AI-Powered Innovation: Business Ideas in 3 Steps (Harvard)

Explore how digital transformation drives innovation by enabling ambidexterity, data-driven personalization, and new digital business, through agile enablers like people and organization, data analytics, technology, and ecosystem.

Explore three win strategies - individual idea creation, team idea creation as a leader, and organizational approach - grounded in the innovator's DNA and curated concept with purpose.

Explore how individual idea creation hinges on associating through combinatorial play, with examples like Blackberry and Apple, and learn the four skills to enhance associating.

Develop questioning, observing, networking, and experimentation to drive idea creation, avoid sunk costs and bias, and apply design thinking and innovator's DNA with a clear personal or corporate purpose.

Learn how senior leaders foster an organizational culture for innovation by embracing purpose, values, and diversity and inclusion, signaling risk taking, ritualizing processes, and creating psychological safety.

Explore seeds of innovation through data analytics and customer experience, balance bottom-up ideas with change management, and apply keywords like personalization, sdgs, circular economy, asset sharing, subscription, ecosystem, and agility.

Explore the +10% rule to turn tedious routine tasks into creative breakthroughs by hacking daily habits, embracing single-tasking, managing stress with Alia Cram's steps, and building a Davinci list.

Set the innovation time at 15 to 25 percent to mirror practices at 3M, Google and P&G, and learn how to declare and invest this time within your team.

Apply the 40 to 70 percent rule to daily decision making, balancing information load to avoid under 40% and over 70%, guiding decisions and innovations.

Explore the 1,000% rule and ten times methods to create disruptive innovation, ten times better, guided by Grove’s paranoia questions and Thiel’s zero to one, with trends and purpose.

Explore how the +1% rule and daily 1% improvement fuel innovation through grit and conscientiousness. Visualize your subordinates' progress with charts or tables to motivate improvement and connect to innovation.

Create innovative ideas proactively through a three-step strategy: assessment with tests, Davinci List-guided framework application, and an innovation checklist.

Assess your innovation potential with a free VIA strengths test, then ignite curiosity using the Davinci List—random ideas, topics to learn, and shiny objects.

Explore practical innovation frameworks, including the double diamond and business model canvas, to apply divergent and convergent thinking for problem solving in career development and disruptive business models.

Polish your innovation strategy with the curated checklist, emphasizing uniqueness and competitive advantage, through applying self-assessment, Davinci List, and Airbnb case examples to align leaders, culture, and new business models.

Apply the three-step approach to create innovation in uncertain business and use associating to generate ideas. Develop strategic thinking, critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making to enhance existing services.

Leverage the bonus session to plan course creation and discuss innovation for uncertain business environments. Share feedback on Udemy courses and contribute through curated learning, career planning, and well-being.