David P Flynn Consulting - Innovative Business Improvements
  
My Services:
 
 
  • Sustainable Technology & Product
 Commercialisation .

To help develop  value for
Inventors, 
Innovators and
Researchers
Great ideas so they can be successfully SOLD, or LAUNCH  NEW BUSINESSES or INDUSTRIES.

Using these Services and more:
 
  • Innovation Management
 
  • Organisation Development
 
  • Project Management

  • Experience Based learning
 
Where to start
 
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"FORWARD to a bright FUTURE"
Quirky Crowd Surfing Town Meeting on the web
February 17
See: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/20493778

David's Linkedin Comment today 
Topic : Future for Social Networks in Innovation

• Hello Stephen.
I attended at 30 minutes notice a "Town Meeting" IN USA from Australia last week. When I followed the links I found a screen spilt by tabs between an AV of 12 people sitting behind a table answering questions about commercialisation at about 20 per minute. The other parts of the screen was either a chat session or the questions flow at my choice. Each was from 4600 members of crowdsourcer Quirky.com who were the audience who were also chatting between themselves at about 30 posts per minute.


It was chaotic, fast paced, no time to dwell on one question or idea before the next five were on the table and several responses to the first idea and it was very impressive.

Quirky is a very direct commercialisation line for inventors and individuals with good ideas. Quirky members see a list of maybe 20 ideas submitted by individuals. They vote on those they like.

The three with the most votes come back for interaction and suggstions by the members. Members receive points and inventors chosen by the crowd receive crowd funding dollars as the crowd chooses.

But the big winners are those good idea submitters who are chosen by retailers to purchase by one or more of big USA retailers. I am not sure if the retailers also fund commercialisation to POS packaging etc. I have seen similar non e based ideas in UK like the Liberty weekends.

I am sure that our future planning must allow for this free wheeling process. I do not think it would work so well for Innovation in a company or Research commercialisation.

But it was a wonderful experience and a great look into many futures.
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Nancy's Story of her invention and commercialisation of the Snap It screw.
Nancy has agreed I can use the fabulous story of her invention and commercialisation of the Snap It Screw for easy repair of reading glasses hinges. Nancy sent some samples of the SnapIt Kit in its Point of Sale packaging. We used one screw from the five in the kit to repair Erica Kelly's eye glasses at her offices Box Hill two weeks ago. Must be the first use of Nancy's commercialised inventiion in Australia. It worked very well.
Nancy's story is now (Feb 16) in our downloads as a free gift. Please go to the Engine Room page and download it. I think you will like it a lot.
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Boston University School of Management
Institute for Technology Entrepreneurship  and Commercialisation

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Ljnkedin Innovation Management Group comment recently

 offers "Flexible Commercialization for Inventors, Innovators and Researchers”. It delivers as workshops or projects.

Core ideas in the business.
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Inventors are Individuals who are uniquely creative.
Inventors create in a freer situation than Innovators and Researchers
They must defend that. It is a challenge to work with the organisation they need to commercialize their great ideas. I expect each does not like that much.
Innovators and Researchers are member of Organisatons where Innovation and Research Management are established parts of what they do.
Innovators organisations use fewer rules and procedures than the more bureaucratic organisations where Researchers work. Both need Entrepreneurial skills.
We are all members of organisations. Work roles often inhibit Innovators and Researchers more than Inventors.
I think Innovators commercialize more times. The private sector organisations are more flexible and informal than public sector organisations
I think all research organizations suffer their existence from grant to grant but their research outcomes are more thorough.

Industries are made up of organisations serving the same customers with
o        Slightly different technologies,
o        Different products serving the same needs and
o        Very different "price - quality" points i.e. different features that benefit different market segments in different ways.
Hence the Competition in Industries.
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Organisations in Industries cooperate as well as compete
I think we can increase or decrease the cooperation in an industry just like changing one organisation. It need not intrude on the competition for customers and sales.

I expect that sometime I will get to do this. Maybe we can launch new technology in a new industry with multiple start ups of say 3 or 5 cooperating and competing organisations. If I am right this industry will start easier and last a lot longer in its lifecycles.

Thanks for the opportunity to comment.
David Flynn
B App Sc Technology in Metallurgy
MBA
Principal Consultant
David P Flynn Consulting

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29 September 2011 +
Content added in latest upgrade 21 February 2012 :
 Quirky Crowd surfing Town Meeting Feb 17 and
New additional service of Commercialisation Business Coachiing
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OUR MISSION:
 
"Should you (and I) choose to accept it"
Source: Mission Impossible II TV series, 2000, Mission Commander
 
You and I together aim to adapt our world to the effects of climate change and population by:

  1. Innovatively managing  commercialisation of the hundreds of new technologies to bring us the thousands of new and updated industries to innovate, Invent and Research to help deliver the millions of new products and services we will need to maintain our global well being.
  2. Using the packaged tool kits and experiential learning tools David has created in years of teaching and working to help participants manage their own learning.
  3. and the value of learning by doing in workshop and other involving environments.

for Individual Inventors, Small businesses,
Organisation Innovation Management and Commercial and Academic Researchers.
 
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BENEFITS
David Flynn’s workshops or  projects.
 
Climate Change and population growth mean we will need many new technologies forming new industries delivering the millions of new products needed to keep our well being.
  • Our future requires commercial, compliant and environmentally sustainable new technologies, products or services.
Commercialisation starts with patented products or processes or at least provisional patent and another Intellectual Property protection.

  • David's Commercialisation features TWO STREAMS:
  1.  DIY WORKSHOPS so INVENTORS and Small Businesses or other INDEPENDANT people learn how to do it themselves.
  • "Learning by Doing" workshops i.e.Experiential Learning as a cornerstone of achieving skills as well as knowledge.
  • Learning increases the value in your creation and your  capability to do it better next time.
Commercialisation needs management and championing to increase VALUE:
  • The SECOND STREAM is Traditional Projects for INNOVATORS OR RESEARCHERS in organisaions to deliver
  • a start up new business or industry (new technology)
  •  or sale of the product or service to an existing industry ( new product or process innovation).
because
  • All new technologies are hard to prove in the laboratory or a pilot plant.
And even more difficult to scale up to marketable and sustainable industrial production. 
  • Innovation in operating businesses in existing industries improves value of products or processes is easier but still difficult.

But all deliver great joy and satisfaction to the Inventor, Innovator or Researcher.
  • From Wikpedia  on
Invention:
"Inventors feel the need to play with things that interest them, and to explore, and this internal drive brings about novel creations."
said, "I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun"."
 
David’s services are delivered as experiential learning workshops whose participants learn to do it themselves or planned and managed projects based on a "brief" and contracted service agreeing the changes, problems and agreed solutions.
 
Workshops are fixed price regardless of clients. So if 2 clients book and confirm each pay 50% of the price. If 10 confirm each pay 10%.
  • David aims to ensure that his services can benefit individual inventors as well as larger organizations.
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ACTIVITIES NEEDED TO COMMERCIALISE:

During Commercialisation  we need to use some or all of:

  • Commercialisation Business Coaching to help you sustain your self and take opportnunties to grow while also defending the business against threats.
  • Market Visioning to sketch target users so the new thing is going to be used.
  • Market Planning so we know how we will persuade the target users to buy it
  • Business Planning - using:
  • Objectives and Mission
  • SWOT Analysis
  • Sustainability Plan
  • Marketing Plan
  • Operations Plan
  • Administration Plan
  • Profit & ROI Plan
  • Feasibility Studies to properly establish that the concept forming the Intellectual Property registration will perform in practice. To show things like:
  • it will scale and perform and
  •           can be designed to perform reliably and safely at the rate needed.
  • Presentations to obtain the finance  (venture capital) for higher risk investment to scale up the technology, product or services.
  • Innovation Management in existing organisations or industries to establish resources plans and processes to continuously create new value for new customers.
  • Project Management to ensure we deliver on time and cost as well as we can (Commercialisation timing can be very uncertain)
  • Process Design to ensure a product can be made efficiently or a service delivered where and when its needed.
  • Carbon Source and Sinkidentification and measures to ensure it is sustainable in our Carbon and GHG cycles.
  • Product and Service Design to ensure it will work and suit our target user and
  • Organisation Change to free up sections of existing organisations so
  • Innovations can be managed or
  • organisations recruited to
  • startup a business for
  • a new industry or an existing one
  • Industry Development and Startup where new technologies mean a new industry

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DIFFERENT :
David’s Commercialisation process emphasises Marketing and Delivery Organisations from the beginning.
Commercialisation begins when the technology or product is patented from a successful demonstration in a laboratory or smaller model (Stage 3 of the five below)
Source: Jolly, Vijay K.(1997) :Commercializing New Technologies: Getting from Mind to Market;Harvard Business School Press.

David and Inventors, Innovators or researchers together journey along this path:

FIRST decide broadly who the market is by:
  • RUMBA Messaging workshops and workshops on Segments of Users.
SECOND
  • We make a detailed Business Plan
  • AND We plan the project tasks as firm (Project Planning) or fuzzy (Backcasting then Project Planning) project plans.
THIRD
  • We use these to finance pilot plants or prototypes from venture capital(4) or
  • TEST feasibility with an Expert say an Engineer.
FOURTH - DECISIONS to END by Sale or DEVELOP together
  •  We with our clients, recruit and build an Organisation or change an existing one to deliver OR
  • We sell to an existing larger business  already in an industry with the same intended customers
FIFTH
  • If no sell, our organisation designs the 
  • product,
  • process and
  • logistics systems.
SIXTH
  • THEN starts and continues piloting cycles until the product or service is scaled up to deliver enough to operate profitably from likely facilities and processes without more extensive design and piloting. (4).
SEVENTH
  • After more rounds of planning and financing
EIGHTH
  • We obtain design and have new facilities approved and built while test marketing and
END by
  • starting up the new sustainable modern business or industry. (5)
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