Blog Number 2

What i have learned this week in innovation class would be the different ways that groups and businesses can work together without ever being together to complete a project. In class the way that we are using the wiki pages and bloggs to complete our tasks not only makes it easier with people scheduales but also with the pace that you can complete your work. If we use this in school to do things and complete projects without ever seeing our groups face to face is a very innovative thing, and makes me think what else is out there that i don't know about. Things in the news that made me think about innovation this week when i saw it had to do with the group project that we are doing. The company that we got was G.E. The company has moved up in the annual innovative scale. The owner Bruce Nassbaum and the company are using the slogan "ego-imagination" as their new way forward. This slogan is about how they are making their products to be more "green" and help the environment by making their products more eco friendly. They are doing many different things to reach this with the materials that they use, and the way that they use electricity. The group work that my group is working on is coming along very well. We all got the tasks done in the 13 steps and got in touch with each other on the wiki page. I like that everyone in our group is on the same page with how we are going to get the information that we find out to the rest of the group. We also have good communication not only on the wiki page but now through email as well. I didn't know 3 of my 4 group members before this project, but now in the past week did a whole project almost without having to come up with a time that worked for everyone to meet and get it all done in that short amount of time. Our group is moving forward great and I'm glad that they are on my team.

Blog Number 1

The past two weeks in class has been very mind opening. I never realized how important technology has taken over almost every aspect of the workplace. Creating this account on Blogger.com was a great experience. I myself don't even have a facebook account. Since high school i really got completely away from the "social network" scene. The in class work that we did by setting up a blog to easier communicate with the group we were put in to work on our project opened my eyes to wanting to become more up to date with technology. The blog page is helping me become more creative by finding different ways to communicate with my group in other ways than face to face contact, email, and calling one another. It is a creative way to be doing all the group work with really never having to see each other. This is also creative in a helpful way because all the information that the group comes up with is all in one spot and you never have to worry about someone not showing up because their information just needs to be posted and the group doesn't fall behind. Innovation is happening at the place where i work for them at least. They have came up with a new way of bar coding the products so that they can be tracked at all the locations, even store to store. They have also just started updating their website, and asked me to actually help. They know that I'm going to school and the company is a small family owned business so don't have all the marketing people so they asked me to help. I like this blogging thing and might try to use something like it to get customer feedback other than just email. Our verge team i think is a great group. As of now we all get along and I just have a good vibe from everyone i will be working with. When we first started throwing out ideas no one said any ones idea was stupid, but we discussed why it might not work till we reached an item we all felt good about.