Yepp, in the first session of the new class that started today, "team A2" comprising of myself and Hillary won the 'Engineering Excellence' award, for making the "plane that floats in air for longest period of time". I am sure all the A2 folks that are scattered around the globe now will be proud to know this :-P
OK, just kidding - I mean yes, we won and yes we made a paper plane that floated in air for the longest time, and yes we got an applause, but there wasn't any excellence award for it :-)
By the way, this exciting class that started today is "Hands-On Rapid Innovation Accelerator" which will be conducted by Chris McCoy and Zubin Chagpar in ten sessions over two weeks time. During this time, we will go through the entire journey of a Rapid Innovation Cycle, and towards the end of it, present our products/prototypes to the likes of investors and external judges.
Sounds fun? Check out the twitter handle @handsonRI for knowing more updates about the subject.
And during the class today, we covered not only the basics like what the term 'Rapid Innovation Cycle' means, but also did some practical exercises like identifying a problem with current healthcare system and quickly brainstorming and prototyping the solution that we could offer. We also saw how even a thing as small as a personal feedback can change the way we do things as simple as drawing a lamp on a piece of paper. An insight that only helps to emphasize the importance of timely market feedback and testing.
While Chris will only reach Madrid for the next session, Zubin who conducted the class solo today, had also got some books with him - and as the discussion progressed and touched different aspects of innovation and start-ups, he shared the names of these books with us, and made recommendations about them. There was also a lot of stuff to help us create prototypes, including a special clay that can be molded to create 3-D printer like versions.
Looking forward to future sessions of this class for all the fun learning that it promises to bring along :-)
I also had the Internet as a Sales channel class today, where-in Fernando explained different SEO and SEM methods, showed us how bloggers monetize their posts using CPC, CPM, CPL techniques and then there was a philosophical discussion in the class with arguments ranging from "People ain't stupid, they will notice that you are making them click the ads for filling your own pockets" to "This is a business model and it is meant to make money" to "It's a question of negotiations with CPA on one end and CPM at the other end" !!
So much discussion for a simple Google feature to help us poor bloggers. What has this world come to be :-P
OK, just kidding - I mean yes, we won and yes we made a paper plane that floated in air for the longest time, and yes we got an applause, but there wasn't any excellence award for it :-)
By the way, this exciting class that started today is "Hands-On Rapid Innovation Accelerator" which will be conducted by Chris McCoy and Zubin Chagpar in ten sessions over two weeks time. During this time, we will go through the entire journey of a Rapid Innovation Cycle, and towards the end of it, present our products/prototypes to the likes of investors and external judges.
Sounds fun? Check out the twitter handle @handsonRI for knowing more updates about the subject.
And during the class today, we covered not only the basics like what the term 'Rapid Innovation Cycle' means, but also did some practical exercises like identifying a problem with current healthcare system and quickly brainstorming and prototyping the solution that we could offer. We also saw how even a thing as small as a personal feedback can change the way we do things as simple as drawing a lamp on a piece of paper. An insight that only helps to emphasize the importance of timely market feedback and testing.
While Chris will only reach Madrid for the next session, Zubin who conducted the class solo today, had also got some books with him - and as the discussion progressed and touched different aspects of innovation and start-ups, he shared the names of these books with us, and made recommendations about them. There was also a lot of stuff to help us create prototypes, including a special clay that can be molded to create 3-D printer like versions.
Looking forward to future sessions of this class for all the fun learning that it promises to bring along :-)
I also had the Internet as a Sales channel class today, where-in Fernando explained different SEO and SEM methods, showed us how bloggers monetize their posts using CPC, CPM, CPL techniques and then there was a philosophical discussion in the class with arguments ranging from "People ain't stupid, they will notice that you are making them click the ads for filling your own pockets" to "This is a business model and it is meant to make money" to "It's a question of negotiations with CPA on one end and CPM at the other end" !!
So much discussion for a simple Google feature to help us poor bloggers. What has this world come to be :-P
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