Process | Ingienous Designs

Our Process

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

The slideshow above demonstrates how ideas developed in InGienous Designs idea labs are designed to interact with each other. This slideshow shows the economy of scales managing simultaneous projects across a diverse range of sectors: Taking a number of nascent ideas, growing, managing and scaling them into mature, self-sustaining products or services and creating empowerment, education and business opportunities along the way.

InGienous Designs is a full value chain idea incubator working in a variety of different sectors. We begin with great ideas and grow them into mature products, services and movements. Our strength lay in the agility of a small team to work quickly on a number of innovative ideas in parallel and allow them to interact with each other in positive ways for maximum socio-economic impact. For projects to succeed, they cannot operate in a vacuum. Funding, marketing, sustainability elements, education, etc…are all required to make a project successful. Projects in different fields grow and begin to have synergistic effects upon each other, accelerating the growth of all the interacting ideas in nonlinear ways.

Example

Idea 1 a Film Industry infrastructure project
Idea 2 could be a 3D Virtual Learning Environment (3DVLE) educational technology project,
Idea 3 a renewable energy project

Cross Pollination Examples

The digital camera and post production technology and systems created in Idea 1 can be used to make a documentary film about the novel 3DVLE Education technology being built, giving it exposure and attracting partners, stakeholders and funding
The same media infrastructure technology can be used to produce a documentary film or trans media campaign about a new renewable energy project to promote its widespread adoption in the country
The educational technology can be used to effectively teach to the students how to operate the new media technology such as digital cameras and post production editing suites AND how to operate and maintain the new renewable energy technologies…basic theory on the science behind it, how to operate the power plants and how to maintain the systems.

We work across a broad range of sectors and industries and one of our strengths is to leverage Intellectual Property from one domain and quickly apply it to another domain. Our clients receive the benefits of our economy of scales and cross pollination within the InGienous family of core focus areas which include:

Human Potential Technologies and Media Products
Education
Media
Green Technologies
Renewable Energy
Ecovillage Design

Within this framework, value propositions present themselves and attract stakeholders, investors & funders, researchers, NGO’s and other visionaries to come on board at the right stage.

To explore our development process in more detail, look at the breakdown of the development steps involved into Early, Middle and Mature stage.

Early Stage

1. NEW IDEA – WHAT IF?……

The process starts with the emergence of a promising new idea to an existing social problem
This idea is initially explored and fleshed out in a pre-scoping study

2. SCOPING STUDY / EARLY

A more comprehensive inhouse partial scoping study is done to evaluate feasibility of the idea taking into consideration a number of variables including: needs, variability of needs, existing challenges, cultural, age, gender, class variability, stakeholder buyin, funding requirements, pilot study or prototype requirements, resource requirements, scalability, etc….
Early external human resource search if required (i.e. Scientists and researchers who have already done extensive research in the field, including their own scoping studies and literature reviews)
Strict disclosure of all inferred project resources

3. LITERATURE REVIEW (OPTIONAL)

If required, literature review is performed

4. PRE-FEASIBILITY STUDY

Introduction to the basic social and business infrastructure of the country, province and city the project rolls out in
Skills of the local workforces
Availability of local raw materials and their cost and quality
Capex and opex of the production, processing or manufacturing facility
Social, political and economic risks
Incentives available
Planning and regulatory regime
Recommendations of the country of choice and terms of reference for a feasibility study

5. FEASIBILITY STUDY

Feasibility study is performed
Limited to reserves and measured + indicated resources
Details of the range of products or services developed
The production equipment, facilities to be used
The market and the competition
The business structure of the entity
Marketing and sales strategy
Operational parameters
Staffing levels
Intellectual Property: Copyrights, Patents, trademarks etc
Regulatory issues
Environmental issues
Risk analysis
Profit and loss and balance sheet forecasts
Cash flow and capital requirements
Recommendations and conclusions from all stakeholders

6. PROJECT DEVELOPMENT FEASIBILITY STUDY

Details of the new range of products or services
Examination of production/manufacturing techniques and the hardware/software required
How the new range will compete in the existing market and the competition
Additional managers required
Staffing levels
Planning and local issues
Risk analysis
Profit and loss and balance sheet forecasts
Cash flow and capital requirements
Recommendations and conclusions from all stakeholders

7. PILOT RESEARCH STUDY OR PROTOTYPE PROPOSAL

Positive conclusion from feasibility studies
Search for funding
Search for staff
Draft pilot study / prototype plan
Review, Recommendations and conclusions from all stakeholders

8. PILOT RESEARCH STUDY OR PROTOTYPE PROPOSAL ACCEPTANCE

Positive conclusion from Pilot Study / Prototype proposal
Funding secured
Staffing secured
Logistics planning & design work for research study or prototype construction
Secure all test equipment, tools & materials to begin study or prototype construction
Produce study
Review, Recommendations and conclusions from all stakeholders