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Professional Qualifications of Vincent and Associates, Ltd.
Lanny
Vincent facilitates market discovery, opportunity foresight
and strategic invention for companies with significant investments
in R&D. He also provides innovation management advice and counsel
to general managers, innovation sponsors, "midwives" and
mavericks and serves as a catalyst for innovation practitioner networks.
Lanny has been an innovation management practitioner for over 23
years, focusing on the particular innovation challenges of companies
with established revenue streams. His industry experience includes
consumer packaged goods and appliances, automotive, forest products,
computers, peripherals and consumer electronics, and trade associations
and cross-industry government sponsored collaborations.
Prior to establishing Vincent & Associates in 1990, Lanny was
a Partner and General Manager of Synectics, Inc., a creative problem-solving
firm born out of Arthur D. Little's Invention Design Group. From
1981 to 1986 he was with Kimberly-Clark Corporation's Innovation
Management Group facilitating strategy, product, materials and process
innovations and managing the Trends Project.
Lanny's formal training includes systems analysis,
total quality principles of manufacturing, creative problem solving,
systems theory of family therapy, and social forecasting methods.
He holds a Masters degree (M. Div.) from Yale University and a B.A.
from Davidson College. Lanny collaborated with Bill Wilson and Dick
Cheverton on The Maverick Way: Profiting From the Power of the Corporate
Misfit (2000) and is the founder of the Innovation Practitioners'
Network (formerly the Mavericks Roundtable and the Mavericks Network),
a network of veteran practitioners pioneering the art of innovation
management.
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Stuart
Brown, M.D. is the founder of the Institute for Play, where
he speaks, consults and educates organizations, corporations, universities,
and public policy makers about the importance of play in our lives
and the unexpected, serious consequences that occur when play is
neglected. His background in psychiatry, evolution of species, and
animal play, as well as his clinical research into the causes and
prevention of violence, have shown him that authentic play is a
state of being which can be accessed and used by everyone, and that
play is as important to humans as vitamins or sleep.
When his four children had grown, Stuart left his medical practice
in 1988, traveled for a year, and realized that he wanted to study
play using a multidisciplinary approach. From his clinical research,
he knew that the prevailing notion that play is trivial was simply
wrong. With a little help from Jane Goodall, he got National
Geographic to let him study animals at play for two years. Stuart
says human beings have been "designed by nature to play"
that we retain juvenile physical and behavioral characteristics
long into adulthood, and that play is important in every stage of
life. There is, he says, "a tremendous hunger in the culture for
true play. Work is not the opposite of play, depression is." A Chicago
native who graduated from Wheaton College and earned his M.D. at
Houston's Baylor College of Medicine, Stuart is now president of
the Institute for Play, a non-profit corporation based in Carmel
Valley, California.
Jim
O'Shaughnessy is a seasoned executive with demonstrated skills
in the field of intellectual asset management. Jim, formerly with
Rockwell International, now engages in an independent practice,
where he consults and advises clients at the intersection of business
strategy, technology strategy and intellectual asset strategy, with
equal emphasis on each of the three. Jim aids clients in value creation
and value extraction where those actions are strategic to discernable
corporate objectives. His work in this area over the last 15 years
has resulted in value for his clientele well in excess of $1 billion.
This work, much of it pioneering in nature, has earned Jim accolades
as a thought and practice leader in this rapidly emerging field
of intangible asset management.
In a varied career, Jim has been a partner in a national law firm
with a successful practice centering on counseling and litigation
in the specialty of intellectual property and a corporate executive
with a large multi-national corporation where he was responsible
for the company's intellectual assets. Jim has long been active
in service on boards of directors, both corporate and civic. His
current active board memberships include Gemstar-TV Guide International
and Milwaukee's Florentine Opera Company.
Jim graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute cum laude with
a B.S. in Materials Engineering. He received his J.D. from Georgetown
University Law Center, where he was a member of the editorial board
of the American Criminal Law Review. Prior to college, Jim served
in the U.S. Navy.
John
Philipp is the president of the Enhanced Thinking Institute,
a software design and development start-up. With 30 years of creative
and strategic planning work, John has been serving clients in financial
services, packaged goods, high technology, banking and entertainment
industries. John was a senior partner at Synectics, Inc., and considered
by many a "dean" of various principles and practices developed
there. John has worked on complex strategic planning problems in
a variety of industries. He has also assisted clients in exploiting
opportunities in new product innovation, cultural change and organizational
development in most of the Fortune 500 companies. John earned his
B.A. at Harvard University and was an MBA degree candidate at NYU.
Jane
Gannon has 15 years of experience in innovation management
as a meeting facilitator, focus group moderator and trainer of work
teams in creative problem-solving skills. Prior to starting her
own practice in 1994, she was a consultant at Synectics, Inc., where
she worked with a range of clients in publishing, banking, food
services and consumer package goods, and where she helped develop
the field of "technography" or computer-enhanced meetings.
Jane also worked in public relations and for several newspapers
as a graphic artist and reporter. Jane received her B.A. in Politics
and Government from Ohio Wesleyan University and a Certificate in
Publishing from University of California at Berkeley. She recently
earned a teaching credential at Sonoma State University.
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