Innovation Flow

I am currently teaching a course on Technology and Innovation Management at the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Bangalore. It is a 2-credit elective course and the class comprises of both Marketing and Finance students (about 60 students). This is the third consecutive year that I am teaching this course - i make it interesting to myself  by preparing fresh charts, case-studies and projects every time. It is a very refreshing experience to design fresh and teach this course every year. I aim to learn from my class as much as I teach. To ensure effective learning, I spend about 25% time to introduce the concepts - the rest 75% time is interactive discussions, hand-on exercises, focused ideation sessions and problem solving workshops. I have taught the first 8 sessions out of a total of 24 sessions as of today. In the first two sessions, we focused on defining innovation management, breaking the Myths and discussing the key issues that make managing innovation d...

                                                                                                                    In the previous blog post we discussed the problem - the widening gap between the University training and the Industry's needs. The University and the Industry need to partner and train the students / fresh hires in systematic innovation. We have designed a solution in the form of an innovation training  using !nnovation flow technique and a two dimensional framework. The first dimension is the effectiveness of teaching that spans across – fundamental concepts, practical application, and project management. The second dimension is customization of the content for people p...