This Summit has already been held. Please visit our current Innovation Summit.
Discounts are offered for teams of 3 or more people from
the same company.
In the early 1990s, when time-to-market pressures swept across
the globe, it created a backlash on the subject of innovation.
Individual developers and their corporations alike asked and
continue to ask, "how can I/we be more innovative when
I/we have less time? Overlapping the projects is not a practical
answer." This backlash resulted in a great deal of invention
on the subject of innovation during the past fifteen years.
As much literature was published on innovation as was published
on time-to-market during this period. In the 1980s, only a
few innovation techniques existed. Today, there are dozens
of techniques and some software packages that facilitate innovation
and innovative thinking. Yet, companies struggle with how
to innovate. Many have simply renamed their "product
development processes" to be "innovation processes"
in the hope that a new identity will facilitate innovative
thinking. This struggle has come to the forefront of industry
issues in 2005. To address this rapidly growing industry need,
GGI decided to package some of the approaches and materials
that we use in our consulting practice into a public seminar
that we are calling the Innovation Summit.
The Innovation Summit consists of 8 modules. Discounts are
offered for teams of 3 or more people from the same company.
The Innovation Summit - Eight Modules
The goals of the Innovation Summit are: to help corporate
innovation leaders: to sort out "innovation processes"
from "innovation tools and techniques," to understand
what has happened during the past fifteen years on innovation,
to inventory the range and population of tools/techniques/software
available today, and to put it all in a context for corporate
leaders so specific actions may be taken to improve a company's
innovativeness and inventive abilities.
The Innovation Summit - Coursebook
This 500-page Coursebook aims to cover the range of topics
around the subject of innovation that are of interest to persons
responsible for directing and managing innovation at the corporate
and business-results levels. This is the material that underlies
GGI's 3-Day R&D-Product Development Innovation Summit
which was first offered to the public in January 2006.
The first section of the R&D Innovation Summit Coursebook
contains industry benchmark information about: product selection
and intellectual property management and decision processes,
pipeline yield rates from ideation to commercialization, relative
innovativeness of tools and techniques used by today's product
developers, top management short list of practices that fuels
R&D productivity, and an inventory of "all"
innovation tools in the marketplace today.
The second section contains more in-depth information about
four major innovation-enablers: Lead User Analysis, Six Hats,
Triz, and Semantic Processing. The second section also contains
more in-depth information about: Trade Secrets, Trademarks/Servicemarks,
Copyrights, and Patents.
The third section contains information on five subject areas
that are part of an overall innovation environment: additional
software such as self assessment and DSS and IP management,
insourcing and outsourcing innovation, metrics and measures
for innovation environments, and reward and recognition processes
and mechanisms. The Summary highlights the contributions of
five prominent books in the field of innovation that are used
by corporations. The brief Conclusion indicates the places
in product development processes where the use of innovation
tools may have the best impact, along with positioning innovation
strategically, and within technical and product management
functions.
Summit Dates
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Tuesday December 5, 2006 |
9:00AM - 5PM |
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Wednesday December 6, 2006** |
8:30AM - 5PM |
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Thursday December 7, 2006 |
8:30AM - 3PM |
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** Following Wednesday's program, ipCapital Group will
host a wine and fine cheese reception from 5:30 to 6:30
PM in Zachariah's Restaurant in the Summit hotel.
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Testimonials By Prior Innovation Summit Attendees
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Additional testimonials may be found here. |
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"This has been an excellent eye opening
experience about current trends across various industries.
Very helpful to define future decisions in setting future
corporate engineering organization direction and strategies."
-Richard Knowles, CTO & VP R&D,
ArthroCare Corp.
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"I have started looking at innovation as a
deliberate process that needs to be followed through from
inception to elaboration to implementation."
-Dinesh Venugopal, Director of Engineering, Marimba BMC Software
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"Thought provoking. You have to check your
current thinking at the door."
-Greg Myers, Director, Quality BMC Software, Inc.
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"Gives great tools to take back look to
implement."
-John Rost, Manager, Regulatory Affairs, Crown Packaging
Technologies
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"Good general overview of product development
process and options to generate ideas. Good content.
Well organized."
-Sherlene Bagley, Product Director, Portfolio Development
Healthpoint, Ltd.
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"An eye opener survey of tools, techniques,
and methodology to stimulate innovation."
-Michael Davis, Director of Technology, IP HID Global
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"The innovation summit provided a good overview
of tools and techniques that can be used to improve
innovation at any organization."
- Brian A. Yokum
Founder & CTO
Home Automation, Inc.
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"These lessons learned will clearly make
the difference between true success and extinction due
to global competition."
- Louis Bonhomme
Manager, R&D
Millipore Corporation
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"This seminar brought together some of the
brightest, most experienced innovation leaders from
a broad range of global industries. It was an excellent
networking opportunity."
-Thomas Mills
VP, Marketing & Business Development
Severn Trent Services
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"Overall the course was excellent. An excellent
overview of the tools available to deploy."
-Kraig Tabor
Director, Advanced Process & Product
Snap-On Tools
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"While it is still evolving, I think this
workshop is very enlightening and was worthwhile."
-Frederick Kernen VP, R&D TallyGenicom
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"Overall the course was excellent. An excellent
overview of the tools available to deploy."
-Jay Johnson VP, Product Development, Transcoma Medical
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"Even though I am new to product development
the seminar was quite understandable, but very rich
in information and facts."
-Alejandro Garcia, Director, Application Development,
Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
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Summit Faculty
Bradford L. Goldense, NPDP, CMfgE, CPIM, CCP [seminar leader]
is Founder and CEO of Goldense Group, Inc. [GGI],
a twenty five-year old Needham Massachusetts consulting and education
firm concentrating in advanced business and technology management
practices for line management functions. Mr. Goldense has
consulted to over 150 of the Fortune 1000 and has worked on
productivity improvement and automation projects in over 400
manufacturing locations in North and South America, Europe,
and the Middle East. Abbott Laboratories, Bayer, S.C. Johnson,
Ford, General Motors, John Deere, Phillips, Carrier, Molex,
United Technologies, Bose, and Shure are representative among
GGI’s clients. Mr. Goldense is an internationally recognized
expert on both rapid product development and R&D metrics.
Brad has been an invited guest on Alexander Haig’s World
Business Review, and has appeared on PBS The Business &
Technology Network, and on CNBC, and has authored or been
quoted in over 150 articles in industry trade press. Brad
is the Worldwide President of the Society of Concurrent Product
Development [SCPD], and on the Worldwide Board of Directors
for the American Society of Engineering Management [ASME].
View a more complete biography on
GGI Staff page.
John R. (Dick) Power, PMP, CFP [instructor]
is Director of Executive Education at GGI. Mr. Power has been practicing
in the advanced and new product development and production
areas for over 30 years. He is highly experienced in project
management of large and complex high technology products from
Initial phases through production, distribution and sustaining
support. As a US Army Signal Corps Officer, retiring as a
Colonel in 1992, he was a leader in acquisition of electronic
systems. More recently, Dick worked at GTE (before its merger
with Bell Atlantic to form Verizon) as Director of Total Quality
for the Government Systems Group and later as Corporate-wide
program manager for information security. View
a more complete biography on GGI Staff page.
Donald M. Stewart [instructor]
has been practicing
in the marketing and new-product business strategy areas for
the past thirty-five years, and in the concurrent engineering
area for the past fifteen years. Mr. Stewart worked for twenty
years with Teradyne, Inc. Teradyne is the leading U.S. designer
and manufacturer of semiconductor test systems. Don held a
variety of positions at Teradyne including product manager,
sales manager, sales engineer, and market support engineer.
Mr. Stewart holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from
MIT, and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School. View
a more complete biography on GGI Staff page.
John E. Cronin
Best Practice IP Management
is Managing Director and Chairman
of ipCG. Capitalizing on a life long study of creative and inventive
thinking processes, business strategy development, and transaction
negotiations, John has created the unique ipCapital System
methodology, which extracts and documents invention, identifies
opportunity and risk, drives transactions to completion, and
creates significant market value from intellectual property
(IP). John has led ipCG from a small consulting practice to
the largest professional services firm of its kind, serving
over 350 clients since 1998. Prior to founding ipCG, John
was a distinguished inventor at IBM for 17 years. As a member
of the senior technical staff and the prestigious IBM Academy,
John led an intellectual asset team that spearheaded efforts
to produce and manage the development of IP. Eventually known
as "The IBM Patent Factory," this select group supported the
division that increased IBM's annual licensing revenue from
$30 million in 1992 to more than $1 billion in 1997 and every
year thereafter. John holds a BSEE, an MSEE, and a BA degree
in Psychology from the University of Vermont. Additionally,
John is a member of the Advisory Board for Color Kinetics.
Summit Location
The seminar will be held at the Four
Points Sheraton in Norwood, Massachusetts. The Four Points/Norwood
is equidistant between Boston and Providence on major U.S.
Route 1. One can fly into either Logan Airport in Massachusetts
or T.F. Green Airport in Rhode Island, each about a 45 minute
ride. (Less expensive airfares are potentially possible through
T.F. Green Airport, as well as less traffic congestion en
route.) There are several fine restaurants within walking
distance, more within a short hotel shuttle ride. A major
attraction of this hotel is its food. The General Manager
is a former chef and the head chef is a name in the Northeast.
"One Bistro," at the Four Points/Norwood, is a locally
renowned restaurant and nighttime hotspot. One of New England's
largest brand name discount shopping malls is just a short
ride south on Route 1.
A block of rooms have been reserved for this conference.
Hotel reservations must be made by Friday, November 3, 2006
to ensure availability. GGI's block of rooms will be released
back to the hotel after this date.
Summit Brochure
There is a single brochure for the Innovation Summit. The
brochure includes a brief description of each module. Discounts
are available for teams with 3 or more people registering
from the same company.
Summit At-A-Glance
The Innovation Summit Agenda, Table of Contents of the Coursebook,
and the Biographies of the three Instructors are portrayed
in a single document for a quick read.
Register
This Summit has already been held. Please visit our current Innovation Summit.
In the event your plans change after you register, GGI will
refund your registration through end-of-business EDT Friday,
November 3, 2006. Please note that a 5% credit processing
fee will be deducted from your refund if you do choose to
cancel.
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