Examples of Innovation

1, little Gauss cleverly solve arithmetic problems

Gauss is a great German mathematician. When he was a child, he was a smart child who loved to use his brain.

Or in elementary school, a teacher wanted to cure a class of naughty students, he came up with a math problem, let the students from 1 + 2 + 3 ...... has been added to 100. He thought this question is enough for this group of students to count half a day, he may also get half a day of leisure. Who knows, out of his expectation, just after a while. Little Gauss raised his hand and said he had finished. The teacher took a look at the answer, 5050, exactly right. The teacher was amazed. Asked little Gauss how he counted it out.

Goose said, he did not add from the beginning to the end, but first add 1 and 100, get 101, then add 2 and 99, also get 101, and finally 50 and 51, also get 101, so a **** there are 50 101, the result is of course 5050. The clever Gauss was praised by his teacher.

2, will open the head a millimeter

The United States has a production company of toothpaste, excellent products, beautiful packaging, loved by the majority of consumers, the annual turnover is booming. Records show that the first ten years of annual business growth rate of 10 to 20%, so that the Department of the Board of Directors jumped a lot. However, in the eleventh, twelfth and twelfth years, the performance was stagnant, maintaining the same figures every month. Dissatisfied with these three years of performance, the board of directors called a meeting of senior managers from across the country to discuss what could be done about it.

During the meeting, a young manager stood up, raised a piece of paper in his hand and said to the board of directors, "I have a suggestion, and if you want to use my suggestion, you have to pay me an additional $50,000!"

The president was very angry and said, "I pay you a salary every month, and there are other rewards. Now you are called to a meeting to discuss, you have to ask for another 50,000 yuan. Is it excessive?"

"Mr. President, please don't misunderstand. If my suggestion does not work． You can throw it away and don't have to pay a dime." The young manager explained.

"Good!" The president took the piece of paper, read it, and immediately signed a 50,000 yuan check to the young manager.

The paper said only one thing: expand the opening of the existing toothpaste by 1mm.

The president immediately ordered a new package.

Imagine how many times more toothpaste would be consumed each day if each consumer used 1mm more toothpaste every morning. This decision resulted in a 32% increase in the company's turnover in its fourteenth year.

3, the other side of the map

One morning, a poor pastor, in order to divert the attention of his crying son, a colorful map of the world, torn into many tiny pieces, thrown on the ground, promising: "Little John, if you can put together these pieces, I'll give you twenty-five cents. "

The pastor thought that this event would take John most of the morning, but in less than ten minutes, Little John had put it together.

Pastor: "Son, how did you spell that so fast?"

Little John replied easily, "On the other side of the map was a picture of a man, and I put the man's picture together and turned it over. I figured that if the 'person' was correct, then the 'world' was also correct."

The priest smiled and gave his son a quarter.

4, Disney sidewalk design

April 1992, Disneyland after three years of preparation, finally in Paris first opened to visitors, Disneyland in the perfect path design has become a major attraction, however, this perfect design is inspired by a local common vineyard, there are thousands of such vineyards in Paris, and it was the Chief Designer Grospex discovered it.

Turns out that the pathway design was Grospeth's biggest problem, and even as the project neared completion, there was still no perfect solution. Once again, he drove through a wine-producing region in France, along the way to see many gardeners in the roadside selling grapes, but very few people asked, he stumbled upon a vineyard in front of the valley, but the customers are full of doors. To be Gropius into a look, that is actually an unattended vineyard, customers as long as the owner of the old lady to pay 5 francs, you can pick a basket of grapes, the owner of the free choice of method, won the favor of many customers. (The old lady came up with this method because she was too old to do the physical work of picking grapes.)

Gropes looked at it and was so inspired that he himself sowed grass seeds in Disneyland, and when the entire open space of the park was covered with grass, he let the visitors go there freely, and in the six months that Disneyland was open, the grass was actually trodden out in many paths, which looked elegant and natural. Later, Gropez had sidewalks laid according to these trodden-out paths, and the end result was that Disneyland's path design was named the best in the world.

Making a problem simple is the best way to solve it, and the more elusive the problem, the simpler it is to try to deal with it.