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Managing Innovation

By Rishikesha T Krishnan and Vinay Dabholkar   |   Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Learners enrolled: 1118
Do you feel innovation activity in your organization is ad-hoc? Are you looking for a systematic approach through which innovation capacity can be enhanced in your organization? This course will show you how you can build an innovation pipeline, improve idea velocity and enhance business impact through an 8-steps approach. Moreover, we will also explore ways of sustaining participation in innovation activity.

What you'll learn
  • What is innovation?
  • Why innovate?
  • Jugaad vs systematic innovation: The eight steps

Summary
Course Status : Completed
Course Type : Core
Language for course content : English
Duration : 6 weeks
Category :
  • Management Studies
Credit Points : 2
Level : Postgraduate
Start Date : 15 Jul 2019
End Date : 31 Oct 2019
Exam Date : 10 Nov 2019 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1: Introduction
  • Module Overview
  • Understanding the Concept of Innovation and its Importance 
  • Types of Innovation
  • Innovation in Organization
Week 2: Lay the Foundation and Create a Challenge Book
  • Module Overview
  • Step one: Lay the Foundation
  • Create a Challenge Book
  • Let’s Discuss Step One and Two
  • The Innovation Activity
  • Conclusion
Week 3: Build Participation and Experiment with Low-cost at High -speed
  • Module Overview
  • Choosing the Right "Role Model"
  • Ways to Motivate Innovation Activity in Organization
  • Role of Catalyst in Building Participation in Innovation Process
  • How to Overcome Velocity Problem?
  • Failure Fallacy
  • Encouraging Experimentation
  • Prototyping
  • Conclusion
Week 4: Go Fast from Prototyping to Incubation and Iterate on The Business Model
  • Module Overview
  • Being a Champion
  • Iterating on Business Model
  • Design of a Pitch
  • Business Model Metaphors
  • Conclusion
Week 5: Build an Innovation Sandbox and Create a Margin of Safety
  • Module Overview
  • Ways to Enhance the Batting Average Problem
  • Sand box, Platform and Open Source Approach
  • Intellectual Property Protection
  • Risk Management
  • Big Bets Risks
  • Where Do We Stand?
  • Conclusion
  • Case Study Discussion

Instructor bio

Course Faculty:

Rishikesha T Krishnan
Professor IIMB



Professor Krishnan’s main areas of interest are strategy and innovation. He held the Jamuna Raghavan Chair in Entrepreneurship at IIMB from 2007-10. Professor Krishnan writes extensively and has more than 140 publications spanning outlets that include refereed journals, the popular press, case studies, book chapters, and books. These include two books on innovation: From Jugaad to Systematic Innovation: The Challenge for India, published in February 2010, and 8 Steps to Innovation: Going from Jugaad to Excellence (co-authored with Vinay Dabholkar, and published by HarperCollins in March 2013). The latter won the Best Book Award 2013-14 from the Indian Society for Training and Development.

Vinay Dabholkar
Visiting Faculty
IIM Bangalore



Professor Vinay works as a catalyst in three areas: design thinking, culture of innovation and mindfulness. He is a co-author of the book “8 steps to innovation: from jugaad to excellence”. He has been a visiting faculty at IIM Bangalore and IIT Bombay. Over the past decade, he has helped several organizations in their innovation journey e.g. Airbus, Adobe, Oracle, Mindtree, Tech Mahindra, Wells Fargo etc. He also works with not-for-profit and government organizations in education and healthcare space. Prior to starting the consulting career, Vinay worked for a decade in Motorola in US and Sasken in Bangalore. He did his B. Tech. from IIT Bombay and PhD from SUNY Buffalo both in Computer Science. 

Course certificate

25% internal assessment and 75% Final Exam


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