The purpose of this course is to make students familiar with process models and systematic working methods used in innovation and product development. The goal is also to provide a deeper understanding of how these models and working methods are used in a number of critical situations in innovation and product development. Examples of such critical situations are when an organization wants to improve both its efficiency and its ability to innovate, when the demands of the outside world change drastically or the value that a product company offers its customers contains both products and services and constitutes complex sociotechnical systems.
Course memo Spring 2022
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Course presentation
Headings denoted with an asterisk ( * ) is retrieved from the course syllabus version Spring 2022
Content and learning outcomes
Course contents
- different theories and frameworks for innovation and product development processes, such as NPD stage gate, agile development, design thinking, Lean start-up, circular economy
- systematic methods that are used in different phases of innovation and product development processes, e g user involvement, creativity methods, analysis of product and service value, launch and sales of innovation
- principles and tools for the analysis of innovation and product development processes
- Integration mechanisms in innovation and product development processes, e g roles and functions, group dynamics, visualisation and management by objectives
- Project work with a focus on evaluation and design of innovation and product development processes in an organisation
Intended learning outcomes
After passing the course, the students should be able to:
- describe how theory related to innovation and product development processes have been developed over time
- explain and compare what characterises different innovation and product development processes and how individuals and groups are influenced
- use systematic methods that are used in different phases of the innovation and product development process
- analyse advantages and disadvantages when it comes to use of different systematic methods in a number of critical situations in innovation and product development processes
- analyse and design innovation and product development processes
- evaluate innovation and product development processes in order to analyse the effects of different designs of innovation and product development processes
- analyse critical integration mechanisms in innovation and product development processes and their usability for different purposes
Learning activities
There are a number of learning activities in this course that complement each other and also are intertwined. The major activities are the seminars and the project.
The seminars are structured with shorter lectures or presentations and with room for discussions and reflections. Discussions can be formed around papers that the students have read before the seminar, organized as exercises or be held in dialogue with teachers or invited guests. There are a number of guest lecturers invited to the seminars, several of them from companies in Swedish industry. Seminars intend to share information an knowledge and induce students to reflect, the latter in order to learn during the course and also train a critical and reflective manner that is important in any engineering work.
Students preparations before seminars are an important learning activity, i.e. prereading of assigned papers Another individual learning activity is the Continuous Learning Assignments. that is assignments that form a continuous examination during the course.
The project in the course is the other major learning activity. It focuses on both gaining knowledge in the area but also on practicing analysis and synthesis in that processes in practice are critically analyzed and improvements are designed.
Finally, the home exam is a learning activity where students practice their ability to analyze and reflect upon learnings.
Detailed plan
The detailed plan describes the assignements given in the course and deadlines for these. This is to complement the schedule that holds the seminars and scheduled project meetings.
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Assignment/deliverable |
Deadline |
How to deliver |
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Individual motivation Project |
January 24, 09.00 |
Canvas |
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Pre reading Lean and Agile |
January 27, 09.15 |
Participation at seminar |
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Pre reading Digitalization |
February 3, 09.15 |
Participation at seminar |
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Stakeholder Analysis Project, |
February 3, 09.00 |
Canvas |
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Pre reading Circular Economy |
February 10, 09.15 |
Participation at seminar |
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Continuous learning assignment 1, Process and systems |
February 9, 23.59 |
Canvas |
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Pre reading Social Innovation |
February 17, 09.15 |
Participation at seminar |
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Pre reading Integration mechanisms |
February 24, 09.15 |
Participation at seminar |
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Continuous learning assignments 2, Circular Economy |
February 23 23.59
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Canvas |
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Continuous learning assignments 3, Integration mechanisms |
March 21 23.59
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Canvas |
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Project pitch, half-way presentation |
March 21 19.00 |
Canvas |
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Pre reading Co-design/Co-creation |
March 24 |
Participation at seminar |
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Pre reading Cognitive bias |
March 31 |
Participation at seminar |
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Continuous learning assignment 4, Co-design/Co-creation |
April 13, 23.59 |
Canvas |
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Pre reading Teams |
April 14, 09.15 |
Participation at seminar |
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Pre reading Innovation Ecosystems |
April 28, 09.15 |
Participation at seminar |
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Continuous learning assignments 5, Teams |
May 04, 23.59 |
Canvas |
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Project report for peer review |
May 2 12.00 |
Canvas |
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Project opposition report
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May 5 09.00 |
Canvas |
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Final Project report
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May 12 09.00 |
Canvas |
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Home exam |
June 10 15.00 |
Canvas |
Preparations before course start
Literature
Will be announced at the beginning of the course.
Support for students with disabilities
Students at KTH with a permanent disability can get support during studies from Funka:
Examination and completion
Grading scale
A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
Examination
- PROA - Project, 3.0 credits, Grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
- SEMA - Seminars, 1.5 credits, Grading scale: P, F
- TENA - Home exam, 1.5 credits, Grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.
The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.
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Ethical approach
- All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
- In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
- In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.
Further information
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Contacts
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Start date
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Course offering
- Spring 2022-61323
- Spring 2022-20030
Language Of Instruction
English