Using Fractal Mapping To Build Organizational Inductive Performance

Posted on 01. Apr, 2012 by in * Collaborative Design, * Leadership Ecology, * Organizational Learning, * Sustainable Innovation

The below map sketches out an applicable model for deepening the capacity, value, and intelligence of an organization’s performance. It’s impact suggests that non-productivity, or inductive activities are aspects of a company’s behavior that should be nurtured rather than exterminated. Similar to the model for energy, which has both electric and magnetic characteristics, so too more »

Lossy vs Efficient Organizations – How to Design a Sustainable Supply Chain Management System

Posted on 31. Mar, 2012 by in * Collaborative Design, * Organizational Learning, * Sustainable Innovation

my recent insight on scm design … DRAFT (under construction) lossy vs efficient organizations – how to design a ‘sustainable’ supply chain management (scm) system sustainability in supply chain management is optimized by measuring the lossiness cause by reflective coefficients at the sources and sinks of each learning node (suppler/vendor) in the chain. This refers more »

What is Sustainable Innovation?

Posted on 09. Jan, 2012 by in * Sustainable Innovation

Fundamentally, sustainable innovation is about DESIGN – any kind of design – from widgets (products/services), to group process and organizational architecture, to full-on societies. It refers to an emerging new way of thinking. Creative, practical philosophies that are the foundation for Discovery Fuel’s work. Why? Because ‘sustainable‘ innovation has now become the primary global driving more »

Defining a Regenerative Commerce System

Posted on 05. Jan, 2012 by in * Sustainable Innovation

Regenerative Commerce is a system based on a broader understanding of what it means to develop technology and business. DiscoveryFuel.com proposes that, using these principles, a region’s economic system can revitalize itself and perform beyond today’s assumptions and expectations. The following represent shifts in awareness of the models we use to create and innovate within more »

The Future of Innovation and Technology has Already been Figured Out by Nature One Million Years Ago

Posted on 07. Jun, 2011 by in * Sustainable Innovation

I’ll say it again: The future of innovation and technology has already been figured out by nature one million years ago. Watch this TED video …

Innovation: A Three Phase Transformation Process

Posted on 22. Mar, 2011 by in * Collaborative Design, * Sustainable Innovation

I often like to dabble in the abstract. There, I am taken to transitory state that help me feel closer to the Creative Source. For example: below consists of two intertwined trinity models, of which I like to play with when considering the architecture of ‘whole systems‘. These models help us to both ‘look at’ more »

Sustainability Reporting as Anchor for Innovation

Posted on 21. Dec, 2010 by in * Sustainable Innovation

The emerging ‘sustainability reporting’ movement has begun and is growing in leaps and bounds. This process can be much more than a way to report how a company is doing regarding sustainability. More so, it becomes the anchoring point for defining what and how new forms of innovation witll emerge within the organization. Sound strategic more »

Innovation is blinded by our assumptions

Posted on 27. Sep, 2010 by in * Sustainable Innovation

In this IONS audio, “Unexplained Mystery of Spontaneous Remission” with Brendan O’Regan, it explicitly describes how we suppress innovation by two things: 1- our assumptions and beliefs, that are founded in our education, that filters out and rationalizes outcomes that do not fit expected norms, and 2- our lack of choosing to study unexplained phenomena. more »

Innovation starts with the artist and is followed by the scientist

Posted on 26. Sep, 2010 by in * Sustainable Innovation

Artist Frank Chester has discovered how the heart works. It doesn’t pump blood, it ‘swirls’ blood. And is based in how the body designs itself – done using geometry (known as ‘sacred geometry’) that is mostly hidden to the common eye … including doctors. The interesting thing is that Frank is not a scientist by more »

The Paradox in ‘Sustainable’ Innovations

Posted on 06. Aug, 2010 by in * Sustainable Innovation

The Paradox in ‘Sustainable’ Innovations I want you to click on the picture of the ‘invention machine’ at the left and watch the video. As your watching the video, make a list of the things that (in your mind) make up ‘sustainable’ innovation, based on how they describe it to be. Then, look at your more »

Is There an Ecological Unconscious?

Posted on 23. Jul, 2010 by in * Leadership Ecology, * Sustainable Innovation

I find that this subject is one of the more revealing issues of our time. A place that requires us to reshape our understanding and meaning of ‘environment’. Read this great article on the link between our human psyche and the Earth. +++ By DANIEL B. SMITH Published: January 27, 2010 The terms in which more »

Unsustainable Everything

Posted on 09. Jun, 2010 by in * Sustainable Innovation

I love it when somebody is able to synthesize the incoming data into a meaningful message. Watch this video and understand how the world economy works … I mean is ‘not’ working. Sustainability should go to another level of understanding for you after you watch this 4 minute clip.

Sustainable Economics – We’re in Trouble

Posted on 06. May, 2010 by in * Sustainable Innovation, **

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, watch this moving picture video as it unveils the U.S. economic decline from the perspective of the unemployed. It doesn’t slow down a bit since 2007. What is this telling us? Who is responsible for this decline? How are you and I being held accountable more »

Sustainability as Whole-System Catalyst to New Forms of Innovation

Posted on 21. Nov, 2009 by in * Sustainable Innovation

Sustainability as Whole-System Catalyst to New Forms of Innovation Since the concept of ‘sustainability’ is feathered into most future forms of innovation, I’d like to suggest a few pages below that list concepts of “Sustainable Innovation”. What is Sustainable Innovation http://discoveryfuel.com/what-is-sustainable-innovation/ Deep Innovation for our future goes beyond ‘technologies’ as mere device structures, but also more »

Growth Myth: How Sustainability is Linked to Poor Economic Design

Posted on 25. Oct, 2009 by in * Organizational Learning, * Social Mythology, * Sustainable Innovation

The future of HUMAN sustainability is directly linked to the models that we have created to manage our social systems. And our inability to connect with exponential growth concepts is about to take the whole thing down in flames. I highly encourage you to watch Chris Martenson‘s ‘Crash Course‘, which covers a slightly different set more »

Innovation is a misrepresented characterization of humanity's creative process.

Posted on 11. Sep, 2009 by in * Organizational Learning, * Sustainable Innovation

Innovation is a misrepresented characterization of humanity’s creative process. It is too often used to describe the entire process of manifestation. Actually, INNOVATION is sandwiched between INSPIRATION and INVENTION. This more (w)holistically describes a full creative cycle. More . . .

Web Technology as Sacred

Posted on 16. Aug, 2009 by in * Collaborative Design, * Sustainable Innovation

I want you to take your business hat off for a minute to read what’s below. I am about to enter the twilight zone and attempt to bring in what some may consider ridiculous or impossible. For me, what I am about to say touches on the profound, and believe it is a critical subject more »

The Link Between Ethics and Innovation

Posted on 14. Aug, 2009 by in * Leadership Ecology, * Sustainable Innovation

Ethics to Innovation Article (Download a more readable PDF file) By Vic Desotelle and Michael Kaufman Table of Contents Introduction The Ethics/Innovation Relationship What are Ethics? Forces Creating Managerial Dilemmas (Principle Forces Creating Practical Dilemmas) What is Innovation? Innovative Wholes and Inventive Systems (Fractal Wholes vs Fractured Parts) The Emerging Global Ethic Innovation through Ethical more »

Innovation and the future of socialism and capitalism

Posted on 13. Aug, 2009 by in * Collaborative Design, * Leadership Ecology, * Sustainable Innovation

“You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it”, says an economics professor at a local college. He made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an ENTIRE class. That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be more »

Put in Values and an Organizational Structure That Will Stimulate Innovation

Posted on 21. Jul, 2009 by in * Sustainable Innovation

Donald Mitchell asked: le associate industry-changing innovation with high technology products and services, and certainly those industries create lots of innovation. On the other hand, almost every business seems to enjoy the potential to be more innovative if people think about the business that way.Few industries had a greater reputation for being stodgy than steel more »

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