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CA 3
WEEK 7 TO 13
LESSONS
FLOW
Create and develop team micro-project
to showcase, validate and apply innovation
CA 2
WEEK 4 TO 6

CA 1
WEEK 1 TO 3
Deconstruct product,
service or system to
identify opportunity for
team micro-project

Initiation to innovation
and industrial trends to
open mind-sets
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Recap…
The Business of Innovation – new product
innovations and success in the market place

Innovative Solutioning

The Innovation of Innovation – 7 Questions as

tools to cultivate an innovative mindset

Barriers to Innovation – what to avoid and

how to overcome the innovation inertia

The Art of Innovation – what it takes to be

innovative and apply them to what you do
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G121 Innovation & Practice

Lesson 03
Researching Innovation Trends for Project
topics
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Learning Outcomes

• Select secondary
resources to explore
emerging trends

• Discover digital
tools and methods
for innovative
thinking in teams

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Section A:

Select Secondary
Resources to explore
Emerging Trends

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Traditional vs Digital
Information Landscape

With changes in information flow, the ability to select appropriate

secondary sources of data for projects & business ideas becomes
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Understanding Innovation Trends

Understanding innovation
trends is important:
• Have an idea where future
products/technology are
headed
• Survival in the market
place
• Pre-empt by learning /
hiring necessary skills to
be relevant in the future
• Ensure relevancy of your
innovation
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Discussion 1 (3 mins)
In pairs or as a team, discuss the following
before the video in the next slide:
What are the big innovation or technology
trends for 2022?

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Some Innovation Trends

Top Tech 10 Tech Trends by Futurist and Author, Bernard Marr

Bernard Marr (2020) “The Top 10 Tech Trends In 2022 Everyone Must Be Ready For Now” Retrieved on 21 Apr 9
2022 from YouTube at https://youtu.be/4fy9r4zPKis
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Activity 1 (Individual)
• In the next few slides are sites that you can visit to
source for trends and trending news
• Click onto the links to explore the trends
• Post in your class MS Teams
innovations or trends that interest
you (they could give you ideas for your
G121 micro-project!)
• Later on in this lesson, you will learn to
make a simple video on the Top 5
Innovation Trends that interest you
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Leverage Secondary Resources

Leverage Secondary
Resources to identify ideas
for project or start-ups:
• Publications and
magazines, e.g., Time
Magazine publishes an
annual list of top 50
innovations for the year:
https://time.com/collection/b
est-inventions-2021/
• Media feeds related to
Innovation via Facebook,
Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn,
Podcasts, etc.
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Explore Data Trends

Singapore
Government
Data Sets (to
facilitate
research and
analysis)
https://www.sings
tat.gov.sg/

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Explore Emerging Trends

• FastCo (News site)

https://www.fastcompa
ny.com/
• Wired (News site)
https://www.wired.com/

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Explore Emerging Trends

https://www.trendhunter.com/

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Summary of Sites
• Time: https://time.com/collection/best-inventions-2021/
• Time: https://time.com/collection/best-inventions-2020/
• Time: https://time.com/collection/best-inventions-2019/
• FastCo: https://www.fastcompany.com/
• Wired: https://www.wired.com/
• Trend Hunter: https://www.trendhunter.com/
• Google Trend: https://trends.google.com/trends/?geo=US
• Singapore Government Data Sets:
https://www.singstat.gov.sg/

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How do you share research

and information obtained with
your team mates to
collaborate and propose
innovation solutions?

“Sharing is good, and with digital

technology, sharing is easy.”
Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation

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Section B:
Digital Tools
and Methods

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International Examples

How Digital Tools Are Enabling Innovation

Caterpillar uses customer immersion labs to offer customers

for its gigantic mining machines the opportunity to test and
work with three-dimensional, real-time designs of the operator’s
cabin. This gives CAT’s engineers immediate feedback on what
works and what doesn’t, directly from the customer, before
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anything even goes into production.
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International Examples

How Digital Tools Are Enabling Innovation

General Dynamics Electric Boat is using immersive VR

technology to design nuclear submarines. Where once the
carpenters would build wooden mockups of the living spaces in
the subs, EB can now project 3D images of the spaces directly
from the digital design files, walk through them, and make
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changes as needed.
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Local Examples

How Digital Tools Are Enabling Innovation

Accenture uses today's digital tools like online chats &

satellite-enabled video conferences to beam participants from
around the whole into a single "room" – to enable work to
happen anywhere.
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Local Examples

How Digital Tools Are Enabling Innovation

ONLY Aesthetics Singapore uses augmented reality (AR)

and virtual reality (VR) to build a totally different thing – a
new you! The tool allows customers to view size and shape
options in real time, and enhances interactivity and user
engagement with the doctor, empowering patients to make
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Local Examples

How Digital Tools Are Enabling Innovation

Keppel Land is the first developer in Singapore to create a

360-degree immersive virtual reality (VR) show suites.
Harnessing VR technology, they are now able to showcase
different configurations and apartment types without having to
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Digital Tools for Innovative Thinking

6 Useful Tools For Student-Centred Creative
Expression

Most of these softwares/apps are free for the Basic version,

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Digital Tools for Innovative Thinking

How can these software and apps

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Digital Tools for Innovative Thinking

How can these software • Information sharing
and apps assist in
innovative thinking? • Organise data and
information
• Connect and
collaborate across
space and time
• Expression and
presentation of ideas
• Social tools to cross-
fertilise ideas
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Digital Tools and Team Innovation

• Team members might be separated by department, geography
(e.g. we are on OCL now), or their use of different tools

• Studies have shown that when they are disconnected, team

members become misaligned and disengaged → negative
impact to innovate.
• Digital tools enable close collaboration - by connecting people,
information, digital tools, and communications in one convenient
place → unified successful team.

• The resulting digital workplace leads

to engaged, productive members
and an innovative, enduring culture.

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In the next slides, learn how to use two of these

digital tools to make videos!
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Using Digital Tools - Animoto

Click on link below to watch video: Basics of Animoto – enabling interactivity
and enhancing effective messaging:
https://youtu.be/5GX9bGx2T2w

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Using Digital Tools – Powtoon

Click on link below to watch video: Tutorial: How to Use Powtoon FREE
https://youtu.be/vkfacjOpTcM
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Activity 2 (Team) –
Research Innovation Trends
In Section A, you researched on emerging trends
and identified the top 5 innovations / trends that
interest you.
• Read instructions in file ‘G121_Lesson
03_Activity 2 Guide’
• Post your research in the Class MS Teams
• Decide on your team’s ‘Top 5 Innovation Trends’
• Decide on the video-making platform to use
(either Animoto or Powtoon)

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Activity 2 (Team) –
Research Innovation Trends
• Create a 2 to 3 min video narrating your choice of ‘Top 5
Innovation Trends’
• ONE submission per team

Submission Instructions
File: ‘G121_Lesson 03_Activity 2 Guide’
Download the video from Animoto and upload
Animoto to LEO 2.0>Learning Path>G121 Team
Submission Folder L03

Powtoon Share the video link with your lecturer

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Staying On Top Of The Latest

Innovation Trends

Associate | Question | Observe | Network | Experiment

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Reflection Journal
Individual Reflection Journal is part of Continuous
Assessment 1 (CA1). Complete all parts.

Section A
From Activity 1 of this lesson, select one innovation trend that you identified
and describe why it is innovative in 50-100 words.

Section B
Innovation is important in education, in entrepreneurship, at the workplace
and to society as a whole. In 150-200 words, answer all the following
questions:

1. Why do you think it is important for you to learn innovation skills? Explain
with two reasons.

2. Discuss how you can become a more innovative person, e.g., using the
Innovators’ DNA 5 Skills?

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Concept Diagram

Digital
Secondary Innovation
Tools for
Resources Trends
Teams

The use of various Discover the use of Created a short

innovation websites different digital tools to video to articulate
and Google Trends collaborate and put selected innovation
to identify the latest together ideas and trend to be up to
innovation trends. plans. date.
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References
Articles
• How Digital Tools are Transforming Innovation, Retrieved on 21 Apr 2022,
https://www.wired.com/insights/2013/11/how-digital-tools-are-transforming-innovation/
• 10 Tools For Student-Centered Creative Expression, Retrieved on 21 Apr 2022,
https://www.teachthought.com/technology/10-tools-student-centered-creative-expression/
• Designing Effective Research Assignments: Student Research Habits, Retrieved on 21 Apr
2022, https://libguides.lcc.edu/c.php?g=442711&p=3018236
• Trend research: how to identify relevant trends, Retrieved on 21 Apr 2022 https://www.lead-
innovation.com/english-blog/trend-research
• 9 Technology Mega Trends That Will Change The World In 2018, Retrieved on 21 Apr 2022,
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2017/12/04/9-technology-mega-trends-that-will-
change-the-world-in-2018/#71ade7b65eed
• How To Stay On Top Of The Latest Technology Trends, Retrieved on 21 Apr 2022,
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2016/10/11/how-to-stay-on-top-of-the-latest-
technology-trends/#4cbea96a7ef8
• Virtual reality show suites at Keppel project, Retrieved on 21 Apr 2022,
https://www.straitstimes.com/business/property/virtual-reality-show-suites-at-keppel-project
• How Digital Workplaces Keep Workers Connected, Retrieved on 21 Apr 2022,
https://www.cio.com/article/3145653/leadership-management/how-digital-workplaces-keep-
workers-connected.html

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References
• Singapore's First Virtual Reality (VR) Experience, in Medical Aesthetics, Retrieved on 21 Apr
2022, https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/singapores-first-virtual-reality-vr-025000604.html
• Why Digital Collaboration, Retrieved on 21 Apr 2022,
https://www.exoplatform.com/digital-collaboration/

Videos
• Bernard Marr (2020) “The Top 10 Tech Trends In 2022 Everyone Must Be Ready For Now”
Retrieved on 21 Apr 2022 from YouTube at https://youtu.be/4fy9r4zPKis
• Animoto (2020) “The Complete Guide to Making a Video with Animoto” Retrieved on 21 Apr 2022
from YouTube website at https://youtu.be/5GX9bGx2T2w
• Powtoon (2020) “How to make video online in the Powtoon Studio | Powtoon Tutorial” Retrieved
on 21 Apr 2022 from YouTube website at https://youtu.be/vkfacjOpTcM

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