"Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) business has adopted Christensen's The Innovator's Solution and Rosenfeld's Making the Invisible Visible: The Human Principles for Sustaining Innovation as the models to address the business and human elements for accelerating innovation. People without the business perspective won't provide the required focus; the business perspective without the people side will not give you the execution. Christensen provides the focus and Rosenfeld provides the execution."
Michael D. Vahey
Innovation Champion
Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems Division
"I went to the Workshop on Innovation because innovation is an important topic in our company - not only in developing and marketing new products but in separate business functions, such as finding ways to simplify processes or collaborating with one another. The CCL workshop provided some key insights about innovation and a structured way to encourage, capture, manage and implement creative new ideas in your organization."
Markus Kiefer
Global Head of Drug Supply Management
Novartis Pharma AG
Basel, Switzerland
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa has been a key player in multidisciplinary research and technological innovation in this part of the world for over six decades. Having attended Rosenfeld's Workshop on Innovation, we are re-discovering the importance of the human element in the innovation value chain and have adopted this approach for our science management and leadership development programmes. To date, the comprehensive framework and practical guides on making the invisible visible, has been growing in popularity amongst our research community.
Awie Vlok
Head of the CSIR Innovation Leadership and Learning Academy - CiLLA
Innovation remains one of the most important strategies an organization can use to survive and thrive in the 21st century. However, as many organizations have discovered, making innovation happen is about more than bringing the right business and technology skills together. Innovation is about people and all the human dynamics that create the right "environment" for the innovation process to end in a "quantifiable gain," however that is defined by the organization.
Overview
The workshop, based on the book by Bob Rosenfeld, Making the Invisible Visible: The Human Principles for Sustaining Innovation, will enable participants to efficiently identify the human principles, policies, and processes required to sustain innovation within their companies. Guidance on how to determine the right innovation portfolio, measure the current innovation culture within an organization, and design and implement a full culture of innovation will be provided as well. Participants will also have the opportunity to gain insight into ways of improving their own abilities to be an innovation leader.
Who Should Attend
The workshop is intended for those senior leaders and managers who are charged with the responsibility of leading the innovation effort within their organizations. This workshop will prove to be a valuable learning experience for those truly passionate about advancing their organizations and themselves into the elite realm of being true innovation leaders.
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| WHEN and WHERE Greensboro, NC Greensboro, NC |
| EVENT FEE Event Fee: $5,000 Early Registration Fee: $4,000 AMI & CLC Members: $4,500 One-on-One Coaching: $900 A limited number of scholarships are available. Please complete the scholarship application found at www.ccl.org/scholarships and e-mail to innovation@ccl.org. |
| REGISTRATION To register, please contact Client Services Phone: +1 336 545 2810 E-mail: info@ccl.org For additional information about the workshop, please call +1 336 286 4335 or e-mail innovation@ccl.org |
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About the Presenters/Facilitators:
Bob Rosenfeld is president and CEO of Idea Connection Systems. A research chemist with several patents to his name, Bob is co-founder of the Association of Managers of Innovation (AMI), and currently he is the "Innovator in Residence Emeritus" at the Center for Creative Leadership. Bob's passion for innovation and tackling "wicked problems" goes back to his days at Eastman Kodak where he founded the first "Office of Innovation" in a major US corporation. This experience helped him to hone his knowledge of what it takes to pursue breakthrough innovation - which almost always involves tackling wicked problems. For years, he has been working with major US corporations as well as not-for-profit and government organizations, showing them how to achieve real breakthrough results. More recently, Bob has been working to solve a truly wicked problem - racism in our nation. He has developed a proprietary program that can solve this problem by attacking it at its root.
Gary Wilhelmi is vice president of Idea Connection Systems. He is an electrical engineer who has spent more than 30 years developing new and innovative products. His experience includes development work in such areas as high tech laser and optical systems, first generation fiber optics communication systems, biotechnology innovation, consumer products resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in sales, sensory research, packaging material innovation, and more. In his career he has successfully developed and implemented innovation breakthroughs using internal organizational resources as well as creating virtual R&D organizations using external resources. This experience provides a unique insight into what is required to create and then sustain innovation in today's rapidly changing world which is just one of many factors that make for an ongoing stream of wicked problems that need to be solved.
David Magellan Horth is a Senior Enterprise Associate at the Center for Creative Leadership®. His main contributions are as a program designer, facilitator, and author. David co-authored The Leader's Edge: Six Creative Competencies for Navigating Complex Challenges (2002), and led the development of Leading Creatively, a five-day experiential program for developing creative leadership. He co-designed Navigating Complex Challenges - a 12 week process for helping senior managers develop the skills for making sense of and taking robust action on their most pressing organizational issues. His fluency with both the technical and administrative aspects of business is a major asset in his work as a designer, facilitator, and executive coach for senior managers in client organizations. David is considered worldwide to be a subject matter expert on organizational creativity.
About the Center for Creative Leadership
The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®) is a top-ranked, global provider of executive education that develops better leaders through its exclusive focus on leadership education and research. Founded in 1970 as a nonprofit, educational institution, CCL helps clients worldwide cultivate creative leadership - the capacity to achieve more than imagined by thinking and acting beyond boundaries - through an array of programs, products and other services.
About Idea Connection Systems, Inc.
Idea Connection Systems was founded in 1988. Our beginnings come from an intense desire to bring a clearer understanding of innovation systems to organizations. Central to understanding innovation and its impact on any organization is to truly understand and embrace all people within an organization and to fully leverage and integrate all the unrealized potential talent latent in the organization.
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