Teaching
TEACHING
It is seven o’clock in the morning and you wake up with the sound of your phone ringing. You were not expecting a call. It’s a bit unnerving. You answer the call and your hear “I need your help.. I am in trouble.”
You realize that it is Stephen Spielberg calling. He has heard your reputation.
He says, “I have made many great science fiction movies in the past but I am out of ideas now. I desperately need a new image of an alien which has never been imagined before”
Now take a piece of paper and a pen and draw the most innovative alien ever.
This is how I start my innovation management course. This exercise has become a great icebreaker and a hook to kick-off an exciting course.
I leverage the power of story-telling for high engagement in my courses. I also use case-based teaching methodology and business simulations for teaching innovation management.
In my classroom, I create an engaging environment where everyone feels safe to participate.
My personal goal is to make sure that participants enjoy their learning journey and retain their learning for good.
An overarching framework for creating the innovation engine for an organization from micro- to macro-levels.
- Individual and Organizational Creativity
- Idea Selection and Portfolio Management
- Idea Implementation
- Innovation Strategy
- Organizational Structure for Innovation
- Technology Management
I teach this framework at the RSM MBA Program. A sample of my course manuals can be found here for curious academics.
Three core questions for innovation strategy
Technology management
Strategic innovation portfolio management

By design, the course is highly competitive and exciting. The end result is that the participants enjoy the process while learning (a) the intricacies of R&D management and (b) the interdependent roles of different organizational functions for making innovation happen.
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Implementation Methodologies
Barriers to Change
Informal Change Management
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Three pillars of individual and organizational creativity
Idea creation techniques (e.g. de Bono’s Hats, Systematic Inventive Thinking)
Internal and external idea sourcing (open innovation, hackatons, idea platforms
Customer co-creation (incl. gamification)
Idea creation for societal problems