109: Innovating How We Teach Innovation: Innovation at the Extremes (10646)

In this PDW, we will explore three topics related to teaching innovation at the extremes. We take different perspectives on how innovation is being pushed in different directions in the context of new challenges and technological affordances. The first topic is centered on how we can best equip our students to address wicked problems and grand challenges. As management educators, how might we develop better approaches to help our students frame problems to address such challenges, and how would we teach related skills? The second topic is how to manage teaching in an era of exceptionally rapidly advancing technology like Generative AI. How do we stay current and adjust our teaching to effectively accommodate and integrate these advances? Lastly, we explore the emerging interdisciplinary topic of Extreme Design and its implications for teaching. Extreme Design occurs in settings that demand very high-performance levels, force considerable truncation of design tasks, or ask to design for uncommon users and environments. How do we manage these scenarios that require new technologies and methods that span disciplines, and how do we prepare our students for them? There will be short presentations from faculty actively engaged in each area for each of the three topics, followed by a Q&A. In the second half, the PDW features round-table discussions among presenters and PDW attendees to exchange experiences around these topics and report findings to the group.