
Learn to get business ideas, improve your business ideas and turn them into working product prototypes in just 24 hours
Choose the right idea and follow a structured, stepwise 24-hour path to turn it into a tangible product prototype, demonstrated through a loyalty card app example.
Learn to build an app that consolidates all loyalty memberships in one place, tracking points and benefits without plastic cards, and turn an idea into a prototype.
Learn to assess innovation types with three metrics, from incremental to substantial, and map your current situation along axes toward product, process, or business model changes.
Maximize learning by spending quality time on idea generation and evaluation, front-loading preparation with a real problem, and applying proven techniques to prototype and plan the team.
Identify and categorize three types of business ideas—spontaneous, inside, and deliberate idea generation—and gather customer insights in the first hour to guide product development.
Navigate a 3x3 matrix of nine types of innovations, spanning product, process, and business model changes from incremental to breakthrough, and map your idea to reach substantial outcomes.
Apply the review listing method by defining product attributes, breaking problems into elements, listing multiple positive and negative options, and refining ideas by adapting, magnifying, replacing, or combining attributes.
Apply Kipling-style problem framing to identify loyalty program pain points, such as plastic cards and unclear points, and validate a unified app solution that aggregates programs and empowers customers.
Use a two-dimensional metrics heuristic to borrow ideas from unrelated fields by selecting two unrelated products, listing their characteristics, and populating a metrics grid to generate new breakthroughs.
Learn the 6-3-5 group ideation method for cross-functional teams. Write three ideas per person in five minutes to foster equal participation, reduce bias, and generate actionable solutions.
Apply SCAMPER to the loyalty app by listing seven dimensions and generating two to three improvements per area, then map these ideas to features and attributes.
Master the Get SMART framework for product innovation to turn idea into a prototype in 24 hours. Learn to review ideas, define metrics, and communicate them for customers and investors.
learn to craft a compelling positioning statement for investors using the ram model, addressing market need, pricing, revenue, roi, risks, and team readiness to secure funding.
Identify direct, indirect, and substitute competitors; assess market position and revenue to validate your product's potential. Learn time-efficient competitive analysis within three hours using online and offline research.
Identify the three product components: features and software, hardware, and user experience, and map them to market-facing and technology back-end building blocks.
discover how to build a quick minimum viable product by creating a landing page, launching a Google Ads campaign with selected keywords, and measuring conversions with Google Analytics.
Translate a feature list into actionable use cases by defining user personas, primary actors, scope, preconditions, extensions, and emotions, using a six-element template to bridge marketing and development.
Translate use cases and mvp requirements into intuitive, minimalist wireframes by telling the product story with five elements—things, actors, actions, transitions, openings—drafted quickly with sticky notes.
Explore Google's Material Design and its three dimensions for UI wireframes. Use bottom toolbar, bottom navigation, and floating action button, plus Pluto IO for rapid prototyping.
This course is a HANDS-ON workshop. Starting from basic idea generation/creativity hacks, it takes you though entire journey of developing and launching products in a professional way.
You will be able to:
Learn proven methods to generate high potential business ideas (demonstrated with a real life example)
Get more creative ideas on your online or offline ventures esp. E- Commerce
Evaluate the right ideas and increase your venture success rate
Understand key components of a Product - Why it is beyond a website or a mobile app?
Learn proven steps to convert Idea into Cool Product and sell to first 100 customers
Learn to create an integrated GO TO MARKET plan and get customer proofs for free
Learn ABC of product launches and how to make them successful
Understand key performance metrics for your product
Make your idea/product attractive to your investors or board members
Just imagine if you can get fresh ideas on any new product or for improving existing ones in less than 15 minutes. Not only that, imagine if you are able to shape your idea into a sellable product in just 9 simple steps. Research says that more than 95% of the business or product ideas end up only on papers and never take off.
If you are also planning to start up with single or multiple ideas but unable to decide which one to pursue, this course is for you. Just imagine, what it would cost you in terms of time, effort and money if you select a wrong idea but later uncover the feasibility challenges or business potential limitations.
Over 3000 students have benefited from this course taught in classroom in various business schools and seminars
This course shares my knowledge and experiential learnings with you in a simple and step wise way. You will learn an actionable framework 'getSMART' to increase chances of success of your innovation exercise. Also, have designed a framework 'InCUBATER' to help you evaluate any idea in a holistic and unbiased manner. This framework is work of my interactions with various entrepreneurs and product managers. I assure you that you will not need any other tool if you learn to use this framework properly.
In this course, you will see how a simple service like "Loyalty" card for an apparel brand can be transformed into an innovative and unique product through getSMART framework.
You will learn how leading companies in technology, software, fmcg etc. generate ideas through a structured methodology. Irrespective of your job whether you are Product Manager, Marketing Manager, Services Manager, R&D professional, Artist or Student, you encounter situations that require ideation to create new stuff or improve the existing things.
Starting with an overview on getSMART framework and brief on main source for ideas, the course takes you through 9 popular and useful methods to “Generate Ideas". A complete unit is dedicated to each unit. At the end of each unit, you will be able to take any object around you, apply this method and improve it.
What will you learn?
getSMART framework to convert your idea into a sellable product
9 Types of Innovation Situations
9 Methods for Idea Generation
InCUBATER framework to evaluate ideas
Idea to Product conversion steps
Idea and Product Validation Methods and Online Tools (available for free)
4D model for Idea or Product Presentation design
Online resources with more than 100 advanced ideation techniques.
This course will serve as a reference toolkit that you can refer to at any stage of your career whenever you need to generate fresh ideas or solve problems.
I am positive you will benefit from this course and learn new framework and methodologies around ideation. Go ahead, Think creatively, Get great ideas and Launch cool products.