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INFO5992 Understanding IT
Innovations
Dr Rola Fanousse
Semester 2, 2023
Innovation Presentation
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UoS Semester Outline
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Assessments
– 2 MCQs 5% each for a total of 10% (Weeks 7&11)
– Multiple choice questions
– At the Tutorial
– Innovation Report (Group + Individual) – 20 % (Weeks 5 & 10)
– Research report on a topic with IT innovation, with multiple case studies
– Presentation (Group) – IT Innovation Company – 10% (Weeks 12 & 13)
– Presentation of Innovation case studies and pitching a new idea!
– Week 12 - 13 – At the tutorial and Lecture (Week 13)
– Attendance and participation in group presentations
– Final Exam 60% (Exam Period)
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Three stages of your Assessment
Technology
Selection (Innovation
Report I)
• Group work
• Pick a technology and
identify multiple
industries using it
Technology
Innovation
(Innovation Report II)
• Individual
• Report on how a
technology is being used
by two companies within
your chosen industry
(Innovation
Presentation)
• Group
• Based on your group’s
technology, select a new
or one of your group’s
chosen industry
• Pitch a start up idea!
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Group Presentation
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Group Presentation
– Full Presentation (In Tutorial and Lecture (Week 13)) – Week 12 -13
– 10% of UoS.
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Innovation Presentation – Learning Objectives
– To further develop the research done with your Innovation Report
– In the innovation report, the discussion was about how the technology
your group selected was used by selected industry (current and
emerging)
– Having researched the possibilities and potential applications of the
technology, your group will now form a startup company and pitch for a
new idea/innovation
– Identify a problem/demand in a new industry or one of your group’s
chosen industry and come up with a product or solution based around
your group’s chosen technology
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Presentation Outline: Setting the Scene
– Having identified a problem or demand, as well as an innovative solution,
your group forms a startup company.
– In order to secure an initial investment capital, you need to convince your
potential investors why they should invest in your company and product.
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Group Presentation – Week 12-13
Tutorials + Week 13 Lecture
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Full Presentation Structure – Pitching your Innovation
1. Introduction/Background
– Present the industry, the problem or demand, existing companies/solutions
2. Company – Introduce your company and your targeted industry
3. Technology – discuss your group’s selected Technology
– Describe what the tech is, and how your company innovates with it
4. Your Product/Solution
– Your product/solution to the problem/demand
– Present the novelty of your solution/product
5. Innovation Concepts
– Distributed Innovation concepts (same one from Ass 2) that your business could make use of
(including crowdsourcing, open source, open data, platform, Web API etc)
– Does the chosen Tech have the properties to be emerging Dominant category / Dominant
designs?
– Discuss whether your product will be Disruptive or has the potential to disrupt the market, the
type of disruption (low-end or ?)
– Discuss the Value Chain and where your product fits
– Present your Business Model Canvas
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Full Presentation Guide: Marking Criteria
1. Background (Problem/demand) 10%
2. Introduction of your company and your targeted industry 10%
3. Your technology product/solution 25%
4. Innovation Concepts 40%
– Distributed Innovation concepts – 10%
– Dominant category / Dominant designs – 5%
– Disruptive Innovation – 5%
– Value Chain – 5%
– Business Model Canvas – 15%
5. Demonstrate clarity in the presentation; timing; coherence of presentation (e.g., it doesn’t look like
different people did separate parts and then stuck them together) 10%
6. Inclusion of References in the slides to back up the data 5%
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Full Presentation Submission and Marking Guide
– Order of the presentation based on your group number
– You are to submit the slides before the lecture starts – Monday 6pm of week 12 on
Canvas. Submit in PDF in week 11.
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Full Presentation Guide – Delivery
– You will need to present at your tutorials and last lecture (live presentation!)
– 15 Minutes in-tutorial presentation (12 minutes presentation + 3 minutes
QA)
– All group members must participate in the development of, and in the
delivery of the presentation
– There is no template – use a template of your own choice.
– We encourage you to create your own figures and tables (or even photos
and videos). If you do, show that you created them (e.g. “created by Group
2 for INFO5992”)
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Full Presentation Guide – Delivery
– Good references to support your points – follow the Reference Guide
– Need to have references to validate your points!
– It is not good enough to talk about your own knowledge / experience only
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Examples
Putting it all together
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Ub6fattRchttps://youtu.be/hCWp0TC_qrM
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AR & 360°Camera in Formula 1
– Introduction: AR & 360°Camera in Formula 1
– Technology: IoT/AR, Sensors and 360°Camera
– Industry: Formula one racing
– Improved broadcasting
– Improved viewers’ user experience
– New to the industry – available in multimedia but not for sports
– Innovation:
– Distributed Innovation - WebAPI and Crowdsourcing
– Dominant category / design – category – yes in regards to hardware and main features; design – in terms
of software and applications, yes
– Disruptive/sustaining? – No, its improving upon existing broadcasting service.
– Value Chain – New value chain; The tech developed will potentially lead to many other adoption in other
sports / industries
– BMC
– Summary
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Machine learning in Gaming
– Topic: Machine learning in Gaming
– Industry: Gaming
– Fun! & player analysis
– Education and Training
– Not directly applied in gaming for e.g., training and feedback (for pros)
– Technology: Machine learning, deep learning, CUDA and neural networks
– Innovation:
– Distributed Innovation - Open source, platform
– Dominant design for machine learning – no
– Disruptive – yes and no – new gaming sub industry?
– Value Chain – new elements? New parties involved in value networks?
– BMC
– Summary
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Internal Talent Marketplace in Academia
Internal Talent Marketplaces | Deloitte US
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Internal Talent Marketplace in Academia
– Introduction: An AI-enabled platform that matches employees with short term projects, stretch assignments, side
gigs, full-time roles, and mentors.
– Industry: Academia – University, High School, Students and Staff
– Improved matching of students and staff – reduce the current bottleneck of capstone project selection
– Access to hidden talent and diverse skills
– Culture of Continuous Learning
– Not much out there for academia
– Innovation:
– Platform and
– Dominant category / design – category – ITM is yet to see a dominant player – it will likely be industry
specific
– Disruptive/sustaining? – Sustaining (incremental) innovation to improve the performance of academic
functions.
– Value Chain – yes – better access to talent / skills will have many downstream benefits
– BMC
– Summary
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Finding the right References
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References
– Find journal articles or high-quality online sources on the topic
– News / Magazine / Editorial articles can be used to support your topic, e.g.,
used as an example
– Consultancy reports e.g., HBR, McKinsey are OK, especially as they
introduce newer topics / examples
– If in doubt about quality of reading, please check with your teaching team
– Note: Be careful in how you treat information from companies (such as press
releases, product websites, whitepapers) as they may be biased!)
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References
– University Library
– https://library.sydney.edu.au/
– Google Scholar
– https://scholar.google.com.au/
– Google
– Be careful of identifying reliable sources
– ! Wikipedia – perhaps only for you to read and understand
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Reference Management Software
– Make maintaining references and creating bibliographies easy
– EndNote:
• Free for Uni of Sydney staff and students
• For Windows, Mac
• Plug-in for MS Word
• http://libguides.library.usyd.edu.au/endnote
– Zotero:
• Free, open source
• For Windows, Mac, Linux, …
• Plug-in for Firefox, MS Word, Open Office
• http://www.zotero.org
– Many others:
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_s
oftware
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Other resources
– https://library.sydney.edu.au/help/online-training/elearning/