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The Roots of CDI
“Challenge Driven Innovation, CDI, shares DNA with the modularity
processes, earlier described by Carliss Baldwin and Kim Clark of
Harvard Business School. In CDI, a portion of the larger project is
formulated as a challenge, in which a “challenge” essentially
represents the problem statement for a block of work that can be
modularized and in most cases rendered “portable.” That is, such a
block of work can be outsourced or insourced as an integral unit. The
central processes to this framework are those of dissection, channel
distribution, and integration.”
Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark, Design Rules: The Power of Modularity, vol. 1 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000). And
“Managing in an Age of Modularity,” Harvard Business Review 75, no. 5 (September–October 1997): 84–93.
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Why Challenge-drive Innovation Works
Challenge-driven Innovation unlocks your innovation potential
Communities collaborate around well-defined “boundary objects”
Boundary objects create a common reference point and language
Enable “constructive arguments” (collaboration)
Example: a clay model or prototype of an automobile
Designers look at aesthetics, engineers consider aerodynamics
Well-formed Challenges are uniquely effective as boundary objects
Rich in information, but abstracted to engage diverse thinking…”just-right” challenges
Must be actionable, sponsored, owned
In contrast, “ideas” are loosely defined, not clearly owned, and create less impact
Challenges help to transform organization, process, and culture
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NASA Pilot Challenges – Phase 1
Challenge Title - Center
Proposals
Submitted
Award Details
Improved Barrier Layers … Keeping Food Fresh in Space
- JSC
22 One Partial Award
Mechanism for a Compact Aerobic Resistive Exercise
Device – JSC/GRC
95 Fully Awarded
Data-Driven Forecasting of Solar Events - JSC 11 Fully Awarded
Coordination of Sensor Swarms for Extraterrestrial
Research - LARC
37 Three Partial Awards