What is the name of the innovation?
The name Innovation is defined as “The capability of continuously realizing a desired future state” (John Kao, The Innovation Manifesto, 2005).
The name of the innovation is called Capricornia car pool system. It is developed to make a new system that organizes the automated car pool system to avoid congestion. This innovation is developed to organize the traffic and book the parking places where everyone can save time. This runs smooth when it is automated and well maintained. This a kind of car fleet management where the vehicles are arranged as per the request of the people who make bookings online or telephone for any good reason may it be parking the vehicles or renting a car from the pool.
This is a new innovation which helps the students where it helps them for easy accessibility for renting the cars on hourly, or daily or sometimes on monthly basis. This system mainly helps the international students as they might not be having vehicles so that they can book the vehicles as and when required.This system requires a kind of authentication wherein the students are given a kind of swipe cards or bar-coded cards. For this type of innovation the charges are to be paid by the credit cards or cheques. This facility runs fabulous as the cars are been maintained in good condition without any problems.
These kinds of innovations help students and staff in many ways. It provides good interaction between both staff and students who belong to the same university. They can share their ideas and experiences with this kind of a system. There will be no communication gap between the management and the students as everyone using this kind of a system belong to one community. This system needs to be given authentication wherein the students and staff are given unique user ID and password. This is a good approach to avoid confusion and arrange things as planned. Anyone can make bookings in advance so as to park accordingly. This avoids lot of traffic.
Describe the innovation and how it would work and the service it would provide to students and/or staff.
The innovation of car pool system is very useful for the students as well as staff and is environmental friendly. The introduction of car pool system helps people to save fuel, traffic, environment and many other things. People starting from same point or near by place and traveling to same place can use this system. This helps in reducing vehicles which reduces traffic, pollution which leads to saving of time also.
The car pool system in university helps the students as they do not want to spend more money for traveling. Students starting from a same place can go to university by sharing car which is much cheaper than public transport and time saving. The present car pool system is completely manual. The present carpool system in the university should be made online so that students can know other students or staff starting from their place to university. This is an easy way to find people for sharing. Students who can not afford to buy a car can rent a car by this system.
This system checks out the condition of the cars when a student or the staff of the university returns back car to the pool system. Mainly for this kind of pool system are maintained to give concessions to the students who belong to the same university where they show activate participation when they are offered concessions. The management of the university puts in lot of effort in maintaining this type of system for giving better facilities to the students and staff. These types of innovations provide lot of employment opportunities for the students who are seeking part time or casual jobs where they can engage themselves, to name a few cleaning and washing the cars.
How did you identify this innovation?
The identification of any innovation is simple as some are born intelligent and some learn and inculcate to become an innovator. It is the development of the individual to make things in multiple ways so that the innovated thing can be used effectively and efficiently. The innovator thinks ahead of time and sees what will be or at least what could happen in the course of the daily activities that deal with the human life. ( The Sources of Innovation.
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This kind of innovations can be known to the students and staff by the university web sites and the notice boards. This is the easiest way to communicate through students and faculty.
Innovation can come to effect when an innovator invents or discovers when an innovations falls into place. This can happen at the end user and also at the manufacturers end. The person who invents or discovers shares that thing with his fellow mates or citizens that’s how people come to know when an individual tries to innovate things. And when a manufacturer innovates things he will advertise so as to make profits and get benefited.
This system which was made to make up the traffic works well when it is managed well. This is a good kind of innovation as it saves lot of time and effort of the students and staff.
References:
- ( John Kao, The Innovation Manifesto, 2005 )