Talks about how 3 ideas of relating to parallel adjacent problem areas, key questions to ask for inventing and how to dream boubdlessly to be an inventor.

1. Debashis Banerjee
August 2020
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. 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

9. 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

10. 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
 Application 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

11. 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?

12. How to jot down your innovative ideas?

13. Idea 3: Dream Boundlessly

14. Science Fiction Prototyping (Adapted..)

15. Persistence pays off
Any organization or person that implements a lot of ideas is bound to fail
at some point. The thing to remember is failure is the mother of
innovation and not get discouraged by it. Not everything you do will be a
massive success but keep trying till you succeed
Try Fail Success

16. The Whiteboard and the future?
Be an Inventor – Build an Inventor
Read more at this linkedin Blog: 10 insights on how YOU can have over 40%
of your Floor become Inventors - we did and in 4 years.

17. 3 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