How should we innovate? Share your ideas!

  • Strategies

    Using TEL (Technology Enhanced Learning) for learning enhancement.

    TEL (Technology Enhanced Learning) is an online facility that supports learning and teaching. It is synonymous with equipment and infrastructure. It implies value judgement , it might bring three levels of benefits efficiency, enhancement and transformation. Efficiency in exciting process through saving time enhancement means improvement transformation reveals some positive or radical change.

    Strategies:
    What are our strategic directions?

    Wikis could facilitate group work,
    A video game for improving mechanical students engagement with numerical methods,
    Computer mediated interaction provide a highly structured context in terms of problem solving and tackling unfamiliar problems
    TEL (Technology Enhanced Learning) interventions is intended to improve students discussion
    Concept maps intervention provide chance for better reflective analysis
    TEL (Technology Enhanced Learning) in education is better understanding about achievement in higher education.

    Business intelligence

    See what our competitors are doing and try to imagine the opposite.

    >Business intelligence

    Or copy them?

    Continous

    Our innovation should be continuous

    Incremental and radical

    We must not limit to incremental innovation alone!

    cooperation

    Binding stakholders to work more for same goal.

    Business model

    We should innovate new business models.

    Questioning

    We must have courage to question "the truths" of our business.

  • Culture

    Failure accepted

    Fail fast and learn from failure

    >Failure accepted

    ...but not without risk management!

    Startup mentality

    We must build startup mentality within our organization.

    Openness

    We need to openly share ideas and experiences.

    Open idea sharing

    We need a tool to share ideas openly, over organizational borders.

    >Open idea sharing

    Technology TEL approach was a response to larger or more diverse classes and encouragement to make greater use of institutional learning environment.

    >Open idea sharing

    Yes, get rid of silos!

  • Processes

    Smoother processes

    We should innovate by removing frictions in what we already do well so we can do them more easily and allow the creative juices to flow

    Innovation process

    We must establish an innovation process with goals, roles, responsibilities, and funding.

    >Innovation process

    ...but let's not make it too bureaucratic!

    Involve customers

    Customers should be involved!

    Competitions

    Let's have idea competitions.

    >Competitions

    This is a great idea. Never tried it!

    Fast experimentation

    5-day experiments!

    Personas

    User personas are used in service design. They could help us innovate.

    Hackathons

    We could organize hackathons with our customers and partners.

    Internal startup teams

    Our employees could form internal startup teams that would get training on how to innovate and sell their ideas.

    More customer involvement

    We need to involve customers in our innovation process

  • Tools

    Online interventions

    Create a menu of intervention to be delivered by instructional assistants depending on the need and the accessibility of the student to the appropriate technology

    >Online interventions

    This seems like a great idea!

    Social media

    Mining social media for needs and ideas is something we should try out sometime!

    >Social media

    building your professional learning network (PLN) online through social media

    Mobile game

    Let's create a mobile game to collect valuable data from our customers and prospects.

    Project portfolio

    A project portfolio would make our processes systematic and transparent.

    >Project portfolio

    We have a pilot project on this.

    Idea wall

    This is a great tool!

    >Idea wall

    We're using it already!

    Test ideas with customers

    We should test ideas with our customers.

    SIT

    SIT is systematic inventive thinking. A thinking tool for doing things better.

  • Financing

    Ego

    Get out of the way....I'm fascinated by how the world is tackling these issues...so many intelligent people can't solve what is easily solved...sorry about my directness

    >Ego

    How would you solve it?

    Innovation equity

    Everyone in our company gets 1000 units of play money to invest in internal "startups".

    Internal startup funding

    We should use development budget for funding internal "startup teams".

    Percentage of revenues

    We should allocate a percentage of our revenues for innovation.