Identify • Analyze • Conceptualize • Create
April 29, 2021
2 months, online
2-4 hours per week
Special pricing up to 20% discount is available if you enroll with your colleagues. Please send an email to group-enrollments@emeritus.org for more information.
62 Video Lectures
4 Peer Learning Discussions
4 Case Studies
4 Real-World Applications, 1 Capstone Project
Learn how to apply the three innovation challenges model to a business/product/service while exploring the cases of Airbnb and Apple.
Grasp the concepts of opportunity evaluation and concept development by identifying a product or service that meets a customer need.
Develop a solution concept by understanding the basics of concept generation, down selection, sketch modeling and external and internal search.
Learn how to generate multiple innovations for one step in a service experience cycle and map out a detailed customer experience cycle for your product/service.
Discover how to use modeling to analyze a company's cash flow to maintain NPV and identify key components of financial analysis.
Identify environmental impacts that could occur over the life cycle of a product and the key components of Design for Environment (DFE) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
Learn how to apply the three innovation challenges model to a business/product/service while exploring the cases of Airbnb and Apple.
Learn how to generate multiple innovations for one step in a service experience cycle and map out a detailed customer experience cycle for your product/service.
Grasp the concepts of opportunity evaluation and concept development by identifying a product or service that meets a customer need.
Discover how to use modeling to analyze a company's cash flow to maintain NPV and identify key components of financial analysis.
Develop a solution concept by understanding the basics of concept generation, down selection, sketch modeling and external and internal search.
Identify environmental impacts that could occur over the life cycle of a product and the key components of Design for Environment (DFE) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
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Steve Eppinger
General Motors Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management
Prof. Steve Eppinger is the Professor of Management Science & Engineering Systems as well as the Co-director for the System Design & Management Program. His research efforts are applied to improving product design and development practices. Conducted within MIT's Center for Innovation in Product Development, his work focuses on organizing complex design processes in order to accelerate industrial practices, and has been applied primarily in the automotive, electronics, aerospace, and equipment industries.
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