Blog 7

What i have learned about innovation through the past week would come most from the learder paper i did for class. The leader i chose was Michael Jordan. I think this paper made me think about innovation more because it made me look at all the small things Jordan did to be in my eyes innovative. I really believe that i started looking outside the box to see aspects of him that would be considered innovative. He took a simple shoe contract that many NBA players get and turned it into a multi million dollar name. Our group is finally on track with an idea and we are rolling with it. I think that it helped by going over where we were at in class compared to other groups that made me feel more comfortable with our position on the project. With my crazy work schedual with my manager quitting and picking up more hours i will need to work on getting more done outside of class. I am always thinking of ways to build on the project because i want to get a great grade it just doesnt help that i dont have computer access at all times to get it out to my group besides in work time.

Blog Number 5

The way that i think that blogging can be helpful is getting feedback of ideas that you have. By posting a blog for people to look at and comment on you are able to get many different opinions of your idea from people that you might never have gotten without one. Things that i have learned about innovation from class is that many ideas that I for one think are new and innovative are actually existing ideas that people are coming up with already. It opened my eyes to how people think about changing something to be more innovative and actually act on it. Sure i think of ideas that would make things easier but never pursue it. This came into affect when my group was working on the verge product. We would come up with ideas that we thought were awesome and new, then to find out that there was already a patent on it. This was frustrating yes, but shows that people are thinking of ways to make things easier on people. Our group finally decided on an idea and we are well on our way to finishing the product. I have no complaints about the effort our group is putting in and we all work very well together i think.