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Innovation Rules : A Step By Step Approach Towards Identifying New Innovation Opportunities., Arcot Desai Narasimhalu Jan 2011

Innovation Rules : A Step By Step Approach Towards Identifying New Innovation Opportunities., Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU

This book is organized in three sections. The first section introduces twenty five innovation rules that reflect how innovations have progressed over time. The second section explains how the innovation rules can be used to identify possible innovation opportunities. The third section explains how to choose innovations for commercialization. Pay sufficient attention to each of the Innovation Rules when you read the first section. Each rule captures the introduction and evolution of successful innovations. Each rule is listed on one page and its description on the opposite page. Rules have more than one stage, the initial stage followed by one …


A Framework For The Integration Of Expert Systems With Multimedia Technologies, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu Jan 2011

A Framework For The Integration Of Expert Systems With Multimedia Technologies, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU

Expert system (ES) technology allows the capture and replication of expertise in an application domain. So far, the type of data that is used by an expert system for its reasoning process remains primarily alphanumeric. Image, graphics, and other dynamic data such as voice and video are part of an emerging technology generally termed multimedia technology. This article highlights the critical issues in building a successful application combining the two technologies. Based on these critical issues, it also provides a framework for the integration of multimedia technology with expert systems technology.


Management Of Technology Deployed In Service Innovations, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu Jan 2011

Management Of Technology Deployed In Service Innovations, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU

Services form a major portion of the GDP of several nations, especially that of the first world nations. These nations also experience high cost of providing services of different kinds. This has resulted in the displacement of non-customer facing services to countries that can offer them at lower prices. Nations have to be concerned about sustaining their economies even as such off-shoring of services continue to grow. It is therefore important to understand how countries can create those service innovations that will help them retain the growth trajectory of their economies. We believe that the different types of service innovations …


Service Innovation Opportunity Identification, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu Jan 2011

Service Innovation Opportunity Identification, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU

No abstract provided.


The Future Of Innovation Is Bright And Shiny As Never Before, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu Jan 2011

The Future Of Innovation Is Bright And Shiny As Never Before, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU

This bright shiny future is due to several reasons including better understanding of opportunity identification and innovation management, significant advances in technologies, new economic realities and the shi ing focus to service innovation. Innovation was perceived as an art practised by an exclusive few sitting in an ivory tower of a corporate headquarters of a company. The availability of methods such as Disruptive Innovation, Blue Ocean Strategy and Innovation Rules has empowered ordinary individuals to identify innovation opportunities as never before. This is a sea change in the sheer number of minds searching for the innovation needles in other otherwise …


Innovation Engine, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu Jan 2011

Innovation Engine, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU

This paper describes a meta-model for innovation using an automobile engine as a metaphor. This innovation meta-model is used to manage a collection of innovation models. We develop an algorithm to identify innovations with potential for success using this meta-model. This meta-model can be used by corporations and individuals to identify plausible innovations at any given point in time.


Innovation Stack - Choosing Innovations For Commercialization, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu Jan 2011

Innovation Stack - Choosing Innovations For Commercialization, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU

This paper describes a method for enterprises to order the innovations of interest according to a number of parameters including their own business strategy and core competencies. The method takes into account aspects such as ability to create entry barriers and complementary assets. Enterprises can now use this method to both filter out innovations that may not be of interest to them and then order the short listed or selected innovations according to their attractiveness.


A Method For Monetizing Technology Innovations, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu Jan 2011

A Method For Monetizing Technology Innovations, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU

Technology innovations from most universities and research institutes are generally created with no clear path to commercialization in mind. This is largely due to the culture in academic institutions and research institutes whose mission it is to explore the creation of innovations that promise long term benefits. This culture of academic freedom leads to a stockpile of technology innovations at their technology transfer offices (TTOs). These offices are often in a dilemma on how best to monetize the technology innovations that are in their custody. While there have been many social science research methodology based studies on this subject under …


A Maturity Model For Innovation Management, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu Jan 2011

A Maturity Model For Innovation Management, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU

No abstract provided.


Random Thoughts On Innovation, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu Jan 2011

Random Thoughts On Innovation, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU

....We had to bring about an organizational innovation by reengineering the organization itself!!! The late 1990s saw us redefine the mission of the organization to be user and market centric aiming to produce solutions with a 10X difference. We had to create a program that will allow promising technologies and solutions created by engineers and scientists who were passionate to see their works utilized by the world. This required transforming a quasi-academic publicly funded lab into an engine that would generate new businesses. The transformation was not easy. This was also about the time when the dot com bubble was …


Re-Engineering Xid Technologies - From Enterprise To Consumer Markets, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu Jan 2011

Re-Engineering Xid Technologies - From Enterprise To Consumer Markets, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU

Several studies have addressed the process of taking ideas to markets but few have shared the experiences of start up companies that have reexamined their product strategies and repositioned their products and services for better revenues and profits. This paper reports the efforts related to repositioning of XID technologies, a start up company, into new markets while continuing to exploit its core technical competencies.


Crossing The Chasm: The Xid Technologies Story, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu, Roberto Mariani Jan 2011

Crossing The Chasm: The Xid Technologies Story, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu, Roberto Mariani

Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU

XID Technologies is a face processing start up company built initially around a disruptive face recognition technology. The technology innovation came from Kent Ridge Digital Labs, a publicly funded software research laboratory in Singapore. Face recognition is the least intrusive and harmless among the various biometric solutions available in the market. The basic approach to human face recognition is to identify a robust feature set that was unique enough to differentiate amongst the many millions of human faces that the system was required to verify. The technology innovation used by XID framed the problem differently and thereby overcame the challenges …


Designing The Dynamics Of Service Innovations, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu Jan 2011

Designing The Dynamics Of Service Innovations, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU

No abstract provided.


Redefining Medical Tourism, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu Jan 2011

Redefining Medical Tourism, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU

No abstract provided.


Readings In Innovation, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu Jan 2011

Readings In Innovation, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU

This is a collection of practice oriented papers that I had written from 2005 – 2010 and published in relevant conferences. The papers were written primarily to share my experiences as an innovator and an innovation manager over thirty five years of my professional life. They are a collection of frameworks, heuristic algorithms and processes that I have penned down from my experience. They are neither theories nor only options available to innovators and innovation managers. This is yet another offering in the world of “Innovation Buffet” that innovators could consume. The sole purpose in compiling these papers is to …


Bridging Academic And Industry Innovation Networks, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu Jan 2011

Bridging Academic And Industry Innovation Networks, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU

No abstract provided.


Designing The Value Curve For Your Next Innovation, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu Jan 2011

Designing The Value Curve For Your Next Innovation, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU

This paper introduces an additional feature to the Strategy Canvas and Value Curve that will make innovation designers more effective. The new feature is to let the innovators carry out the designs of their new innovations taking into account both the cost of improving the quality of a parameter that the users value highly and the savings accrued from the drop in provisioning for parameters that users place less emphasis in an innovation.