1.TheInnovation Dilemma:to build a new market or to build for the market
Charan Puneet Singh

2. What is innovation?
Innovation is a broadly used term, and generally refers to the creation of better or more effective products, processes, technologies, or ideas that are accepted by markets, governments, and society.
3. Video 1
The climbing tree apparatus designed by Appachan, a humble farmer from Kerala is helping bridge a generations old social divide. As young men migrate to Gulf in droves,there are barely enough men left in Kerela to pick coconuts. By making it safer and easier to pick coconuts, this humble device is today providing employment for women in this male dominated occupation.
Price: Rs 1500
Number sold: 4000
Source: National Innovation Foundation
4. Video 2
A 2 liter PET bottle, bleach and water is all you need to light a home with 60 Watt equivalent bulb for 5 years.
Developed independently in Brazil and Philippines,the Solar Bottle Bulb is being used to spread light in millions of households in the shanty towns in Africa and Asia today.
http://isanglitrongliwanag.org/
5. What is Unique About These Innovations?
Discussion
6. What are we going to talk about?
Innovation context at Thoughtworks
Ingredients of Innovation
Fueling Innovation at workplace
Managing Innovation
Measuring innovation
7. Innovation Context @ Thoughtworks
Challenges in Innovation for Services / Consulting:
Assessing market potential for new to the market concepts like Continuous Delivery & Dev-Ops Consulting
Keeping ahead of the curve in advanced engineering practices.
Fostering innovation within delivery teams for a variety of client situations including in the social impact projects.
Challenges in Innovation for Product teams
Product managing ahead of the curve tools like Twist
Sensing the opportunity for developing new products
Prioritizing incremental innovation for existing products
8. What are the ingredients to any innovation ?
9. An Idea

An idea is at the heart of any innovation.

10. Innovators tend to question the scheme of things around them and come up with new and different ideas before others can.