Session 6: Innovation Management

Learning Objectives

• Identify key issues in managing emerging technologies
• Assess priorities in monitoring, scanning, and adopting emerging technologies
• Identify guiding principles for vendor selection and management

A. Campus Class Meeting Agenda

• Guest Speaker: TBD
• Case Discussions
• Team Project Forum (led by Team D)
• Introduction to Individual Assignment on Analytics - C

To get some hands-on experience with coding (i.e., software programming), we will try to record and build a macro in Excel. We will also associate the macro with a button!

Watch this tutorial video to learn how to add the Developer tab to the ribbon on Windows, and an illustration of what cool tricks you can do with absolute versus relative macros

Here's Microsoft's documentation on how to add the Developer tab to the ribbon

Watch this tutorial video to learn how to add the Developer tab to the ribbon on Mac.

Watch this tutorial video for popping an input box to get user input

Watch this tutorial video for popping a message box

Watch this tutorial video for creating a simple button to the Excel spreadsheet (or any Microsoft product, such as Word)


B. EIA for Sections (3 hours per session)

• The Organizational Dilemma of Stewards and Creators (28:34): a panel discussion led by textbook author Professor Austin
• Professor Clay Christensen Explains Disruptive Innovation (7:51)
• The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation (2:07)
• Acquiring the Capabilities to Go Digital (McKinsey)
• Emerging Technology: BitCoin promise goes far beyond payments
• Google Trends
• Think with Google
• Gartner's Hype Cycle provides a graphic representation of the maturity and adoption of technologies and applications, and how they are potentially relevant to solving real business problems and exploiting new opportunities
• The Growing Potential of Quantum Computing by McKinsey
• An Executive's Guide to the Internet of Things by McKinsey
• How Blockchain Could Change the World by McKinsey
• Blockchain: What you need know by Harvard Business Review
• The Internet of Things: Five Critical Questions by McKinsey

Assignments Due Before Next Session Begins (12 hours of studies outside classroom)

• Readings
• Quiz 6
• Individual Assignment on Case Analysis 1 (IAC6)
• Team Assignment (TA6)

To be completed BEFORE Quiz 6

1. Gallaugher Chapter 11: Facebook
2. Gallaugher Chapter 12: Entrepreneurial Innovation
3. Gallaugher Chapter 15: Data Asset - An excellent reference for IAA-B assignment 

To be completed BEFORE next Case Discussion and Individual Assignment 6

1. Austin Chapter 18: Managing Risk
2. Austin Chapter 19: Looking Forward
3. Case Study: When health care gets a healthy dose of data

• IA6 in Moodle
• Individual Quiz 6 in Moodle
• TA6

Additional Resources: Feel free to use these resources to enhance your case analyses, discussion, discussions, or team assignments.

IT Trends Study Reports available from Society for Information Management (SIM)

Service Innovation in a Digital World

Digital hives: Creating a surge around change

Transforming the business through social tools