purposeful development
(noun)
Innovation that occurs in response to a market need that existing product lines cannot satisfy.
Examples of purposeful development in the following topics:
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Idea Generation
- Innovation is crucial for the development of successful new products.
- Discussed below are five crucial sources of innovation: technical breakthrough, non-technical idea development, environment, serendipity, and purposeful development.
- Purposeful development occurs when there is a strong need for certain goods or services.
- Thus, purposeful development occurs when there is a need that requires satisfaction, as opposed to when demand creation is required for a new product for which there is no initial desire in the marketplace.
- A good example of purposeful development is the heavy investment that pharmaceutical firms make to discover new prescription drugs.
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History
- Some early mathematicians developed primitive forms of life tables, which are tables of life expectancies, for life insurance and actuarial purposes.
- Censuses, another demographic tool, were institued for primarily political purposes:
- The development of demographic calculations started in the 18th century.
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Understanding Open Educational Resources (OER)
- Open educational resources are freely accessible, openly licensed content that are useful for teaching, learning, and research purposes.
- Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessment and research purposes (see ).
- The development and promotion of open educational resources is often motivated by a desire to curb the commodification of knowledge and provide an alternative or enhanced educational paradigm.
- OER materials encompass any content that is offered freely and openly to use and adapt for teaching and learning purposes (especially online).
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Development of Human Resources
- Human resource development combines training and career development to improve the effectiveness of the individual, group, and organization.
- Human resources development (HRD) as a theory is a framework for the expansion of human capital within an organization through the development of both the organization and the individual to achieve performance improvement.
- Human resource development is the integrated use of training, organization, and career development efforts to improve individual, group, and organizational effectiveness.
- Training and development (TD), the development of human expertise for the purpose of improving performance
- Human resource development combines training and career development to improve the effectiveness of the individual, group, and organization.
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Primary and Secondary Groups
- The goal of primary groups is actually the relationships themselves rather than achieving some other purpose.
- Rather than having as the goal the maintenance and development of the relationships themselves, these groups generally come together to accomplish a specific purpose.
- He labeled groups as "primary" because people often experience such groups early in their life and such groups play an important role in the development of personal identity.
- Secondary groups generally develop later in life and are much less likely to be influential on one's identity.
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Body
- Your purpose is to persuade your audience that social media does more good than harm.
- Once you've established your purpose, you can formulate a strategy for achieving that purpose with your main points.
- Once you have your purpose established, it's time to decide what main points you will use to achieve that purpose.
- Consider which points more effectively communicate your purpose than others.
- Three or four main points allow you to develop complete arguments in order to support your purpose, while still enabling your audience to follow your logic.
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Departmentalization Pros
- Departmentalization refers to the grouping of process or purpose activities into departments.
- The division of labor or degree of departmentalization is driven by the need for specialization whether by process or purpose within an organization.
- When taking a closer look at the three ways of departmentalization by purpose–product, customer, and location–we note that there are some specific advantages related to it.
- Secondly, departmentalization allows for a clearer focus of the purpose for the group (i.e., serving a specific product, customer, or market).
- From a process prospective, a high degree of specialization can be very efficient in some instances and enable the development of highly centralized control functions.
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Organizational Development
- The purpose of OD is to address the evolving needs of successful organizations.
- Purposes: Are employees clear about the organization's mission, purpose, and goals?
- Do they support the organization's purpose?
- Is there an adequate fit between the purpose and the internal structure?
- Explain the role of organizational development in leadership and organizational change
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The Mission Statement
- A mission statement defines the fundamental purpose of an organization or enterprise.
- A mission statement defines the purpose of a company or organization.
- The business's owners and upper managers develop the mission statement and uphold it as a standard across the organization.
- Effective mission statements start by articulating the organization's purpose.
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The Nature of Efficient Communication
- A key element of effective communication is having a clear process for developing and disseminating information.
- A communication strategy speaks to each of these elements and guides how messages and information are developed and shared.
- Good communicators begin by analyzing a given situation to develop a strategy for delivering their message.
- Next they consider the purpose of their communication.
- The purpose informs choices of style and tone such as whether or not to use technical language or industry jargon.