How to Develop "Breakthrough" Products and Services
As taught in: Spring 2004
Because they need a solution sooner than most people, lead users have an
incentive to create innovative products and services. (Image courtesy of
Prof. Eric von Hippel and OCW.)
Instructors:
Prof. Eric von Hippel
MIT Course Number:
15.356
Level:
Graduate
Course Features
* _Selected video lectures_
(http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-356-how-to-develop-breakthrough-products-and-services-sprin
g-2004/video-lectures)
* _Selected lecture notes_
(http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-356-how-to-develop-breakthrough-products-and-services-spring
-2004/lecture-notes)
Course Highlights
15.356 offers _videos_
(http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-356-how-to-develop-breakthrough-products-and-services-spring-2004/video
-lectures) of several course sessions, showing how this highly
interactive class operates. The _assignments_
(http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-356-how-to-develop-breakthrough-products-and-services-spri
ng-2004/assignments) page describes how students should approach writing
their essays, which cover topics of their choosing.
Course Description
To prosper, firms must develop major product and service innovations.
Often, though, they don't know how. Recent research into the innovation
process
has made it possible to develop "breakthroughs" systematically. 15.356
presents several practical concept development methods, such as the "Lead User
Method," where manufacturers learn from innovative customers. Expert guest
speakers present case studies that show the "art" required to implement a
concept development method. 15.356 is a half-term subject.
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Philosophy In Film and Other Media
As taught in: Spring 2004
Instructors:
Prof. Irving Singer
MIT Course Number:
24.209
Level:
Undergraduate
Course Features
* _Selected video lectures_
(http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-209-philosophy-in-film-and-other-media-spring-2004/video-le
ctures)
Course Description
This course examines works of film in relation to thematic issues of
philosophical importance that also occur in other arts, particularly literature
and opera. Emphasis is put on film's ability to represent and express
feeling as well as cognition. Both written and cinematic works by Sturges,
Shaw,
Cocteau, Hitchcock, Joyce, and Bergman, among others, are considered. There
are no tests or quizzes, however students write two major papers on
media/philosophical research topics of their choosing.
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Media, Education, and the Marketplace
As taught in: Fall 2001
Instructors:
Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa
MIT Course Number:
CMS.930 / 21F.034
Level:
Graduate
Course Features
* _Video lectures_
(http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/comparative-media-studies/cms-930-media-education-and-the-marketplace-fall-2001/video-lectures)
Course Highlights
This course features a complete set of _video lectures_
(http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/comparative-media-studies/cms-930-media-education-and-the-marketpla
ce-fall-2001/video-lectures) . The lectures include talks by a variety of
educators and visionaries addressing the course themes.
Course Description
How can we harness the emerging forms of interactive media to enhance the
learning process? Professor Miyagawa and prominent guest speakers will
explore a broad range of issues on new media and learning - technical, social,
and business. Concrete examples of use of media will be presented as case
studies. One major theme, though not the only one, is that today's youth,
influenced by video games and other emerging interactive media forms, are
acquiring a fundamentally different attitude towards media. Media is, for
them,
not something to be consumed, but also to be created. This has broad
consequences for how we design media, how the young are taught in schools, and
how mass media markets will need to adjust.
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