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Technology & Innovation Management Jamil Khatib Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib Engineering day – Birzeit university 22.05.2007
Contents Introduction to Innovations  Innovation management tasks Innovation & organizations Innovation & strategies Innovation, people & creativity Technology forecasting methods Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
Why this topic Engineers source of researches and inventions Engineers and management Lack of innovation in our region Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
(1) Innovation Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
Innovation Innovation = Invention + Exploitation (Must be implemented and be useful) Something New or improved Perceived to be new (Intel inside) New market  Away from routines Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
Innovation dimensions Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
Innovation core questions What is New? New for whom? Where does the innovation start or end? Is novelty equal to success? Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
Innovation process Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
Sources of Innovation Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib Technology Market research institutes Products in other sectors Suggestions from the company Consultants Employees Competitors Technical services Suppliers Marketing research Universities & public researches Production Traders Patents Customers R&D External Internal
Why should a company be innovative Competitive advantage  Consumer behavior is changing Products short life cycle Technology changes & new products New customers/markets Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
Why companies are not innovating No awareness of innovation (managers) High Costs of innovation Employees’ fear of innovation and failure Monopoly position Innovation needs long-term process Strategic decision to wait and observe No incentives for innovation (employees) The cash cow exists Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
(2) Innovation management Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
R&D, Innovation & Tech. Management Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
(3) Innovation & organization Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
Organizations “ An Organization that is designed to  do something well for the millionth   time  is  NOT good at doing something for the first time . Therefore, organizations that wants to innovate …. need two organizations, an operating and an innovating organizations.” Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
Innovation & structure Project and organization structure Centralized/decentralized Close to market – fast reaction Degree of specialization Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
(4) Innovation strategies Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
(5) Innovation & people Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
Innovation Promoters Innovation champion (not always true) Know-how promoter (barrier of capability) Power promoter (barrier of will) Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
Creativity “ Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction” Picasso Creativity:= knowledge + imagination + evaluation Creativity techniques Brain storming Lateral thinking Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
Brain storming Part of problem solving involves ideas creation  regardless of their initial worth Brain storming killers: Evaluation Criticism Large developed ideas Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
(6)Technology forecasting Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
Technology forecasting Scanning, Monitoring and Analyzing Portfolio approach Patent analysis Scenario development & road mapping Delphi-technique Technology S-curve Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
S-Curve Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
Where to be used Innovation manager Product management Product life cycle Product & tech Portfolio management Change management (merge, new department) Technology Licensing Strategy planning Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
About me Msc. Technology & Innovation management Bsc. Electrical Engineering Consulting: Technology commercialization Product and Technology Strategy planning Change and Innovation management Creativity techniques Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
Thank you website: www.geocities.com/jamilkhatib75 Email: khatib@ieee.org Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
Recommended books M. Dodgson: Technology and Innovation management C. Christensen: The Innovators Dilemma De Bono’s 6 thinking hats www.wipo.org Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib