Ideaclicks: All About Innovation . . .

By Santosh Deshmukh

The author is experienced software professional who has worked with multiple product based multinational companies. Through his experience working on different products and unmet market demands, he has developed more inclination towards innovation. To his credits he has three thousand plus followers on his Facebook page http://ww.facebook.com/IdeaClicks. He also actively drives an idea management portal http://www.IdeaClicks.in for bringing innovation from grass root level of the society. He is an innovation maven and has been driving innovation programs at PayPal India office for more than five years. He is awarded with PayPal / Labs - Innovator Award presented by company Vice President Mr. Nik Sathe for his rigorous efforts towards supporting the innovation efforts at PayPal.
The author is also a certified scrum master and has been practicing Agile for more than ten years. He has a master degree in Computer Science from University of Pune, Maharashtra, India.
His Complete professional details can be found at
: in.linkedin.com/in/santoshdeshmukh

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Sep 15, 2014
• ISBN: 9781482835601

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Copyright © 2014 by Santosh Deshmukh.

ISBN:          Hardcover          978-1-4828-3561-8

                   Softcover            978-1-4828-3562-5

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Print History:

June 2014 First Edition.

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Contents

Dedication

About The Author

Acknowledgement

Chapter 1   Introduction & Awareness

How this book is structured

This book answers following questions for an individual:

This book answers following questions for an organization:

Who should read this book

Chapter 2   Everyone can innovate

Innovation model

Chapter 3   Individual perspective

Chapter 4   Organization perspective

Innovation cycle

Innovation in an organization or group

Chapter 5   Case study of a global payment company

The Journey

iGnite portal

Follow idea submission etiquette

MADLABS

iGnite sessions

NewsLetter

Token of appreciation

Points to ponder:

Seek opinion

Organization runs on innovation:

Reward and Recognition

Ideathon (Hackathon)

LabRats

Chapter 6   Innovation maven - Wind cock directions

Innovation maven ToDo list:

Good listener

Innovation champions DL

Weekly brainstorming session

Registration page

Sample invitation mail

Calendar booking

NewsLetter

Email signature

Success stories

Service Management Tool: A UI based user friendly tool used for identifying service dependencies and restarting the services.

Backup Processor: Automatically switching between payment gateways to provide uninterrupted payment experience to end users

Advertise

Arrow marks

Volunteers

Quick wins/ Low hanging fruits

Chapter 7

Author’s ideas

External avenues

Forbes: World’s Most Innovative Companies – 2012

Innovation Penal Code (IPC)

Chapter 8

Daily life innovation

Revolutionary Ideas

Prime minister speaks

Inspirations

Chapter 9   Patents by Inventor Sridhar Sivaraman

Right Click Electronic Commerce Transactions

Interactive Television Shopping Via A Payment Provider

Wish List Transactions Through Smart TV

Friendly Funding Source Messaging

Shared Mobile Payments

Method for Authorizing the Activation of A Spending Card

Chapter 10   Innovator Award

Signoff

Explains the importance of global innovation to make things simple and useful. Creates general awareness around innovation and helps you find smarter ways of doing things differently and making life easy and efficient. Presents an innovation model which can be adopted by any individual, organization or group to start the process of innovation. Helps you build the eco-system of Innovation to tap ideas from the grass root level and giving them life. Bring innovative minds together and harness the potential of teamwork in implementing ideas. Applicable for everyone and everywhere to take that first step towards solving basic human problem.

DEDICATION

To my wife who encouraged me to write down my five years of experience in form of a book.

To myself for taking those back paining efforts and taking this book towards completion.

To my parents who made the person that I am today.

To my late sister Vandana whose presence and motivation I miss so much.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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The author is experienced software professional who has worked with multiple product based multinational companies. Through his experience working on different products and unmet market demands, he has developed more inclination towards innovation. To his credits he has three thousand plus followers on his Facebook page http://ww.facebook.com/IdeaClicks. He also actively drives an idea management portal http://www.IdeaClicks.in for bringing innovation from grass root level of the society.

He is an innovation maven and has been driving innovation programs at PayPal India office for more than five years. He is awarded with PayPal / Labs - Innovator Award presented by company Vice President Mr. Nik Sathe for his rigorous efforts towards supporting the innovation efforts at PayPal.

The author is also a certified scrum master and has been practicing Agile for more than ten years. He has a master degree in Computer Science from University of Pune, Maharashtra, India.

His Complete professional details can be found at: in.linkedin.com/in/santoshdeshmukh

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to thank all of my colleagues who actively participated in the innovation programs. Stopped me wherever you could (including the loo) to make me listen to your mind blowing ideas. To my mentors who enriched my experience and trusted in me to carry the responsibility of driving the innovation programs.

Finally, thanks to all the innovators out there, who are keen on making this world a great place to live.

CHAPTER 1

Introduction & Awareness

There is an innovator in each one of us. The only thing is how soon we realize this and work on it, to make it a reality and become successful. It doesn’t mean making profits or gaining popularity but definitely making someone’s life easy and comfortable than what it was earlier.

As they say CHOTA PACKET, BADA DHAMAKA(small packet, bigger blast), Innovation has the same effect with smaller ideas. Each one of us has ideas. No idea is small or BIG. An idea is an idea. It can come at anytime, anywhere. No matter whether you are in a park, wash room, shopping in a mall, travelling or are at work. You can get ideas absolutely anywhere. You should make it a point to note them on a piece of paper, immediately. EUREKA? EUREKA? An idea can change your life!.

Usually people in a group or an organization come from different background, different geographies. Each one of them has his own experience and smart way of solving day-to-day problems. There is a need to tap this talent and help them innovate. Every organization should have an innovation ecosystem in place to help people be innovative and add value to the organization.

How about Homepage of a company website having Innovation tab similar to Career, AboutUs, ContactUs tabs which carries information related to various innovation programs present in the company.

How this book is structured

This book contains ten chapters. Initial 4 Chapters explain you Innovation Model which is a generic model that any individual or organization can adapt to start innovation.

From an Individual perspective, I will be explaining a step by step approach to follow and the different level of hurdles he need to cross, in order to take his idea to a successfully completion state.

From an organization or group’s perspective, I will