Summary The concept of GameChanger is perfect in its simplicity and incredible in its scale. In the oil and gas industry, where innovations may lead to drastic changes, the idea of testing the success of a certain concept is highly welcome. Encouraging people to contribute their ideas regarding the improvement of the oil and gas industry and providing an opportunity to test the suggestions, the GameChanger project is bound to become the revolutionary phenomenon that will reinvent the industry. According to the official description, the new platform for testing projects implies the identification of the originality of the concept, its value, the driving factors behind the contribution, and its actual effects ( Shell GameChanger n.d.). How the GameChanger concept was born is, in fact, also unique and inspiring. Prompted by a purely medical concept of an MRI scanning, it altered the oil and gas industry by helping understand how fluids move through rock ( Shell GameChanger n.d.). Therefore, Shell has created an entirely new concept of promoting innovation by introducing what was a medical concept into the oil and gas industry realm, which is a truly outstanding accomplishment. Key Learning Points Main learning points A detailed analysis of GameChanger as a concept showed that innovations might have an interdisciplinary nature. In other words, an original and groundbreaking solution may be spawned by an idea that belongs to a different industry. Thus, prerequisites for creating a global innovation network for sharing essential ideas and introducing improvements can be built ( Shell – GameChanger n.d.). What was your impression of GameChanger? I was struck by how simple the concept was and what immense changes it brought. More importantly, the fact that it has a huge potential for designing new approaches to specific problems in any domain is breathtaking. Would a similar idea work for your company? For an idea such as GameChanger to work, a sustainable setting must be built. Financial assets must be managed in a cost-efficient manner, with every department receiving the amount of funding that it needs. Therefore, I believe that the framework would work for my company if certain change management models (e.g., DMAIC) could be used. What was GameChanger for and what not? GameChanger was meant to introduce innovations to a range of industries, at the same time saving them the costs and the time that a negative outcome would take. In other words, the framework would not work for the areas in which tests can be run at a comparatively low cost and regularly. Relevant Statements to the Session What did you learn? I learned that it is essential to give credit to all ideas that provide innovative solutions. Moreover, I realized that original solutions could work for several industries once shaped appropriately. How did the process compare to new product development processes discussed in class? The emphasis on the need to take every idea into account and test its efficacy in achieving the expected results can be deemed as the primary difference between the new product development techniques that are traditionally used in the business environment and the one that was designed by Shell (Platform Houston 2014). Would you have ideas fo