New Product Development (NPD):
- The Factors that Influence an Investment Decision
- Dismissing Opportunities Offhand
- Innovation Positivity
- Toyota’s A3 Form: A Tool for Innovating
- Effective Portfolio Management Depends on Your People
- Value Creation and Capture
- Improving New Product Development through Thoughtful Experimentation
- Quality Business Plans Build Trust
- To Draft a Business Plan or Not?
- No Magic = No Business Opportunity
- Timing and New Product/Service Introduction
- 6 Steps to Preparing a Business Plan with Less Pain
- Opportunity Identification
- How to Gain Senior Management Buy In
- 17 Ways to Optimize Your Innovation Efforts
- My Business Plan Rubric
- Ernst & Young: Outline for a Business Plan
6 TENETS:
Strategic:
- 5 Key Aspects of Business Planning
- Why startups succeed
- Risks, Assumptions, Issues & Dependencies + Scenarios = RAIDS
- RISK: Identification, Assessment and Contingency Planning
- Decision Quality by SDG
Technical:
- "Lack of scientific R&D funding will leave Canada in the dust" - A role for academic collaboration?
- Intro to Patents (1 hour course)
Commercial:
- It's Crucial To Determine Who Your TRUE Customers Are
- Listening to the Voice of the Customer
- How Do I Protect My App From Competitors
- Designing a Corporate Intelligence Process
- Systematic Competitive/Market Intelligence
- (Bio)technology Licensing
Financial:
Operational/Executional:
- The Use and Value of the Stage-Gate Process
- Establishing Ownership, IP rights and Governance
- A Project Planning Process (in 4 Iterative Steps)
- Group Decision Making
- Intro to Project Management (3 hour online course)
Miscellaneous Innovation:
- Infinite Possibilities
- Dean Kamen, DEKA Research and Slingshot
- Disruptive Innovation and Cameras
- Hybrid Technologies - The Prius Approach
- The Antagonist
- Creativity in the Movies
- Reza Satchu on Entrepreneurism
- A Comparison of Producing Diamonds & Business Innovation
- Hexagonal Diamonds and Hexagon Innovating
- A Comparison of Diamond Prospecting & Business Opportunity Identification
- Video Content marketing: Should you hold a live webinar or make a pre-produced piece?
- "It's time to re-evaluate failure" - Implications for School and Work.
- What is Innovation?
- Mind Map of the book "Innovate like Edison" by M Gelb
- Entrepreneurs vs. Project Managers
- 5 Criteria for Product Success