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Welcome to the **Innovative Product Development (70-446)** class wiki for **Spring 2012**.

This wiki will serve as the primary place for distribution of class materials, sharing of ideas, online collaboration, and the schedule for each class sessions preparations and assignments. We will also use it as a shared workspace as we are exploring ideas and concepts and as a forum for sharing what we have discovered. It is also a great place for you to post relevant information, articles, web-sites, etc, that you find related to the topics we are covering in the class.

Course schedule and topics:
Each class session has its own wiki page. These pages briefly introduce each topic and the preparations you are expected to complete before class. Depending on the topic, these preparations generally include readings, exercises, and/or independent research that you should complete before class. Please note that due to the small size and flexible nature of the course, this schedule is likely to change a bit over the course of the semester to respond to student interests and interesting opportunities, questions, and topics that arise as we are working on our projects. We will cover all of the general topics listed, though the relative emphasis and time on one topic or stage in the product development process may grow or shrink depending on how the course develops.

> //Introduction to Innovative Product Development – processes and approaches//
 * Week 1:
 * Monday 1/16 - Course introduction and overview
 * Wednesday 1/18 - Core concepts: products, services, and experiences (including short workshop)

> //Identifying the opportunity//
 * Week 2:
 * Monday 1/23 - Product development processes - Stage-Gate and Cagan/Vogel
 * Wednesday 1/25 - Identifying the opportunity I - SET factors and Product Opportunity Gaps


 * Week 3:
 * Monday 1/30 - Identifying the opportunity II - Jobs To Be Done, Outcome Analysis, and Value Quotients
 * Wednesday 2/1 - Identifying the opportunity III - Challenge problem workshop


 * Week 4:
 * Monday 2/6 - Identifying the opportunity IV - Job scoping and nine-boxes
 * Wednesday 2/8 - Identifying the opportunity V - Evaluating, estimating, and sizing up market opportunities
 * Challenge problem 1 final submission due at the start of class

> //Understanding the opportunity//
 * Week 5:
 * Monday 2/13 - Understanding the opportunity I - IDEO case study and IDEO-style development processes
 * Challenge problem 2 due at the start of class
 * Wednesday 2/15 - Understanding the opportunity II - Task analysis workshop


 * Week 6:
 * Monday 2/20 - Understanding the opportunity III - stakeholder analysis, moving from observations to value opportunities and product attributes
 * Wednesday 2/22 - Understanding the opportunity IV - Ethnography presentations, challenge problem 4 workshop
 * Challenge problem 3 due in class today


 * Week 7:
 * Monday 2/27 - No class - Technology in Higher Education conference
 * Wednesday 2/29 - Understanding the opportunity V - Gate 2 reviews, analytics-driven vs. observation based discovery and analysis
 * Challenge problem 4 due


 * Week 8:
 * Monday 3/5 - No class - spring break
 * Wednesday 3/7 - No class - spring break


 * Week 9//Conceptualizing the opportunity://
 * Monday 3/12 - Conceptualizing the Opportunity I - Phase Overview, High-power brainstorming and concept generation
 * Wednesday 3/14 - Conceptualizing the Opportunity II - Prototyping 101


 * Week 10:
 * Monday 3/19 - Conceptualizing the Opportunity III - CP 5 presentations and feedback, prototyping (CP6) workshop
 * Wednesday 3/21 - Conceptualizing the Opportunity IV - product, service, experience, or all three?

> //Realizing the opportunity//
 * Week 11:
 * Monday 3/26 - Challenge problem 6 presentations
 * Wednesday 3/28 - Realizing the opportunity - Mechanics of a product launch

>> //Note: at some point during this week each final project team is required to set up a 20-30 minute meeting with Professor Monroe to discuss their team's final project, progress to date, and their plan (with timeline) that shows how they will complete the project successfully by the end of the course// >> > //Going to market//
 * Week 12:
 * Monday 4/2 - Building an innovative product development organization
 * Wednesday 4/4 - Product development process case study
 * Week 13:
 * Monday 4/9 - Strategies for managing a product innovation portfolio and timing market entry
 * Wednesday 4/11 - Innovation for social good I
 * Doing well by doing good with product innovation
 * Aravind eye clinic case study


 * Week 14:
 * Monday 4/16 - Final project workshop
 * Wednesday 4/18 - Innovation for social good II -- Case study - Danimal in South Africa


 * Week 15:
 * Monday 4/23 - Innovation for social good III
 * Challenge problem 8 due at 8:00am this morning, prior to class
 * Wednesday 4/25 - Final project presentations

Final project written reports will be due during finals week on the date and time that this class’s final exam is scheduled

Challenge Problems:
Challenge problems will be posted throughout the semester. You will generally have one week to complete each problem and you will generally need to present your work to the class and the instructor.

Challenge problem 1 Challenge problem 2 Challenge problem 3 Challenge problem 4 Challenge problem 5 Challenge problem 6 Challenge problem 7 Challenge problem 8

**Final Project:**
Presentation due in class on April 25, final report due at noon on April 30.



Syllabus:
The most up-to-date version of the syllabus (v1.0, last updated January 11, 2012) is available here:

Final project grading sheet:

Ground rules for using the wiki:
I encourage students to add material to the wiki and edit material on the wiki as appropriate. That said, there are various places on the wiki that I would prefer you not edit such as the topic overviews, class preparations, and assignments. I (Bob Monroe) will try to clearly mark those places that should not be edited (such as this page).

Feel free to add pages and complete sections to the wiki. Create, experiment, try things. Post your ideas to get feedback. Give (constructive) feedback to your classmates. Improve on the ideas that other people post. You will do much better in this course if you try things out, experiment, and learn from the experience than if you sit back and wait for somebody to show you the path to the right answer. The course is about finding that path yourself, or better yet creating it.