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Team Members

Sonal Gilani
Sally Henderson
Eghe Saliu-Lawal
Alexandra Ursu
Jia Rong Wu

presentation feedback

Terrible set up- make sure that you test before you present
Too long time spent on defining innovation - we know this - what are YOU saying on innovation?
Avoid termw like "blow up" be specific 
Dont explain the scenarios, tell STORIES, I'm loss in the bulletpoints
Like the introduction of social relevance in innovation
Like how you introduced scenario 3 with a question!
Last scenario is interesting - when you use terms try to describe what is in simple terms
The term on

Focal Question

  • The future of Company Innovation in 2030

Interview Questions

Interview Questions reference page

Research Questions

1. Sonal - What are the types of innovation?
2. Rosy - What are the major obstacles to innovation in a company
3. Rosy - How do compliances and regulations affect innovation
4. How failure in innovation affect the future of innovation in a company
5. Sonal - What generates innovation in different industries
6. What are advantages and disadvantages of open sourcing/ open innovation
7. Eghe - Close Innovation - advantages and disadvantages
8. Sonal - What are current business models most successful in fostering innovation
9. Alex - What are emerging trends in big companies regarding next generation innovation models
10.Sally - To what extent do countries prioritize innovation in their national agenda?
11.Sally - How will the current crises move the innovation trends?
12. Sally - What triggers the step change in innovation process in companies
13. Alex - How are the collaborative tool influencing innovation today?
14. Alex - How is corporate leadership shaping innovation
15. Alex- How is innovation being done in Japan
16. Eghe - How are the emerging markets conducting innovation
17. Eghe - To what extent are the developed conutries supporting the innovation in the emerging economies
18. Sally - To what extent are the companies employing people based on their potential for creativity
19. Sonal - What are the barriers for companies to adopt susitanability in the corporate strategy
20. Eghe - Is innovation as expensive as it is stated to be
21. Which types of projects/business future entrepreneurs will do?
22. What % of investment will EU and government raise?
23. Which innovations will be main stream in corporate innovation?
24. What extend will open source develop to?
25. What impact will generate from most innovative corporations??
25. Alex - Innovation from developing countries?
26. Alex - Collective Intelligence
27. Alex - Cloud Computing

Driving Forces

1. Rosy - People's mindset
2. Increasing need for sustainable development
3. Increasing standard of living
4. Increasing use of innovation for competitive advantage
5. Increasing space for creativity to thrive
6. Alex - Sociality and Digital Lifestyles
7. Alex - Changing Leadership Styles
9. Eghe - Climate Change Pressures
10. Eghe - Globalization driving innovation

Scenario Tree

Big picture questions:
1. Will companies be able to overcome social hurdles, nuture employee dynamics and built organisational capability to drive effective innovation in the company? (yes/no)
2. Will emerging markets be the tipping point of geo-economic innovation centres on the globe? (yes/no)
3. In the open source or free innovation world, how is innovation facilitated? (social media/collaborative)

Scenario tree decision point questions:
Will resource depletion, climate change and population trends trigger a significant organised regional or transnational innovation intervention?
Yes - Innovation for he Greater Good
In the connected world, will people organise themselves into groups with collective purpose? (yes/no)
Yes - Connected Convergence
Will brand power have value?
Yes - Open Brewopolies

Scenario 1 - Empire with Walls

Scenario 2- The power of the crowds

Scenario 3 - SuperNova

Scenario 4- Innovation for the greater good



Web Sources

The first link is the relevant video. The second JSB link is other vidoes.
http://edgeperspectives.com/blog/2010/04/jsb-at-stanford-collaborative-innovation-and-a-pull-economy.html
http://www.johnseelybrown.com/
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Using_knowledge_brokering_to_improve_business_processes_2512
http://www.pwc.com/us/en/view/fall09/fostering-innovation.jhtml
http://www.tourismexcellence.com.au/Fostering-Innovation/Why-Innovate.html
http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2010/08/10/top-10-reasons-for-open-innovation-failure/


Key Group Learnings

Iteration within the groups, helps deepen the scenario, adding quality, surprise and plausibility
Don't ignore trends
Process prepares you for foundation of learning or accepting new ideas - readying you for serendipitous ideas and encounters.