CIS9.5/BUS 50.8 Management of New & Emerging Technology
Textbook
Required Text:
Strategic Management of Technological Innovation - 2e / Melissa Schilling /McGraw-Hill Irwin
Reading of Interest:
- The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail / Clayton Christensen / Harvard Business School Press
- The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustainingt Successful Growth / Clayton Christenbsen and Michale Raynor / Harvard Business School Press
- The New Age of Innovation: Driving Cocreated Value Through Global Networks /C.K. Prahalad and M.S. Krishnan / McGraw-Hill
- Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies /Day, Schoemaker, Gunther/ J. Wiley
Click here for the Course Syllabus
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- Introduction to Disruptive Technology
- Dan Pink - The surprising science of motivation
- Schilling Ch 1 - Importance of Innovation
- Schilling Ch 2 - Sources of Innovation
- Schilling Ch 3 - Types of Innovation
- In Search of Innovation - Wall Street Journal 9/29/2009
- Schilling Ch 4 - Standards Battles
- Navigating the Technology Landscape of Innovation
- The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedman Video lecture at MIT
- Schilling Ch 5- Timing of Entry
- Schilling Ch 6 - Organization's Strategic Direction
- Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man
- The Innovation Economy: How Technology Is Transforming Existing Industries and Creating New Ones, Clayton Christensen Video lecture at MITWorld
- Schilling Ch 7 - Choosing Innovation Projects
- Schilling Ch 9 - Protecting Innovation
- Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law Video lecture at TED.com
Assignments/Articles
HW3 Due Nov 16th: Read the article Disruptive Innovation for Social Change and answer the following questions
1. What is catalytic innovation? 2. How does it differ from disruptive innovation? How is it similar? 3. Describe a catalytic innovation in health care and how it was successful. 4. What is microlending and what has been its impact on society? 5. How has microlending had a positive impact on KickStart? 6. Where do catalytic innovations fall on the technology S-curve? Would you say that they have the potential of "segment-zero" products?Term Project - See inside for various due dates Term Project
HW2 Due Sept 23rd: Report on the Printing Press as Disruptive Technology
HW1 Due Sept 9th: Here are some articles relating to innovation and creativity. Write a paper (3 pages, single spaced) on what common ideas you find among these inventors and what makes them tick. What makes an individual/company creative and innovative?