Easy Boris - a useful tool for finding bike spaces in London without need for sophisticated smart phone apps!

my link is woodrush.com/bb but following the instructions anyone can create their own.

More about Visualising Bike Sharing from Oliver O'Brien

Visualising Bike Share (#geomob 21 October 2010)

View more presentations from Oliver O’Brien.

Offsite Production overview - Buildoffsite (industry wide campaign organisation prompting greater uptake of offsite technique in UK construction)

Richard Ogden, Buildoffsite Chairman and 'the man who built a McDonald's in two days', gave a seminar on 'how the construction industry can capitalise on offsite efficiencies' (October 19 BEST Residential Hub, NEC Birmingham).

Key question he suggested we ask : Why make a project out of a product?

Examples of some of the many advantages of offsite construction are:

• risk reduction; fewer people on site (manufacturing has significantly fewer accidents), controlled environment (quality control, wind and weather protection)
• lower costs in some areas; prelims, car parking
• speed of construction; GSK has reduced construction time for some mobile/temporary manufacturing units from 36 months to 3 months
• areas of buildings with complex services (e.g. science labs and washrooms in schools) have greatest advantages 

He noted that there were three main types of offsite construction

• 2-D; panels
• 3-D; corridor modules for BAA reducing requirement to work airside
• Hybrid; houses

Other points picked up

• Retrofit in domestic housing  is more difficult but there are opportunities that ought to be explored but require a change in perception; e.g. replace complete roofs built offsite
• Japan is world leader in offsite manufacturing - people aspire to live in highly engineered offsite manufactured housing units
• In the UK Laing O'Rourke (LOR) has invested heavily in their Design for Manufacture and Assembly' (DfMA) apporach and their Explore Industrial Park in Steetley. LOR claim this to be 'the most advanced facility of its type in Europe'. Others in the UK such as Carillion have said that the amount they do offsite is increasing every year.
• Offsite Powerpoint on Teachnet

Download

Offsite Production in the UK – prepared by HSE - June 2009

A Brief Overview

Report Prepared by Stephen Taylor: Construction Engineering Specialist Team: HSE

This paper discusses the historical and current application of modern methods of construction using off-site production techniques. The paper gives an overview of the various types of off-site construction; specific case studies illustrating current practice; and, the primary benefits to health and safety on construction sites through its implementation.

Innovation Studies Centre - note and links

'The Innovation Studies Centre (ISC), conducts research on the innovation process from knowledge creation to commercialisation.'  It aims to influence policy and practice by working at the inter-face of science, engineering and business management..


'Innovation has never been more important as organisations face fierce global competition, rapidly developing technologies and diminishing world resources.

Led by Professor David Gann, the ISC was established in 2003 at Imperial College London and funded by the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council), to develop, test and launch new research projects and programmes.'

Magnetic boards over Skype

Each section is printed on magnetic A4 paper

Six ways to make Web 2.0 work - McKinsey Quarterly

Article is at © Copyright 1992-2009 McKinsey & Company

Web 2.0 tools present a vast array of opportunities—for companies that know how to use them.
FEBRUARY 2009 • Michael Chui, Andy Miller, and Roger P. Roberts

Source: Business Technology Office

Scotland - Overall Energy and Associated CO 2

Source: Scottish Energy Study: Volume 1: Energy in Scotland: Supply and Demand. Crown Copyright

6 Overall Energy and Associated CO ₂

Having discussed energy demand and supply separately in earlier sections, this section builds a picture of how supply feeds through to meet demand. The sub-sections cover:

• Representing energy flows diagrammatically via Sankey diagrams.
• Summarising the balance of supply and demand.
• Primary energy.
• How Scotland compares with the UK.

6.1 Energy Flow in Scotland

One powerful method of representing complex energy flow patterns is by using Sankey diagrams. A series of Sankey figures are included overleaf to illustrate:

Figure 18: The big picture: Scottish energy inputs, production, consumption and exports.

Figure 19: Main overview of energy flows in Scotland ⁵⁰.

Figure 20: Energy supply in Scotland: the top-down 'supply' detail.

Figure 21: Electricity sector energy flow in Scotland: electricity generation detail.

Figure 22: Final energy by sector in Scotland: the bottom-up "demand" detail.

IDEAS - the Age of Ideas - Keep in Touch

Moving from Attention to Attraction Economy
Information > Knowledge > Interruption > Permission > Experience >>> ATTENTION
P&G soap adverts > Tesco / Carrfour > Customer (screen & mobile) in charge of decisions

Think through heart - Power to People (consider Mary Quant's mini skirts - KR early job)

• interruption >> Attraction
• reaction >> interActive - having an influencing dialogue
  
• marketing AT >> connecting with
• RoI (investment) >> RoI (involvement)
• Rational >> Emotional

embed 'Lovemarks' (nb Saatchi & Saatchi copyright the Lovemarks Co) - Evolving beyond Brands

• Lovemarks - Loyalty beyond Reason
• Owned by people
• adding mystery, sensuality and intimacy

• Irreplaceable moving to Irresistible
• Consider axes of Love and Respect

• Not transaction... having relationship
  

Go beyond Green - How sustainable are you really?, You'll be here tomorrow but your dreams may not.
GREEN >> BLUE
environment >> environment + economy + society + culture
fear >> radical optimism
obligation >> opportunity
planet & consumers (who wants to be called a consumer?) >> people
global problems >> individual passion

krconnect.blogspot.com

full script of Institute of Director's annual convention speech

Knowledge Paradox & a Competency Framework for Knowledge Management

Overload - objective to learn something new
Seductive Technology - promise > capacity to use (culture lags)
Business as Unusual - old leverage of physical assets

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Competency Analysis (from BT seminar 2000)
Learn - Innovate - Collaborate - Integrate - Lever
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Learn - BUILDING KNOWLEDGE - prepared Mind
- response to opportunity / threat
- competing on foresight

Innovate - CREATING KNOWLEDGE - open mind
- foster creativity, value ideas
- capture flow of ideas - process
- adapting physical spaces
- rewarding
- execute fast

Collaborative - SHARING KNOWLEDGE - collective mind
- community, sustainable relationship = share knowledge, working together with feedback

Integrate - STRUCTURING KNOWLEDGE - connected mind
- (Knowledge plus Knowledge) K+K = Value
- Connection outside usual boundaries
- Visibility / Transparency
- adapt and integrate change
- long planning cycles - dynamically reconfigure organisation

Lever - USING KNOWLEDGE - productive mind
- make productive use of resources and assets
- knowledge grows with sharing
- smart decisions on share/ protect