Creating Breakthrough Concepts -Idea to execution

Dr. Kaustubh Dhargalkar shares his approach to innovation, which is a combination of Design Thinking, Systems Thinking,  FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis) & Lean Startup in this incisively curated module. Start-ups & mature businesses or anyone wanting to bring Breakthrough concepts into reality would benefit from this module.

Broad Course Outline:

1. Mapping the Business Ecosystem
2. Creative User Research techniques to identify latent needs (user needs that were not
evident because the users never verbalized them)
3. Redefine Problems faced by users basis the immersive user analysis
4. Ideation techniques
5. Thinking creatively about the Business Model
a. Innovation beyond products and hi-tech – Reimagining Business Models
b. Traits of Unique Business Models
c. Usable framework to reimagine business models
6. Solution demos seeking feedback
7. Feasibility testing
8. Crafting a compelling Value Proposition
9. Creative Bootstrapping

About The Speaker.

Design Thinking Trainer/Coach and an ‘Innovation & Strategy’ Consultant. Author of ‘It’s Logical: Innovating Profitable Business Models’ (Sage Publications) https://bit.ly/ItsLogical
<... entrepreneur since 1990. Founded four companies and now on two more ventures. In 2006, sold commercial interests in his first 3 companies and plunged into academics and research.

Kaustubh relishes the challenge of ‘Enhancing the Innovation Quotient’ of an organization, by helping create new offerings to tap existing as well as new markets . Visualising unique & sustainable Business Models is his forte.

Associations:
1) Mercedes Benz
2) Daimler
3) Citibank
4) HP
5) Deloitte
6) Mahindra Group
7) YES Bank
8) Accenture
9) Amazon
10) L&T
11) Eaton
12) CEAT
13) Honeywell
etc.

Awards/Honours:
1) Honoured as 'Entrepreneurship Educator & Mentor' Award by the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship-Govt. of India, , INTEL, British Council, NEN, EDII.

2) Work in the field of ‘Unconventional User Research’ was acknowledged by The Wharton School of Business. Awarded the runner-up award in the global 'Wharton Innovation Tournament' in 2010 for an app for mining Consumer Pain Points

3) HIs proposal on clean energy integration with electric vehicles was adjudged as the top seven in the world at the Smart City World Expo Congress held in Barcelona, Spain. http://www.smartcityexpo.com/e... 

Events:
1) http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video...
2) TEDx-Sanofi

Conducts Innovation Hackathons/ Design Sprints across domains and specializes in bringing out the Creative force in organisations.

An acclaimed professor of Innovation & Design Thinking Currently, a visiting faculty @ IIT-Bombay, IIM-Sirmaur, ICT-Mumbai, NMIMS, Weschool. Mentor at various startup incubators, active on various startup forums s.a. ET-Power of Ideas, WF Global etc.