HTM 484c Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship

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HTM 484c Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship
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Class Discussion of Splatterball Business
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Results Discussion of Learning Model Surveys
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Learning Model
Student Instructor Information flow
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Impossibility Thinking

• This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be
  seriously considered as a means of communication.
  The device is inherently of no value to us.
  (Western Union internal memo, 1876)
• Radio has no future. X-rays will prove to be a
  hoax. Heavier-than-air flying machines are
  impossible. (Lord Kelvin, President of the
  English Royal Society 1890-5)
• The energy produced by the breaking down of the
  atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who
  looks for a source of power in the transformation
  of the atom is talking moonshine. (Sir Ernest
  Rutherford, 1933)
• The wireless music box radio has no
  imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a
  message sent to nobody in particular? (David
  Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings
  for investment in the radio in the 1920s)
• Television won't last. It's a flash in the pan.
  (Mary Somerville, pioneer of radio educational
  broadcasts, 1948)
• When a distinguished but elderly scientist states
  that something is possible, he is almost
  certainly right. When he states that something is
  impossible, he is very probably wrong. (Profiles
  of the Future)

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Solving Problems Brainstorming

• Define the problem
• Are you solving the right problem? example
• Brainstorm solutions
• Lots of ideas, free-wheeling welcomed
• Use divergent rather than convergent thinking
• Leverage your teammates ideas
• No criticism or prejudgment
• Evaluate (criticism ok here)
• List reduce
• Keep notes in case your best ideas dont work