Famous Fusions: Behind the Scenes Intro to Companies, Inventions, and Innovators
13 Sessions
104 Actions
124 Minutes
About
Tagline
People, Companies, and Inventions that Revolutionized Businesses, Industries, and the World!
Description
Where do company founders, product developers, startup leaders, inventors, and famous people who’ve changed the world get radical, high-value ideas? This program presents behind-the-scenes innovation stories from Airbnb, Apple, Bill and Melinda Gates, Coca Cola, FedEx, Gutenberg, Jane Fonda, Leonardo da Vinci, Pixar, Salvador Dali, Speedo, and Walt Disney.
Here you will find where ideas came from, as well as reflective questions/exercises and guidance on how you, too, can combine unlikely ideas to create radical, high-value offerings that integrate industries, fields, technologies, people, and more. It is designed to inspire you to think bigger, discover deeper insights, collect ideas (and more!), sense opportunities others may miss, and craft high-value fusions.
If you’re interested in new inventions, innovation and entrepreneurship, this program is for you. If you’re a business leader or consultant involved in innovation and new product or service design, it’s also for you. If you ever wanted to change the world, this is for you!
About the Author
Dr. CJ Meadows, DBA - Harvard Business School
Innovation Center Director, S P Jain School of Global Management
Awarded as one of Asia's Top-10 Women in IT, Dr. Meadows leads an Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center at S P Jain School of Global Management -- a Forbes Top-20 International Business School -- creating growth initiatives at the intersection of IT, business strategy, and design.
She has designed and delivered executive education independently and with leading business schools like INSEAD, AIM, NUS, and SMU. Her research, teaching, consulting, and coaching span Design Thinking, Leadership, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Sustainability, and the Future of Work (FoW) and Education (FoE).
She co-founded and chairs a corporation working for tiger conservation, ecologically- and socially-sensitive economic growth (sustainability), and people programs. Holding a Doctorate in Business Administration & IT from Harvard Business School, Dr. Meadows has over 20 years’ experience in Asia, Europe, and North America as a consultant, coach, entrepreneur, eBusiness builder, innovation lab co-founder, and Accenture IT & Business Strategy consultant. She can be found at drcjmeadows.com.
Content
Session 1
Introduction
Session 2
Salvador Dali: Visualizing Einstein’s Relativity a...
Session 3
Sharkskin for Submarines and Speedo's Olympic Swim...
Session 4
Coca-Cola: Tasty Medicine
Session 5
Disney and Pixar: The Technology and Business of A...
Session 6
Printing Press and the Gutenberg Bible
Session 7
Aerobics and Jane Fonda’s Workout: Integrated Fitn...
Session 8
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: High-Tech Human...
Session 9
Leonardo da Vinci: Art, Science, and Modern Acoust...
Session 10
FedEx: An Envelope in Every (Airline) Seat
Session 11
Apple: The Art of Technology
Session 12
Airbnb: Internet Home-Hotels
Session 13
Pulling it all together ...