Thinking Skills

 The four thinking skills necessary in the process of developing innovations are:

• Creative thinking
• Analytical thinking
• Systems thinking
• Inquisitive thinking
  
  
  

Inroduction to the innovation facilitator

 

Intro: Advanced course on Innovation hosted at Udemy

 

Advanced course on Innovation

Freshworks: An Indian Unicorn in IT

     Freshworks is a shinning example of an IT company that became a unicorn on the basis of innovations  designed for solving problems faced by companies.

Need for innovators

The current Corona Virus pandemic indicates the need for innovators and innovations. 

App to track silent carriers

An App to track silent carriers of the corona virus is an excellent example of a well timed innovation. 

Innovation Ecosystem

Innovation incubation in Israel. Incubators have been giving risk free loans to start ups to the tune of 600000 USD. If the start up fails, they do not have to pay back the loan. If they succeed they pay back 3% per annum royalty.
Failure on the path of innovation is not penalized in Israel.

Innovation why,what and how

Innovation in solar cells by Tesla

Tesla has finalized an agreement with Panasonic to begin the manufacturing of new solar cells.  With double the energy of the first generation battery, these high-efficiency solar cells can power an average two-bedroom home for a full day.  "This will change the energy world forever.", Elon Musk.

Customer centricity drives innovation

A shift in organizational culture and systems from ,"Organization centric" to,"Customer centric" has the potential of triggering innovations not only in product or service but also in the entire system for delivering value to the customer as well as innovation in all elements of the organizational system with which the customer interacts thereby triggering not only product or service innovation but also innovation in organizational operational and communication systems.
Thus customer centricity creates a whole new perspective in relation to organizational and systems design.

Innovation in HR

Recently conducted a training program on,"Innovation in HR".Prima -facie it seems that innovation is inapplicable to HR.However after applying innovation tools and the innovation development process to HR,it becomes evident that innovations in HR are as big game changers as product and process innovations.Innovation in HR standard and staid HR concepts such as leave can bring about q transformation of the concept from a welfare concept and system into a motivational concept and system.

Water from air

Water Gen has created a product which creates water from air .

Tesla roof

Tesla roof is the disruptive innovation of the decade in the field of energy.What an opportunity?
Energy companies which do not adapt to this innovation are bound to be affected.

E-Reservation charts in trains

E-reservation charts shall be introduced in Rajdhani and Shatabdi express trains.This will facilitate the RAC and wait list passengers and also enable the passengers to look at the reservation charts at night.

Driverless cars

Tesla is designing driver-less cars.

Zero emission train

A zero emission train has been developed by Alstom. It utilizes a hydrogen fuel cell.The emission is steam and water.

Types of innovation

When should an organization aspire for innovation?

Why should we aspire for innovation?

Patent registration time in India

The patent registration time in India is going to get reduced from 5-6 years currently to 15 months.The infrastructure at Patent Offices is being upgraded.