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7th R&D-Product Development Innovation Summit
This Summit has already been held. Please visit our current Innovation Summit.
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 came 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 call the Innovation Summit. Since 2005, GGI has been refreshing this initial research to keep pace with the progress of industry. The Innovation Summit - Eight ModulesThe 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.  
Summit Dates
Summit FacultyBradford L. Goldense, NPDP, CMfgE, CPIM, CCP [seminar leader] John R. (Dick) Power, PMP, CFP [instructor] John E. Cronin
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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].
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.
Stephen M. Brown holds Invention Machine's position of Vice President of Product Marketing and is responsible for positioning and future evolution of the company's product, Goldfire Innovator, and its market strategy. Goldfire empowers engineers, scientists and researchers with a capability for sustainable innovation though ideation and semantic retrieval. Prior to Invention Machine, he spent 10 years at Vality Technology, the industry's leading supplier of data quality software for CRM and BI markets where he served as Vice President of Product Strategy until its acquisition by Ascential Software in April 2002. At Ascential, he served as Executive Director, leading Product Management and Marketing functions for Ascential's suite of data-integration products. Previously Steve had served 20 years in technology management and development capacities at Legent Corporation, Cullinet Software and Honeywell. He is a graduate of Harvard University.