Managing the Front End of Innovation

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Quick Info: Bachelor | Lecture | Tutorial | English | Winter Semester | 6 ECTS

Summary

Exam inspection

Dear students,

The results of the "Managing the Front End of Innovation" exam can be found in LSF.

The inspection of the exam will take place on Tuesday, March 5, 2024, from 11am to 1pm in room R329 in Ludwigstr.28 Rear Building.

For the examination, it is necessary to register until February 29, 12:00 (noon), by sending an email to yanchen.jin@lmu.de including the subject "FEI exam inspection: Student ID Number" (e.g., FEI exam inspection: 12345678”).

After reception of all registrations, you will receive a specific time slot for the exam inspection.

There will be no alternative date and no inspection outside your specific time slot (please also bring a photo ID). If you cannot attend the exam inspection by yourself, please send us the name of your delegate beforehand and make sure that he or she will have a valid letter of authorization (Vollmacht).

What is this course about?

How did a firm decide to introduce a particular new product (good or service)? Out of all the possible new offerings, what guides management to pick one concept over another? How is the set of possible new offerings even populated? All these questions pertain to what is commonly known as the "front end of innovation" (FEI) – a complex process with many uncertainties to manage.

What will I gain from this course?

In this course, we will examine different approaches to and models of the front end of innovation. Our focus will be on techniques and tools for managing the complexities and uncertainties within that initial phase of innovation, examining in particular the research-ideation-prototyping sequence of activities. You will learn about perspectives and techniques drawn from psychology, design, and engineering in the lectures and apply them through brief (mostly in-class) exercises during the tutorials. By the end of the course, you should be familiar with the management challenges the front end of innovation poses, and corresponding potential solutions.

How is the course conducted?

• You will do all of your work in English, and we will deliver all instruction in English.
• We are following a block format for this course.
• There are two tutorial groups which will deliver the same material – please pick one and attend that tutorial throughout the course. This is important, so we can most effectively conduct the tutorials and you can derive the benefit from the activities we have planned.
• This course is part of the Technology & Innovation specialization sequence (Technology & Innovation II).

Note: the schedule is subject to change; please check back often LSF.