This was a half day working session for faculty development done recently at SJBIT, Bangalore. Objective is to introduce innovation and initiate action for set up a structure for developing student ideas.

1. Future Proofing
your Student
Murali Loganathan
April 2013

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. Future Proofing your Student
• Prepared for new challenges
• Understands Innovation
• Solves tough problems

5. Agenda
• Nature of Innovation
• Can't do it alone
• Systematic Innovation

6. Nature of Innovation

7. Nature of Innovation
Definition
Problem / Opportunity
Solver

8. 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,

9. Problems
Global Problems
Universal Problems
Local Solutions

10. 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.

11. Solver Profiles
Visionary
Experimenting
Following

12. 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

13. Can't do it Alone

14. Can't do it Alone
Handling differing viewpoints / perceptions
Working with a team
Working with a customer

15. Handling Viewpoints
6 Thinking Hats
Perception Mapping
Conflict time outs

16. Six Thinking Hats

17. Working Together
Open Source Development
Github
Distributed Teams

18. Working with a Customer
Design Thinking Basics
https://dschool.stanford.edu

19. 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

20. Systematic
Innovation Methods

21. Systematic Innovation Methods
Problem Definition
Problem Solution
Brainstorming

22. Introduction to TRIZ
• Discuss various options to get the water out
of this glass
• Without touching the glass

23. 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

24. 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?

25. A situation like Mine
My Specific Problem
World’s best ideas in
this situation
My specific solution
Introduction to TRIZ

26. 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..!!

27. Big Picture 9-Windows
Ideal Final Result
Function Analysis
Resources
Contradictions
The Matrix
Inventive Principles

28. 9 Windows of Opportunity
Super System
System
Sub System
Past Present
Future

29. Why? What is
Stopping?

30. Ideal Final Result
Benefits / (cost + Harm) Heaven / Wonderland
Free Perfect Now Self

31. 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, ...

32. 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?

33. Where to Look for Resources?
• Around and Inside the System
• Other uses of Functions performed
• Man, Material, Machine, Signals,
Relations, Money, Space, Time, ...
• Services

34. SoDis Resources
Sunlight
PET Bottles
Courtesy: http://blogs.princeton.edu

35. More TRIZ
Contradiction of 31 Parameters
TRIZ 40 principles
76 Standard Solutions
8 Trends of System Evolution

36. 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

37. Summary
Identifying Problems/Opportunity
Building Creative Teams
Innovating Systematically

38. Any Questions / Comments /
Feedback
Muralidharanl at gmail dot com
http://trizindia.org
http://cognitivenoise.wordpress.com