Innovation and Professional Practice Analyses – Designing Assignment Help

Assignment Task

Task 

Innovation and Professional Practice & Models and Paradigms of Innovation

Learning outcomes
• Understand the limitations of partial models of innovation
• Differentiate closed innovation and open innovation paradigms
• Understand Design Thinking and the Design Thinking process

Distributed innovation
• Closed Innovation: Controlled innovation process and doing innovation on their own
• Open Innovation: Innovation using internal and external ideas and paths to markets
“useful knowledge is generally believed to be widely distributed, and of generally high quality’’

User centered innovation and Design Thinking
• Thinking like a designer can transform the way organisations develop products, services, processes, and strategy.
• Design thinking, brings together what is desirable from a human point of view with what is technologically feasible and economically viable.

Design Thinking in action for problem solving: “what is?” and “what if?” stages

Learning outcomes
• Learn the tools to be used in the ‘what is’ and ‘what if’ processes.
• Learn Mind Mapping for extracting meaning from a vast amount of information.
• Learn Brainstorming as a tool for generating new ideas

Information collection and analysis
• Deeper understanding of users to understand how they frame the problem
• Observe users’ behaviour
• Conduct interviews
• Take notes, take pictures, record videos
• Collect secondary information

Design Thinking in action for problem solving: “what wows?” and “what works?” stages

Learning outcomes 
• Understand the iterative nature of design thinking process. 
• Learn ‘Concept Development’ as a tool for converting ideas into concepts. 
• Understand the importance of rapid prototyping in in the ‘what wows’ stage 
• Learn customer Co-creation as a tool for testing by the user/s in the ‘what works’ stage

Concept Development 
• Select the best ideas 
• Assemble them into detailed solutions 
• Evaluate the solutions using customer and business criteria

“What wows” stage 
• Select the best concepts to solve the problem 
• Translate the narrowed down concepts to an actionable project. 
• Develop prototypes of the selected ideas to evaluate and refine

‘What works’ stage 
• Co-creation of the solution with the users Customer co-creation ? Enrol customers who care about you ? Enrol a diverse group of users ? Not a sales call ? Engage one customer at a time ? Provide more than one options to consider ? Help them to see the solution