The book explains the relation of Behavioural Economics based Inspiration that use the Intrinsic powers of (individuals, organisations and communities) to address socio-economic needs. The book shows how the concept have been developing rapidly in the last few years with its more differentiated live labs applications that are influencing the quality of life and the development of many communities. This edited book is a collective of published papers and articles in different peer-reviewed journals and conferences. The idea behind this work is to show and follow the progress of one of the new coming behavioural economy fields that is Inspiration Economy, as rapidly developing socioeconomic concept that might create a differentiated outcome in the coming years. It is a reference book for those interested in understanding how Inspiration Economy labs, Inspiration Currency, Inspirational techniques of Problem Solving as Differential Diagnosis and Complex Models, are handled, developed and optimised. The papers show the relation also between Inspiration Economy and the supporting coming economies as Youth Economy and Resilience Economy and how they address the world future foresighted needs in unique ways. The opportunities developed in the chapters of the book show how much we humans can change positively the fate of humanity, if we realise, discover and capitalize on the opportunities around us in effective creative ways. We invite you to go through the detail brief and/or visit any of the following links on the main international book stores: https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Inspiration-Economy-Mohamed-Buheji/dp/1546292128/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525878239&sr=8-1&keywords=Exploring+Inspiration+Economy Also, it is going to be available as Kindle e-book Version within 10 days. Mohamed Buheji 9/5/2018
Resilience is a value that unfolds over a lifetime and has shown to be expressed in different ways and by different disciplines. The book covers a total review and reflections of resilience role in creating better socio-economy. The author targets to provide practitioners, researchers and change community leaders a roadmap to boost resilience economy and resilience engineering and manage their existence. This work is essential for better withstanding adverse shocks and reducing the economic costs associated with weak economic structures through ability to absorb disturbances and bouncing back, while continuing to function. With resilient economy, the world would witness more harmony while enhancing its capacity to respond to sudden crisis. Something that is worth exploring more in today's daunting conditions.
This part two of the 'COVID-19 The Untapped Solutions' book, continues to bring more perspectives about how to see opportunities insides the problems. The book has a variety of chapters in the four sections that shows the Covid-19 pandemic related spillovers, besides ways to mitigating it. The overall common thread of both books (parts 1 &2) comes from the capacity of the 'moment of pauses' that could be utilized to solve problems or exploit opportunities, because of a complex global emergency situation. The context of the chapters emphasize the utilization of challenges and issues of COVID-19 virus, and its spillovers, by the multidisciplinary researchers that came from twenty-two countries throughout the globe. In total, the 54 chapters in both books managed to attract researchers 72 researchers, coming from 36 different disciplines which show the uniqueness and the capacity of the inspiration-based economy to mobilize and refocus the scientific and knowledge community to bring practical and sustainable solutions that lead to a more stable world and communities. The 53 'Untapped solutions' listed in both books not only help to address demanding solutions to existing problems, but most probably would help to more effective future foresight. The editors confirm that once the risks like the ones of this pandemic come in a different context, the solutions that could be extracted from the opportunities seen from similar problems could be generalized with minimal limitations. The implication of the two books raises the need for a different mindset that would help to establish early tools that would encourage in-depth research for seeing such type of 'untapped solution' ahead of a coming complex challenge.
There are certain points in the history of humanity when everything changes and a new version of what we do, who we are, how we relate to each other and how we live, emerges. These moments are usually triggered by a significant event that rocks the earth’s very foundation. We are living in one of those moments, right now. It’s called a new normal, where old ideas that ruled the day are being replaced by new ones that are more efficient, more effective and more appropriate for the time. But the start of a new normal is not a static moment. When things change, there is a state of flux where the new normal is still seeking to be established.This book provides clarity as to the challenges and the potential of this moment.This paradigm shift is a rare event, so it is important for us to know what’s happening and how we can thrive and succeed in this time. Using forestight, intuitive knowledge, collective data and indigenous wisdom, we have provided a blueprint on what’s possible and the tools we’ll need to leverage the gifts of this time.
The Defiance – A Socio-economic Problem Solving (Edited Book) Taking the challenge of socio-economic problems and trying to solving them with different techniques and through life models is a fundamental practice for any community’s realised development. In this edited book, the authors present a collection of work that addresses this growing discipline taking the ‘The Defiance” as the mindset that leads to these cases achievements. The idea behind this work is to explore how defiant socio-economic problems can be tackled, using different approaches and from different perspectives. Therefore, Dr Buheji and Dr Ahmed illustrate for us how socio-economic problem-solving works theoretically and then show a sample of case studies that illustrate the application of the alternative approaches that could come from different areas and fields. Such attempts make our life meaningful and give a sense for the meaning of inspiration.
Inspiration as a phenomena have been around since beginning of time, however it never been in history of mankind an important currency that can be engineered and developed. The level of success of future developments depends on our ability to design and engineer inspiration. Inspiration Engineering therefore more than a trend, it is a capacity developing concept that long been undermined or gone unstudied. In "Breaking the Shield", Mohamed Buheji and Dunya Ahmed explore their innovative concept "Inspiration Engineering" which can help to create and manage inspiration in ways never been discussed before. The authors discuss how to use inspiration to influence change without power or with minimal resources, or how to approach problems or challenges or failures or losses to create from them sources of inspiration. This book breaks the shield in many hidden spots and help to explore new unseen opportunities through different case studies. Discover how people, organizations, and societies can tap hidden powers, bolster their influence, and reach new levels of achievements by laying the foundation for an inspiration economy.
The economy of poverty is beyond having enough material possessions or income for a person’s needs. Poverty has been the challenge for many countries, economies and communities. With the rapid developments of ‘poverty elimination’ efforts, the quest for understanding more about the economy of poverty is increasing from both academics and practitioners of different speciality. This project foresight and shapes the future poverty economy. The book shows how to eliminate poverty and human inequalities that limit many people from accessing vital resources. This is highly essential, if we want future generations to be more resilient and ready for the coming threats of the different forms of poverty. In ‘Shaping the Future of Poverty Economy’, Dr Buheji & Dr Ahmed explore how the current and future types of poverty can bring in opportunities towards major complicated socio-economic solutions. The Inspiration Labs set the framework in how to deal with all the rising situations of poverty, not just to eliminate the current extreme ones. The book sees ‘poverty elimination’ from different perspectives with a focus on poverty as an issue that reflects a failure in realising the human wealth and the profound knowledge accumulated in today and future poverty.
When we study socio-economic issues we are actually studying the way our lives are planned. This Handbook targets to re-invent the way we think and deal with challenges in our life journey by re-inventing how our mindsets can visualise complex problems. Patterns of problem structure and its activity profile are shown in relevant to discovering ‘hidden opportunities’ in the socio-economic issues. To re-invent the issues in our life the problem outcome is linked to both the problem scenarios and its visualised stories. Therefore, the dynamics of the socio-economic complex situations are explained based on the different ‘styles of thinking’ not the ‘competency of problem-solving’. The case studies in the handbook show how our social life affects our economic outcomes. Also, all the examples of dealing with problems in different ways pave the way for re-inventing our lives through re-inventing the way we deal with our communities and organisations chronic problems. Dr. Buheji in this first-ever “Handbook of Socio-Economic Problem Solving” shows how we can renew our ‘learning capacity’ and to extract factors that influence the problem outcome to come with “High” ‘multiplying effect’ model solutions. The diversified problem-solving techniques help the reader to build socio-economic perspectives. The reader would be challenged to explore the mindset of managing life frustrations that would make us create proper community solutions through visualising improved situations, inspiring change and creating meaningful wealth in our life journey. The book shows the link between the learning by involvement and learning by experience that lead to life breakthroughs. It is a personal challenge; so can you take it?
Behavioural Economics (BE) explains the problem, or the socio-economic issue from the human behaviour perspective. Inspiration economy and gamification are other concepts coming up that join BE in bringing in new solutions to any contemporary and future foresight challenge. All these three concepts depend on field tests that engage the providers and the beneficiaries in a common goal. Through the approaches of these three concepts, we can shape the current and future expected Quality of Life (QoL) challenges. In this book Dr Buheji and Dr Ahmed shows what is the best techniques and labs that could be used to motivate all the QoL stakeholders toward a better decision. One of the main outcomes of this work is that it sets a better awareness about new radical approaches that could be used for eliminating the widening communities’ disparities which could be seen clearly in the rising levels of the different life inequalities today and even more expected in the future. The reader hopefully would see that BE started to lead the new economic influence in shaping the QoL in ways never experienced before. The other two coming socio-economic driven concepts: Inspiration Economy and Gamification are also planning a new profound role in shaping further different QoL issues. The book is a good reference for practitioners, researchers and decision-makers concerned about the challenges of QoL, besides those working to raise the capacity of their community for a more accurate ‘Future Foresight’.
Understanding Youth Economy is becoming an essential need that is to be addressed on the level of organisations, communities and countries, due to the speed of technology that increased the generations gap. This new concept helps to illustrate ways for capitalizing on the youth potentials that would create a more stable socio-economy. This first comprehensive Handbook of Youth Economy reviews all the sources and perspectives that set together a youth-driven economy that is explained in five main parts. The handbook covers how to capture, create and sustain youth economy. It is an innovative work that present areas for deeper exploration to decision makers, economist, educators, researchers, practitioners, academics, social change advocates and youth development mentors. Besides, it would be an eye-opener for those who carry youth energy and spirit whatever their age or profession is. This work brings in exciting curious studies that would clarify the influence of youth in different economies. Practically, the book covers the enablers, followed by the motivators and the obstacles that might face any youth economy initiatives. All chapters present examples and stories that bring in solutions for better youth engagement while dealing with the youth psychology and exploring the different learning needs and styles that impact social development. The role of app generation, gamification and artificial intelligence are analysed along with current and coming youth business models to show practically how would they change the way we live, survive, earn and thrive.
Youth is a unique period in any human life, where it is time for our optimum curiosity and early productivity. This book brings in Youthineering, a concept that was developed by the international inspiration economy project (IIEP) to focus on solving socio-economic problems through optimising the intrinsic resources within the targeted youth communities. Youthineering focuses on transforming the youth mindset in the beneficiary communities from ‘youth of capital-based economy’ to ‘youth economy creators’. Then, developing the services relevant to youth according to structured programs (i.e. offering structured sustainable youth education, care, development, etc.) that lead to the advancement of youth contribution to their community. Dr Buheji & Dr Ahmed present through the chapters of this book new approaches that help to involve and then engage youth in solving the most complex challenges, today and in the foresighted future. The applied researches presented in the chapters show how the increase of realisation of youth economy would transform us into a better world, with less poverty and more opportunities while addressing both youth development and advancement.
Similar to our needs to secure the basic necessities (food, water, shelter and clothing), we need more than ever today to build resilient communities’ livelihoods which have a set of approaches that help us to manage the challenges and be tolerant to a sudden crisis. Communities livelihood involves the capacity to ensure sustainable and continuously developing activities that overcome turbulent economic, ecological, and socially complex contemporary or foreseen situations. Having intolerant communities that refuse diversified life is a serious socio-economic problem that might lead to both socio-environmental and socio-political problems which deteriorate our livelihood. Therefore, we need to tackle non-resilience as an issue of hidden opportunities that need to be exploited until we reach optimum resilience status. Being more resilient helps to create lasting change, which is what differentiates any community outcome or realized change. Therefore, the purpose of this work is to create aspiring leaders from around the world who have the right mindset and passion towards creating a difference towards this challenging, positive change.
The economy of poverty is beyond having enough material possessions or income for a person's needs. Poverty has been the challenge for many countries, economies and communities. With the rapid developments of 'poverty elimination' efforts, the quest for understanding more about the economy of poverty is increasing from both academics and practitioners of different speciality. This project foresight and shapes the future poverty economy. The book shows how to eliminate poverty and human inequalities that limit many people from accessing vital resources. This is highly essential, if we want future generations to be more resilient and ready for the coming threats of the different forms of poverty. In 'Shaping the Future of Poverty Economy', Dr Buheji & Dr Ahmed explore how the current and future types of poverty can bring in opportunities towards major complicated socio-economic solutions. The Inspiration Labs set the framework in how to deal with all the rising situations of poverty, not just to eliminate the current extreme ones. The book sees 'poverty elimination' from different perspectives with a focus on poverty as an issue that reflects a failure in realising the human wealth and the profound knowledge accumulated in today and future poverty.
Designing a curious life is about living a meaningful life. In order to explore this life, this book introduces how we create our world through curiosity design. Curiosity anatomy and psychology are discussed, in a way never been introduced before, to give importance of ‘why we should design and live a curious life?’. The book shades clear discussions and examples about the importance of curious life to both our learning and development. The role of curiosity in finding the right problem, or the right solution is deeply dialogued to show how curiosity makes differentiation to the legacy of individuals, organisations and communities. It is a journey about us and what we can do using the instrument of curiosity.
Youth is a unique period in any human life, where it is time for our optimum curiosity and early productivity. This book brings in Youthineering, a concept that was developed by the international inspiration economy project (IIEP) to focus on solving socio-economic problems through optimising the intrinsic resources within the targeted youth communities. Youthineering focuses on transforming the youth mindset in the beneficiary communities from ‘youth of capital-based economy’ to ‘youth economy creators’. Then, developing the services relevant to youth according to structured programs (i.e. offering structured sustainable youth education, care, development, etc.) that lead to the advancement of youth contribution to their community. Dr Buheji & Dr Ahmed present through the chapters of this book new approaches that help to involve and then engage youth in solving the most complex challenges, today and in the foresighted future. The applied researches presented in the chapters show how the increase of realisation of youth economy would transform us into a better world, with less poverty and more opportunities while addressing both youth development and advancement.
There are certain points in the history of humanity when everything changes and a new version of what we do, who we are, how we relate to each other and how we live, emerges. These moments are usually triggered by a significant event that rocks the earth’s very foundation. We are living in one of those moments, right now. It’s called a new normal, where old ideas that ruled the day are being replaced by new ones that are more efficient, more effective and more appropriate for the time. But the start of a new normal is not a static moment. When things change, there is a state of flux where the new normal is still seeking to be established.This book provides clarity as to the challenges and the potential of this moment.This paradigm shift is a rare event, so it is important for us to know what’s happening and how we can thrive and succeed in this time. Using forestight, intuitive knowledge, collective data and indigenous wisdom, we have provided a blueprint on what’s possible and the tools we’ll need to leverage the gifts of this time.
Inspiration as a phenomena have been around since beginning of time, however it never been in history of mankind an important currency that can be engineered and developed. The level of success of future developments depends on our ability to design and engineer inspiration. Inspiration Engineering therefore more than a trend, it is a capacity developing concept that long been undermined or gone unstudied. In "Breaking the Shield", Mohamed Buheji and Dunya Ahmed explore their innovative concept "Inspiration Engineering" which can help to create and manage inspiration in ways never been discussed before. The authors discuss how to use inspiration to influence change without power or with minimal resources, or how to approach problems or challenges or failures or losses to create from them sources of inspiration. This book breaks the shield in many hidden spots and help to explore new unseen opportunities through different case studies. Discover how people, organizations, and societies can tap hidden powers, bolster their influence, and reach new levels of achievements by laying the foundation for an inspiration economy.
Behavioral Economics and Intrinsic power socio-economic theories have been developing rapidly in the last few years with its more differentiated live labs applications that are influencing the quality of life and the development of many communities. This edited book is a collection of published papers and articles in different peer-reviewed journals and conferences. The idea behind this work is to show and follow the progress of one of the new coming behavioral economy fields that is Inspiration Economy, a rapidly developing socioeconomic concept that might create a differentiated outcome in the coming years. It is a reference book for those interested in understanding how Inspiration Economy labs, currency, problem solving, differential diagnosis and complex models work. The papers show the relation also between Inspiration Economy and the supporting coming economies as Youth Economy and Resilience Economy and how they address foresighted needs in unique ways. The opportunities developed in the chapters of the book show how much we humans can change positively the fate of humanity, if we realise, discover and capitalize on the opportunities around us in effective creative ways.
Resilience is a value that unfolds over a lifetime and has shown to be expressed in different ways and by different disciplines. The book covers a total review and reflections of resilience role in creating better socio-economy. The author targets to provide practitioners, researchers and change community leaders a roadmap to boost resilience economy and resilience engineering and manage their existence. This work is essential for better withstanding adverse shocks and reducing the economic costs associated with weak economic structures through ability to absorb disturbances and bouncing back, while continuing to function. With resilient economy, the world would witness more harmony while enhancing its capacity to respond to sudden crisis. Something that is worth exploring more in todays daunting conditions.
Understanding Youth Economy is becoming an essential need that is to be addressed on the level of organisations, communities and countries, due to the speed of technology that increased the generations gap. This new concept helps to illustrate ways for capitalizing on the youth potentials that would create a more stable socio-economy. This first comprehensive Handbook of Youth Economy reviews all the sources and perspectives that set together a youth-driven economy that is explained in five main parts. The handbook covers how to capture, create and sustain youth economy. It is an innovative work that present areas for deeper exploration to decision makers, economist, educators, researchers, practitioners, academics, social change advocates and youth development mentors. Besides, it would be an eye-opener for those who carry youth energy and spirit whatever their age or profession is. This work brings in exciting curious studies that would clarify the influence of youth in different economies. Practically, the book covers the enablers, followed by the motivators and the obstacles that might face any youth economy initiatives. All chapters present examples and stories that bring in solutions for better youth engagement while dealing with the youth psychology and exploring the different learning needs and styles that impact social development. The role of app generation, gamification and artificial intelligence are analysed along with current and coming youth business models to show practically how would they change the way we live, survive, earn and thrive.
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