CSSE-453: Cognitive Computing - Day 10

Activities

• Innovation:
  • Discussion of how Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison and others innovated. Hint: Hard work, attention to detail and obsessions with simplicity in Steve Jobs case.
  • Eight essential practices, from the book The Innovator's way by Denning and Dunham.
  • A more detailed look at the eight essential practices.
  • Discussion of the tough problem of taking a product to market.
  • Advice: Develop a network of friends and colleagues that contains experts in the process of taking a product to market and with experts who know how to run a company. Just like becoming an outstanding engineer, it takes years and years of practive to become an outstanding CEO and an outstaning person who can take a product to market.