Please send me the reference to James Fiet's Systematic Search system.
I'd love to trade experiences and ideas on what works and what doesn't and
why when I comes to sense-making, lateral thinking and opportunity
recognition and execution.
I've developed a workshop and methodology which I call The Opportunity
Clinic that tries to identify generic examples of opportunity windows or
opportunity scenarios, that are right for the firm (right opportunity for
the right time) depending on the maturity of the business and the industry
that they are in. Combine that with a few of de Bono's lateral thinking
skills and you get lots of ideas. I developed the process when I was
Director of the Idea Lab at the Design Exchange in Toronto a few years back.
Walter Derzko
Toronto, Ontario Canada
wderzko@pathcom.com
walter.derzko@pathcom.com
The Smart Technology Blog
http://smarteconomy.typepad.com
See my NewBizDev discussion forum and search "Opportunity Clinic"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewBizDev/
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Subject: Re: [ENTREP] opportunity recognition pedagogy
Lynnette,
I am sorry to hear that you did not have much success teaching systematic
search. Don't give up on it. At the University of Louisville, we teach it
as part of our entrepreneurship courses at the bachelors, masters and PhD
level. By my count, so far, we have taught more than 900 students. We have
also tested it in three different non-academic settings with consistently
good results.
In the coming months, there will be several articles appearing that will
report on some of these experiences.
Best wishes,
James O. Fiet, PhD
Brown Forman Chair in Entrepreneurship
College of Business and Public Administration
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
Voice: 502-852-4793
Fax: 502-852-7557
E-mail:
fiet@louisville.edu
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On Behalf Of Lynnette Claire
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 1:38 PM
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Subject: [ENTREP] opportunity recognition pedagogy
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to teach opportunity recognition?
I tried using James Fiet's Systematic Search system, but it didn't work
very well (probably due to my execution of the system). Any ideas folks
have would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to respond to the list-serve
or to me personally (
lclaire@ups.edu).
A bit of background about my teaching environment: I have just finished my
first year in a faculty job (whew!) and created a special topics course in
entrepreneurship my second semester here. I'm teaching entrepreneurship as
a special topics course in the fall, then will develop the course into two
different courses: Entrepreneurship in the Sciences and Entrepreneurship in
the Arts (if you have any experience here, please let me know). I only
have 20 students in a class and it's mainly bright juniors and seniors.
We're on semesters so I can spend a few weeks on opportunity recognition.
Thanks for the help. I have never posted to the list-serve before but I
love reading about things going on in our ent community.
Have a great summer,
Lynnette Claire
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