These are highlights of the 2-day program "Next Gear: Gearing up for innovation leadership". It was held at Hotel Grand Mercure, Bangalore on July 5-6, 2012. Participants came from both corporate and social sectors.

1. Next Gear: Gearing up for innovation leadership
Jul 5-6, 2012, Highlights of the 2-day program held at Hotel Grand Mercure, Bangalore
Vinay Dabholkar, Ph.D.
President
Catalign Innovation Consulting
vinay@catalign.com, 99457-57913
www.catalign.com

2. Expectations

3. Expectations

4. Case study

5. Build a challenge book

6. Panel Discussion:
Idea generation: Design Thinking vs TRIZ
Lakshman Seshadri Dr. Bala Ramadurai
Head Innovation Co-Founder TRIZ
SAP Global Delivery India Innovation

7. Panel Discussion:
How to manage big bets
Jayesh Badani
CEO, Ideaken
Dr. Ashwin Naik Dr. Ishwar Parulkar
CEO, Vaatsalya Chief System Architect, Cisco
Healthcare

8. Panel Discussion:
How to facilitate a culture change
Prasanna V. Raja Chidambaram
Program Director Change & Learning
Sikshana Foundation Consultant

9. Summary of approaches

10. Summary of bright spots (what’s working well already) 1/2
Bright spots Impact
Innovation school of management Every year 40 employees become
better innovators by working on a
business relevant challenge
Sharing of value add through 1- Increase in number of value adds
pager with team member photo getting published
40+ active communities Knowledge sharing & solving
business problems
TRIZ institutionalized Engineers use the method to
systematically add value
Annual technology event Employees demonstrate their
ideas
Launching new initiatives: Re- Re-vitalize people with 10+ years
discover your passion of experience in social sector

11. Summary of bright spots (what’s working well already) 2/2
Bright spots Impact
6500 ideas from 7500 associates Close $4 million savings
Putting idea workflow in place 118 ideas came, 5 productized
and 1 in showcase ready state
(after 1 year)
Active innovation sandbox Hundreds of ventures getting
incubated, several getting scaled
A program tapping ideas from 2800 ideas implemented since
college students August 2008

12. Summary of participant take-aways
Learnings Actions
Cloning the bright spots Create an idea box
Elephant-Rider Model Build a challenge book
Building user scenarios Encourage low-cost high-speed
experimentation
Low-cost high-speed experiment Run a challenge campaign
Challenge book Build communities
Design thinking Improve idea velocity
Learn from Quality circles Build quality circles
Big bets matter Create innovation leader’s metric
Useful metrics Give more ownership
Define the problem better Never give up
Managing change is complex Take projects to the next level

13. Participating organizations

14. Thank You