Future Proofing

your Student

Murali Loganathan

April 2013

Do you want this?

Do you want your student to

become a glorified clerk?

Do you want your student to

take up low paying,

mundane job with a bad

boss till retirement?

Do you want your student to

search for a fulfilling job for

more than 2 years?

or this?

Do you want your student to be thinking

creative everyday at work?

Do you want your student to be dedicated to

developing his/her own ideas?

Do you want your student to create new

value and create jobs for many?

Future Proofing your Student

• Prepared for new challenges

• Understands Innovation

• Solves tough problems

Agenda

• Nature of Innovation

• Can't do it alone

• Systematic Innovation

Nature of Innovation

Nature of Innovation

Definition

Problem / Opportunity

Solver

Defining Innovation

•

•purposeful action and aligns with some personal or

organizational vision

•developing ideas that are perceived as new and

valuable

•impactful at a scale, may include financial, social,

environmental, life impact

•investments that may lead to disproportionate returns

Problems

Global Problems

Universal Problems

Local Solutions

Dennis Meadows Universal versus Global Problems

It’s useful to differentiate problems into two categories, which I call

universal or global. Universal problems affect everybody, but they

can be dealt with locally. Not only you can do it, but you personally

capture a lot of the benefits. Lakes have been cleaned up, rivers

have been cleaned up, forests have been regenerated and so forth.

Global problems affect everybody but they can only be solved

through global action. Climate change, the proliferation of nuclear

weapons, the spread of really virulent viruses, global energy

depletion – these are global problems. Looking back, I think it’s safe

to say that there are quite a few examples of success with universal

problems [but] when we looked at the global problems, the only one

we found was dealing with ozone depletion.

Solver Profiles

Visionary

Experimenting

Following

Round 1 Action Item

How can you help students find a universal

problem around the campus?

Who should team together?

How will you know if the actions was

successful at all?

Your next action

Can't do it Alone

Can't do it Alone

Handling differing viewpoints / perceptions

Working with a team

Working with a customer

Handling Viewpoints

6 Thinking Hats

Perception Mapping

Conflict time outs

Six Thinking Hats

Working Together

Open Source Development

Github

Distributed Teams

Working with a Customer

Design Thinking Basics

https://dschool.stanford.edu

Round 2 Action item

How can you help students find ways to

work together? or help find a customer?

Who will team?

How will you know if the actions were

successful?

Your next action

Systematic

Innovation Methods

Systematic Innovation Methods

Problem Definition

Problem Solution

Brainstorming

Introduction to TRIZ

• Discuss various options to get the water out of this glass • Without touching the glass

Knowledge from the world around us

• Absorption

• Acoustic Cavitation

• Acoustic Vibrations

• Archimedes’ Principle

• Bernoulli’s Theorem

• Boiling

• Brush Constructions

• Capillary

Condensation

• Capillary Evaporation

• Capillary Pressure

• Coanda Effect

• Ionic Exchange

• Jet Flow

• Lorentz Force

• Magnetostriction

•Coulomb’s Law

•Condensation

•Deformation

•Electrocapillary Effect

•Electroosmosis

•Electrophoresis

•Electrostatic Induction

•Ellipse

•Evaporation

•Ferromagnetism

•Forced Oscillations

•Funnel Effect

•Gravity

•Inertia

•Mechano caloric Effect

•Osmosis

•Pascal Law

•Resonance

•Shock Wave

•Spiral

•Super Thermal

Conductivity

•Superfluidity

•Surface Tension

•Thermal Expansion

•Thermocapillary Effect

•Thermomechanical

Effect

•Ultrasonic Capillary

Effect

•Ultrasonic Vibrations

•Use of foam

Knowledge base – Limit and Opportunities

What I know I

know

What I know I

don’t know

What I don’t know I

don’t know – World’s

knowledge base

•What is an orange

juice manufacturing

company doing?

•How does it happen

in space?

A situation like Mine

My Specific Problem

World’s best ideas in this situation

My specific solution

Introduction to TRIZ

Introduction to TRIZ

• Russian inventor in the 50s • Wondered how people invent

• Looked for patterns of invention

• Investigated 200,000 inventions in the Russian patent database

• Found only 40 principles to invent across industries

• Concluded there are 40 ways people think for innovative solutions

• Proposed TRIZ, Theory of Inventive Problem Solving

• After 54 years of Research • 2 million patents have been investigated

• We still have only 40 principles for invention..!!

Big Picture 9-Windows

Ideal Final Result

Function Analysis

Resources

Contradictions

The Matrix

Inventive Principles

9 Windows of Opportunity

Super System

System

Sub System

Past Present

Future

Why? What is

Stopping?

Ideal Final Result

Benefits / (cost + Harm) Heaven / Wonderland

Free Perfect Now Self

How to define IFR

What is the final aim of the system?

What about Sub-system and Super-system?

Whose IFR are we thinking?

Customer, Supplier, Manufacturer, Dealer, Banker ...

By When do we intend to become Ideal?

This quarter, end of year, 2022, ...

Resources Opportunity

As per 2009 WHO data more than

25,00,000 affected by water borne

diseases

What resources can you think of to provide

safe drinking water in remote places?

Where to Look for Resources?

• Around and Inside the System

• Other uses of Functions performed

• Man, Material, Machine, Signals,

Relations, Money, Space, Time, ...

• Services

SoDis Resources

Sunlight

PET Bottles

Courtesy: http://blogs.princeton.edu

More TRIZ

Contradiction of 31 Parameters

TRIZ 40 principles

76 Standard Solutions

8 Trends of System Evolution

Round 3 Action Item

What is the Ideal Final Result for you

making a student future proof? What

resources can you find around you?

Who will team for action?

How will you know if any actions are

successful?

Your next action

Summary

Identifying Problems/Opportunity

Building Creative Teams

Innovating Systematically

Any Questions / Comments /

Feedback

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