| A Roundtable on Building Platforms
for Innovation
November 10-12, 2003
Stanford University
Stanford, Calif. USA
Purpose:
Active learning from the best and the brightest is a core value
of DMI. The Innovation Summit Program has been developed to provide
a forum for thought leaders to engage in provocative learning exchanges.
Overview
Although invention can often be a solo affair, innovation is much
more complex and usually involves teams. How teams can find direction,
establish goals, select processes, persist, and succeed has become
a pivotal issue for any enterprise expecting to survive and grow
in the 21st century. A select group of thought-leaders will examine
the theme “Building Platforms for Innovation,”
with an emphasis on the processes, language, culture, and behaviors
that foster and contribute to innovation.
Some of the questions to be addressed include: Which tools facilitate
or hinder real innovation? How can the language of various disciplines
slow effective communications and team innovation? Do certain disciplines
foster innovation? How can innovation be a pervasive capability
in your business? How do you develop, select, and fit the appropriate
conceptual framework with the right organizational culture to support
rapid innovation? What role do information systems play in innovation?
How can an individual or an organization unleash innovation and
creativity? These questions and topics will be the focus of this
unique exchange and learning roundtable.
Featured Speakers
Innovation: Some Weird (and Not So Weird) Ideas That Work
Robert Sutton, Ph.D., Professor of Management Science and
Engineering, Stanford University
Transformation by Design: Achieving Organizational Change and Strategic
Innovation Using the Tools and Culture of User-centered Design
Peter Coughlan, Practice Leader, IDEO
Design’s Role in Distributed Innovation
Lee D. Green, Director of Design, IBM Corporation
Managing Innovation for Design
Darrel Rhea, Principal, Cheskin
The Power of Modular Platforms to Transform a Business: Creating
the “Sunshine Platform” for Philips’ Electric
Toothbrush
Ron Sanchez, Ph.D., Visiting Professor of Management, Copenhagen
Business School, and Linden Visiting Professor of Industrial Analysis,
Lund University, Sweden
Voices of Innovation
Mark Stefik, Ph.D., Manager, Information Sciences and Technologies
Laboratory, Palo Alto Research Center
Barbara Stefik, Ph.D.
Materializing Culture: An Examination of Culturally Driven Innovation
Michael Barry, Principal, Point Forward
Dev Patnaik, Jump Associates
Focused Dialogues
Focused Dialogues are central to the success of Innovation Summit
2003. They are based on the premise that the participants will be
bringing valuable knowledge and insights to share. Focused Dialogues
will be intense discussions with selected speakers, attending thought-leaders,
and participants on the following topics:
Just-in-Time Innovation
- Effect of time pressures
- Tools for efficiencies
- Deadlines and innovation quality
Innovation Cultures
- Open/Closed
- Communication
- Judgmental atmosphere
Innovation Futures
- New tools for managing information & communication
- New social structures that will facilitate innovation
- New blocks to innovation
This unique event promises to be an interactive and stimulating
gathering of corporate, consultant, and academic leaders in an environment
that is conducive to meaningful exchange.
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