"Managing technological innovation" course at IIT Bombay Oct 10-21

Currently, I am teaching 4 classes (Oct 10, 14, 17, 21) in "Managing Technological Innovation" course being taught by Prof. Anand Kusre at IIT Bombay. This course is being offered at Desai Sethi Center for Entrepreneurship.  

The classes are:

Oct 10 (class slides): Creating a challenge book, Iterative thinking, Framing a challenge through metaphors 

Oct 14 (class slides): Rapid prototyping, feels-like, looks-like and works-like prototypes, before-and-after storyboard 

Oct 17 (class slides): Taking big technological bets, technology sandbox, Lego mindstorm - building a sandbox collaboratively

Oct 21 (class slides): Building a margin of safety, pre-mortem, cognitive biases and investigating cognitive illusions

Oct 20: Based on the first 3 classes, students have to submit the following assignment by Oct 20 (Sunday):

What to submit: A pdf document with the following:

1. Class-1 (10-Oct) exercise:

   1.1 List of challenge areas - one each for pain-wave-waste

   1.2 Shortlist them using PIC framework - Passion, Impact, chance of progress

   1.3 Identify a metaphor

   1.4 Frame a challenge statement - one line only

2. Class-2 (14-Oct) exercise:

   2.1 A before-and-after storyboard of an idea

   2.2 A paper model of the idea

3. Class-3 (17-Oct) exercise:

  3.1 Design of low-cost working prototype

  3.2 Cost of the prototype

  3.3 Outcome of your 1-hour effort towards working prototype