ENT 607 Managing technological innovation: Jan-Feb 2025

This is the class schedule and reading material for the Managing Technological Innovation course I teach at IIT Bombay from Jan to Feb 2025. 

email: i16236@iitb.ac.in

	Date	Focus / concepts	Resource/Reading
1	8-Jan-25     Wed	Introduction (slides)
2	10-Jan-25    Friday	2 loops of innovation, idea to demo loop, demo to cash loop (slides)	Four basic workouts for building innovation stamina (10 min video) Kabeer Biswas and the starting of Dunzo Two loops in Watt-Boulton steam engine case
3	15-Jan-25   Wed	Technology lifecycle, s-curve, use-cases (slides)	Atomberg technologies: A Manoj Meena perspective Technology adoption curve (4 min video)
4	17-Jan-25   Friday	2 loops of innovation with Ather Energy example (slides)	Indus Valley Annual Report 2024 from Blume Ventures (pages we saw in class 27-28, 33, 45, 75-76, 96, 109-110) Ather energy case
5	22-Jan-25   Wed	From curiosity to challenge framing,  Pain-wave-waste, metaphoric thinking (slides)	Innovation: where to begin? (3 min video) - Pain-wave-waste How to PIC a challenge area? A simple framework 3 ways a metaphor helps in challenge framing Zipline drone delivery, video case, (2 min to 9 min)
6	24-Jan-25        Friday	Problem-solving approaches (slides)	4 approaches to problem-solving Systematic inventive thinking 4 modes of problem-solving applied to reducing student anxiety
7	29-Jan-25   Wed	Rapid prototyping-1, before-and-after storyboard (slides)	Before-and-after storyboard a simple template Husk Power Systems case Confirmation bias
8	31-Jan-25 Friday	Guest lecture
9	5-Feb-25   Wed	Rapid prototyping-2, looks-like prototypes, paper models (no slides, class was in PoC lab)
10	7-Feb-25   Friday	Works-like prototypes and 3Cs of idea communication (slides)	An idea presentation template based on 2-minute pitch by The Wand Company An idea presentation template based on Steve Jobs' iPod launch speech in 2001 Flatheads Shark tank pitch by Ganesh Balakrishnan 3C of idea communication illustrated through Andrej Karpathy's LLM talk
11	12-Feb-25   Wed	Team presentations
12	14-Feb-25 Friday	Guest lecture
13	19-Feb-25	Business model exploration, who-what-how model, Doing the last experiment first (slides)	Netflix: How a $40 late fee revolutionized television? (13 min) Doing the last experiment first: illustrated through Alex Honnold's El Capitan free solo
14	21-Feb-25