the unit is less that then $10 upfront cost.
Plus, he says: "The customer gets an economic benefit from keeping it working. If they break it they'd have to go back to using kerosene."
Another concern is that, even with the plummeting cost of solar panels, it may be difficult to build a sustainable business model around the pay-as-you-go concept.
Eight19 reckons it can make a decent return on the technology over the expected two-year lifespan of each system, though. The company is planning to open manufacturing centres first in Kenya and then in Malawi and Zambia.
"We're optimistic it is going to grow pretty fast," says Bransfield-Garth, adding that he expects to reach tens of thousands of customers in the first year of operation.
So far, it has had the thumbs up from non-government organisations in Africa. Steve Andrews, chief executive of Solar Aid, which is involved in the Kenya trials, called it "a major breakthrough" in a press statement.
And users appreciate it, too, Bransfield-Garth says. "We thought people would just throw the lights over the rafters but we've been amazed at how much care people take to rig it up properly," he relates. If his plans work out, many more in Africa could soon see the light in solar.
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Suzette and Sebe, Clouds Estate, Stellenbosch, South Africa
{wedding} "We hope you're ready for the wedding of the century" said Hannes Loubser (an amazing wedding designer/coordinator & more), who put all his heart into this wedding. And yes indeed, Suz' and Sebe's wedding was something different. A super chilled day around the pool at Clouds Estate in Stellenbosch, the perfect setting for this intimate affair with only the closest family and friends from all around the world. The celebration started with drinks and canapés around the pool, Suzette wore a short wedding dress, a guy drew caricatures of the guests… later on the sunset ceremony (Suz wore a different wedding dress) was followed by a 6 course dinner in the tropical decorated reception room. Suzette and Sebe, we loved sharing your love story for the day! Hannes, so awesome working with you! Love, dna – Desmond & Antonia
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Hannes LoubserApril 2, 2014
OMG… All I can say is, it's amazing. Expectations totally exceeded!
Suzette FerreiraApril 2, 2014
I can't stop looking! You've captured it all so perfectly- down to the smallest detail! Thank you so much Antonia and Desmond!! It's truly beautiful!!
Hayley McGuinessApril 2, 2014
Looks absolutely spectacular!! Fantastic job done by all. You both look so lovely. Sad to have missed what looks like the perfect day xxx
Suzette + Sebe – Antonia Heil | photographer + journalist | Cape Town, South Africa // Berlin, GermanyApril 3, 2014
[…] I am shooting, editing, shooting, editing… many exciting things I can't share… will all come at the end of the year/early next year. There are some secret projects in the making. Much fun. We shot this wonderful wedding a few days ago. Find loads of pictures on dnaphotographers.com. […]
SusanApril 4, 2014
In trane, dit is net so mooi!
Julia MukuddemApril 10, 2014
oh so beautiful and relaxing !!
AmandaApril 20, 2014
Suzette, you were an absolutely stunning bride. Congratulations to the both of you. May you live long and happily.
Suzette and Sebe's wedding featured in the MarryMAG | Desmond Louw / Antonia Heil / dna photographers / wedding portrait editorial automotive / Cape Town South Africa/ Berlin GermanyJune 3, 2014
[…] It's only a few weeks ago that we shot Suzette and Sebe's wedding surrounded by the mountains in Stellenbosch – and this amazing wedding (organised by […]
Antonia HeilSeptember 12, 2014
This wedding was featured in the MarryMag http://dnaphotographers.com/suzette-and-sebes-wedding-featured-in-the-marrymag/ and the SARIE BRUID http://dnaphotographers.com/suzette-and-sebes-wedding-featured-in-the-sarie-bruid/ – We're chuffed that this gorgeous wedding can be seen by so many people across the world. Thanks to all who made this wedding one we won't forget!
Suzette and Sebe's wedding featured in the SARIE BRUID | Desmond Louw / Antonia Heil / dna photographers / wedding portrait editorial automotive / Cape Town South Africa/ Berlin GermanySeptember 18, 2014
[…] {featured} SARIE BRUID published Suzette and Sebe's wedding in their current issue – out for sale since yesterday. We're chuffed that this gorgeous wedding can be seen by so many across South Africa. Thanks to all who made this wedding one we won't forget. Many (!) more images of this celebration you can find over here. […]
Antonia HeilNovember 15, 2014
The bridal UK magazine 'you & your wedding' published Suzette and Sebe's wedding in their November/December issue. We can't believe how much exposure this beautiful wedding has gotten! We feel honoured. Thanks so much!! http://dnaphotographers.com/suzette-and-sebes-wedding-featured-in-the-you-your-wedding/


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Chuck Berry might have been accused of secretly videotaping 59 women while they used a restroom in one of his restaurants, but compared to the guy behind My Spy Vids, the rock 'n' roll legend might as well have just given them an unwanted seductive glance from the window of his yellow four-door Coupe de Ville convertible. My Spy Vids sees an unnamed young entrepreneur capturing his seemingly endless sexual conquests on hidden cameras placed discreetly around his apartment. With a bevy of young babes coming inside for a little roly-poly and it's all available exclusively here on his very own website, My Spy Vids.
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Music News from the Rock Station, 92-7 WQLZ by Bishop
Quick recovery
Ozzy feels much better, good enough to hit the stage in Los Angeles. Sunday's show in Reno was postponed to sometime in April because of doctor's orders. But that's not something that Twitter cannot help! A message on the Dark Princes' social networking mini-blog site said that Ozzy is feeling much better and ready to take to the stage. On a health note, Ozzy has a new book on the way out this year called "Ask Dr. Ozzy" and it's been reported that he would start up a health column, which has not seen the light of day yet but could be something that starts up around the release of his new book.
Stocks are up
Mega celebrities are always concerned about ratings. It's not just the viewer ratings of a TV show celebs and rock stars are worried about, but a total awareness among the people—fans and critics alike. In the case of Steven Tyler, surely he is concerned with the ratings of his new TV Show, American Idol, but he is also concerned with total awareness of himself and his band. It looks like Tyler and Aerosmith's stock is up. MyFoxBoston.com reports that their native sons are so popular that Aerosmith memorabilia on auction sites are a hot item right now. Some of the things selling are autographed posters and even a pair of sun glasses reportedly owned once by Tyler. Surely this has everything to do with the TV show, because it has been 10 years since Aerosmith has released an album. On that note, it's reported that Joe Perry has been AWOL from the recording process in LA because of an undisclosed commitment.
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February 8, 2008
Samford University has established a fund to provide financial assistance to sister institution Union University in Jackson, Tenn. Union was hit Feb. 5 by tornadoes that moved through Arkansas, Tennessee and the upper Midwest.
About 50 Union students were injured when two residence facilities were heavily damaged by the tornadoes. This was the second time in recent years for tornadoes to hit the Union campus.
In an email to students and employees, Samford President Andrew Westmoreland said the fund was being established "with the view that all gifts received will be forwarded to Union for general use in recovering from the tornado."
Gifts can be made online at www.samford.edu/giving or through Samford's Office of University Relations, 800 Lakeshore Dr., Birmingham, AL 35229.
Westmoreland said he had been in contact with Union administrators "to offer our prayers and whatever additional support we may be able to provide.
"Many of us within the Samford community have friends among the Union faculty, staff and student body," Westmoreland said. "There is little we can do at the moment, but opportunities may arise for us to send volunteers to help."
Union, like Samford, has historic Baptist ties and has about 3,000 students. The campus is located in the northern section of Jackson, a city of about 60,000 residents located between Memphis and Nashville.
At mid-day on Feb. 6, students were being allowed back on campus to retrieve personal belongings. Classes have been cancelled for at least two weeks.
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Is an "adowcett" like a small chinchilla or other type of furry critter. That's just the first thing that pops in my head.
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Please tell me your "secret" no drift spot at WB. I guess maybe if you only surf for 30 minutes there is not a significant drift or maybe if you are a member of "THE FORCE" the laws of ocean dynamics...
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I believe to be a member of "THE FORCE" you must meet these two requirements.
Sorry about the pic. I found the one that best represents the "FORCE"
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Valdosta, GA - Local and state officials from Georgia are learning how to properly preserve historic properties in the state.
The City of Valdosta hosted a one-day training workshop on the National Historic Preservation Act Thursday. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources says thousands of construction projects affect historic properties in Georgia each year. In the workshop, leaders learned how to ensure city and state projects don't affect historic places.
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