Cultural
Inheritance& Innovation now becomes a fashion, existing in the city
renovation and education. Of course, it is also a heat topic in the
building of the fashion brand, especially in those luxury brands such as
GUCCI, LV, CHANEL, etc. The most reason for why the cultural
inheritance becomes so popular is that as the increasing competition of
fashion industry, how these luxury brands should do to keep themselves
in the top place in the market.

So,
what are the brand’s historical and cultural heritance? Are they those
remained from the original which build by the founder? Or the burden
occurs during the development of the brand. All these questions are
highly focused by the operators of the luxury brands. They are all
spending much time in keeping balance of the PAST EXPERIENCE and PRESENT
FASHION.

Cultural Heritage is the link between the past and the present

What’s
the definition of “Cultural Inheritance& Innovation”? Karl
Lagerfeld has a good saying for it’s CHANEL, “To may the life better by
innovating the past shinning point.”

The
SEO of VIONNET agrees with the point. He requires the designers to
focus on the unique of the brand name. Setting up the new thought of the
existed items after understanding the Brand History is better than
developing the new items.

GUCCI will celebrate its 90’s birthday
in 2012; it will have a museum in Florence. This brand heritage the
awesome attitude from the founder Guccio Gucci which is “all brand
tradition should be connected with the present”, and it really did well
in both the design of the items and the marketing. The public can find
this easily through the latest version of Gucci Bags and other series.

The
GUCCI SEO has his understanding of cultural heritage. “The reliable
heritage is sort of visible, touchable and understandable element
existing in each GUCCI item.”

When was the last time you did anything in your store that was truly innovative?

Or have you been standing pat, waiting for the customers to return?

Many
of my clients come to me with one thing in common – they are doing
things the way they’ve seemingly always done them. Only the results have
changed, and not for the better.

I’m reminded of a saying I
first heard years ago, in an earlier incarnation in my retail career –
If you’re not going forward you’re going backward, because the world
never stands still.

The retailing future belongs to the
innovative. It’s always been that way. When you first opened your store,
you offered your community, your customers, something new, fresh and
exciting – and better. Whether you offered better assortments, better
quality, better service, a better experience, it was better. That’s why
your customers came.

For many independent retailers, however,
there aren’t quite as many customers as there once was. For several
years, transaction counts have been under a lot of pressure. The
customers that came were spending as much as they ever had, if not more,
but there just weren’t as many of them as there had been.

It
seems to me there are two ways to respond to this. The first is to do
nothing. Assume the problem is the economy, and that as things improve
the customers will return. As more people find they have money to spend,
they’ll once again spend it with you.

The other response is to
become the innovation leader. Innovating in retail takes many forms. It
may be a store remodel. It may be remerchandising the existing space. It
may be extending assortments into fresh categories. It may be offering
brand new services. It is whatever makes you distinctive, fresh,
compelling.

Innovation is reinvention. It involves refocusing
your passion, and thinking about your customers in fresh ways. Think
outside the box, smash a few sacred cows. Why do your customers really
come to you? What else can you do for them? What else can you sell them?
What can you offer that’s new, fresh and exciting?

It may seem
that adopting a strategy of innovation is a risky proposition. But you
never find hoardes of customers in stores that are merely doing the same
old thing. Standing pat is standing still – and standing still is the
same as going backwards, because the world never stands still. It’s
always moving forward.

Globalization
and technology driven economy has given the consumer access to a wide
range of FMCG products from across the world. Moving down the
supermarket with trolley at hand, the customers have the liberty to pick
and choose products from a wide array of available goods. As one rolls
the trolley along these shelves, consumers find familiar products, with a
different name, brand and packaging or a new product vying for
attention either with a new and attractive packaging, competitive rates,
or innovative marketing. The consumer finally ends up buying five more
newly launched products.

However,
not all products are sold like hot cakes as consumers are dubious of
the contents. To provide the consumers with the required know-how before
purchasing a product is a herculean task. The concept of supermarkets
facilitated customers to walk through the shelves stacked with variety
products, read through the packaging, understands the benefits and
selects the product. The acceptance of innovation products by today’s
next generation consumers find supermarket shelves lined with well
accepted creative products and uncommon combinations such as oats
noodles, Manchurian upma or a lemon flavored salt.

Fueled by
innovation, the FMCG business machinery does not just relate to creating
new products but also includes the process of renovating, restructuring
the products. Brand renovation is a process aimed to constantly renew
the product equity with the consumer by making the product current and
contemporary in tune with the emerging consumer preferences. Further,
with a number of untapped markets, ideas and customers available, the
need of the hour is to find the right idea which would click for the
business to surge ahead. Companies today are extremely aware and have
the capability to listen to the consumer and develop innovative products
tailored to their needs.

The
Consumer Goods and Retail companies need innovative ideas to retain
their customers. Leading FMCG company Britannia entered the health drink
sector, and took steps to reinvent the brand name by entering the
pre-cooked breakfast category with creative ideas identified through
brainstorming sessions across departments and from consumers. FMCG
brands such as Frito Lays and Procter and Gamble (P&G) find their
storehouse of ideas from their consumers. The upside down packaging of
Heinz ketchup is the result of a consumer’s observation of the ketchup
resting at the farthest point from the opening.

Innovative ideas
can come either from the consumers, employees or even the management or
all. Whatever be the source, effective idea management service needs to
be in place to ensure that the revenue grows continuously. Market
research showcases facts that most of the leading FMCG brands both India
and abroad use strategic innovation by crowdsourcing software to bring
out ideas and creative thoughts from consumers. Such exhaustive idea
management implementation tactics will help enterprises to attain higher
brand recall value and better consumer connects.

Innovation
in the welding industry has brought to several better, higher quality
machines that execute the job at less cost and less fuss. Welding is an
art wherein two or more metal or alloy work pieces are joined together
with the aid of a molten solution.

Welding
helps in joining metals together. The professionals of this field face
dangers everyday. This profession is incredibly demanding and the need
to adopt proper safety measures is necessary all the times. This concept
is predominantly used in every heavy manufacturing industry that relies
upon iron, steel, and other metals for production of their products or
services. To produce that much intensity of heat and light energy, you
need a power source that supplies electricity or power. This is the
place where generators are used in welding. Generators are such devices
that act as the power supply unit for various manufacturing processes.
The welding work might be impossible without it. The generators used to
execute these tasks depend upon a fuel supply to create the electric
supply for the welding process. Diesel generators are given more
priority by most of the heavy manufacturing industry as they provide
sufficient energy supply.

Welder generators that
are used in the factory found more beneficial for you as you can easily
carry out your manufacturing tasks quite easily and at the same time
save some finances from your budget as the cost of diesel is quite
cheap. Different types of generators are used today in the art of
welding. There are many factories which prefer diesel generators in
compared with gas generators due to their high energy density, heavy
diesel fuel, oiler and high boiling point. Other reason of choosing this
fuel running generator for the welding purpose include emit of less
flame and therefore can work for longer duration using minimum amount of
fuel supply and also very easy to maintain it. The users as well need
not to worry about its maintenance.

The generators basically come
with two types of flames. The closed flames are predominantly silent
and thus heavily used for residential and small office purposes. The
users need to be very careful in operating the generators in the factory
and therefore require proper trained employees. It is always good to
consider good quality of welder generator which is also
easy to maintain. Recent welders using advanced electronics including
generators that help them to provide the same amperage by running off of
normal household current instead of 220v.

Contacting
welding supplies is the best option to complete a job thoroughly and
professionally. It has often seen that almost all the welders promises
you the best service using right tools and equipment. However, you can
choose several high qualities of services visiting several websites that
promises you the high quality of work services. Moreover, you can
compare their service charges and work efficiency reading several
reviews and articles etc.

welder generator

Ready
pleated saris are an outstanding and a dazzling innovation in the saris
world. No attire can beat the royal saris with its richness and grace.
Keeping in mind the shortage of time and unawareness about draping the
sari among modern era women, designers came up with perfect pleated
saree, that is a ready to wear sari in a couple of minutes.

Saris
are worn by women since ages. This attire is considered to be the apt
one for any formal occasion, a wedding party, festivals, anniversaries,
etc. The attire beholds its position firmly irrespective of going and
coming of various trends, traditions and fashions.

No doubt,
every woman love to done up in saris, but due to complexity of draping a
sari, the modern era women generally step behind and unenthusiastically
chose any other attire. A normal sari essentially takes 15 to 20
minutes to drape up gracefully and that too with an expertise hand. To
form pleats nicely and drape the sari gracefully over your shoulders and
around your waist is an uphill task.

The attire loses its charm
when not donned up well. No matter how expensive the saree is, when not
draped nicely definitely gives an awful look and even the wearer loses
his confidence in carrying it.

Well to solve your problem in a
magnificent way, the fashion designers have given ready pleated sarees,
where you need to spend just few seconds and you find yourself draped up
in sari gracefully and that too with perfect pleats. It’s one of the
easiest ways to look adorable and attractive and yes that too
effortlessly.

In
ready pleated sarees, pleats are already formed up without any
botheration left for you to form them. You just need to wear these ready
pleated saris over your petticoat as a skirt, taking the pallu over the
shoulders and here you are done for any occasion. This is the reason,
this is so called as ready to wear sari.

Ready pleated sarees
come in varied colors and fabrics like silk, georgette, net, crepe.
These are embroidered; other embellishments such as sequins, zari
zardosi, patch work, appliques, thread work, gold work, and lace work
are also used to make these sarees look more appealing.

Colors
are known as the crown of beauty. A royal blue color sari made of
georgette or crepe would look gorgeous and give a two-toned effect.

Has “innovation” become yet another buzzword today, a passing fad… or is it truly the engine of growth?

While
one study published by Businessweek in association with Boston
Consulting Group reveals that 25% of new products launched by
established companies generate enthusiasm amongst users owing to
appropriate utilization of business innovation techniques, another
recent survey revealed that there was contention around the word
“innovation” itself, with 60% of respondents choosing to add their own
definitions. A majority looked at ideas from other domains instead of
brainstorming, prototyping, experimentation or collaboration (as a
technique for finding ideas). Further, most people ranked DaVinci as the
greatest innovator, followed by Edison and Steve Jobs (most didn’t know
who Tesla was)! On a side-note, how many of us can even name five
contemporary Indian scientists?

It is not surprising therefore, to
see many MNCs recently setting up Innovation Centres and Hubs in India,
but not even a single new product idea has come out from them as yet.
Many firms come out with an improvement over an existing product line
and tout that as an “innovation”. Clearly, most seem to be just paying
lip-service or trying to ride this latest bandwagon without the
slightest clue how to really go about the business of innovation.

One
can take a cue from leading global giants such as 3M, Xerox Parc, and
Ideo who are well known for giving us scotch-tape, photocopiers, and
stupendous designs. But not many know that Xerox Parc, for example, have
also come up with innovations such as laser printing, Ethernet, the
modern personal computer, graphical user interface (GUI),
object-oriented programming, ubiquitous computing, amorphous silicon
(a-Si) applications, and advancing very-large-scale-integration (VLSI)
for semiconductors, to name a few.

Some of these innovations had
the power to change the world. How many such examples can we cite coming
out from India or from an Indian company? As a nation, we already have
some of the most talented scientists, academicians, researchers and
engineers along with enough investors, VCs, funding, grants and seed
capital to make it all happen. Yet how many ‘Google’s or ‘Facebook’s
have we launched in the global markets? As the survey mentioned above
revealed, we are happy to “look at ideas from others instead of
brainstorming ourselves” – quite a sorry state of affairs for a country
poised to become the economic powerhouse of this century.

We need
to only look at the history of innovations and new product or technology
launches in US and Europe and correlate that data with the economic
progress of these markets to believe and understand that innovation
really does have the power to bring about a radical change and how it
does so.

However,
all is not lost, as there are a few companies in India such as UNIKEN
(technology innovation solution providers) and Hexolabs (of Mobile
Antakshari fame) who are working in niche areas but growing rapidly and
impacting global markets in an unprecedented way.

Uniken’s
Innovation Centre (located in Pune), is ready with a line of 20-30
innovations of which only two product applications have been launched so
far, and have already become runaway successes! VPSI (Virtual Private
Secure Internet) and TruBank secure internet banking solution are based
on the REL-ID mutual authentication and encryption protocol. This
technology has the potential to be a game-changer in the global BFSI
industry, with most of the leading banks in India having chosen to
deploy the same to protect their customers from cyber fraud and phishing
attacks.

Other innovations by Uniken cut across industry
verticals and have multiple applications – such as Hand Geometry
Biometric Verification System, a micro-AC, solar-powered farming and so
on. And most people would not even have heard about this company that
claims to be the only company in India which is in the “business of
innovation” and has some of the leading experts like Dr. Whitfield
Diffie and Dr. Pat Shankar on its Scientific Advisory Board.

As a
country we have to make a concerted effort to stop being experts at
imitation and start becoming masters of innovation, if we have to
leap-frog an entire generation of technological advances. And our
innovations should focus on developing technology and tools that can
improve the quality of life, make things simpler, better and easier –
and only then would we have created something that has the power to
bring about change.�

Nowadays,
with the increase of the country’s economic strength, the pace of
development is also accelerating. To strengthen the real economy and
develop science and technology innovation has become a major problem in
economic progress. The development of the western region, urbanization
construction, affordable housing and construction of water conservancy
projects has created new opportunities for crusher industry. This paves
the way for independent innovation.

With
the coming of economic recovery, the sales of crushing equipments are
growing. Many enterprises take the opportunity to get into the market
and then form a intense competitive situation. At the same time, the
current situation arouses potential for independent development and
research. Henan Hongxing Mining Machinery Co., Ltd. is specialized in
producing crusher equipment; they have launched a series of products,
such as sand maker, cone crusher and mobile crusher. They try their best
to keep up with the current situation. In addition, after independent
innovation, they now can provide products with patent, such as PYFH high
performance cone crusher, it can meet the requirements for “more
crushing and less grinding” and sells well both in domestic and
international market.

After ten years of development, crusher
industry has achieved great success. Some new factors will contribute to
the prosperity of crusher industry after the storm of the recession.
Innovation economy will bring new opportunities, at the same time, with
the increase of domestic infrastructure investment, Hongxing crusher
also will also find the great chance to develop.

Henan Hongxing
Mining Machinery Co., Ltd. is one of the most famous crushing equipments
manufacturers in China with decades producing experience and advanced
producing technology. On the basis of traditional culture, Hongxing
Company gears the needs of the world. Inheriting the traditional culture
and firmly holding the Sino-foreign complementary principle, Hongxing
people open eyes on the world and the future to build a unique
enterprise culture. Hongxing Company firmly practices the goodness
first, and benefits the employees and customers as well as society
feedback. Thus Henan Hongxing Mining Machinery Company works steadily to
practice sharing society responsibility during the enterprise
development.

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Remember the “Suggestion Box” ? It wasa platform where we
could voice and share our ideas and creative inputs. The words “voice”
and “share” is of utmost importance when it comes to idea sharing. We
have shifted from the physical suggestion boxes to innovative web tools
that collate ideas from employees and customers round the globe. Today
enterprises from LG Electronics to U.S. Transportation Safety Authority
use the web for ideation to improve their products and business.

Idea management thus has taken center stage and is
crucial for organizations aiming to attain a competitive edge over
others. Furthermore, the collaboration landscape too is no more about
teams working in silos to fulfill specific goals and objectives. It is
expanding across enterprises fostering partnership and team work amidst
employees, who might have worked single handedly before. The main reason
behind this shift is, to positively encourage a company to forsake
its”need to know” approach and adopt a “need to share” culture. This
promotes free flow of information and communication amongst employees.

Crowd sourcing as an Enterprise Collaboration Tool

Today
enterprise collaboration has adopted a “people-centric” approach
thatbrings together various business units and functional areas to work
together. It aims to connect influential people, the audience at large
and organizations through technologies to generate ideas and to derive
maximum benefit out of it. Crowd sourcing is considered as a next
generation enterprise collaboration tool. The term might appear a jargon
at first, but it is an essential part of enterprise innovation programs
today. The central idea here is to tap into the collective intelligence
of masses for completing business agendas, which otherwise could have
been done through outsourcing or by the company itself. The process
enables managers to increase their talent pool size and gain deeper
insights intothe customer mind set.

You
can reap the above mentioned benefits by investing in innovative idea
management solutions. These solutions offer anappropriate platform to
bring in all concerned members of your organization and motivate them to
work ona given situation proactively. This ideation platform is similar
to crowdsourcing software that enables you to attain greater
transparency, quicker updates and viable solutions. Other benefits that
an idea management tool offers are:-

� Process improvements
� New competitive services and products’
� Enhanced decision making and enterprise collaboration in a team
� Competitive edge over other market players
� Improved brand loyalty and value
� Spot new areas of expansion and hidden talent within an organization

Social
Media and Innovation Programs Innovation programs and ideation is
incomplete if not extended to the social media realm. The choice is a
simple one. If you want your customers to come up with ideas,
suggestions and other creative contributions, they you have to be tapped
fromwhere they are. Majority of them are onTwitter, Facebook and other
social networking platforms. It helps you to accelerate your innovation
programs by publishing wikis, blogs and articles, requesting for public
feedback on fresh content and many more. Furthermore, networking
socially on a regular basis gives you anidea as to what is working or
not working for your brand.

Proper channeling of management and innovation is one of the
highly analyzed topics in business management. Most of the companies
today have adopted the strategy of open innovation that uses a
methodology that allows companies to co-innovate with their suppliers,
partners and customers. When it comes to managing innovation, it is a
multifaceted answer and unique to all businesses. Specific innovation
management strategy enables services and products to differentiate
themselves from the competition in the market. Companies must
appropriate sufficient resources and time into the innovation funnel.
Business innovators bring surprising changes in business operations as
well as customer retention, development and product design.

Creativity in business refers to identification of
customer friendly solutions to ensure distinguishing them from the
competition. When companies land on a specific strategy with the use of
the innovation funnel, they are seen by outsiders as innovators in realm
of customer service and customer relationship management. Businesses
adopt different approaches to ensure an environment that is suitable for
innovation and encourages a more expressive thought. Some companies
enlist use of creativity exercises for businesses. The strategies range
from engaging complex exercises to simple variants as well. For example,
a company utilized their market experience and adopted exercise for
their employees to eliminate negative or non creative thought patterns.
This was done by removing negative statements from the vocabulary. This
involved elimination of sentences such as “I can’t think creatively”,
“my job does not create a creative environment” and so on. These are
some patterns of negative thinking that creates a negative environment
and pushes creativity and innovation to the back seat.

Creative
exercises for business and adequate implementation of imaginative funnel
help a business reassess the question of ways to manage innovation. It
is important to create an environment that encourages free thought and
generates free ideas. The innovation funnel ensures that ideas and
thoughts are nurtured and directed well.

Large corporations use creative exercises for businesses in conjunction
with innovation and creative funnels. When businesses seek to implement
an innovation funnel or look for other methods on ways to manage
innovation, they can make use of the following tips that have proved to
be successful in other industries.

Creative exercises
in business and proper utilization of innovation funnel creates a
dramatic effect on the entire organization. So, now that you have read
the entire article, you must be clear about the importance of creativity
in business.