Workshop Contents

Exponential Technologies, Business Disruptions and Entrepreneurial Opportunities

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Exponential Technologies, Business Disruptions and Entrepreneurial Opportunities for Engineers (Elective 1)

Code	Subject	Teaching Scheme     (Weekly Load in Hrs)			Examination Scheme (Marks)
		Lect.	Tut.	Pract.	Theory		TW	PR	OR	Total
					In Sem	End Sem
	Entrepreneurial Opportunities	30			20	40	40			100

Pre-Requisites: Economics, Engineering Design

Course Objectives:

1. To understand the process of growth of exponential technologies and the resultant disruptive scenarios in business, social, government sectors of the economy.
2. To understand the leading edge of few technologies and few business scenarios where disruptions are expected.
3. To understand where the entrepreneurial opportunities are emerging and how new engineers will be able to exploit these opportunities.

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Course Outcomes

1. Students will have a better understanding of technology trends, resulting in entrepreneurial opportunities and how new startups will evolve.

Course Contents

Unit 1	Introduction The process of emerging new technologies with exponential growth potential, how these exponential technologies lead to business disruptions, opportunities created for new businesses, the destruction caused of established players, the evolution of new businesses, Unicorns.	4 hrs
Unit 2	Emerging Exponential Technologies Analyze technology trends worldwide and identify the potential emerging exponential technologies like, Social, Mobile, Analytics, Computing (SMAC), Genetics, AI, 3D, Solar/Wind/Renewable, blockchain.	6 hrs
Unit 3	Emerging Business Disruptions Analyze business trends worldwide and identify potential business disruptions in multiple sectors like, Healthcare, Transportation, Weapons, Governance, Education, Space, Energy, Finance and Education.	4 hrs
Unit 4	Emerging Business Models New Technology enablers for  improved efficiencies in business, evolving new business models like Outsourcing, eCommerce, B2B, B2C, C2C, shared economy, Freemium, Open Source, Multisided Platform, Long Tail,	4 hrs
Unit 5	Identify Problems and Build Solutions Identify use cases and jobs to be done, customer pains and gains, solution development, prototype, problem-solution fit, product–market fit, customer development and validation.	8 hrs
Unit 6	Lean Start-Up and Exponential Organizations Lean startup methodology, Characteristics of Exponential Organizations, Unicorn Pitch competition.	4 hrs

Reference Books:

Conversations with the Future

by Nikola Danaylov

Innovator’s Dilemma

by Clayton Christenson ( http://hbx.hbs.edu/hbx-courses/disruptive-strategy.html)

Disruption: Emerging Technologies and the Future of Work

by Victor del Rosal (Paperback)
Mastering The Hype Cycle

by Jackie Fenn, Mark Raskino
Singularity is Near

by Ray Kurzweil
Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it)

by Salim Ismail, Michael S. Malone, Yuri van Geest (Paperback)
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think

by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler (Paperback)

Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies

by George S. Day and Paul J. H. Schoemaker

Notes and Online Resources:

Majority of exponential technologies and disruptive business scenarios that are discussed in the course are not covered in any existing textbooks. Therefore, the practicing industry experts will provide notes and extensive online resources, which will be used as course material.