BUS 238 Lecture 1: Intro to Innovation

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 238
• Professor: Simon Ford

Document Summary

Today"s agenda: introduction to the teaching team, course objectives, exercise: brave new world, course overview, introduction to innovation, next week & homework. The scenario: it"s 2020, solar flares have destroyed all electronics on earth and melted the polar ice caps. The great coastal cities of the world are lost in the ocean. Humanity is now living on a land mass half the previous size, with no digital infrastructure or technologies. Your challenge: each team represents a group of survivors who must create a new business that will ensure survival in this changed environment. Identify problems that will arise in this new environment and propose a solution. Your solution must utilize at least one existing skill of each team member (or one they plan to acquire). Problem: due to reduced land spaces + destroyed infrastructures there will be people without housing and homeless. I will lead our ambitious team towards our mission in creating safe homes above waters.