Lectures

#	Date	Focus	Resources
1	31-Aug Mon slides	Intro to the course,  Key questions explored,  4 Questions of the course	case: Genrobotics: where to focus? Video: Edison and his lab (1 min) and SRT file  Edison's method of innovation 3 axioms behind "8 steps to innovation" framework  4 staminas of an innovator
2	1-Sep Tue slides	Innovation ecosystem, creative destruction,  strategy-innovation linkage, cognitive biases, Black Swan, dark side of innovation	case Has Apple lost its innovation superiority? (M) The mother of all demos, SRI, 1968 (YouTube: 5 min) Essential Schumpeter: Creative destruction (2 min video) 12 Cognitive biases explained (10 min video) Apple, the world's best Unnovator Inside Apple Intelligence disaster (YouTube video: 15 min) Siri Co-founder Dag Kittlaus interview   How Apple just changed the entire industry (M1 chip) (video 26 min) Apple's China crisis: $1 trillion to Xi Jinping exposed (video 22 min) Adam Cheyer narrates Trend-Trigger framework in the interview (15:35)
3	7-Sep Mon slides	Technology Life Cycle, 5-Es of technology ecosystem,  "8 steps to innovation" book, chapter 1, pg 16-21 Diffusion of innovations, "8 steps to innovation", pg 143-144	Technology adoption life-cycle (wikipedia) Diffusion of innovation: adoption curve (4 min video)
4	8-Sep Tue slides	Guest Lecture by Dr. Satyanarayanan Chakravarthy, Prof IIT Madras and Co-Founder, ePlane Company	Founder's story: Prof. Satya Chakravarthy, The ePlane company (YouTube: 10 min)
5	14-Sep Mon slides	Two loops   "8 steps to innovation" book, chapter 2, pg 62-83	PocketFM (M) The two experimentation loops: Story of Watt-Boulton steam engine 3 sources of innovation: Pain, wave waste How to PIC a challenge area? A simple framework
6	15-Sep Tue slides	Challenge framing using metaphors Pain-wave-waste, Framing a challenge, Metaphoric thinking	3 characteristics of a good challenge statement 3 ways a metaphor helps in challenge framing Innovation: where to begin (3 min video)
7	21-Sep Mon slides	Problem-solving approaches, Systematic Inventive Thinking Cost-impact matrix - an example	4 approaches to problem-solving 4 modes of problem-solving applied to "reducing student anxiety" Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT) Overcoming idea resistance: Apollo 13 story (M) Overcoming prediction disability: applying the Black Swan wisdom to idea selection (M)
8	22-Sep Tue slides	Rapid prototyping Cost-impact matrix and prediction disability Feels-like prototype, Looks-like prototype, Works-like prototype "8 steps to innovation" book, chapter 2, pg -	Dharksha Eco-solutions Feels-like, looks-like, works-like prototypes Before-and-after storyboard 2-minute idea presentation template 3Cs of idea communication illustrated through Andrej Karpathy's LLM talk
9	28-Sep Mon	Team presentations
10	29-Sep Tue slides	Guest Lecture by Dr. Arjun Arunachalam, Founder of VoxelGrids (making MRI machines)	How Tata, Vembu's Zoho saved India's first MRI machine maker from MNC shark
11	12-Oct Mon slides	Building innovation stamina at an organizational level 8-steps to innovation framework	3 things Mike Markkula did as a champion of "Apple Computer" idea Why does Einstein say "One max" person reading his theory will suffice?
12	13-Oct Tue slides	Improving innovation velocity Role of a champion Elephant-Rider model, Sustaining participation, Role of the "Get connected" manifesto	case: Grossman-Patrick and how IBM entered the Internet business (M) Is Google 20 percent time same as "Right to experiment"? Video review of Switch by Chip & Dan Heath
13	19-Oct Mon slides	Role of innovation in moving up the value chain Catastrophic risk (downside exposure) & Upside options "8 steps to innovation" chapter 6 (step 6), pg 164-191	Poly Medicure case (M) Learning from innovation dashboards visible through annual reports
14	20-Oct Tue slides	How to get value from innovation? Who-What-How of business model "8 steps to innovation" page 259-260 (3x3 matrix) "8 steps to innovation" chapter 6, pg 164 (Biz model)	5-levels of innovation maturity 2 dimensions of innovation maturity: creativity, confidence and incubation effectiveness Defining characteristics of five levels of innovation maturity "8 steps to innovation in action" presentation
15	2-Nov Mon slides	Guest lecture
16	3-Nov Tue slides	Real-win-worth it framework of innovation review,  Innovation vs complementary assets Complementary assets, Role of IPR "8 steps to innovation", pg 182-185 "8 steps to innovation", chapter 6	Raja's dilemma: To scale Li-ion or not to scale Li-ion? (M) Prof Rishikesha Krishnan on complementary assets (6 min video) Real-win-worth it, Harvard Business Review, Dec 2007  Idea selection methods: balancing efficiency and accuracy Jeff Bezos on type-1 vs type-2 decisions
17	9-Nov Mon slides	Strategic enabler-1 (sandbox and open innovation) Innovation sandbox "8 steps to innovation", chapter 7, pg 198-204	The challenge before Lisa Su in 2025 (M) How AMD's AI software helped it score the multi-billion dollar OpenAI deal, Forbes, Oct 2025
18	10-Nov Tue slides	Strategic enabler-2  Building platforms "8 steps to innovation", chapter 7, pg 198-204	Lego's sustainable brick: serious stuff or greenwashing? (case)
19	16-Nov Mon slides	How to build a margin of safety? Leap of faith assumption, Doing the last experiment first "8 steps to innovation", chapter 8 "My boulder problem" link	case: Philips's transformation from consumer electronics to health technology: Managing catastrophic risks How I climbed a 3000-foot vertical cliff - without ropes, TED talk by Alex Honnold, Oct 29, 2018 (M) 2 ways of learning to fail with comfort My 3 takeaways from Nassim Taleb's Antifragile
20	17-Nov Tue slides	Dark side of innovation, Organizational innovation	Haier case  Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands Why does Ishiguro say Stevens the butler is a monster?