12 Mar There are many ideas that come from error or accidents. Complete the following: Research 1?2 game-changing ideas that ca

Unit 4 Ip 3/27

Assignment Details

There are many ideas that come from error or accidents. Complete the following:

· Research 1–2 game-changing ideas that came from an error or accident. Do something different from well-known accidental inventions such as sticky notes.

· Write a paper of at least 4–6 pages about what you learned.

· If it is simple situation where you may only be able to get a page of material from it, choose 2 accidents or errors and continue.

· Talk about the forces that supported it.

· This should be a paper in APA format with a cover page and references.

· Turn in the Word document with your paper.

· Post your work to your blog.

Posting in the blog I will take care

Unit 5 IP 4/17

Read and analyze a case study from any available source about how a company or an industry did not do proper scenario-type planning and only relied on standard forecasting. An example is the newspaper industry. Complete the following:

· How does scenario-type planning support planning and innovation for change?

· What forces are involved, and what impacts do they make?

· Include an appropriate illustration or a model.

Summarize and add your thoughts about the following:

· How will you use scenario planning for future innovation efforts?

· Does the scenario plan account for the social impact of change?

· Include an APA reference.

Post the content of the paper to your blog.

Unit 6 IP Due Date 5/1

Assignment Details

Sociotechnical system is a term in organizational development that acknowledges the collaboration between people and technology in the workplace. The term is also indicative of the social aspects of people and society and the technical aspects of organizational structure and processes.

For this assignment, choose an innovation that has not been fully developed yet. It can be the same topic that you used for previous assignments, or it can be something different.

Write the sociotechnical plan for that innovation (for a real or fictional organization). How would you connect the people to the technology?

This assignment will actually be written in 2 parts. This part will include the first 6 sections, and the second part will be delivered in Unit 9.

Your plan should contain the following:

· Introduction

· Scope: Introduce 3 features and at least 1 limitation of the innovation.

· Purpose: Explain why it is needed.

· Supporting forces: Discuss the supportive forces (amenable issues).

· Challenging forces: Describe the challenging forces (difficult aspects).

· Methods: Choose a method (e.g., Delphi, nominal group technique [NGT], or structured design process [SDP]).

· References

Create section headers for the second part of this assignment. You will write these sections next week. If you wish, you can provide draft material at this time to get started. Use the following section headers:

· Models:

Include at least 1–2 visual models.

· Analytical Plan: How will you evaluate it?

· Anticipated Results: Discuss the social impact of change.

· Conclusion: How innovation is diffused within an organization or society? (2 pages of final analysis)

· Areas of Future Research: What is needed in the future?

· References

Note: A way to remember the forces (also known as issues or aspects) is by using words such as technological, ethical, global, environmental, financial, temporal, cultural, social, legal, political, and so on.

Unit 8 IP Due Date 5/8

Assignment Details

This is the second part of the paper that was started in Unit 8. Update the first half based on your instructor's feedback, and complete the rest of the sections with at least a paragraph (or more) for each section, except for the conclusion, where 2 pages of final analysis is required.

The final paper should have all areas completed, as follows:

· Introduction

· Scope: Introduce 3 features and at least 1 limitation.

· Purpose: Why is it needed?

· Supporting Forces: Discuss the supportive forces.

· Challenging Forces: Describe the challenging forces.

· Methods: Discuss methods such as Delphi, nominal group technique (NGT), structured design process (SDP), and so forth.

· Models: Include at least 1–2 visual models.

· Analytical Plan: How will you evaluate it?

· Anticipated Results: Discuss the social impact of change.

· Conclusion: Discuss how innovation is diffused within an organization or society (2 pages).

· Areas of Future Research: What is needed in the future?

· References