Innovate the Way You Were Designed To: Using Design Driven Development to Create Products That Connect With Humans

Innovate the Way You Were Designed To: Using Design Driven Development to Create Products That Connect with Humans

Business & Money

KraMer, Tom

Job Hunting & Careers

AuthorHouse

Innovate The Way You Were Designed To is an eye-opening look into the world of design and innovation from the perspective of first understanding how our human cognitive powers work when it comes to creative thought.Filled with anecdotes from 30 years of past experience, this book gives concrete examples of experiences from the design and development world. Learning about the author's path from art to medical device design puts a perspective around the basis for the book, and creates a strong connection between the intentional use of both sides of our brains and successful innovative outcomes in our design engineering innovation attempts.Utilizing our brain's inherent ability to create by understanding how it operates is the key thesis to the practical, step by step, process laid out in the book. The process is broken down into practical phases that act as a simple framework for any development project, with safeguards, best practices, and tested methodologies that will set the readers up for successful innovation projects of their own.The encouragement from this book is to get out there and use your inherent abilities to innovate and contribute to making this world a better place in your own unique way.

"As we waded across, her legs wrapped around my waist, her arms tight around my neck, I gushed at the smell of her hair, and her cheek against my neck. I was overcome by the moment and wished the river was a mile wide." "I actually felt a pain around my heart, and the realization there was nothing I could do. I was a prisoner locked away in the heat and humidity of the Missouri Ozarks because my Uncle Sam got himself in a jam." "Our pot dealer was a long haired, bearded, American hippy who worked as a custodian at the local Catholic Church. He kept his stash in the Church's basement... we called him Jesus." "The interesting thing about Dachsbau was that it provided a unique perspective of world events. It was fascinating to realize the stories you read in the paper, or heard on the radio, or saw on television, were in fact old news to you." "One x-critic resulted from the seizing of the American spy ship, USS Pueblo, by North Korea." Years later, I was privileged to meet a survivor and hear the gut wrenching account of his capture and his wounds being treated without anesthesia, including castration."

You Can't Draft Me, I Join

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Write the Future

This monograph argues that although the United Wa State Party (UWSP) has been branded by the international community as a narco-trafficking army, the organization has an ethnic nationalist agenda whose aim is to build a Wa state within Burma. The UWSP is not innocent of narcotics-related crimes, but few conflict parties in Burma can claim to have clean hands. The weak capacity of the UWSP leadership has prevented it from developing a clear vision of how to develop a Wa state. Although the UWSP has promoted Wa nationalism, the population under its control is not mono-ethnic. The UWSP has implemented a ban on opium cultivation to comply with international pressure. It has called for international aid to offset the impact of the ban, but so far not enough assistance has come through. The organization has relocated thousands of Wa villagers to the Thai border area, displacing part of the original Lahu, Akha, and Shan populations and aggravating ethnic tensions. Relations with the government remain tense, and peace has not been achieved. It is unlikely the UWSP will agree to disarm until some of its basic demands have been met. The United States has indicted eight UWSP leaders on drug trafficking charges. Thailand see the UWSP as a security threat and accuses it of producing amphetamines. China has a better relationship with the UWSP and has given support and technical advice to the organization. The drug trade is controlled by powerful ethnic Chinese syndicates that have no interest in conflict resolution and state building. Demonizing and isolating the UWSP will make the organization more dependent on them, and will obstruct reconciliation efforts in Burma.

The United Wa State Party: Narco-Army or Ethnic Nationalist Party?

Literature & Fiction

Literary

East-West Center Washington; Institute of Southeas

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