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ART(?) OF INNOVATION

WHAT IS INNOVATION?  

A "NEW IDEA, DEVICE OR METHOD"

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INNOVATION

TWO APPROACHES

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DEPTH VS BREADTH

Knowledge

Comprehension

Assimilation

Application

Innovation

Connecting the ‘Dots'Depth

DEPTH - TO SEE

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ऋिषःIn ancient days, Rishis were people who could see things that normal people could not. They went very deep into various subjects (not restricted to Medicine, Mathematics, Spirituality..

BREADTH

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➤ ‘Connecting the Dots’ vs ‘Dots always connect backwards’

➤ Power of ‘Knowledge Compounding’

➤ Superficial knowledge doesn’t foster innovation

➤ Great stuff is achieved by perseverance, and not just short-term brilliance

➤ An in-depth knowledge in multiple fields helps people innovate

RECIPE FOR INNOVATION?

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➤ “The building blocks of new ideas are often embedded in existing knowledge”

➤Unusual Pairing

FAST VS SLOW INNOVATION

➤ Fast : Try and Fail Quickly (and eventually succeed)

➤ Slow: What will be relevant 18 - 24 months from now?

➤ If we don’t do enough slow innovation, we’ll miss forest for the trees

EXAMPLE #1

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➤ Product Design firm IDEO’s biggest successes originated as “combination of existing knowledge from disparate industries”

EXAMPLE #2

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Most of Thomas Edison’s inventions were the result of importing ideas from one area of science to another*

E.g., knowledge of electromagnetic power to lighting, telephone, phonograph, railway and mining!

MY TRYST WITH INNOVATION

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EARLY LIFE :P

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➤ Part of the teams that created World’s First

➤ Low Power WiFi Chipset - WiFi in Laptop and even Phones! (2003)

➤ 4G - Launched in Sep 2005

➤ Seamless Connectivity for HetNets (2010)

Not so Early Life :P :P (but still World’s First)

➤ SD-RAN / C-RAN with Ethernet Fronthaul (2014)

RECENT WORK #1

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0LA AUTOCONNECT WIFI

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➤ Unusual Pairing - Connectivity Guy in Automotive Domain

➤ World’s first and only seamless in-car connectivity solution

➤ Bigger than

➤ Biggest Network Operator T-Mobile in Austria

➤ Probably bigger than all Tier-II operators in EU put together (if you drop England / Germany / France)

➤ World’s Largest mobile WiFi Network

RECENT WORK #2

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EXPONENTIAL GROWTH / INDUSTRY CHANGE - HOW IT FEELS

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EXPONENTIAL GROWTH / INDUSTRY CHANGE -WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE

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OLA PLAY

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➤ Reimagine car for a ride sharing economy

➤ What do you do if you have a

BILLION minutes?

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INNOVATION LABS @MYNTRA

Win with Technology

REFERENCES

➤ Smarter, Faster, Better - Charles Douhigg (Notes on Edison, Unusual Pairing)

➤ How to make your knowledge multiply like money - Sriram V Iyer (Concept of Knowledge Pyramid and Knowledge Compounding)

➤ Road to Artificial Super Intelligence (Wait But Why)