The final project for this class had very few instructions, which led to a diverse range of ideas and models. Our model what to redesign the commercial beekeeping industry. My group members and I found ourselves wanting to solve the problems associated with honey bees in commercial agriculture. Our ideations led to Rent-A-Hive, a business concept that profits through optimizing the minimization of stress to bees. Rent-A-Hive is a stretch of an idea that could potentially work in the current market of commercial beekeeping by adapting technologies in other industries to beekeeping. Overall I really enjoyed the idea of Rent-A-Hive and while I do not think it is applicable due to large capital costs I do think strategies we discussed will be applied to commercial beekeeping in the near future.
If the idea of Rent-A-Hive were to continue there would have to be decisions made on what would be manufactured and what would be purchased and adapted. I could see it entirely possible that none of the components are actually manufactured by Rent-A-Hive but all purchased and the money is made through pollination services. During questions, after our presentation, the idea of data and its value was discussed as well. I think this is a great area to pursue as well because this data may be of more worth than the pollination services.
I think several of the ideations produced by other groups were very well done as well. I really enjoyed the idea of a family build your own bee house. I think this idea has a lot of possibility and could be found in the real world as a reasonable product. Another idea that left me in awe was the museum exhibit. I thought this was a brilliant idea that perfectly incorporated arts based research. It was pertinent that a lot of work had been done in the background to create the arts based research presentation.
If the idea of Rent-A-Hive were to continue there would have to be decisions made on what would be manufactured and what would be purchased and adapted. I could see it entirely possible that none of the components are actually manufactured by Rent-A-Hive but all purchased and the money is made through pollination services. During questions, after our presentation, the idea of data and its value was discussed as well. I think this is a great area to pursue as well because this data may be of more worth than the pollination services.
I think several of the ideations produced by other groups were very well done as well. I really enjoyed the idea of a family build your own bee house. I think this idea has a lot of possibility and could be found in the real world as a reasonable product. Another idea that left me in awe was the museum exhibit. I thought this was a brilliant idea that perfectly incorporated arts based research. It was pertinent that a lot of work had been done in the background to create the arts based research presentation.