1 UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEY FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND IT 49016 TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION ASSIGNMENT 2, AUTUMN 2017 Marks 25% Objective 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 7 Graduate Attribute A.1, A5, B.4, B.6 and E.1 Submission date for hard copy Submission date for soft copy 29 May 2017 (at the beginning of your class) 29 May 2017 (drop it on UTSONLINE Turnitin before midnight) Approximate hours required 20-30 hours depending on the student‟s language proficiency, skills and academic abilities Assignment Type Group Maximum length 20-25 pages (include max. 1 page for each of these followings documents: executive summary, table of contents, introduction, conclusion), appendices and references. Referencing UTS Harvard Referencing Style. Format Time New Roman, Font Size 12, 1.5 line spacing Penalty for late submission A late penalty of 5% of the subject weighting for an assessment not the student achieved mark) will be applied per day or part thereof, unless prior arrangements are made and granted in writing by the subject coordinator. Backup Students need to keep multiple backups as non-submission or late submission due to lost or corrupt files will attract penalties as detailed in the subject outline. Group Formation: the group size must be finalised by week 5 (10/4). For a small class, each group can have four members and five members for a large class. All group members must be from the same class. PITCH AND INVESTIGATE 1. In this assignment, you are required to work in a team of 4 or 5 to submit a proposal to your lecturer in week 8 for approval, a presentation in week 11 and a final report in week 11. 2. As a group, discuss and select one topic from the following seven areas. No duplicate topic or area is permitted in each class. The area of selection is based on „first come first served‟ basis and must be approved by your lecturer. Permission must be sought from your lecturer and the subject coordinator, with 2 an attached supporting document, should you feel necessary to investigate a particular topic that has already been taken by another group of students. Area Some starting ideas here 1. Self-driving cars https://www.waymo.com and http://www.vox.com/2014/5/28/5756736/the-case- for-self-driving-cars 2. Online Commerce https://www.amazon.com, https://www.alibaba.com/, https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/10/15- common-mistakes-in-e-commerce-design-and-how- to-avoid-them/ 3. Climate Change http://www.bom.gov.au/ or http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/12/151204- climate-paris-disease-antarctic-arctic-ice-melt- acidification-fish-co2/ 4. Increase Student Motivation in a course www.utsonline.edu.au https://www.thinkific.com https://qz.com/65408/the-dirty-little-secret-of-online- learning-students-are-bored-and-dropping-out/ 5. Agriculture http://www.agriculture.gov.au/ag-farm-food https://citiesspeak.org/2015/05/07/five-reasons-why- you-should-be-promoting-urban-agriculture-in-your- city/ 6. Aged care http://www.agedcareguild.com.au or http://colbrowhomecare.com.au/blog/10-reasons-to- choose-in-home-aged-care/ 7. Other topics not limited to the following: A. Fitness B. Entertainment C. Home Automation https://www.careatc.com/ehs/3-reasons-wearable- fitness-technology-is-right-for-the-workplace https://www.lifewire.com/reasons-to-automate-your- home-817695 3. Once your lecturer approves the topic area, each group is allowed to proceed to generate ideas (use design thinking: empathise, define, ideate etc). Write down as many ideas as you can on a butcher paper and sticky notes (to be distributed by your lecturer) in week 8. This process requires 15 minutes to complete. 4. In assignment 1, you were asked to identify three innovation failures on a white card called “Innovation Challenging Failures We Must Not Ignore”. Next, each member in the group must present their white card to their group members for a 15 minute discussion and write down on a butcher paper and sticky notes(to be distributed by your lecturer) to decide on 2 major innovation failures the group has on the white card which foresee they can impact on your assignment 2 topic. 5. You are required to discuss the two major innovation failures in the group proposal which you need to submit to your class lecturer in class in week 8. You need to be practical and acknowledge that not all innovative ideas are successful; therefore, you are required to write and discuss two possible innovation failures that may prevent your idea being implemented successfully. Note: A good idea is one that contains proof of concept, is sustainable and has an expected longevity in use by stakeholders. 6. After the submission, your lecturer will email the group to confirm the approval of the proposal and to prepare the report to justify a quality metric/ method/ tool/ framework that is suitable to use and evaluate your idea. In case your proposal is rejected you need to rework and resubmit it to your lecturer until you get an approval. 7. The vendor is seeking a good proposal in each area and your task is to develop a budget for the product/service development with a suitable timeline. 8. Please refer to the marking guideline for items required and submit your final report to the lecturer in week 11. 9. In week 11, you are required to do a presentation and you will be limited to 8 presentation slides. Each presentation is 10-15 mins (including questions and answers). All members must present. 3 Section Marking Criteria Mark 1. Submit a soft copy of a page of group proposal in a word document of high quality to the lecturer in week 8 (8/5- 10/5) Late submission 5% penalty applies A. Address a problem (2 marks) B. Introducing an idea (2 marks) C. Discussing two innovative failures (4 marks) D. Discuss the benefit and value of the idea to society and community (2 marks) 10 2. Find two research articles on open innovation and discuss how companies use open innovation to increase their market share. A. Write down the two research articles and author name year of publication (1 mark) B. Write a summary of the two research articles (4 marks) C. Discuss a case study that adopt open innovation successfully (6 marks) D. Show and discuss the evidence on the organisation performance growth before and after the open innovation introduced. (4 marks) 15 3. Present your idea from four contexts: Sustainability, Innovation, Scalability and Mobility A. Discuss how sustainable your idea would be (6 marks) B. How innovative is your idea? (3 marks) C. How scalable is your idea? (3 marks) D. How mobile can your idea be? (3 marks) 15 4. Assume your idea has been accepted, the vendor would like you to present a detail breakdown of a NET present value to find out the return of investment A. State all assumptions clearly (2 marks) B. Analysis of the net present value (2 marks) C. Show the net present value calculation (6 marks) 10 5. Discuss your assessment method for your idea. A. Justify a metric to assess your idea (2 marks) B. explain why the quality metric is chosen (2 marks) C. Show how you assess your idea (6 marks) 10 6. Explain how your proposed solution can add value to society, and improve environmental sustainability. Discuss 3 contributions and 3 benefits 6 7. Each member must write an account to describe his or her experience in this investigation. Outline what have you learned from this assignment. (Two marks for submission by every member.) 2 8. Attach copies of your team meetings and agenda Source of evidence must present 2 9. For presentation: You are required to prepare 8 presentation slides per below. Each presentation is 10-15 mins (including questions and answers). All members must present. Slide 1: An introduction and your group topic Slide 2: An overview of the problem statement and your investigation Slide 3-4: A framework of formulating your idea (sustainability, innovation, scalability and mobility) Slide 4-5: What method do you use to assess your idea? Slide 6-7 : Show the group The Net Present Value 10 4 Slide 8: how can your idea benefit to the society and community? Total 80 Note: 80 marks will scale down to 25 marks which is your final assignment 2 mark. Important Submission Instructions: 1. It is compulsory for each student in a team to complete and submit the team evaluation on SPARK. 2. It is also compulsory for students to submit a softcopy of their assessment to Turnitin (via UTSOnline) due on 29 May-1st June (depending on your lecture date. Turnitin will be opened one week ahead of the due day) 3. Print the answers and append the FEIT assignment coverpage. Staple it once at the top left side, and submit the hardcopy to their tutor at the beginning of the class time. No plastic sleeves/folders are required. Students need to make sure they also keep multiple backups in their possession, in the event that they need to resubmit. Students need to apply the following format in naming the assignment 2 report in a single file when they submit to Turnitin: Lecturer’s name+lecture room number+ group name or number + Assg2 For example, the lecturer is Bee Bee and the group name called Five Stars, with the following student ID: 12345678 will have the following naming for their assignment 2 file: BeeBeeLecture3FiveStars12345678Assg2 4. Assessments that do not comply with the submission instructions will attract immediate 5% penalty of the maximum possible mark (not the student‟s achieved mark) per offence. 5. Any issues affecting timely submission should be raised with the subject coordinator well in advance of the submission due date and time. 6. Assistance: To maintain assessment process equity and fairness, the instructors will not comment on a student‟s draft assignment prior to submission. The instructors may be able to provide generic advice on theoretical issues, structure, and expectations. Students are advised to raise any generic questions with the lecturer and tutors during class time so that answers are provided to all students in an equitable and transparent manner. 7. Students having difficulties with their comprehension and writing should seek immediate assistance from university support services such as HELPS well in advance of the due date. Plagiarism and Academic Misconduct Plagiarism means representing the creative work of another as your own original work without appropriate acknowledgement of the author of the work or the source. The need to acknowledge the work of another arises out of a set of rights provided for in the Copyright Act 1968 known as 'moral rights'. These include the right to attribution and the right to object to derogatory treatment of the work. Advice on what constitutes plagiarism, how to avoid plagiarism, and how to reference is available here: http://www.uts.edu.au/teachlearn/avoidingplagiarism/index.html. Students are directed to adequately refer to any material they use, not to share their work with others, and not to leave their work on common storage media that others could retrieve with or without their knowledge or consent. Students should therefore take full responsibility of their work as copying and plagiarism with or without their knowledge or consent still attracts severe penalties. Students are NOT to re-use the work of other students from earlier semesters. Students are also NOT to copy or re-use any material they or any of their group members have submitted as an assignment or report in previous semesters in this subject or any other subject.