Thursday, February 4, 2010

Eureka moments, now smaller, incremental and widespread

Path breaking innovations are few and getting relegated to a once in a decade phenomenon. What we see all around us are small and incremental innovations. The benefits delivered or dollars saved from these small and incremental innovations are turning out to be worth taking a note of.

Water tanks provided a quick solution to personal water storage problem, but putting wheels on it provided a solution for century old water transport challenge in remote villages of Africa.

Today, a solution for your challenge or your need, might already be getting discussed, sought, worked on - in another part of the world, in just another corner of your enterprise, or sitting idle in somebody’s mind. You need to collaborate with these sparks, which most probably are eager to collaborate with you as well. What you need is - a mechanism to connect.

In the past, innovations came out of eureka moments, then came people with fancy titles who would innovate for you, now we are back to where we started – it has become increasingly acceptable for anybody to have a solution which solves a given challenge.

Today, enterprises are adding up these small solutions, ideas and innovations rather than waiting for one big bang.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Seeker looking for a device that allows a player, to set up dominos faster for a toppling game


Seeker is looking for device design, which should allow a player to set up the dominos faster than any other traditional method of setting them up possible today.

The device design should allow the user to create interesting patterns, including but not limited to circles, trees where one row becomes two and two becomes four, curves. Also allow predefined shapes, which could connect to each other to make a longer domino queue. Patterns and shapes could be created by using the device multiple times (in other words, the device does not need to release the pattern or design in one go)

Player should be able to repeat the whole process for any number of times, which means that once the dominos fall, it should be easy to set them again.

Solver need to submit the technical design for the device with details.
A video capture of a) technical design with explanation and b) the design at work; is must.

Read more about the problem here.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Little book of collaborative innovation by ideaken on display at Odyssey outlet



Thursday, January 21, 2010

Seeker is looking for a solution to save stranded Whales, Dolphins, and other big fish

Every year more than 2000 fish/mammals around the world get stranded and majority of them do not make it back to the sea. The occurrences of big fish/ mammal stranding and the causes are still a subject of scientific research and debate. Current known ways of rescuing, results only in saving a few, smaller and younger ones.

ideaken.com platform is hosting a challenge to identify  practical solution to save stranded Whales, Dolphins, and other big fish

The challenge is looking for a solution in following areas.

Point 1) Identification of the reasons that causes stranding and ways to fix those reasons.
OR
Point 2) a) Keeping the stranded big fish / mammals alive, far longer than possible today b) solution to move them back in the deep sea, and c) ways to avoid re-beaching
OR
Both Point 1) and Point 2) above.

Your solution will be reviewed by the experts in big fish/ mammal rescue field for applicability and suitability.

Read more about the problem here.

Monday, January 18, 2010

Putting the theory of collaborative innovation to practice - ideaken.com is live!

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We call it a beginning of  how power of social media shifting from instant gratification to creating a sustainable value.

ideaken team is excited and proud to announce the launch of a platform for collaborative innovation.

We believe our platform offers many firsts on how software as a service (SaaS) is getting rolled out to the world. We also believe that we offer the best possible platform to date which facilitates innovation via collaboration. And we are committed to keep it that way.

Check out collaborative innovation concept overview and how the platform works

Welcome onboard!