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November 2008 -- How can Visual Thinking Aid Innovation?
November 2008
How can Visual Thinking Aid Innovation?
Robert E. Horn, Stanford University
Join us as Robert Horn shares with us powerful examples of innovation visualizations -- from Leonardo da Vinci to contemporary innovative work. Together, we will explore how these examples illustrate the power of vision and visualization in a wide range of innovation fields.
Bob is a political scientist with a special interest in policy communication, social learning, and knowledge management, with specialties in biotechnology and national security affairs. He was CEO of Information Mapping, Inc. an international consulting firm which he founded after years of interdisciplinary research and practice. He has taught at Harvard, Columbia, and Sheffield universities. He is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Human Science and Technology Advanced Research Institute (H-STAR).
The subjects of Bob's innovation visualization projects over the years range from visual analytics for public policy (strategic science, national missile defense, genetically modified food), to NSF's "human cognome" initiative, to analyzing a variety of what he calls "social messes". His latest book, Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century, shows how the wide gulf between the verbal and visual worlds is at last being bridged by the tight integration of words and images into a "visual language".
Don't miss this visually insightful evening.
See you there!
How can Visual Thinking Aid Innovation?
Robert E. Horn, Stanford University
Join us as Robert Horn shares with us powerful examples of innovation visualizations -- from Leonardo da Vinci to contemporary innovative work. Together, we will explore how these examples illustrate the power of vision and visualization in a wide range of innovation fields.
Bob is a political scientist with a special interest in policy communication, social learning, and knowledge management, with specialties in biotechnology and national security affairs. He was CEO of Information Mapping, Inc. an international consulting firm which he founded after years of interdisciplinary research and practice. He has taught at Harvard, Columbia, and Sheffield universities. He is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Human Science and Technology Advanced Research Institute (H-STAR).
The subjects of Bob's innovation visualization projects over the years range from visual analytics for public policy (strategic science, national missile defense, genetically modified food), to NSF's "human cognome" initiative, to analyzing a variety of what he calls "social messes". His latest book, Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century, shows how the wide gulf between the verbal and visual worlds is at last being bridged by the tight integration of words and images into a "visual language".
Don't miss this visually insightful evening.
See you there!
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Permalink Reply by Sue Klein Lebeck on -
Reflective Innovators –
A special Thank You to Leonardo da Vinci, and his transporter Bob Horn, for making the long journey to our November SVII Innovation Society meeting earlier this month. Below, find some pictures from our gathering, courtesy of Bill Daul, along with the Key Lessons which serial inventor Leonardo shared with us. More media elements to come in the future….
Innovation Lessons from Leonardo da Vinci (via Robert Horn):
1. Have wild ideas
2. Have many ideas
3. Think big
4. Fail early and often
5. Observe nature
6. Represent visually and verbally
7. Everything can be (re-)designed
8. Empower innovation **
9. Make use of rapid prototypes **
10. Develop multiple expertises
11. Maintain focus
and
Watch for big discontinuities in your environment
** Bosses: note especially
While looking back for lessons relevant to today, check out also this article published in Forbes magazine last week.Entrepreneurs Who Rose From The Ashes:
Recessions can inspire great entrepreneurial achievement. Here are some examples from the last 200 years.By Melanie Lindner.
http://www.forbes.com/2008/11/10/recession-depression-entrepreneurs...
And then check out these additional pictures from our time together on November 5th….
Photos courtesy of Bill Daul
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