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The Power of Perspective …

for creativity and innovation

Do you want to boost your creativity and innovation skills?  … solve problems more effectively and collaboratively? … learn how to see the world from different perspectives and discover new possibilities? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you might be interested in taking a course on the Power of Perspective. This course will teach you how to use perspective-taking, a cognitive skill that allows you to imagine the world from another’s vantage point, to enhance your creativity and innovation.

Perspective-taking is not only a social skill, but also a cognitive skill. It enables you to broaden your horizons, challenge your assumptions, and discover new possibilities. Perspective-taking can also help you to overcome biases, stereotypes, and prejudices that may limit your creativity and innovation, and help you think outside the box .

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Power of Perspective enabling creativity and Innovation.

In this course, you will learn how perspective-taking can benefit you at each stage of the innovation process:

  • Define your problem or challenge. You will learn how to identify the needs and preferences of your customers, users, and beneficiaries by taking their perspectives. You will also learn how to frame your problem or challenge in a way that invites multiple perspectives and solutions.
  • Generate ideas from different perspectives. You will learn how to use your imagination and curiosity to come up with new and original ideas that address the problem or challenge from different angles – e.g. temporal, geographic or other perspectives.. You will also learn how to use brainstorming techniques that leverage perspective-taking. There are many tools such as SCAMPER (Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Put to another use, Eliminate, Reverse) or TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) that can assist in expanding your power of perspective.
  • Evaluate and refine your ideas. You will learn how to compare and contrast your ideas with the existing solutions and the stakeholders’ needs and preferences by taking their perspectives. You will also learn how to improve your ideas based on feedback from others.
  • Communicate and implement your ideas. You will learn how to choose the best idea or combination of ideas that meet your criteria for creativity and innovation. You will also learn how to explain how your idea solves the problem or challenge from different perspectives. You will also learn how to demonstrate how your idea adds value and impact.

By taking this course, you will not only improve your creativity and innovation skills, but also your collaboration, communication, and leadership skills. You will be able to work with diverse teams and leverage their skills, knowledge, and insights. You will also be able to inspire others and make a difference by taking their perspectives.

If you are interested in taking this Power of Perspective course, please visit our website for more information and registration details. Don’t miss this opportunity to unlock the power of perspective for yourself and your organization.

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DAOs and ADSs

Distributed Computing Paradigms

Modern public and private infrastructure is increasingly large and complex regardless of the industry within which it is deployed – communications, power, transportation, manufacturing, finance, etc. Large-scale infrastructure is increasingly a significant source of data on both its own operations as well as the society dependent on it. Big data from infrastructure can thus supply a variety of artificial and augmented intelligence systems. Large complex infrastructures typically require large complex organizations to operate and maintain. Such organizations though are typically centralized and constrained by bureaucratic policies and procedures. Recent organizational innovations include entity structures such as Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)

Decentralized Autonomous Organization

Decentralized Autonomous Organization

DAOs are emerging that may provide better transparency, autonomy and decentralization for the manner in which these large-scale infrastructures are operated. ADSs are analogous to living systems with autonomous and decentralized subsystems that have been developed to support the requirements of modern infrastructure. DAOs are digital-first entities that share similarities with a traditional company structure but have some additional features, such as the automatic enforcement of operating rules via smart contracts DAOs are more focused on governance and decision-making while ADSs are more focused on the operation of large-scale infrastructure

ADS DAO
Timeline Started ~1993 Started ~2013
Initial applications Large scale infrastructure Digital asset administration – e.g., cryptocurrencies
Sense of Autonomy Maintaining automated operation despite environmental changes (Financial) liability / responsibility allocation when failures occur
Decentralization Physically distributed infrastructure Physically distributed stakeholders
Artificial Intelligence Role Augmented Intelligence for system operators Adjunct off-chain processes
Reliability Mechanisms Various by system implementation Consensus protocols, cryptographic hashes
Focus System composed of infrastructure Organization ( legal entity) automating management administration

 

Both DAOs and ADSs are decentralized and autonomous, but in somewhat different aspects. DAOs provide an opportunity for decentralized, autonomous governance that may be a useful feature for future ADS systems to consider. For more details on this topic refer to Wright, S. A. (2023, March). DAOs & ADSs. In 2023 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized System (ISADS) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.