Shankar gave a presentation on innovation flow. He discussed how traditional idea screening kills most early-stage ideas and presented an inclusive approach of focusing on leveraging ideas. Shankar explained that every idea should aim to become an innovation by growing the innovative potential of ideas. He outlined ten steps to achieving innovative solutions, including focusing on the present and ideal states, escaping psychological inertia, and moving to the next generation of ideas.
8. How to get from here to there ?
Grow the Innovative Potential of Ideas
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9. The First Step - Think Creatively
Challenging our view of what’s familiar
can stretch our Imagination
Cycle Handlebar Bull’s Head
& Seat Picasso (1943)
… but to think what nobody
has yet thought,
about that which everybody sees.
Erwin Schrodinger
10. Innovation
structured
directed
Creative Ideas ≠ Innovation
defined
Ideas
11. How to Grow the Innovative Potential of Ideas ?
Innovative product
that wows the User
Strategic IP
Portfolio
Scale-up
Prototype Alignment
Manufacturing with
Innovation
Opportunity
The Idea
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12. The six faces of an Innovator
CROSS-POLLINATOR ENTREPRENEUR
Generate New Ideas Align the Idea with
creatively Business goals
STRATEGIST SOOTHSAYER
Create strategic Forecast
Patent Potfolio technology
evolution
trends
ALCHEMIST
MAGICIAN
Convert the
Reduce cost
technology 10X
down to that
into user
magical
experience 10X
tipping point
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14. The Innovator sees many Barriers
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15. The Path of Innovation has many Pitfalls
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16. !nnovation flow
Flow – The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Challenges Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
High Anxiety
w One cannot
F lo enjoy doing
A4 A3 the same
thing at the
same level for
long
A1 A2 Boredom
Low
Skills
Low High
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17. !nnovation flow
Flow is the mental state of operation
in which the person is fully immersed
in what he or she is doing
by a feeling of energized focus,
full involvement, and
success in the process of the activity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
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19. Puzzle # 1 - Tree Vs Forest
!nnovation flow
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20. Puzzle # 2 - Knowledge Vs Imagination
!nnovation flow
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21. Puzzle # 3
!nnovation flow Present Vs Next-gen Technology
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22. How to focus How to
How to move
on the escape from
to the next
opportunity ? psychological
S-Curve ?
inertia ?
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23. Ten Steps to an Innovative Solution
#1 Focus Phase
What is the Present State (A) ?
What is the Ideal Final State (B) ?
B
A
What do we need for the Journey
from A to B?
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24. Ten Steps to an Innovative Solution
# 2 Escape & Align Phase
What prevents me from reaching B?
What are the Contradictions to be
resolved ?
Where else similar contradictions
exist ?
What are the key Ideas used by
other Inventors to resolve such a
contradiction elsewhere ?
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25. Ten Steps to an Innovative Solution
# 3 Move Phase
How to relate those Ideas to my Situation ?
How will the Problem / Idea evolve with Time ?
How to Jump to the next-gen Idea ?
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26. Mantra for !nnovation flow
Focus Escape Move
&
Align
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