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Welcome to the **Innovative Product Development (70-446)** class wiki for **Spring 2011**. Throughout the course, we will work together to create a knowledge repository for use by all of the class's participants.

This wiki is intended to supplement [|Blackboard] rather than replace it. We will use Blackboard for 'official' purposes such as distributing announcements and the syllabus and posting grades. We will use the wiki as a forum for sharing what we have discovered and as a shared workspace as we are exploring ideas and concepts. It is also a great place for you to post relevant information, articles, web-sites, etc, that you find related to the topics we are covering in the class.

Course schedule and topics:
Each class session has its own wiki page. These pages briefly introduce each topic and the preparations you are expected to complete before class. Depending on the topic, these preparations generally include readings, exercises, and/or independent research that you should complete before class.

> //Introduction to Innovative Product Development – processes and approaches//
 * Week 1:
 * Tuesday 1/11 - Course introduction and overview
 * Thursday 1/13 - Core concepts: products, services, and experiences

> //Identifying the opportunity//
 * Week 2:
 * Tuesday 1/18 - Identifying the opportunity I - Cagan/Vogel process, SET factors
 * Thursday 1/20 - Identifying the opportunity II - Product Opportunity Gaps (POGs)
 * First challenge problem distributed in class


 * Week 3:
 * Tuesday 1/25 - Guest lecture on Industrial Design by Prof. Alex Cheek
 * Thursday 1/27 - **No class - instructor traveling to give a talk at AAC&U annual conference.**
 * Recommended use of the class session: meeting time for your challenge problem team to work together on a solution / proposal.


 * Week 4:
 * Tuesday 2/1 - Identifying the opportunity III - Job To Be Done analysis
 * Thursday 2/3 - Identifying the opportunity IV - Challenge problem 1 workshop


 * Week 5:
 * Tuesday 2/8 - Identifying the opportunity V - Job Scoping
 * Thursday 2/10 - Identifying the opportunity VI - The Stage Gate product development process

> //Understanding the opportunity//
 * Week 6:
 * Tuesday 2/15 - Special lecture -- Dr. Ibrahim Ibrahim, Secretary General of GSDP, Qatar National Vision 2030
 * Thursday 2/17 - Understanding the opportunity I


 * Week 7:
 * Tuesday 2/22 - Understanding the opportunity II - Task analysis workshop
 * Thursday 2/14 - Understanding the opportunity III - Stakeholder analysis, assembling observations and data
 * Challenge problem 3 presentations


 * Week 8:
 * Tuesday 3/1 - No class - spring break
 * Thursday 3/3 - No class - spring break

> //Conceptualizing the opportunity//
 * Week 9:
 * Tuesday 3/8 - Conceptualizing the Opportunity I: Phase Overview
 * Challenge problem 4 distributed
 * Thursday 3/10 - Conceptualizing the Opportunity II: Prototyping 101
 * Challenge problem 5 distributed


 * Week 10:
 * Tuesday 3/15 - Conceptualizing the Opportunity III
 * Product Concept Presentations for challenge problem 4
 * Prototyping workshop for challenge problem 5
 * Thursday 3/17 - Conceptualizing the Opportunity IV
 * Prototyping presentations for challenge problem 5

> //Realizing the opportunity//
 * Week 11:
 * Tuesday 3/22 - Realizing the opportunity I
 * Gate 3 – The big go/no-go decision
 * Tasks and steps needed to realize the opportunity
 * Thursday 3/24 - Realizing the opportunity II
 * Product development process case study – MediSys


 * Week 12:
 * Tuesday 3/29 - Final project workshop
 * Each group presents work to date and plan for completing the final project
 * Thursday 3/31 - Mechanics of a product launch

> //Going to market//
 * Week 13:
 * Tuesday 4/5 - Strategies for managing a product innovation portfolio and timing market entry
 * Thursday 4/7 - Building an innovative product development organization


 * Week 14:
 * Tuesday 4/12 - Final project workshop
 * Thursday 4/14 - Innovation for social good I
 * Case study - Danimal in South Africa
 * Challenge problem 6 distributed


 * Week 15:
 * Tuesday 4/19 - Innovation for social good II – doing well by doing good with product innovation (II)
 * Thursday 4/21 - Final project presentations

Final project written reports will be due during finals week on the date and time that this class’s final exam is scheduled

Challenge Problems:
Challenge Problem #1 (February 1 - 8) Challenge Problem #2 (February 15-17) Challenge Problem #3 (February 22-24) Challenge Problem #4 (March 8-15) Challenge Problem #5 (March 10-17) Challenge Problem #6 (April 13-18)

===**Final Project:** === Presentation due in class on April 21, final report due at noon on April 28



Syllabus:
The most up-to-date version of the syllabus (v1.2, last updated March 21, 2011) is available here:

===Instructor: ** Bob Monroe, bmonroe@cmu.edu ** ===

Ground rules for using the wiki:
I encourage students to add material to the wiki and edit material on the wiki as appropriate. That said, there are various places on the wiki that I would prefer you not edit such as the topic overviews, class preparations, and assignments. I (Bob Monroe) will try to clearly mark those places that should not be edited (such as this page). I will post all of the 'official' course documents in read-only format on Blackboard. I will also try to make these assignments available on the wiki for everybody's convenience. If the wiki's version and Blackboards version of a document disagree, consider the Blackboard document the definitive copy.