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It is accepted that innovation will drive success of nations, organizations, and individuals for the rest of our lifetime. Yet there is little attempt at study of systematic innovation except in some pockets. There are two primary reasons for this: one, we think creativity is inborn, and it comes in sparks, that it cannot be taught. Second, most popular talks and “innovation courses” focus on managing innovation and environmental factors for innovation (you need to be open to ideas, encourage diversity, don’t be afraid of failures, blah, blah, ….) and not on how to think.
What people don’t get to learn is: how do I get to be innovative? And when we don’t get that answer, the notion is reinforced that innovation cannot be taught.
Introduction
14th February | 12:00-14:00 Hrs | EEE Audi
It is accepted that innovation will drive success of nations, organizations, and individuals for the rest of our lifetime. Yet there is little attempt at study of systematic innovation except in some pockets. There are two primary reasons for this: one, we think creativity is inborn, and it comes in sparks, that it cannot be taught. Second, most popular talks and “innovation courses” focus on managing innovation and environmental factors for innovation (you need to be open to ideas, encourage diversity, don’t be afraid of failures, blah, blah, ….) and not on how to think.
What people don’t get to learn is: how do I get to be innovative? And when we don’t get that answer, the notion is reinforced that innovation cannot be taught.
Conducted by Mr. Kalyan Banerjee of MindTree
Content
This talk presents a few thinking tools for systematic innovation. There are multiple aspects to thinking innovation. In this session, we focus on tools that address problem definition, idea generation, and problem solving. The content of this discussion is drawn from TRIZ, a method of systematic innovation proposed by Russian inventor Altshuller.
TRIZ has become extremely popular in the last decade and a large number of companies we admire (Samsung, Intel, or Boeing for example) are known to have benefited heavily from TRIZ. The speaker has studied innovation within the context of his industry over the last five years. This session will be interactive, and simple tools will be illustrated with examples you can relate to.
While top universities across US and Europe (and even some countries in Asia) teach systematic innovation, this has not yet caught up within India. Innovation can give the hi-tech edge to India and take us beyond the “good-programmer” image. Exploration on how innovation education can form the fulcrum of an inventive mindset from India is a desired outcome of this session.
MindTree’s goal is to introduce “systematic thinking” as a formal course in technical schools, and a two-hour session like this is a first step in trying to provoke thoughts in that direction.
TRIZ has become extremely popular in the last decade and a large number of companies we admire (Samsung, Intel, or Boeing for example) are known to have benefited heavily from TRIZ. The speaker has studied innovation within the context of his industry over the last five years. This session will be interactive, and simple tools will be illustrated with examples you can relate to.
While top universities across US and Europe (and even some countries in Asia) teach systematic innovation, this has not yet caught up within India. Innovation can give the hi-tech edge to India and take us beyond the “good-programmer” image. Exploration on how innovation education can form the fulcrum of an inventive mindset from India is a desired outcome of this session.
MindTree’s goal is to introduce “systematic thinking” as a formal course in technical schools, and a two-hour session like this is a first step in trying to provoke thoughts in that direction.
About Mr. Banerjee
Mr. Kalyan Banerjee is co-founder of and responsible for Learning at MindTree. MindTree is the best mid-sized design services and IT consulting company, consistently ranked among the best places to work for and among most admired knowledge enterprises in the country.
Kalyan with his colleagues conceived the Innovation Community at MindTree six years back, where a team of interested people studied innovation and creativity. The content of this discussion is the outcome of practical exploration of systematic innovation methods at MindTree.
Kalyan graduated from IIT Delhi, and then did his masters at IIT Kanpur. For most part of technical career, Kalyan has worked in operating systems and UNIX internals.
Kalyan with his colleagues conceived the Innovation Community at MindTree six years back, where a team of interested people studied innovation and creativity. The content of this discussion is the outcome of practical exploration of systematic innovation methods at MindTree.
Kalyan graduated from IIT Delhi, and then did his masters at IIT Kanpur. For most part of technical career, Kalyan has worked in operating systems and UNIX internals.
