UiPath Community: AI for UiPath Automation Developers
Rapid disruptive innovation
1. We’ll be working through several phases
of a disruptive innovation project in fairly
short order including:
- Problem Definition
- Trend Spotting
- Scenario Development and Analysis
- Disruptive Idea Generation
- Idea Evaluation and Selection
- Prototyping and Interaction
- Idea Presentation
August 15 -17
2012
Shanghai China
Rapid
Disruptive
Innovation
Course Facilitator “ Clear strategy, management commitment,
short timeframes, stretch goals and new
Jeffrey Phillips techniques + 8621 6132 9897
and methods – force the team
an internationally recognised to work in agrace.zhu@gm-laureate.com
completely different way than
innovation expert, respected
author and World renowned
they normally do, encouraging more
www.gm-laureate.com
Innovation Blogger disruptive ideas and better results ”
www.gm-laureate.com
2. Rapid Disruptive Innovation Workshop
Overview 10 Reasons to Attend
Understand linkages between innovation, strategy
In many organizations a false dichotomy is taken as and business
innovation gospel. The choices offered are easy, Use a proven 90 Day BHAG methodology to reduce
short, “safe” incremental innovation or difficult, time innovation risk, uncertainty, investment and project
consuming, risky disruptive innovation. Although length
disruptive innovation has been positioned as a key Establish the strategic framework for a disruptive
to sustained competitive advantage and change the innovation initiative for the best chance of success
game in the marketplace, companies seem to be more
willing to adopt incremental innovation which is safer. Obtain techniques to spot unfolding and emerging
market opportunities and trends before competitors
So why organizations are reluctant to adopt
disruptive innovation? What are the factors that Gain tools that deliver greater insights into unmet
make disruptive innovation seem so difficult and or unarticulated customer needs
dangerous? Learn an efficient idea evaluation process that will
? First, it is risky and somewhat open ended. become the basis for finding more valuable disruptive
That means the costs and timeframes can be hard ideas, and prioritizing them more quickly.
to determine. Increase the speed and quality of customer feedback
? Second, disruptive innovation is uncertain. It’s to your ideas by learning the best rapid prototyping
much harder to define the likely outcomes, which techniques
may lead to an increased chance of “failure”.
Move beyond product innovation to market and
? Third, there often aren’t clear processes to
business model innovation
use or maps to follow for disruptive innovation,
so teams are less familiar with the process. Learn numerous disruptive innovation case studies /
illustrations from leading businesses
However our work has shown that the best
outcomes are generated when conducting projects Over 6 hours of peer-to-peer networking
with outsized goals (disruption, radical innovation)
with appropriate methods, tools, and under tight
constraints, especially time constraints. About Jeffrey Phillips
The 3 Day Rapide Disruptive Innovation workshop Jeffrey Phillips is a renowned innovation expert who
will provide a proven systematic 90 Day BHAG has helped businesses around the world achieve the
methodology to solve the issues preventing the dream—the implementation of innovation as a
success of disruptive innovation. This methodology consistent business discipline.
helps achieve the goal of disruptive innovation
in a more controlled framework, and lead to Jeffrey has led a number of innovation projects for
dramatically increased profits with less risk. firms such as John Deere, GSK, Hewlett-Packard,
Raytheon, AIG, T. Rowe Price,WellPoint ,U.S. Bank
This workshop is a combination of lecture about the and Veolia Water. He has also led executive level
approach and tools, and a hands-on workshop and MBA innovation programs for top universities
meant to impart the concepts. The attendees will including Duke University, the University of Texas,
benefit by identifying a specific problem to solve or the University of North Carolina, Georgetown University,
opportunity to address, and by reading some material Carleton University, the University of Ottawa and the
in advance if possible. While there will be benefit University of the Pacific.
gained by attending, much more knowledge is imparted
He is experienced in all facets of innovation, from
if the participants are actively involved in the exercises
trend spotting and scenario planning to ethnography
and have a specific problem or opportunity they wish
and idea generation, to innovation processes and
to address. The activities in the workshop are meant
developing a culture of innovation.
to demonstrate how to repeat a rapid, disruptive
project in their businesses, and can help accelerate Jeffrey is also the author of best selling books Make
existing concepts and ideas as well. Us More Innovative and Relentless Innovation.
+ 8621 6132 9897 grace.zhu@gm-laureate.com www.gm-laureate.com
3. Rapid Disruptive Innovation Workshop AGENDA
DAY 1: 15th AUGUST 2012
15:15 Idea Generation Facilitation/Techniques
• The importance of planning and the
LAYING THE FOUNDATION best practice
08:30 Registration and Coffee • Improving the facilitation of an Idea
generation session
09:00 Introductions
• Various tools to generate ideas with a
09:15 Overview of the Workshop market demand
09:30 Innovation Strategy and Definitions
16:45 Exercise
• Incremental vs. Disruptive
• Examining innovation types 16:15 Idea Evaluation and Selection
• Reviewing strategies, methodologies, • Establishing an easy to use consistant
processes that support or enable idea evaluation framework
innovation • Linking Ideas back to opportunity or
problem definition for selection
10:30 Exercise - Strategy Definition
• Using a simple but robust framework
10:45 Coffee Break
16:45 Exercise
11:00 Innovation Models
17:15 Problem Statements
• Different types of innovation models
• Role and structure of an innovation model
Homework: Trends/information about the problems
• Identifying the appropriate innovation
noted
models for your organization
11:45 Exercise – Model Definitions
DAY 2: 16th AUGUST 2012
12:00 Networking Lunch
13:00 Innovation Measures/Metrics ESTABLISHING THE FRAMEWORK
• The evolution of innovation metrics
• Improving the accountability for innovation 08:30 Registration and Coffee
• Key metrics to accelerate innovation 09:00 BHAG Overview - Big Hairy Audacious Goal
13:30 Customer Insights Tools • The concept of BHAG
• Introduction of various tools • Why Disruptive Innovation is a BHAG
• When and how to use Voice of the 09:45 Planning a 90 Day BHAG
Customer, Ethnography, Needs Based • Understanding the procedure
Investigation, Jobs to be Done and lead • Establishing the goal and scope
users • Defining the measures
• Understanding a Customer’s Journey, • Cost, risk and uncertainty
and using a journey map to define • Aligning to corporate strategy
innovation opportunities
10:30 Coffee Break
• Using Strategy Canvas to identify new
market 10:45 Problem/Opportunity Definition
14:15 Strategy Mapping 11:15 Exercise
• Factors driving organizational choice of The teams will work together to use a framework to
innovative strategy ensure the problem or opportunity they’ll address is
well documented, appropriately scoped and narrowly
focused, so that the team can quickly move into
15:00 Coffee Break
valuable and relevant idea generation.
12:00 Networking Lunch
+ 8621 6132 9897 grace.zhu@gm-laureate.com www.gm-laureate.com
4. Rapid Disruptive Innovation Workshop AGENDA
13:00 Trend and Scenario Planning 10:15 Idea Capture and Documentation
• Identifying and synthesizing trends • Introducing a standard documentation
• Finding information on trends and format for capturing and communicating
competitve actions the idea
• Developing skills for gaining insights into 10:45 Coffee Break
new market, products and services need 11:00 Exercise
• Building scenarios
11:30 Rapid, iterative Prototyping
13:30 Exercise • Types of Prototype
The teams will be asked to synthesize the info • How, when and what to prototype
on trends and use it in context of their problem or • How to use feedback from your
opportunity. prototyping sessions
• Enhancing innovation opportunity
14:30 Transforming Insights into Actions through rapid prototype
• Identifying emerging opportunities
before your competitor 12:00 Networking Lunch
• How do we apply insights to 13:00 Exercise
accomplish strategic goals The teams can choose any method to prototype
15:00 Coffee Break their ideas, from sketches to modeling clay to found
objects to skits. The only important aspect here is
15:15 Exercise that the prototype brings the idea to life and can be
The teams will take on the role of consumers or readily understood by others, and is constructed of
customers to understand the costomers’ need, and simple materials.
to examine if the stated problems have addressed
the costomer needs? 14:00 Prototype Presentation and Feedback
15:45 Revisite the problem statement 15:00 Coffee Break
16:00 Exercise 15:15 Developing financial models
17:00 Recap/Next step 15:45 Exercise
16:15 Presenting concepts to steering teams
16:30 Exercise
DAY 3: 17th AUGUST 2012 17:00 Conclusion
TURNING IDEAS INTO ACTIONS
08:30 Registration and Coffee
09:00 Disruptive Idea Generation Who Should Attend ?
• Using existing tools to generate ideas
• Improving your team’s ability to This workshop is designed for anyone who
generate disruptive and actionable ideas wants to radically improve their innovation
• Examples include traditional brainstorming, throughput, who wants to obtain a more
brainwriting, guaranteed failure, analogies, consistent and transparent innovation pipeline
lateral thinking, TRIZ, SCAMPER ,etc. and who wants to reduce risk and uncertainty
in the innovation process as a whole.
09:30 Exercise
the team will be encouraged to generate radical Especially for directors and managers of New
or disruptive ideas that achieve the problem Market/Business Development, Product
statement goals and align to trends and scenarios Development, R&D and Innovation who want
previously developed. to optimize their understanding and knowledge
of successful disruptive innovation
+ 8621 6132 9897 grace.zhu@gm-laureate.com www.gm-laureate.com