10 best practices and 3 ways you can use time travel to innovate

1. Debashis Banerjee
November 2021
Disclaimer: All views expressed here is that of the speaker and may/may not represent the views of current or any past organizations that he has been part of
What does time travel have
to do with being an
inventor?

3. Invention? Discovery?
Trademark? Trade Secret

4. Idea 1: Relate (to parallel Universes)

5. Let me tell you my story of inventions
Innovation is all around us….

6. Idea 2: Look Back, Then Forward

7. How would we invent the mobile phone
from a cord phone – 3 qns

8. So questions to ask when you see a
problem to innovate
 What is the problem?
 How can we solve it?
 What can we create which is not there?

9. How to jot down your innovative ideas?

10. Idea 3: Dream Boundlessly

11. Using Science Fiction

12. 10 Key practices to inculcate invention
in your agile teams
 1: Believe
 2: Let go of your ego & collaborate
 3: Celebrate failure & Success
 4: Educate & Pay it forward
 5: Automate the thought process it into your process as a check
 6: Throw roles, industry experience and seniority out of the window

13. The Whiteboard and the future?
Be an Inventor – Build an Inventor

14. Key Ideas to take away
 Relate (to parallel Universes)
 Innovation and Patents are everywhere in our work and
around us – So be an inventor.
 Look back, then forward
 The 3 questions to invent & you don’t need to make
beautiful Powerpoints – just scribble and take pictures
 Dream Boundlessly
 Science Fiction Prototyping
 Embrace Failure
 Be an Inventor – Build an Inventor – Be remembered
 Use the 10 Key practices to inculcate invention in
your agile teams