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3 Questions that will help
you Innovate and be
inventor
Debashis Banerjee (ATL – ATL Tinkering Mentoring Session)
April 24th 2020
Let me tell you my story of inventions
Innovation is all around us….
Invention? Discovery?
Trademark? Trade Secret
How would we invent the mobile phone
from a cord phone – 3 qns
First question – what is the problem?
 What is the problem with landline phones
 List them
 We cannot walk around with them
 They ring when we are not near them
 We cannot go out with them
 If the wire cuts we have to repair
 Number of models are less
 We cannot change how it looks on screen
 Not all models we can see who is calling
 There is no camera or other items
 There is no internet
Second question - How can we solve it
 How did we make it better?
 Remove wires
 Make it wireless
 Have a display
 Include touch
 Make it have voice
 Have internet – data and voice
 Make it tougher
Third question - What did we create
which was not there?
 List the things we created
 A way to connect phone wirelessly
 A design for a wireless device
 Technology for wireless towers
 Appllication market
 Innovations in chips to put things in smaller areas
 New programming languages, new technical stacks android, ios
 New type of users
 Created a market in areas where it was not possible to have phone
 New jobs for people
So finally 3 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?
How to jot down your innovative ideas?
Now something to think…..
 Think of one thing which does not exist today or one problem
 Ask yourself the 3 questions and write the answers
 What is the problem?
 How can we solve it?
 What can we create which is not there?
 Innovation is all around us!

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3 questions that will help you innovate and be an inventor

  • 1. 3 Questions that will help you Innovate and be inventor Debashis Banerjee (ATL – ATL Tinkering Mentoring Session) April 24th 2020
  • 2. Let me tell you my story of inventions Innovation is all around us….
  • 3.
  • 5.
  • 6. How would we invent the mobile phone from a cord phone – 3 qns
  • 7. First question – what is the problem?  What is the problem with landline phones  List them  We cannot walk around with them  They ring when we are not near them  We cannot go out with them  If the wire cuts we have to repair  Number of models are less  We cannot change how it looks on screen  Not all models we can see who is calling  There is no camera or other items  There is no internet
  • 8. Second question - How can we solve it  How did we make it better?  Remove wires  Make it wireless  Have a display  Include touch  Make it have voice  Have internet – data and voice  Make it tougher
  • 9. Third question - What did we create which was not there?  List the things we created  A way to connect phone wirelessly  A design for a wireless device  Technology for wireless towers  Appllication market  Innovations in chips to put things in smaller areas  New programming languages, new technical stacks android, ios  New type of users  Created a market in areas where it was not possible to have phone  New jobs for people
  • 10. So finally 3 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?
  • 11. How to jot down your innovative ideas?
  • 12. Now something to think…..  Think of one thing which does not exist today or one problem  Ask yourself the 3 questions and write the answers  What is the problem?  How can we solve it?  What can we create which is not there?  Innovation is all around us!