Dr. K. (Subbu) SubramanianDr. K. (Subbu) Subramanian STIMS Institute (Science Based Technology...

Dr. K. (Subbu) Subramanian

STIMS Institute (Science Based Technology Innovation and Management Solutions)

www.STIMSInstitute.com [email protected]

Strategic Thinking and Career Development:System Thinking and Transformational Skills

for Professional Success in the 21st Century

Dr. K. (Subbu) SubramanianPresident, STIMS Institute Inc.

Lexington, MA. USA

[email protected]

www.STIMSInstitute.com

De Anza College

Cupertino, CA.Jan. 19, 2018

Sponsored by: SME Silicon Valley

http://www.stimsinstitute.com/

mailto:[email protected]





Introduction





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• B.E. (Mech. Engg.) Osmania University, India 1970

• S.M, M.E and Sc.D degrees. 1972 – 77 (Mech. Engg., MIT )

• Hands on experience in the industry in the manufacturing sector

for over 40 years, leading to

Basic research, New product development,

New business development, New market development

Establishment of Technology Centers across the globe

(USA, Germany, Japan, China, India and Brazil).

Development of grinding process solutions leading to

– Thin Film Magnetic Recording Heads and

– Machining to Grinding of Jet engine parts, Wind Turbine gears, etc.

Industry / University Collaboration

Work Force development strategies

• STIMS Institute founded in June 2011, with the goal for Knowledge Integration :

(i.e.) to develop people and industrial outcomes (products, business models, education, etc.) that

exploit human skills as a parallel and in synergy with what computers can do (which is almost

everything) !”

• Fellow of ASME and SME

• Author of two books : The System Approach and Transformational Skills.

• He continues to be engaged with research, teaching and mentoring across the globe.

• Over the years, he has taught over 1000 engineers, managers and faculty from across the globe on

System Thinking and Transformational Skills. He has mentored over 200 among them, who are now

leaders in their own merit in academia, industry and research.

• He writes his blogs on Spirituality in Practice at : www.Sipractce.wordpress.com



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http://www.sipractce.wordpress.com/




References:

• The system Approach

– A strategy to survive and

succeed in the Global Economy

(2000)

• Thriving in the 21st century

economy: Transformational

skills for Technical Professionals

(2013)


http://www.amazon.com/System-Approach-Modern-Machine-Books/dp/1569902550/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1394536368&sr=1-1&keywords=The+System+Approach+Subramanian

http://www.amazon.com/System-Approach-Modern-Machine-Books/dp/1569902550/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1394536368&sr=1-1&keywords=The+System+Approach+Subramanian

http://www.amazon.com/Thriving-Transformational-Technical-Professionals-Managers/dp/0791860167/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1394536542&sr=1-1&keywords=Transformational+Skills+Subramanian





“At a time when computers – IT and AI - can do everything

(read, write, speak, calculate, analyze, decide and direct),

professionals and companies have to do something more!

This requires System Thinking and Transformational Skills”

Today the products and services of any company have to serve one

of two extremes –

(a) Replication of the known: High Volume and Lowest Cost

or

(b) New Solutions: High Value and Unique Capability

– with no survival in the middle.

Companies and enterprises need to adapt System Thinking and

Transformational Skills to survive and succeed in this Binary

Economy

– Dr. K. (Subbu) Subramanian, President, STIMS Institute.

STIMS InstituteScience Based Technology, Innovation and Management Solutions.

A Knowledge integration Company


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OUTLINE:

• Why do we need

• System Thinking?

• Transformational Skills?

• What is System Thinking?

• What are Transformational Skills?

• How to use ST and TS as tools for

• Performing well in your studies, job and/or projects?

• Career development strategy and planning?





Knowledge Work (A)

• Solving a problem

• Improve a process

• Create a new product

• Implement a new product

• Implement a new solution

• Something “useful”

• Learn new tools

• Experience of lasting value

• Communicate effectively

• Lead others

• Others feel good about you

Knowledge Work of this work shop?New Solution:

Communicate and transfer a strategy for life long learning and career development

in an economy that needs less human work and instead prefers IT, Automation

and AI.

New Model:

Collaborative education through SME, De Anza college and STIMS as a service to

the students and the professional community.

Information Work (B)

• Answering e mail

• Chatting on Facebook

• Booking airline ticket

• PPT. slides

• Writing notes

• Taking exams

• Writing reports

• Collecting data

• TV News

• Radio talk show

• Sports analysis

Physical Work (C)

• Attending classes

• Attending meeting

• Commuting

• Reading

• Writing or typing

• Driving

• Delivering packages

• Eating!

• Sleeping !!

• Checking the I phone !!!

• Listening to music !!!!





Knowledge work (A

Information work (B)

Physical Work (C)

1. Write down all the things you do in each of the three categories

2. What amount of time do you spend for each activity?

3. Add up all the time spent in each category

Class work 1





Standardization,

De-skilling,

IT Automation

Knowledge Integration

Unique

Skills /

Know-

how

New

Solutions

A

(A + B + C)

Standardization,

De-skilling,

IT Automation

IT-driven operations

(Outsourcing, Offshoring)

Replication

SolutionsA

(A + B + C )

KNOWLEDGE and its USE --- A

Information Work --- B

Physical Work --- C

Professional’s Efficiency: PE Score = A / (A+B+C)= Output / Input

Professional Efficiency: PE Score





No. of workers involved

(or) No. of units produced.

New

SolutionsReplication

Solutions

LOW

HIGH

FEW MANY

PE Score = A

(A + B + C)

PE Score = A

( A + B + C )

Today there are two alternatives for high PE – Score

But there is a crisis in the “middle”

PE

-S

co

re(A

) / (A

+B

+C

)

Low PE Score

A

(A + B + C )





What is your PE Score?

Divide your listing of A items by the total (A+B+C)

1.PE Score by activity or things you do?

Divide your time spent on A items by the total time spent (A+B+C)

2.PE Score by time spent ?

Class work 2

Knowledge work (A

Information work (B)

Physical Work (C)





Binary Economy (Early 21st Century)The continuum of skills required is giving way to a well identified pair or Binary needs.

No. of people involved

21st Century

Binary Economy

LOW

HIGH

FEW MANY

Pro

fes

sio

na

l O

utp

ut

/

Em

plo

ye

e

Relatively low skills required

from a large group of people.

System Thinking and

Transformational Skills

Replication SolutionsNew Solutions

A

(A + B + C)

High PE ScoreA

(A + B + C )

High PE ScoreLow PE Score

A

(A + B + C )

Low Skills,

Low and stagnant wages

High wages





1. Describe a “New Solution” in your own words?

2. Describe a “Replication Solution” in your own words?

3. What are the “New Solutions”

1. That you started?

2. That you have finished and implemented?

4. What are the “Replication Solutions”

1. That you were asked to work on?

2. That are happening around you?

Class work 3

MESSAGE:• You should be relentlessly focused on the above from now on

and all the time for successful jobs and careers.

• All others – who merely do what others ask you to do – will slowly but

surely fall into low skill, low wage workers with stagnant wages.





System Thinking:

What is a solution?

Every Solution is an INPUT / TRANSFORMATION / OUTPUT System

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INPUT OUTPUT

TRANSFORMATION

System





15

Receive Transmit Process

INPUT Transformation OUTPUT

Hear Speak

System Thinking: Everything we do is an INPUT / TRANSFORMATION / OUTPUT System


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RopeWallTreeFanSpearSnake

System Thinking

What is the objective? – It depends on if your eyes are open or closed





• “Outputs” of every professional solution are:

• PRODUCT – of value/use to some one in need

• PROCESS – Input / Transformation / Output “System”

• Application / USE – “System” where “Product”

is used as input

System Thinking: Always focus on the outputs of every solution

Product

PROCESS

PRODUCT

USE

Revenue / Profit

Reward

Customer

perceived value

New Idea





Describe the

1. “Product”,

2. “Processes” and

3. “Application”

Relevant to your education, course, job or situation?

Class work 4





CAUSE EFFECT

Traditional “Fish bone” Diagram





• Comprehensive view of the problem / Solution

• As an Input / Transformation / Output System

• Focusing on the picture (not merely on the pixels)

• 2 + 2 = ?

System Thinking: STIMS Diagram (Basic)

INPUTSResult

Value or

Benefit

Technical

Output

System

Output

Transformation

???





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What?(Technical Outputs)

Who are involved hands on?

What are their needs?

Why?(System Outputs)

Who are the stake holders?

What do they need?

Technical

Output

System

Output

Transformation

Class work 5 Complete the STIMS Diagram for any problem,

Process or project, education or course

you have in mind





Every Industrial Process is a “System”

Input OutputTransformation

Economic/

System Output

(Why?)

Microscopic

Interactions

Measuremen

t

and Analysis

Technical Output

(What?)

Mechani

cal

Electric

al

Thermal Chemica

l

Tools/

Consumables

SCIENCE

ENGINEERING

MANAGEMENT (Strategy)

Technology

= Science

X Engineering

X Management





AWARENESS

of the

“Problem” and

its description

as a “System”

ANALYSIS

or ability

to deploy the

relevant Science,

Engg. and Mgt.

SYNTHESIS

Ability to configure

new “Systems” and

Implement them.

Task

Execution

SkillsBlue Collar Job

White Collar Job

Generalist

Specialist

Traditional

Global

Economy

Knowledge Development: Task Oriented Vs. System Oriented





2 + 2 = ?





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2 + 2 = ?

• Scientist ?

• Engineer ?

• Sales Person ?

• Accountant ?

Each person answered the question instinctively

from his area of expertise

But, nobody asked the question “Why?”





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2 + 2 = ?

Each person answered the question instinctively

from his area of expertise

But, nobody asked the question “Why?”

+


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System Thinking:

• Are you looking at the big picture or blind folded?

• Look before you leap? --- Awareness

• A good carpenter measures twice and cuts once? --- Analysis

• 2 + 2 = ?

• Are you looking at the picture on the screen or fixated on the pixel?

System Oriented Vs. task oriented?

It Depends on …… Awareness, Analysis

Why are you asking this question?

Technical Vs. System Output?

4, 4 Fruits or Fruit Salad --- Synthesis





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System Thinking:

What is a “tree”?





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Investment:Land, Garden,

Tractor, …..

Expenses/

Consumable:Seed, Water, Fertilizer,

Soil,

……

Need:Flowering tree, Fruit Tree

Decorative, Lumber, ……

Constraints:Soil Quality, Land

area, Environmental

Quality,, Time, ..

Transformation

Tech. OutputQuality and size

of fruits, Yield,

Sys. OutputRevenue, Profit,

Happy customers,

New markets, …

Botany


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Break !





Work – What is it ?

Traditional Organization

Blue-Collar

Jobs

White-Collar

Jobs

Senior

Mgt.

Middle Mgt.


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Wage earning Work –?Physical Labor and Information work have fallen off the cliff

Physical labor

Information Work

Professional Work

Non-wage

Income (1%)

We all live in a world where the jobs are

getting stratified into four immiscible

layers, with varying levels of stability or

risk.

To steer through this challenge requires

certain Transformational Skills





Work – How is it Changing?Stratification into four impermeable layers.

+

+

+

Physical Labor (C)

Information Work (B)

Professional Work (A)

Investment and Finance“Global Capitalism”

“IT” Applications

(Plug and Play Activities)

Routine Tasks

(Standardization, de-skilling)

Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Work

Smarter and Work Harder; Keep Jumping

from Job to Job; Become Global; Higher

Education; Interdisciplinary, ……….

• Knowledge of the products and services of the company :

Limited to a few “Professionals” - System Thinkers and Solution Providers

Non –

Wage

Income

Earn

ed

Inco

me

Population

%

1%

9%

90%





Core

Capabilities: Knowledge

Experience

People Skills

Academic

Education

Transformational

Skills

Industry/ Sector

Specific Experience

New

Solution Replication

Solution

Sources of Knowledge


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The story of Jack Andraka

Four Year college degree or such higher

education is not a pre-requisite for success in the

21st Century Economy.

Instead what is needed is an aptitude for problem

solving and a relentless will to become useful to

meet a need (TRANSFORMATIONAL SKILLS).





Sources of “Knowledge” – for success in the 21st Century Economy

20th Century End of 20th Century 21st Century

Legend:

Academic Education:

Transformational Skills:

Industry / Sector /

Application specific Skills:

Four Year college degree or such higher education

is not a pre-requisite for success in the 21st Century

Economy.

Instead what is needed is an aptitude for problem

solving and a relentless will to become useful to

meet a need (TRANSFORMATIONAL SKILLS).






• System Thinking and Knowledge Integration

• End-to-End Innovation

• Emphasis on Science and Mobile Diagnostics

• Build Ecosystem for Core Technology Platforms

• 3-D View of Core Capabilities

• Emotional Intelligence for New Solutions

Discover

/ Define

Develop

Deploy

X

X

• Develop a Common Language

Transformational Skills are a set of

necessary skills to Discover, Develop and Deploy /

Exploit a stream of New Solutions.

Each Transformational Skill is an

opportunity to foster innovation and realization of

New Solutions.







• Task Vs. Solution

• Every “Solution” is an:

• “Outputs” of every professional solution are:

• Awareness: “System Document” ?

• Analysis: Science, Engineering, Management?

• Synthesis: New Solution?

• Innovation ? End to End Innovation ?

• Stake holders? Their benefits?

• Manufacturing ?

• ????

Common Language :

“input/transformation/output” System

Product

PROCESS

PRODUCT

USE

Revenue / Profit

Reward

Customer perceived

value

• Product ?

• Process ?

• Use ?

System

Output

WHY?

Tech.

Output

WHAT

?

In – process

Data and

analysis

Transformation





3 – D view of Core capabilities:

Engineering

Management

Sci

en

ce

ExperiencePeople Skills

Kn

ow

led

ge

Digital

Technology

Finance/Mkt.

Drivers

Ph

ysi

cal

Tec

hn

olo

gy

Breadth or Scope

Dep

th o

r

Un

iqu

enes

s

Professional Department/ Company/ Institute

Project /Function Enterprise

Technology = Science X Engineering X Management






• Constantly look for the empty space in this Core capability matrix.

• Filling this gap is always an opportunity for a “New Solution”.

• This gap is not always “People Skills”

• Are you, your boss or management trying to fill a hole in the “knowledge”

by blaming it on “people skills”?

Knowledge

Experience

People

Skills

Science Engineering Management

Operations StrategyHuman

Skills

System Require-

- ments





Department/

Functions

ScienceEngineering

People Skills

Experience

Knowledge

Physical Technology

Digital Technology

Finance and Mkt. Drivers

Professionals

Management

Company

Transformation

Input Output

Create and Implement New Solutions by Leveraging All Core

Capabilities. Use Resources From Across the Globe; Provide

Value-Added Solutions for All Users Across the Globe






Technical

Output

System

Output

Transformation

INPUTS

EffectValue or

Benefit

Engineering (Experience / Application of Science)

Science

Operations Management Strategy

Knowledge Integration

System Thinking: STIMS Diagram (Advanced)

Technology =

Science X Engineering. X Management

Professional Solution =

Knowledge X Exp. X People Skills





“Management” ?

Strategy

Operations

Management

Why?

What ?

How ?

When ?

PLAN

ORGANIZE

COORDINATE

CONTROL

PLAN

ORGANIZE

COORDINATE

CONTROL

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System

Output

WHY?

Tech.

Output

WHAT?

In – process

Data and

analysis

Transformation

Investment

Expenses

Need

Constraints

System Thinking (Advanced)

System Approach for most projects





System

Output

WHY?

Tech.

Output

WHAT?

In – process

Data and

analysis

Transformation

Machine

Tooling &

Supplies

Work /Component

Process

Parameters

System Approach for most industrial processes






System

Output

WHY?

Tech.

Output

WHAT?

In – process

Data and

analysis

Transformation

Hardware

Software

Application

Specs.

System Approach for most IT projects






Parts of the

STIMS Diagram

(System Thinking)

Any process

or project

(General)

Industrial Process

(e.g.). Machining

IT Project or

process

INPUT

Investment Machine Tool Hardware

Expenses Tooling and

Consumables Software

Need to be

full filled

Component to be

processed Application

Constraints process parameters Specifications

Transformation Core

capability

Microscopic

Interactions at the

cutting zone

Algorithm

Output

Technical Technical

outcomes

Finished part;

Quality

Software tool

or “App.”

System Value or

benefits

Total cost/part;

Added value;

New capabilities

Commercial,

economic and

social

benefits.





Technology = Knowledge and its Integration !

= “Science” X “Engineering” X “Management” (Operations + Strategy)

Engineering Management

Science

Constraints –

Cost, time, Culture, ….

System Output

WhyThis solution?

Measurement

Need

ExpensesTechnical Output

Whatis the Solution ?

Investment

Transformation

Measurement

and Analysis

Process Economics

Diagnostic

Tools &

Methods





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System Output

What are the benefits ?

Measurement

Technical Output

What is the

Outcome?

KNOWLEDGE

Process

Parameters/ Constraints

Application

Supplies;

Software;

ToolsEquipment

Diagnostic

Tools &

Methods

Engineering Management

Scie

nce

System Thinking and Knowledge Integration

Project

Management:– Awareness

– Analysis

– Synthesis





Three levels of system Skills

Awareness: Fill all the boxes in the STIMS Diagram as much as you can. Then ask questions

where the box(s) is empty and how to fill that?

Which question to be asked and in what order?

Analysis: Apply the principles of Science, Engineering and Management in an

interdisciplinary manner.

Resolve process problems; Develop solutions and validate impact

Synthesis: Configure “New Solutions” based on knowledge gained through

Awareness and Analysis;

Develop them into “New Solutions”;

Implement and validate and get rewarded





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Engineer:

What are the diagnostic tools in your job?

In your profession / department? Company / Industry ?





System Thinking (Advanced):

• Are you clear about the “Transformation” – Can you measure it? Analyze it?

That is your “SCIENCE”

• Are you able to manipulate the “Transformation” using relevant probes or

tools to measure and analyze that? That is your “ENGINEERING”.

• Are you clear on what is your output and who needs it and why?

That is your STRATEGY (Management).

• Are you able to bring all four input groups in alignment and in a coordinated

fashion? That is your OPERATIONS (Management)

• When you change one input category at a time you get only incremental

benefits (Continuous improvement)

• When you change all four input categories simultaneously you get a jump or

large scale improvement in the output! (Step change).

• System Output means “Stake holder benefits”.

• You can be clear on the stake holders only when you know all four input

categories comprehensively.





Progressive Impact of “Science” and “Strategy” – Why? -

Backed Up by Diagnostic Tools

Five Steps in the Scientific Approach and System Thinking to Problem Solving:

—Diagnostics

—Problem Solving

—Process Improvement

-—Process Maintenance

—New Solution or Step Change

>160%

120%

100%

80%

Problem resolution

Process Improvement

Monitoring

Process

Output

Why ???

Diagnostics

Base Line

New Solution

System

Output

(Y)

Technical

Output

(X)

Equipment /

Investment

Component /

Need

Tooling /

ExpensesParameters /

Constraints

In-Process

Measurement

Diagnostic

Tools

PROCESS Transformation

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Y = F(X)

Economic /

Business

Solutions

Technical /

Engineering

Solutions

In-Process

Measurement

Diagnostic

Tools





Eco – system

based on Common Core Technology platform

• Every Solution involves many “players”

• They come from one of four input categories

• They can also be involved through “measurement” and “analysis”.

• But every one of them are connected through the “Transformation”.

• It is the “Transformation” which creates the Common Core

Technology platform.





Eco-system for Advanced Manufacturing Technology

Students

OEM

Suppliers

University,

Labs &

Other

Federal &

State

Funding &

Support

Industry

Professionals

& Supply Chain End Users(Mfg. Co.)

SMEs

Hardware

IP

Office

Faculty

Tooling

Machines

SMEs

Software

Private

Funding

Review

CommitteeInternal &

External

Admin.

Investors

Banks

????

Common Core Technology

........

Contacts

and Integration

Expertise:

Prof. Societies

STIMS Institute

Com. College

????

Innovation –

“New” Solution





IT “Software” Technology

Application/Use

End User

Testing andCustomization

Platform/Machine/

Hardware

Manufacturers

Software

Developers

“Application” solutions as the Common Core technology

Platform in IT industry

e.g.: Microsoft

SAP

Sales Force

Google





USE / Applications Technology

is the "software” for any solution in the manufacturing sector.

Eco – System Development:

Applications Technology as a Common Core Technology Platform

USE:

ApplicationManufacturing

Sales/Service

New

Applications

New Products

(R&D)

Perf

orm

an

ce

Tech

nic

al

Su

pp

ort

Quality

System Integration

Services

Technology

Transfer

Product/Market

Segmentation

and Rationalization

Market

Expansion

New Market

Development





End-to-End Innovation

Discover Develop Deploy

(Idea) (Use) (Impact)

Va

lida

tion

De

ve

lop

, Pr

oto

typ

e,

or

Ex

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Pilo

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Fu

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D

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t

Implementation /

Commercialization

Idea

Innovation Stage gates in the End-to-End Continuum





End-to-End Innovation

Discover Develop Deploy

(Idea) (Use) (Impact)

Implementation /

Commercialization

Idea

Innovation Stages in the End-to-End Continuum (21st Century)

Fewer ideas into the hopper for the same level of commercial success

End User

Needs

“Start up culture”:

Does any one know how

you make the sausage?





Why we need end to end innovation?

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End to End Innovation bridges R&D and industry needs

P

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TARGET Solution as a

System:

MACHINE, COMPONENT, Tooling and PARAMETERS

TARGET “Model” for the application:

Transformation

INTERNAL TEST SYSTEM:

THAT MATCHESTARGET Application or

Transformation

R&D Development Stages

New Idea

Basic

Research

Industry based

Innovation

Capabilities

Application

relevant

R&DTransformation

Every part of the fish has to be alive for the fish to be alive !





125

100

75

50

25

Innovation: Creation and replication of Solutions With Commercial Impact = Idea X Use X Replication (Impact)

5 5 5

25125

Idea Use Impact

5 X 5 X 5 = 125

5

4

3

2

1

Traditional

Value Value

Figure 7.2. End-to-End Innovation = Idea X Use X Impact

End to End





End to End Innovation

Innovation Discovery, Development, Deployment=Innovation Discovery X Development X Deployment=Invention (a new “idea”) is not Innovation

Innovation

Examples

Discovery Development Deployment

(USE)

End to End

Innovation

Invention 1 to 5 0 0 0

“Me too” 1 to 3 1 to 3 1 to 3 1 to 27

Start up Co. 1 to 5 1 to 5 1 to 2 1 to 50

Start up Co. with

IPO potential

3 to 5 3 to 5 1 to 2 9 to 50

Break through

Innovation (e.g.):

Apple I - Phone

5 5 5 125





Emotional Intelligence for New Solutions

• New Solution by definition requires “Change”

• Change fosters “Conflicts”

• Hence new solution requires “Change Mgt.” skills

• E.I. is a key element of Change Management

• What is emotional intelligence?• Clarity between being “subjective” Vs. “objective”

• Introspection that fosters objectivity

• Open and inclusive Vs. Closed and exclusive

• Doing good to others as a starting point (with a commitment

and belief that good will come to me in turn)

• Focus on the long view rather than exclusively on the near

term gains.





New Solution—

Nonconformance?

Replication Solution—

Seamless Integration Into

Large Array of Tasks

In most places there is a need for “Coexistence”

of New Solutions With Replication Solutions





Emotional Intelligence for high impact New Solutions

POWER

EINS

New Solutions

Replication

Solutions

Job Insecurity;

Lack of Career

Growth

New Solutions

and Their Transfer

to Replication

Solutions

POWER

(Access to Resources)

TE

CH

NIC

AL

SK

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S

(Aca

dem

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nd

Do

ma

in/

Sec

tor

Sp

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ic)

LOW HIGH

LOW

HIGH

Volume of activity

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Sk

ills

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d

Replication

Solutions

New

Solutions

Parallel streams of: New and Replication Solutions





• System Thinking and Knowledge Integration

• End-to-End Innovation

• Emphasis on Science and Mobile Diagnostics

• Build Ecosystem for Core Technology Platforms

• 3-D View of Core Capabilities

• Emotional Intelligence for New Solutions

Discover

/ Define

Develop

Deploy

X

X

• Develop a Common Language

Transformational Skills:

Set of necessary skills to Discover, Develop and Deploy / Exploit a stream of

New Solutions.

Each Transformational Skill is an opportunity to foster innovation and realization

of New Solutions.

System Thinking:

• Every professional has to become “Solution Provider”

• Every solution is an “input/transformation/output” System

• Every solution is an opportunity to integrate the knowledge

across disciplines (Science, Engineering and Management).

• Three levels of System Thinking: Awareness, Analysis, Synthesis

SUMMARY





Life-long learning and career/business management strategy

Sustainability

Impact

Goal

Activity

Core Technology Platforms;

Emotional Intelligence for

New Solutions

End-to-End

Innovation

New Solutions

= System ThinkingKnowledge Integration

Tasks


Profession

Career

Job

Assignment

Project

Academic Education Ind. / Sector Experience





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