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I was delighted to see the seven books (all about innovation) suggested to me by Amazon when I landed there today.
OK they may have been flattering me and my colleagues from Sweden, but still…
I was delighted to see the seven books (all about innovation) suggested to me by Amazon when I landed there today.
OK they may have been flattering me and my colleagues from Sweden, but still…
Gloria Barczak, editor of the leading journal on innovation, JPIM has provided a list of the top downloaded articles from their website. You can download the list as a PDF here: Top 10 2015 JPIM Downloaded Articles (2).
These are the top 10 downloaded articles from the JPIM website in 2015:
|Article Title
|No. of Accesses
|Joel West, Marcel Bogers
|Leveraging External Sources of Innovation: A Review of Re- search on Open Innovation
31 (2014)
Marion K. Poetz, Martin Schreier
|The Value of Crowdsourcing: Can Users Really Compete with Professionals in Generating New Product Ideas
29 (2012)
|Constantinos Markides
|Disruptive Innovation: In Need of Better Theory
|23 (2006)
C. K. Prahalad
|Bottom of the Pyramid as a Source of Breakthrough Inno- vations
29 (2012)
Robert G. Cooper
|Perspective: The Stage-Gate® Idea-to-Launch Process— Update, What's New, and NexGen Systems
25 (2007)
Rosanna Garcia, Roger Calantone
|A Critical Look at Technologi- cal Innovation Typology and Innovativeness Terminology: A Literature Review
19 (2002)
|Nikolaus Franke, Frank Piller
|Value Creation by Toolkits for User Innovation and Design: The Case of the Watch Market
21 (2004)
Erwin Danneels
|Disruptive Technology Reconsidered: A Critique and Research Agenda
21 (2004)
|Michael Song, Ksenia Podoynitsyna, Hans Van Der Bij, Johannes I. M. Halman
Success Factors in New Ven- tures: A Meta-analysis
25 (2008)
|Nikolaus Franke, Eric Von Hippel, Martin Schreier
|Finding Commercially Attractive User Innovations: A Test of Lead-User Theory
23 (2006)
Articles over 10 years old are still in the top 10 recent downloads.
The topics are diverse: success factors, disruption, lead users, stage-gate process, crowd-sourcing, categories, and open innovation. I would say that four of the articles discussed user involvement in innovation.
The JPIM has multiple online resources, including:
According to government statistics 70-85% of the GDP of Western nations, and 63% of the world GDP is service.
Traditional goods firms are emphasizing service in their offerings. So it is positively weird that intro marketing texts put a single chapter on service marketing. It also seems odd to me that most research articles on product innovation focus on new product development for goods. And that most articles on service innovation attempt to apply processes from new product development of goods to services.
Goods makers are increasing offering there products as services. GE sells hours of thrust instead of aircraft engines; truck engines and even building roofs are offered as a function.
Ball Bearings can be a service. As the linked HBR article on SKF, the leading ball bearings provider, discusses once a good becomes smart, an offering is a system of data and controls.
One thing that the four authors of Service Innovation quickly agreed on while writing the book was the "service trifecta:"
Viewing all products as service, understanding that all marketing is service marketing, and focusing on service innovation should change the way an organization plans and executes.
As I noted in a post a few weeks ago, another blogger has suggested that servicization is bad for small business. Good or bad, it is a trend for organizations to deal with.
I will write more about the service trifecta in upcoming posts. What are your thoughts on servicization?
Note Service Innovation is available from Amazon or on the Business Expert Press site.
Last Friday my wife and I drove 2.5 hours to Charleston, WV, in order to purchase a 5-year pre-check pass from the TSA for $85 each. Most sites have a waiting time of a month for an appointment to buy the pre-check. There are three clear benefits from the pass:
The TSA collects $17 per year from each participant PLUS costs go down since not everyone goes through the same
torture process. A true Win-win for the TSA!
I was wondering if other notorious bad service providers have similar profit opportunities…
How much would you pay annually to:
Other suggestions for candidates or ways to profit from poor service???
Service Innovation was published in May by Business Expert Press
When does a firm benefit from customer co-creation?
The leading journal of product innovation, JPIM, has a cool YouTube channel to view short summaries of selected articles on innovation. I strongly recommend checking it every couple months for new posted videos. Even if, like me, you read the journal cover-to-cover every issue, it is interesting to see how the authors portray their research via video.
Readers of a blog originally titled "Service Co-creation" will undoubtedly be interested in this video – which asks when does a firm benefit from customer co-creation. The authors found that benefits from customer involvement vary based on whether the innovation is:
Watch the video to get the insights:
This full article is featured in the July issue of JPIM.
Again the video link is here.
In the middle of final editing for recently published Service Innovation we decided that we needed an illustration in Chapter 1, for our discussion of what service is. I sent a Facebook message to my talented daughter, Kiki Schirr, and asked her if she could send an illustration within 90 minutes. This is what she sent:
The illustration is on page 8 of the book, published last month.
Frame 3 catches the essence of service: the value created with the customer. The young woman, together with the airline were able to create a memorable visit with loved ones.
Frame one adds a more nuanced view. The flight was crowded and noisy, but that was not important to this consumer who was creating a visit at the end. So other customers who might focus more on the experience during the use of the service might not have been as satisfied as the young woman was.
A service provider should understand the value creation process of customers. An effective service innovation process will focus on enhancing both the customer value creation and the service experience.
A single illustration can say a lot!
A central theme in the new book Service Innovation is that "All Products are Service" and that all businesses accordingly should focus on the value-creation and experience of users.
Over 80% of the US economy is service by traditional measures, but increasingly goods are being sold on the basis of ad-on service such Onstar or extended warranties for cars. Servicization actually converts goods into service by providing the benefit of the good not selling the good: airlines pay for hours of thrust for their vehicles instead of buying jet engines; consumers join monthly mobile phone plans that include keeping phones current. All product ARE service.
A recent post by Elke Stangl, a physicist and small businessperson in Austria, notes the phenomena "Everything as a Service" and argues that servicization bodes ill for small businesspeople.
Certainly when a customer commits to a service for an extended period or entrust another firm to effectively own assets for them, the image of financial stability or size may matter. Even more fundamentally Ms. Stangl raises the issue of the "winner take all" effect popularized by Nassim Taleb in the Black Swan. Due effective communication, globalization, network effects, and scale, services on the Internet seem to quickly have one or a small group of big winners with all other providers instantly marginalized.
Group brainstorming is not a good way to generate innovation ideas.
In the Preface to Sprint, a book my entrepreneur daughter insisted I read, the author discusses his missteps using group brainstorming at Google.
He notes the group brainstorming sessions were "a lot of fun," participants enjoyed the process, but… they did not generate successful ideas. The best ideas were generated by individuals "sitting at their desks, or waiting at a coffee shop, or taking a shower."
Jake Knapp's Preface is a good summary of what I found in a study of 50 years of research on group brainstorming.
"Flawed Tools: The Efficacy of Group Research Methods to Generate Customer Ideas" which appeared in the Journal of Product Innovation Management reviewed five decades of experience and research on group brainstorming and some recent data. The study showed that compared to ideas generated by individuals, group methods produced:
But… participants did enjoy the process and felt productive….
[Which raises an issue of whether groups might have a role to encourage organizational buy-in for innovation…]
But once again:
If you want to review the evidence check out the JPIM article here.
Here are the remaining nine of my 16 favorite innovation books. As I related in the discussion of the first 7 books in my last post, these books are my personal favorite books on innovation and are listed in alphabetic order by author. There may be some subjectivity in this list: all are from my bookshelf and there are none from authors I personally dislike.
8. Ken Kahn PDMA Handbook of New Product Development III
I valued the first two editions of this handbook from the leading association for product innovation when I was involved in product development and again when I started my research. Nice short summaries of key topics from leading scholars and practitioners. The new edition, under the editorship of Ken Kahn – associate dean of the da Vinci Center for Innovation at VCU, is as good or even better than the first two! And Ken invited me to contribute a chapter!
9. Tom Kelley Creative Confidence
IDEO book two… Everyone can be creative if they are allowed to! How to facilitate and tap into that creativity. Read it and create!
10. Mauborgne & Kim Blue Ocean Strategy
I like this approach which is based on the marketing concept of mapping product attributes and finding gaps. The stories are compelling. However, I was disturbed by a conversation I had with Dr. Mauborgne at a conference: he told me that his team had been able to find a firm that had successfully executed a blue ocean strategy more than once!
I decided to create a list of my 10 favorite innovation books…but came up with 15. It was hard enough to narrow the list to nearly 10 – no way I was going to try to rank order them. So here are the first seven in alphabetical order by author. (No slight intended for Eric von Hippel and Gerry Tellis!)
I teach and research innovation and read a lot of books, but I do not claim to have performed a methodical or scholarly study… In fact my leg work for this post consisted of walking around my university and home offices, pulling books off the shelf, and asking myself: did I enjoy this? what do I remember? was it really good?
I am annoyed by the exposure that IDEO gets in the creativity and innovation space. I would like to have not included anyone from IDEO in this list. Yet somehow I ended up with TWO books on it. I use this book in my MBA innovation class – it is a solid introduction to the concepts of design thinking.
This is a list of books about innovation. I will likely do a separate list on creativity. Yet I think Burkus catches many of the traps that would-be innovators fall into. Good read for students and innovators. Plus I like his blog.
This book has had a huge influence on innovation research and practice. Companies such as P&G have been influenced by it. I agree with Eric von Hippel's criticism that users and customers are the most important collaborators, yet get little attention from Chesbrough. However few books have had so much influence on the practice of innovation.
A colleague and I agreed to chair the committee to run an innovation competition open to all students in our university. We want to encourage and celebrate the innovation among our students!
So how does one design a lean/agile/design-thinking innovation competition???? Our current proposed approach is to have students submit:
What do YOU think???? Does it sound good? Is the canvas overkill for an 8-week student contest? What would you change?
[ The current full proposed summary outline of the contest is posted here. ]
For the past several years innovators I admire have been posting tweets and FB posts urging VCs, angels and academics NOT to participate in student business plan competitions. One of the earliest I were three blog posts by Steve Blank:
The consistent arguments against the traditional business plan competition include:
Brief confession here – I helped with a couple startup business plans. I learned the following technique:
Not something I want to teach my students!
Again here is a more complete description: Innovation Contest Draft
I appreciate your thoughts and ideas!!!!
In a post on my other blog this week I made the argument that the acquisition of WhatsApp… and the earlier purchase of Instagram by Facebook is an acknowledgement that the FB is really the champion of Web 2.0. And there is a new platform taking over.
Mobile is overtaking Web 2.0 and Facebook and Zuckerberg are choosing likely winners in mobile. This is a compliment to founder Mark Zuckerberg — CEOs are usually unaware as disruptive new products consume market leaders.
For more see the other post:
If you have a few moments you may want to review twelve new blogs created by students for a social media class! Some interesting tastes and ideas!
This might be slightly off topic, but take a look at the twelve new blogs created in my SMM class!
Do you have thoughts about a theory of Innovation?
Over the past 50 years, researchers have learned a lot about innovation, including:
But what would be the central theory or theories of innovation?
I see three key pieces of innovation:
The last two pieces match famous Steve Jobs observations:
Why am I asking for your help today?
Suppose that you volunteered to talk for 10 minutes to a conference about my thoughts on a theory of innovation… And suppose you realized that the audience would include:
Wouldn't YOU be asking everyone for their thoughts?? So…
Do you have thoughts about a theory of Innovation?
BTW: A post related to the ongoing discussion of the Tsunami in higher education was posted on my other blog:
Jeffrey Phillips wrote a good post last week about his insights into HigherEd problems from his college tours with his daughters: HigherEd Insight from college tours
Insights from his trips and discussions of college include the high costs from inefficient use of capital such as classrooms to meet capacity from 11 am till 3 pm eight months a year and spending on plush dorms, workout facilities and student unions. He also discussed whether the use of online course shouldn't permit students to put together a combination of the best online courses with traditional courses – eventually forcing universities to allow packages similar to iPod music mixes.
I have been planning to post a series of articles on the "Tsunami in HigherEd". I have written before about the problems with innovation in the business models of Universities, for example a post: HigherEd: Who is the Customer?
In my upcoming posts I plan to look at four big issues facing universities: (1) continuing ballooning costs, (2) a possible bubble due to loans, government policy, and high expected returns, (3) disruptive technology (online MOOCs), and (4) internal resistance to change.
One of the great things about working in academy is the change to talk with experts. I had the opportunity yesterday with a small group to have lunch with Richard K Vedder, who has been writing about HigherEd cost pressures and other risks for years in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Wall Street Journal and other outlets. I had read his book, Going Broke by Degree,some years ago.
I asked Dr. Vedder about the four forces I thought threatened HigherEd. He was in strong agreement and even added a fifth, (5) unfavorable demographics ahead as potential users decline and seniors argue for reallocation of government money to keep Medicare solvent. He agreed that another cost pressure was the growth of administrative overhead at universities (increase in "Ass Deans") which had been discussed in another book, The Fall of Faculty (Meddle Management) .
Dr. Vedder questioned the usefulness of accreditors as well as administrators. Overall I found him to be more complacent about the future of higher education than I would have expected.
Outsourcing Football
A cool insight that I would have liked to hear more about was how my university benefited from being near a major football power without having to pay the incredible costs of such a program. (Our students go to the games, but the ludicrous coaching salaries, funds siphoned from academic programs, and legal problems from athletes – such a when a "student-athlete" decides to steal drugs at gunpoint – are borne by the school across the river.)
Dr. Vedder says he is looking into pairs of schools in similar situations…
My article about group methods for ideation, including focus groups and brainstorming was published in the May issue of the Journal of Product Innovation and Management. Regular readers of this (irregular) blog will know the key findings about the use of groups to generate innovative ideas. Individual interviews with users as suggested by Abbie Griffin in "Voice of the Customer" will outperform group methods (even adjusted for time). Compared to the group brainstorming, individual ideation will generate:
The full paper is here: Using focus groups and brainstorming for user ideas.
Osborn introduced Brainstorming in a book in 1957, claiming that he had empirical evidence that a group brainstorming by his four key rules—(1) criticism not welcome; (2) freewheeling welcome; (3) quantity of ideas welcome; and (4) combining/improving ideas welcome—could produce twice as many ideas as individuals brainstorming alone and also produce better ideas.
However within a year, Taylor et al. (1958) conducted experiments, finding that the combined results of individual brainstorming outperformed groups in terms of the number, quality, and uniqueness of the ideas generated. As noted, subsequent research has strongly supported the inferiority of group methods.
Why then are brainstorming and focus groups still so widely used for product innovation ideas? (That question is the second half of the paper…)
Any thoughts??
Investors lost money in three recent frauds: Madoff, MF Global, and Peregrine. Are there lessons for a careful investor from these debacles. Three quick lessons come to mind.
Don't trust the SEC – they are clueless. Barron's had run an article calling Madoff a Ponzi scheme, an analyst had contacted the Boston and NY offices of the SEC repeatedly, and yet the fraud went on. Do your own homework.
Don't trust the CFTC or NFA – they may be even more clueless. How hard is it to check segregated funds? Do your own investigating.
Check the auditors. Both Madoff and Peregrine were audited by obscure, one-person, accounting firms. Seems sorta strange for major concerns, right? It may not concern the regulators, but it should concern you.
There are many other lessons as well, but these are three to start with!
I have started a second WordPress blog, http://smm4biz.com/2012/02/16/class-infomercial/ .
With teaching the new course in SMM I feel that I will have more ideas to share about SMM. I continue to believe that there is a great synergy between experiential innovation and social media, so there should be some overlap between the two blogs. PLEASE CHECK THE NEW BLOG OUT!
I posted a video that I showed my class to try to get them excited about being buried under 3 major projects… http://wp.me/p1reuk-9
Consider subscribing to the new blog as well! – Gary
I believe that the two biggest threats to the wide open Web and social media as we know it are the potential dominance of:
Facebook is an evolving closed system that threatens to overtake the WWW as the world wide information space. Further evidence of this trend was the launching of the WSJ facebook site this week: WSJ Social, For a World Where Facebook Is the New Internet – Forbes http://onforb.es/rniic2 (thanks @laurelschirr)
The Klout threat is even more insidious as it can change the behavior of social media participants. As people seek higher Klout scores for K-rewards, status or even job screening tricks reminiscent of commercial website SEO will come to twitter, FB, etc. For example someone would likely increase a Klout score by:
Does that sound like a social world? See this article, also from Forbes: How Do You Like Being Publicly Scored? http://onforb.es/phDoeX
Do you agree that these are THE two big threats?
[A couple earlier articles of mine on Klout: Why Klout is dangerous http://wp.me/pdSfz-dQ; Will Klout Kill Community? http://shar.es/HM1Sm ]
When I first considered a new undergraduate social media marketing class I started with a few ideas and a half page outline. The outline in the previous post is the one I am now using in the course. It has benefited immensely from input from twitter, LinkedIn and blog friends.
Would I call the course "crowdsourced"?
Most of the help came from experts who consult to companies on social media marketing, have led seminars on SMM, have written books, or taught pieces of SMM in their university classes. (Although good suggestions came from students and others as well.)
So should I instead call it "lead user" innovation?
I think the process is best called "Community-sourcing." I believe that this is a case study in why you should develop a focused twitter and blog following and community: the benefit from such a community is obvious at times like this but is also present day-to-day.
The incredible help I have received on my SMM course reminded me of an aha! moment after I moved to Hong Kong. When I was in Chicago I was good at generating trading ideas; after being in Hong Kong for a couple months it was getting harder. I at first blamed the long hours. Then I realized my infrastructure had changed: in Chicago I rode the morning train with an economist focused on fixed income and currency markets; when I got to the office I talked with the floor people before they headed to the bond pits and had pre-market calls with major institutional traders. The decline in ideas was not due to lost sleep, but my lost community…
Why do people help?
Why did I receive such an outpouring of help and support from the online community? This is always an issue in crowdsourcing and lead-users as well -WHY DO PEOPLE HELP???
(The current full outline is in the following post)
A good NY Times article http://nyti.ms/zIp8l9 provides further support to my research on group ideation and groupthink. There is a benefit to solitude: http://dld.bz/aGMaU
When it comes to ideas, especially CREATIVE ideas: Groups Kill!
See my previous post: http://wp.me/pdSfz-dC
This course will debut at Radford U in January. In the planning and proposal stage the course has benefited from crowdsourced ideas from my online friends and colleagues. So I have come back for more! What follows is an outline of the topics, planned workshops and group-led discussions. I appreciate any thoughts on additional topics (for example we need four more group-led topics).
Course Topics
Organizational Application of social media
Student reports
Please post suggestions here or at the FB fan page: www.facebook.com/SMM4RU
Happy 2012 to all!
An earlier post that generated "crowdsourcing" help for the course design is here: http://wp.me/pdSfz-aF
Most people have heard something of the incredible story of the PARC division of Xerox and the Apple MacIntosh computer but it is a wonderful story to illustrate the difference between innovation and invention.
Xerox invented the Mac
That seems a strong statement. But read the excellent account that I have ripped from the WSJ:
"At Xerox in the 1970s, a group of brilliant researchers invented the personal computer—they called it the Alto—complete with onscreen windows, menus, icons, graphics and the mouse, all more-or-less as we know them today. Alan Kay was foremost among these genius innovators. Mr. Kay built, in turn, on the 1960s inventions of Douglas Engelbart. Mr. Engelbart was first to develop the mouse, the onscreen window, and the whole idea of computers that did more important things than compute. He wanted computers to solve everyday problems, do word-processing and make pictures and graphs instead of (only) performing complex numerical calculations, controlling intricate machinery, and keeping inventories and payrolls up-to-date.
Corporate Xerox was unimpressed with the Alto. It was expensive, and who needed a personal computer anyway? "Personal computer" sounded like "personal aircraft carrier." The market had to be smallish. Xerox accordingly made a deal with Apple whereby a group from Apple was ushered into the top-secret research boudoir in Palo Alto and allowed to look and ask questions. Jobs led the Apple group, and he understood right away that the Xerox researchers had done something tremendous. They had made an easy-to-use computer that spoke pictures instead of numbers. Jobs saw that a cheap version of this elegant computer might be gigantically popular and hugely important. And he ran the project that rolled out the Apple Macintosh in 1984." (see full WSJ article by David Gelernter at GelernterArticle )
Xerox saw no potential in the device so they let the Apple Engineers come in and see their wonderful invention!
"Real artists ship" or Real innovators go to market!
Steve Jobs and Apple did not invent the GUI, or the Icon, or the mouse, or really any of the features that made the Mac revolutionary – the guys at PARC did – but Jobs and Apple brought the Mac to market. As Steve jobs said in the Atlantic link below: "Real Artists Ship". Xerox invented; Apple innovated.
Coolest Show on earth (WSJ) GelernterArticle
Praise for Bad Steve – The Atlantic http://bit.ly/pDJ6Tw
For my dissertation I conducted multiple interviews with managers involved in innovation in 40 service organizations. Two types of organizations stood out as different from all the others in terms of innovation: hospitals and universities. I concluded that universities and hospitals had three key traits in common that hindered innovation:
Despite the incredible growth as Higher Ed moved from an elite luxury to a middle class requirement, the dominant business model and primary delivery process hasn't changed much in 400 years. Ironically, organizations that serve as centers for scientific research and innovation have not innovated despite incredible growth and skyrocketing costs.
Customer- and user-driven innovation
Readers of this blog know that I believe that innovation starts with a deep understanding of user needs and ideally draws users and customer into co-creation and collaborative innovation.
Customer-centricism drives innovation in many industries, but in education it is not simple to define the customer. Are customers current students? Employers? Alumni? Parents and government (who pay)? Each of these groups may have different views on needs and what would improve the service.
Most colleges now have students evaluate their professors. Some universities (especially teaching-oriented schools) weigh the ratings in pay reviews and tenure or promotion decisions.
Are current students the customer? Students have a wide range of reasons to be in college including: parental pressure; credentials for a job after school; a relatively safe and enjoyable place to continue their high school experimentation with sex, drugs and liquor; and (hopefully) studying something that they are interested in.
Scholars have argued that attempts to focus on current student feedback have resulted in dumbed-down courses and less focus on cheating. See:
For how student evaluations and course selection dumb-down courses: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775703000256
For how student evaluations taught a professor not to enforce the honor code: http://t.co/tt9ppan via @rogerschank
Math is hard and writing papers are a drag. Through course selection and student evaluations rigor and demanding assignment decrease. As the saying goes "a college education is one of those very few goods for which the less the buyer gets, the more he likes it." Once again: Are current students the sole or even primary customer for Higher Ed?
Who do you think universities should consider the customer? Who can they use as innovation partners?
I am interested in innovation in services and goods. Much still has to be learned about the (Fuzzy) front end of innovation: Where do good ideas come from? How do you gather information from users? How do you evaluate alternative ideas?
Not group brainstorming or focus groups — they kill
One technique that has been rigorously researched for over 50 years is the use of group brainstorming and user focus groups to generate and evaluate ideas. The evidence of these studies is consistent and conclusive:
Group methods (compared to individual ideation):
Why then are focus groups and group brainstorming still employed to generate ideas from users? I used to believe that charlatans ignored the research and oversold their expert skills at running such groups. But I now realize that there is more to it than that: these group processes create an illusion of effectiveness to everyone involved.
Group Brainstorming and Focus Groups are FUN
Participants enjoy the process, believe that they individually are personally responsible for most of the ideas produced, believe that the group was creative and very effective, and leave the effort committed to the ideas generated. There actually is value to an organization of this positive illusion: it is often hard to sell innovation or new ideas to an organization – this enthusiasm can help innovations go forward.
How to combine the bad and the good?
Participants don't come up with the best ideas but they believe in the ones they do come up with… People already employ techniques to help overcome group idea-cide: for example it is common to have participants individually brainstorm and write down their ideas before starting a group ideation effort.
If I were leading a group brainstorming or focus group for innovative ideas I would start with individual brainstorming, collect all the individual ideas, and then have the brainstorming session. I would either ignore the group ideas or more likely collect them as if they were the ideas of another individual and then separately evaluate all the ideas.
[Of course this puts off the questions of how to evaluate the ideas for another day… research also indicates that groups do a bad job at evaluation…]
Earlier posts on idea-cide from group efforts:
I also have an upcoming article in the Journal of Product Innovation Management on this topic. I will post that article when the editor gives me permission. [See http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-5885.2012.00918.x/abstract ]
Interesting story in last week's WSJ:
Bank of New York Mellon Corp. has been fighting accusations that it took advantage of clients while trading currencies… BNY Mellon priced 58% of the currency trades within the 10% of each day's trading range that was least favorable to the fund, the analysis shows. As a result, the trades cost the pension fund, the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association, $4.5 million more than if the average trade occurred at the middle of the trading range for each day, the analysis showed.
A BNY Mellon spokesman confirmed the accuracy of the data and… said there was nothing improper about the practice. It said clients like the Los Angeles pension fund knew—or "should have known—that the bank doesn't act in their interests when pricing the trades."
How to Serve (Wall St) Clients
Less sophisticated clients of Wall Street firms such as BNY Mellon, Goldman or Morgan should know that there is a standard procedure for dealing with them, reminiscent of a famous Twilight Zone episode. Aliens invite humans to visit and have their hospitality pre-planned in a book that a scholar has tentatively translated as "How to Serve Man." [Spoiler] Warm feelings turn to horror when the scholar figures out that the book is actually a cookbook! Similarly Wall Street firms have standard rules of "How to serve Customers."
Best pricing is for large trades with sophisticated clients who check prices with multiple firms. Prices get further away from market prices as: (1) clients are less sophisticated, (2) clients are perceived as loyal customers who don't price check (or as stupid), (3) the client position is known, so traders can guess which side they will trade from, and (4) for smaller trades. Since the municipal clients are less sophisticated, loyal, clear their positions with the bank, and trade in odd lots, they get really bad prices. To quote Animal House – a classic movie about investment bankers in college – when a distraught character sees what happened to his brother's car, his partners, er-frat brothers say:
You F***ed up: You trusted us!
Next quarter when Goldman again reports that they made money trading every single day of the quarter bear in mind that much of it is not trading in the sense of taking real market risks but instead "Serving Customers" (well done, no juice left).
WSJ article: http://dld.bz/abhDn
I am sure you think carefully before you follow someone new on twitter. You look at the #FF list of someone you trust; or take a look at someone wise enough to RT one of your great tweets or blog posts. Yet occasionally you get a quick signal from a tweet or DM of the newly followed that you may have erred…
I have collected my top nine quick indications that I screwed up below.
Number one of course is the DM we all hate:
Hey, I just added you to my Mafia family. You should accept my invitation! Click here: http://t.co/thedon
What can I say? I would like to urge him to go back to Facebook and help tie up the world's internet during the afternoon playing Farmville, but a quick unfollow is best.
The remaining indicators are in reverse order, ala David Letterman:
9. Make some money tweeting, sign up to for Sponsored Tweets! http://bit.ly/spamu
Bet I'm going to really enjoy reading your tweets! Let's sing the SPAM song…
8. BBW lovers join me on my webcam. I can travel to help you relax on business trips. http://warmup.com
Even if the #FF list is from a trusted twitter friend you should still check out the profiles before following. You don't know everything about your twitter friend or what he does away from home…
7. Home Teeth Whitening – What is the Best Teeth Whitener?: http://bit.ly/whiteisright
Everyone on twitter should have gleaming teeth by now!
6. Get followers fast! Today's giveaway: 5,000 followers!
I bet that they are a fascinating group of tweeters! In The Tao of Twitter, Mark Schaefer discusses advising a friend to close a twitter account after he had "enhanced" it with one of these services.
In August the 25th annual Global Research Symposium on Marketing and Entrepreneurship will be held in Rio. There is a journal known as the Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship that has been around for a couple of decades. And there is an active and well-run Entrepreneurship SIG in the American Marketing Association. Yet these are exceptions: generally in academia when entrepreneurship does not have its own domain it is included in Management, not Marketing. Why?
Why management, not marketing?
I have known and studied a number of entrepreneurs. I have yet to hear one say: "I wish I had studied more about strategy." Or "I wish I had studied HR." Or "I wish I knew more about transactional leadership!" What I have heard is "I wish I knew more about selling" or "I wish I knew more about marketing." So why isn't e-ship often included in marketing?
Some of it may come from the leadership of management scholar Drucker (who also wisely noted that ALL that matters for firms is marketing and innovation). And some of it is likely due to some of my Brethren in Marketing who see themselves as applied psychologists and are somewhat hostile to crude capitalists such as salespersons and entrepreneurs. However, in a world of lean startups and effectuation, it is clear that understanding markets and clients are key skills of entrepreneurship.
So I would like to tip my hat to Marketers such as Gerry Hills, David Carson, and Glenn Omura who are studying entrepreneurship and trying to keep it in its proper domain!
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Since I had been involved in new service development as well as in several startups before becoming an academic I was skeptical of formal product development models such as stage gate. But still there an attraction to research and planning, so much of the recent research on product innovation is disquieting.
Just Do It!
Agile development, lean startups, probe-and-learn, and effectuation all describe a rapid-prototyping-like process of simply (1) putting a "minimal" product into the market, (2) observing results, (3) learning, and (4) doing another iteration. In other words: Just Do It!
Nuances include keeping the "bet" small, so that you can afford failure and future iterations. And having a vision and discipline so that the iterations are more like controlled experiments than random evolution.
Marketing's role is thus to be agile, to collect and understand data, and to adjust product vision. Forget the formal market research and business plans.
Brave new world for marketing and product innovation!
An aside: Origin of Nike Slogan
As an aside, do you know the origin of Nike's slogan Just Do it! ?
Hint: It was inspired by the phrase "Let's Do It." Not the Cole Porter song made immortal by Ella Fitzgerald; that would hardly fit the edgy image of Nike! (This is the company that was still running commercials using the imagery of dog fighting after their spokesperson Michael Vick had been arrested.)
Let's do it! were the final words of career criminal and serial killer Gary Gilmore before he was executed by firing squad in Utah.
Apple's great timing
Two recent articles have heralded Steven Jobs' excellent timing of innovation:
First mover advantage?
Is Steven Jobs the exception to the well-known "first mover advantage?" We all know how pioneers such as Apple Computer (in PCs), Gillette (in safety razors), Hewlett-Packard (laser printers), and Microsoft (PC operating systems) commanded long term market dominance by being first…
However in reality none of those firms in the previous list was first…or second…or third to market! Most entered the market 3-5 years or more after the first entrants. Bill Gates bought DOS on the cheap after he sold IBM on the product! As Tellis and Golder point out in their book Will and Vision, most of the companies we assume were first to market have simply benefitted from "survival bias" or "the-winners-write-history" syndrome.
If it weren't for the movie The Social Network within a decade or so we would all probably have come to believe that at least some key attribute of Facebook was introduced by Zuckerberg; and would have forgotten Geocities, Friendster, MySpace, and ConnectU (Winklevoss twins). [And of course even the W twins weren't the first to think of marrying MySpace features to elite college .edu addresses…]
Will and Vision
It turns out that Pioneers often do end up with arrows in their backs and latecomers win the categories. What factors decide winners? Tellis and Golder explore key factors. Two of the biggest are persistence and continual innovation in response to market feedback. Tellis and Golder provide further support of principles underlying:
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Book by Tellis and Golder: Will & Vision: How Latecomers Grow to Dominate Markets
On the first day of class I announce that there are to be no computers open during class discussion or lectures. (Of course they are permitted or encouraged during group work or for some online exercises, but that is an entirely different issue.) My pronouncement generally elicits horrified looks from 20-25% of the class and a student or two may choose to drop my course at that point.
Some of the strongest reaction has come from colleagues or profs from other schools. "If I didn't think I could compete with the internet, I would give up teaching" is a common refrain, often uttered by someone who has trouble communicating one-on-one. As if his fascinating talk on advanced auditing was more interesting than the beer pong pics just posted on FB! Never mind that current research on learning indicates that attention is the most important factor in learning and multitasking of any sort kills attention and learning. Multitasking
In the book, The Shallows, studies are cited showing that hyperlinks to citations in the text of a paper impair learning: imagine having Facebook and YouTube in your control bar while you are trying to take lecture notes! As Aaron Herrington, founder of Modea, said in a recent lecture: "online you are always 1-click or 3 seconds away from cute kittens or porn."
Even after a keynote speech on Brain research and learning that focused on attention and the risks of multitasking at a recent conference on pedagogy, I get the standard pushback from other faculty when I said that I banned open devices. "If I didn't think…"
However two young women who had recently graduated from the well-known research university across the river from my school were there. They both said that they wished their professors had banned computers from their large lecture classes because of the third-party effects: even though they kept their own computers shut the noise from the student next to them playing WOW and the embarrassment at the guys in front of them viewing porn affected their concentration.
So profs be honest. Open computers, students communicating on FB and viewing YouTube movies and free porn, may help keep your class happier and more docile – especially in large lecture classes, but it does not aid learning by them or their neighbors!
In an article last week, I showed that the careful-experiment, iterative, innovation process called "Build-Measure-Learn" by Eric Ries had earlier emerged in a dissertation research by Gary Lynn as "Probe-(study)-Learn" twenty years earlier. Dr. Lynn studied goods-producing firms. There are good reasons to be aware of the earlier studies
Lean or Not?
One interesting contrast between the "Probe and Learn" article and the writing of Eric Ries on Lean Startups is that the former actually go to great lengths to contrast their procedure to the Lean Process. Lynn et al. cite The Machine that Changed the World several times and note that their Probe and Learn procedure is for discontinuous innovation not for the mundane innovation described in that book (which is one of the original works on Lean). Ries also stresses that Lean Startups are doing discontinuous innovation…
Interesting issue! The authors of "Probe and Learn" viewed it partially as an antidote to Lean Thinking while a promoter of the process for startups views it as a Lean process…
I have thought about it and conversed with a friend at the Lean Institute and I think Lean Startups is OK and that "Probe and Learn" could have been called lean innovation: What do you think???
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I have written about Lean Startups, both the phenomena and the writings of Eric Ries and Steven G. Blank in a recent article and will continue to do so. I would suggest that anyone interested in innovation and entrepreneurship read Ries's blog and consider his upcoming book (links to both are at the end of this article.)
In his articles Eric Ries describes how web entrepreneurs launch "Lean Startups." He focuses on the need for a new style of management and metrics to conduct careful experiments on "minimum viable products." Bringing radical or discontinuous innovations to market can be described as:
This experimental, iterative process is ideal to bring discontinuous products to the market. Most examples Ries cites are web-based services or software but he asserts in several articles that the process can be applied elsewhere.
TWENTY years ago…
Gary Lynn published his dissertation in 1993. He had collected data from manufacturers of high-tech business and medical devices that had or were bringing a discontinuous new product to market. He found that the process was vastly different from incremental product innovations that depended on traditional marketing research. He and his co-authors found a process they called Probe and Learn defined as:
Do you feel you have seen the "probe and learn" process before? I certainly do!! (Of course both also strongly resemble Lean improvement, E.W. Deming's change model, and the scientific method…)
It seems fair that Gary Lynn and his co-authors get credit for the process that they discovered, but even more importantly for our purposes it is useful to note that he found the process by studying goods-producers. Therefore iterative "Build-Measure-Learn" using "minimum viable products", or iterative "Probe and Learn" using "immature products" are indeed generalizable far beyond the world of internet services and software.
In a future article I will look at the subtle differences between Probe and Learn and methods of Lean Startups and the contribution that Ries and Blank are making beyond the Probe and Learn model.
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In addition to the mountains and the mild 4-season climate, a great benefit of living in the New River Valley of Virginia is the NCTC – the technology council of the NRV and Roanoke. Due in part to Virginia Tech, Radford U., and the Carilion Clinic, the area has vibrant technology and startup communities. Last week Doug Juanarena of Rackspace and David Catalano of Modea , both mentors at DayOne Ventures, a local venture seed group, led a discussion of "Lean Start-ups."
Lean Start-ups
Due to cloud computing and services available from online vendors it is possible for online and web-based firms to keep costs low in their early stages. DayOne will seed a new venture with $16,ooo and help them find cheap space. Ideally the next stage of financing can also be moderate and be done by a seed or angel firm, perhaps using convertible notes. There are two major benefits of avoiding venture capital funding in their early development:
Not surprisingly both start-up speakers at the event, David Poteet of Nomad Mobile Guides and Frederick Cook of Heyo, described an effectuation process: a small initial investment, rushing a "just good enough" early product to market, and changing the product and business model in response to market lessons. (Both firms seem to be making great strides – check out their links at the end of this article).


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Welcome to the walkthrough for the iOS game 3D Break the Cookie, if you are looking for ways to make it to the next level, and to improve gaming experience as a master player, you've come to the right place. Here you will find 3D Break the Cookie tips, tricks and guides, as well as the opportunity to share your own discoveries to help others move on and beat the game.
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Turkmenistan's education ministry has revived a practice from the days of the late President Saparmurat Niyazov to make the current leader's written work a mandatory text in schools.
Passages and quotations from "The Fount of Wisdom" by Gurbanguly Berdymukhmedov are now to be included in the school curriculum, according to a report by the foreign-based Chronicles of Turkmenistan.
Niyazov's own two-volume Rukhnama, which was described in state media as a holy text, has been gradually phased out of the classroom. But "The Fount of Wisdom" is not a wholly dissimilar work. The book is a compendium of proverbs and sayings that, as state media puts in, "reflect the people's spiritual universe, world view, philosophy, moral principles and beliefs."
This is far from Berdymukhamedov's only contribution to school curriculum, as the Chronicles of Turkmenistan points out. Pupils in the seventh grade also have to study a novel by the president.
And the president has countless other works under his belt too.
There is his work extolling the virtues of tea, which was published earlier this year.
"Every Turkmen knows there is nothing tastier than tea brewed in water from a mountain stream and boiled on an open fire in a traditional teapot," reads one passage cited by AFP news agency.
Kazakhstan's Culture Minister caused a diplomatic row with Kyrgyzstan earlier this year after unwittingly insulting Kyrgyz citizens working in Russia.
Now, Arystanbek Mukhamediyuly is facing accusations of sexual harassment and corruption.
The charge was advanced by a former student of the Kazakhstan National Academy of Arts (KazNAI), Enlik Sydykova, in a YouTube video posted on October 9. The young woman said that in 2011 she had been hoping to sit an entrance exam for the college but did not make it in time. Mukhamediyuly, who was rector of the institute at the time, offered to assist in resolving the problem against a $3,000 bribe, Sydykova claimed. But when she said she did not have that kind of cash at her disposal, Mukhamediyuly proposed an alternative arrangement, Sydykova accused.
"Mukhamediyuly said to me: 'You can come over to my place, we can drink wine, dance, chat and have fun.' I was shocked. I did not expect to hear such things from such an upstanding figure," Sydykova said in her video account.
Despite refusing the then-rector's alleged advances, Sydykova made it into KazNAI all the same. At a later juncture, according to Sydykova, Mukhamediyuly entered a lecture hall in an inebriated stated and forced female students to sing before him. Sydykova said she was not the only student to face harassment from Mukhamediyuly.
When students in Uzbekistan returned to school and universities earlier this week, it was to classes devoted to the life and deeds of the late President Islam Karimov.
After reluctantly admitting to Karimov's demise on September 2, authorities are now laboring to create a virtual demigod aura around the late leader.
In scenes that repeated themselves up and down the country, days began with school assemblies and a ceremonial laying of flowers before portraits of Karimov. Pupils then filed into their respective classes.
Students were given explanations in class about the life and works of the late leader and shown a film titled "The Future is For Us."
The film, which was dedicated to Karimov, opens with a series of questions: "What is peace?"; "what is freedom?"; and "what is happiness?" Each question was answered with footage of Karimov speaking. The movie ended with the late leader saying: "I fear nobody. Our nation is on the true path. We are moving toward a great future."
Some classes were attended by district heads and city government officials, at the instruction of the presidential administration in Tashkent.
The classes were really interesting. Teachers cried when they talked about the death of President Islam Karimov. And the film … was moving too. It was a kind of instruction from the leader of the nation," Iroda, a teacher in the Ferghana Valley area, told EurasiaNet.org. Iroda's surname has been withheld.
A student quoted in Uzbek language newspaper 21 Asr ("21st Century"), Mohigul Abdusalomova, said she would use Karimov's words as an example in life.
With the referendum out of the way, Tajikistan is back to usual business: banning things.
On May 24, Education and Science Minister Nuriddin Said issued a decree abolishing the cherished tradition of the "final bell," wherein graduating secondary school students celebrate their last day of class.
Terms ends this year on June 7, but instead of the usual merriment, students will simply attend class and then presumably be expected to forlornly file home.
According to Said, failure to enforce this new order will result in punitive measures against education ministry officials and headmasters.
Unaccountable as it may seem for a country's whose educational system is so riddled with shortcomings, the final bell has become something of an obsession. Every year has brought new amendments and restrictions.
In 2007, the name of the final day was changed from "final bell," as it is known across most of the former Soviet space, to "bell of maturity" and the date pushed back from May 25 to June 6. That provision was intended to dampen the ardor of revelry and was accompanied by a ban on parties in restaurants, whip-rounds for graduating students, gift-giving and mass outdoor gatherings.
Typically, the day begins at 8 a.m. with a 45-minute assembly at students bring balloons, dance and sing. Diplomas, medals and awards are handed out.
The ban on grand last-day celebrations is based in part, it would seem, on concerns that some parties can on occasion get out of control. Some students mark the day by riding in cars, often recklessly and great speed, around their neighborhoods and on occasion cause fatal accidents.
College students in some of Uzbekistan's largest cities will start their holidays early this year.
Staff at colleges in Tashkent, Bukhara, Samarkand and Urgench were told this week that summer holidays will start from June 9 to make way for preparations ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization heads of state summit scheduled for June 23-24. Semesters normally finish on June 30.
In order to make up for the lost time, courses will be accelerated and graduate theses have to be handed in early. Exams are also being brought forward, which means there will be a lot of cramming to do.
"Students that have not already finished their thesis will have to be helped by the lecturers. By June 10, students from the regions will be required to vacate their institutes. This means we will have to work through the weekends," a lecturer at a pedagogical institute in Tashkent told EurasiaNet.org.
Students appear to be taking the news in their stride and some are even happy since this means they will get to go home earlier. Discount tariffs on train and plane tickets are being provided for students having to return home.
This situation will affect most of the country's 74 institutes of higher learning — 34 of which are in Tashkent.
The government is working flat out to prepare for the SCO summit.
An employee with a bank in Tashkent told EurasiaNet.org that since Uzbekistan is experiencing a period of liquid shortages, the bulk available ready cash has been going toward completion of roads and other infrastructure in preparation of the summit. Tashkent has been seized by a flurry of reparation works and tree- and flower-planting to prepare for the event.
Uzbekistan has for the first time in its history opened a college devoted exclusively to the study of Uzbek language and literature.
The Alisher Navoi University, which was created at the behest of President Islam Karimov, will be constituted of three faculties teaching Uzbek philolology, Uzbek literature and language, and Uzbek and English translation.
The UzA state news agency reported that the university would help to improve the quality of Uzbek language instruction and teaching materials.
Such efforts should be understood as a slowly evolving undertaking to inculcate a distinct national identity that has been evolving since Soviet times.
Uzbekistan adopted a law elevating Uzbek to the official state language back in 1989, when it was still constituent republic of the Soviet Union.
Independence only intensified the adoption of the Uzbek, a process that was accompanied by the gradual displacement of not just Russian but also the Cyrillic alphabet. In September 1993, a law was passed to formalize an Uzbek alphabet, which was based closely on the Latin script. That alphabet was fine-tuned in 1996 and remains in use to this day.
That was only the latest of many chapters in the convoluted history of the written language in Central Asia, however — one that has had the unfortunate of repeatedly rendering large sections of the population functionally illiterate. The written word in the region, before the Soviets codified what came to be identified as the Uzbek language, was transcribed in Arabic script. The Latin alphabet was brought in by the mid-1920s only to give way, under Russian influence, to Cyrillic in 1940.
Russia's soft power influence over Uzbekistan has increased in recent years with the soaring number of students looking to enter Russian universities.
Looking to capitalize on that, a group of universities have been holding educational fairs in three cities of Uzbekistan — Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara — over the past week. The final two-day fair will conclude in Bukhara on April 27.
Russia's ambassador to Uzbekistan, Vladimir Tyurdenev, said that more than 4,000 Uzbek students had entered institutes of higher education in Russia in the 2016 academic year, according to a report by Sputnik on April 22.
Opening the Tashkent fair, Viktor Shulika, the head of the local branch of Rossotrudnichestvo, a Russian state agency ostensibly intended as an analogue of USAID, said that interest among Uzbek youths wanting to study in Russia has been increasing fast.
There are currently 21,642 Uzbeks studying in Russian colleges. In 2015 alone, 24 colleges in Russia admitted 10,572 pupils from Uzbekistan. Almost 2,000 have received Russian state scholarships.
Russian colleges do admittance tests directly in Uzbekistan and the competition is intense.
Vladimir Vasilyev, rector of the St. Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics, told EurasiaNet.org that fees at his college cost 50,000 rubles ($700) per year, or 65,000 rubles for those doing their studies long-distance. But strong performers in admittance tests can qualify for financial support.
"Those that get scholarships can get stipends worth around 15-16,000 rubles per month," said Roman Savchenko, a representative for the St. Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics.
In a noteworthy backtrack, education authorities in Kazakhstan have ordered a revision of school textbooks to ensure that they do not show Crimea as a part of Russia.
Mektep, the publishing house that creates history and geography textbooks used in schools in Kazakhstan, sparked a diplomatic row in September when it appeared to endorse the annexation of the peninsula by Russia.
But the Education Ministry said in a painfully worded press release on September 30 that Mektep had erred in how it assembled its facts.
"It was noted that the authors did not apply the entire range of factuality in objectively composing the given material," the statement said, according to an Interfax report. "The publisher and authors did not fully reflect the position of Kazakhstan or that of the international community in its treatment of the Crimea issue."
It remains to be seen how the Mektep textbooks will now endeavor to characterize the status of Crimea.
When it issued its protest over the books on September 25, Ukraine's embassy to Kazakhstan was clear.
The suggestion that Crimea should be part of Russia "contradicts the position of the international community and the leadership of the Republic of Kazakhstan, which has more than once stated its support for Ukraine's territorial integrity," the embassy said in its statement.
Uzbekistan is taking increasingly drastic measures in the fight against college admission exam cheats by ordering cellphone companies to disable some of their services temporarily.
Local news website Gazeta.uz cited three major mobile providers — Beeline, Ucell and UMS — as saying that they temporarily suspended messaging services for five hours on August 1. The time coincided when school-leavers take their all-important tests that decide their long-term future.
The message-blocking practice is now carried out annually and is intended to thwart crafty students hoping to get assistance from accomplices outside the exam hall.
Rampant cheating has been a feature of exam-taking across the former Soviet Union for many decades. Educational authorities appear to be taking the matter more seriously, although some creative souls try to slip through.
Earlier this year, a student in Kazakhstan schemed to help his girlfriend ace her exams by dressing in her clothes and taking her place. The black wig, skirt, eye makeup and pink lipstick were not enough to fool the invigilators, however. Police were called in, leading to the young man facing charges of fraud.
Exam-takers in Uzbekistan are, like most places in the world, forbidden from bringing in their phone, but that has not deterred the ingenious in the past.
One website, Uz24, explains how some students have circumvented the ban by taking their mobile phones apart and distributing the components in various pockets for later assembly. Others simply hide their phones in toilets or tape them under conveniently located tables, if they know in advance where they are to be seated.
A new website aims to help Central Asian scholars enter the academic mainstream.
Launched in early April, the Central Asian Analytical Network, or CAAN, is the brainchild of the George Washington University's Central Asia Program. The website's goal is to make it easier for scholars in the region to publish and distribute their work. It will post commentaries and academic papers on a daily basis, as well as provide a digital library to facilitate research.
"Young scholars [in Central Asia] often complain that they have limited opportunities to publish their work, either due to higher academic standards set by western journals or censorship issues in their home countries," Aitolkyn Kourmanova, CAAN's chief editor, told EursasiaNet.org in an email interview.
"The idea is to connect local researchers, academics, policymakers, NGOs and media through one regional networking platform which provides equal opportunities for all to speak up on hot issues, initiate debates, or publish their work," added Kourmanova. [Editor's Note: GWU's Central Asia Program receives funding from the Open Society Foundations. EurasiaNet.org operates under OSF's auspices].
CAAN additionally plans to produce a regular digest in Russian of English-language academic resources that focus on Central Asia. It also hopes to conduct trainings to improve regional scholars' writing skills to increase their chances of getting published in outside journals.
"We seek to establish partnership with most think-tanks in the region to keep everyone informed about their work, projects, publications or events," Kourmanova said.
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Definition of equity
1a : justice according to natural law or right; specifically : freedom from bias or favoritismb : something that is equitable
2a : a system of law originating in the English chancery and comprising a settled and formal body of legal and procedural rules and doctrines that supplement, aid, or override common and statute law and are designed to protect rights and enforce duties fixed by substantive lawb : trial or remedial justice under or by the rules and doctrines of equityc : a body of legal doctrines and rules developed to enlarge, supplement, or override a narrow rigid system of law
3a : a right, claim, or interest existing or valid in equityb : the money value of a property or of an interest in a property in excess of claims or liens against itc : a risk interest or ownership right in propertyd : the common stock of a corporation
Examples of equity in a Sentence
In making these decisions we should be governed by the principle of equity.
We've been slowly paying off our mortgage and building up equity in our house.
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Lower-income retirees are less likely to own homes, and the wealthy rely less on home equity.
HONG KONG—Private-equity firm Blackstone Group LP has agreed to sell one of its largest assets in China to a unit of Chinese shipping-and-airline giant HNA Group for about $675 million in cash, according to people familiar with the situation.
But there are also compelling reasons related to equity and fairness for the A.C.C. to make the change.
There's plenty of precedent for that outcome—notably private equity firm Indigo Partners' purchase of Frontier Airlines.
Both corporate suitors and private equity firms have expressed interest in a potential deal, as varied as Verizon, TPG Capital or Bain Capital, according to people briefed on the matter.
Among labor economists, overly long maternity leaves are now recognized as creating a barrier to pay equity.
Now, being the child of a world famous musician — someone with the kind of brand equity to change the game at the snap of a finger — is a tough gig with a bad track record.
The same goes for stocks, but the gyrations in public perception can be even more dramatic, with prices of equities sometimes multiplying and dividing by several factors per day.
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Origin and Etymology of equity
Middle English equite, from Anglo-French equité, from Latin aequitat-, aequitas, from aequus equal, fair
First Known Use: 14th century
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EQUITY Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of equity for English Language Learners
: fairness or justice in the way people are treated
finance : the value of a piece of property (such as a house) after any debts that remain to be paid for it (such as the amount of a mortgage) have been subtracted
: a share in a company : a share of a company's stock
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Legal Definition of equity
1a : justice according to fairness especially as distinguished from mechanical application of rules prompted by considerations of equity comity between nations, and equity require it to be paid for — F. A. Magruder b : something that is equitable : an instance of equity the inequities produced by the system are outnumbered by the equities
2a : a system of law originating in the English chancery and comprising a settled and formal body of substantive and procedural rules and doctrines that supplement, aid, or override common and statutory law the judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution — U.S. Constitution art. III — see also chancery — compare common law, law Editor's note: The courts of equity arose in England from a need to provide relief for claims that did not conform to the writ system existing in the courts of law. Originally, the courts of equity exercised great discretion in fashioning remedies. Over time, they established precedents, rules, and doctrines of their own that were distinct from those used in the courts of law. Although for a time the courts of equity rivaled the law courts in power, the law courts maintained an advantage partly as a result of forcing the equity courts to hear only those cases for which there was no adequate remedy at law. The courts of law and equity were united in England in 1873. Courts of equity also developed in the United States, but in most states and in the federal system courts of law and courts of equity have been joined. The courts apply both legal and equitable principles and offer both legal and equitable relief, although generally equitable relief is still granted when there is no adequate remedy at law. b : the principles that developed in the courts of equity : justice in accordance with equity equity treats a devisee who procures a will by fraud as a constructive trustee — W. M. McGovern, Jr. et al.; also : justice in accordance with natural law c : a court of equity sat alone for some time in equity — O. W. Holmes, Jr.
3 : a body of doctrines and rules developed to enlarge, supplement, or override any narrow or rigid system of law
4a : a right, claim, or interest existing or valid in equity b : the money value of a property or of an interest in property in excess of any claims or liens (as mortgage indebtedness) against it c : a risk interest or ownership right in property; specifically : the ownership interests of shareholders in a company d : the common stock of a corporation — compare asset, debt
Origin and Etymology of equity
Latin aequitat- aequitas fairness, justice, from aequus equal, fair
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Aya: Breaking Point
My head is thick with sludge and my arms and fin are as stiff and as sore as can be. It feels like I've been lying in the same position for an age. My eyelids twitch, and I open my eyes experimentally.
A blur of a green, algae-like colour appears, along with something silver and shimmery. I force my eyes to focus and, right there in front of me, is Fern, in all his glory. My heart starts to pound as I look at him and he looks back at me.
"You're alright," he breathes, starting to smile that smile of his. My mouth moves, but nothing comes out. The only thought on my mind is the awe at the splendid creature in front of me.
We look deep into each other's eyes for a moment, and I try to gauge out his true feelings towards me; is he just worried or does he really care, in a way so deep that it would mean ... love?
Suddenly something breaks the silence.
"Hey guys! Everyone seems to have woken up now, that has to be a good sign!"
I turn to see Denver beaming at everyone from his protective spot next to Cindy. They seem to have grown really close over the past few days.
"Hello," I say, not sure how to reply to his casual greeting.
"Hello," Fern says. My gaze transfers back to him at the sound of his voice. He still looks so serene, so peaceful and tranquil. Even after everything that happened, he kept his composure, and I admire that.
I am vaguely aware of everyone around us saying hello, but I pay no attention to them. Instead, I study his perfect face, every little minute detail about him that makes him ... well, him.
His eyebrow rises upwards questioningly at me, and I force myself to look away and smile.
"Is there something on my face?" he asks lightly, a smile in his voice. I blush profusely and look back at him.
"No, no, no, not at all," I stutter, trying to keep my composure as smooth as his.
"Then we'd better get moving and follow the others," he says. I'm sure that Fern is just pretending not to notice my stuttering and blushing; he seems to notice everything. Then I look up and realise that everyone else has moved off to a large rock a fair bit away. Talk about noticing everything!
Before I can say anything, he starts to swim off towards the others, and I follow him. He turns his head back to check that I'm following and gives me a smile that makes my heart race. I manage to smile back and hope that it doesn't turn out like a weak, love-struck thing.
Fern and I slide into the group. We talk for a while, then Cindy brings up the real question that's niggling at everyone's minds.
"So, how do we all get out of here?"
I look around at the thick, presumably shark-proof glass that encases us and assume that she's referring to it. I bite my lip and start to go through all the ways that we could get out. We definitely couldn't ram the glass with a shark or some other type of animal, because firstly, we didn't have them, and it was probably proofed against them anyway. I don't know something could be so strong as to be shark-proof, but like I've learnt so far, humans can just about do anything.
"Well ... If we could just figure out how to break the glass..." Denver says, and I hear a collective sigh go around the group. Then, unprovoked, Owen gets up and swims over to the opposite side of the tank. Marina follows him, and I wonder if they've got something going on. Then I shake my head to clear the thought; they hated each other so much, of course they couldn't love each other. That was just ridiculous.
Marina says something indecipherable, and Owen immediately retorts back. My earlier thought was right; they could never be together. They seem to hate each other for some reason. I sigh. These land-mermaids sure have strange ways.
I watch Marina, and suddenly her face morphs into a shocked expression. I feel just as shocked as she looks, because Marina never looks shocked, at least, not in the time I've known her, anyway.
I look at Cindy to see how she'd react, but she's too busy staring at Denver to really notice anything. All of a sudden the glaring electric lights above us blink off. I hardly notice it because of my mermaid eyes, but I can tell that the darkness there, hanging over us like an invisible shroud.
I hear Fern shift beside me, and I know that he's sensed it too. After a moment, Cindy and Denver notice it. Then the ground starts to shake, making me move as if I'm shivering. Suddenly it stops. There is a strange cracking sound, and I realise that it is coming from the glass around us.
I look around, as does everyone else except for Marina and Owen, who keep on fighting, oblivious to everything going on around them.
"Hey, guys..." Denver says in a strangely quiet voice. He sounds really scared, something I'm not used to from Denver, always the cheery optimistic one. Owen and Marina stop fighting for a moment to look at Denver. There is a large line snaking through the glass next to us, making a huge crack which seems to be teetering on the brink of pushing the glass of the aquarium outwards. "The lights went out and this whole place was shaking like crazy Owen. I think it was you."
My heart starts to pound again, but this time, not a good pounding like the type I had before. The ground starts to move again, slightly at first, then more and more until it feels like the whole aquarium is moving from side to side. The snaking line making up the crack starts to draw itself, extending towards each side of the tank until it is touching both edges of it.
Both slabs of glass on either side of the crack start to move outwards, forming a point. They keel over at an impossible angle. Then, it happens. The glass bursts open, and all the warm water gushes out, pulling everyone towards the crack.
I get pushed along towards it, feeling a sense of freedom and relief at the fact that we finally escaped. We escaped! Then I gasp as I realise that the edges of the crack are sharp and jagged, ready to cut. I realise that too late as I feel something slice through the top of my hand and see red liquid flowing.


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Government of West Bengal has issued a recruitment notification for the recruitment of Block Accounts Manager through recruitment notification – Government of West Bengal Recruitment 2016 – No.38/DH&FWS/16, Siliguri,15.01.2016. Candidates who have completed 10th / 12th/ Any Graduate can apply for the new recruitment notification from Government of West Bengal.
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Vacancy Name : Block Accounts Manager
Educational Qualification : 10TH / 12TH/ Any Graduate
Total No of Vacancy : 06 post
Salary : Rs – 3,500 – 17,220 /- Pm
Job Location : Kolkata
Last Date to Apply for this job : 08/02/2016
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No.38/DH&FWS/16, Siliguri,15.01.2016
Block Accounts Manager Jobs opportunity in Govt. of West Bengal (Siliguri District)
Name of the Post – Block Accounts Manager / 1 Post
Place of Posting : Block Health & Family Welfare Samity , Matigara
Eligibility Criteria : Minimum Bachelor Degree in Commerce from any reputed University with basic knowledge of computer — especially in MS word, Excel, Power Point, preferably Accounting Package and reasonable typing speed.
Upper age limit : 35 years
Remuneration : Rs 16860
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Place of Posting : Phansidewa BPHC
Educational qualification : The candidate should have completed B.Sc nursing course/ GNM training Course from any recognised institution. Candidate should be able to read, write, and speak in Bengali or Nepali
Age : Not exceeding 40 years and not less than 21 years
Remuneration : Rs 17,220 /-
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Remuneration : Rs 4500/-
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Application must reach in prescribed proforma attached herewith to the office of the undersigned on or before 08.02.2016 through speed post/ registered post only to the Secretary, District Health & Family Welfare Samity, Siliguri & CMOH, Darjeeling, Siliguri Mahakuma Parishad Building, Haren Mukherjee Road, Siliguri —734001, District — Darjeeling along with self attested all testimonials in support of age, caste, qualification, experiences etc. The candidate should superscribe the name of the post applied for on the top of the envelop.
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Last Date to Apply for this job 08/02/2016
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ISSUE:System State backups of Windows 2008 clients fails.
2009-12-07 13:14:03 - Warning bpbrm(pid=5392) from client w2k8server01.skeppsbron.local: WRN - can't open file: System State:\System Files\System Files (WIN32 -536805667: Unknown error)
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Run a new backup of shadow copy with Trend micro disabled.
It should fail with the same error.
Connect to the client and run a local backup of system state.
wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backupTarget:f:
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Backup started at '2009-12-08 14:04:40' failed with following error code '2155348237' (Enumeration of the files failed.). Please rerun backup once issue is resolved.
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Chapter Three: Rachelle (III)
Opening up to the page where I'd stopped at, my eyes skimmed slowly over the contents of the neatly written handwriting, words sinking into my mind.
Diaries are really not my kind of thing. But the day I saw this in the stationery store, more than five years ago, this particular book seemed to call out to me. And I bought it on impulse. I'd actually never used it throughout the course of the next years. The beauty of the book felt like it should be maintained until a just cause would come around, one good enough for me to start writing in this.
And it did. That's how I find myself here right now, under the dim light of my desk-lamp, scribbling away on this page. Tomorrow's the last day of school. And I though today would be a good day to start on recollecting the memories of the past year.
At first, I thought my life was over when I moved to Illinois. Everything seemed to come crashing down on me all at the same time: family, a new life, another move. Having to adapt once more and create a new identity in this alien world not only scared me but left me feeling shaken to the very core. And I thought things would be horrible…
But everything seemed to change when I met this one girl in particular.
She was different. And so beautifully unique. I admired her for her strength. I aspired to be like her. And she's the reason why I'm writing in this book: the book I could never find a use for because of its utter perfection. And now I have.
Her name was Rachelle.