The
Maverick Roundtable
Stimulate,
Engage and Ignite Your Network
of Innovation Practitioners
In
addition to its annual subscription service, the Innovation
Practitioners Network also offers a series of one-day seminars
called The Maverick Roundtable focused on how implicit
and informal networks create and sustain streams of innovations,
and how your organization can cultivate and advance its capacity
for innovation.
The
Maverick Roundtable
2006 One-Day Seminars
The
Maverick Roundtable series of one-day innovation management
seminars is designed for companies encountering the chronic challenges
of innovation. These challenges include the “not-invented-here”
syndrome, unmet expectations of the stage-gate discipline and difficulty
sustaining innovation through the ups and downs of the core business
cycle. These seminars can provide a forum for those in the informal,
implicit network of innovators in your organization to take stock
and refresh themselves for the challenges ahead.
The Maverick Roundtable offers three one-day seminars
for managers and innovators looking for practical alternatives to
some of the tougher challenges that come with innovation efforts.
The seminar topics for 2006 include The Art of Innovation
(Balancing System and Serendipity), Charting the Intersection
of Ideation and Innovation, and Smart Collaboration
in the Open Innovation Era. These workshops are also customized
to the specific context of your company to maximize the relevance
of the content within your own organization.
Through its work with the Innovation Practitioners Network and research
and publication of The Maverick Way (2000), Vincent & Associates,
Ltd. has offered original insights to the field of innovation management
resulting from the work and practical wisdom of veteran innovators.
Some of these findings are offered in the book The Maverick
Way: Profiting from the Power of the Corporate Misfit (2000)
and the article “Innovation Midwives: Sustaining Innovation
Streams in Established Companies” (Research-Technology
Management, January 2005). These innovation principles and practices
and other insights will be offered to your organization in these
one-day seminars.
Since 1998, groups of experienced innovation practitioners in different
industries have gathered to share their best practices and experience
in finding the right balance between system and serendipity. Vincent
& Associates, Ltd. is now making these insights and wisdom available
to your organization. These one-day seminars are conducted onsite
with members of your organization.
You will learn
- How
to tap and ignite your innovation network.
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How to cultivate your innovation mavericks, midwives and sponsors.
- How
other companies utilize their innovation practitioner networks.
- How
to foster and nurture an innovation culture in your organization
Who Should Attend
R&D Project Leaders, Business Development Professionals, Strategic
Planners, Innovation Managers, New Product Developers, Inventors,
Sponsors and Senior Managers. Vincent & Associates, Ltd. will
conduct these seminars at your location so you can engage your team,
department or entire organization.
Seminar
1: The Art of Innovation
(Balancing System and Serendipity)
Innovation
practitioners know from experience that successful
innovation results in part from systematic efforts
and in part from serendipity. The art of innovation
lies in applying innovation principles in a disciplined
manner and being alert to the serendipitous opportunities
that appear along the way, being quick to act, adapt
and learn from them. Relying on one part without
the other is what so many well-intentioned innovation
efforts miss. This seminar focuses on the manager’s
role in fostering innovation; how to innovate out-of-the-box
when you are told to stay-in-your-cube, and overcoming
innovation “fatigue.”
8:30 a.m. Introduction and Overview
9:00 a.m. The manager’s role in fostering
innovation
10:45 a.m. How to innovate out-of-the-box when you’re
told to stay-in-your-cube
12:00 noon Brown Bag Lunch (Q&A)
1:00 p.m. Keeping the Faith: Overcoming innovation
fatigue
2:45 p.m. Timing: What to communicate, when, and
to whom
4:00 p.m. Conclude
Featured Speaker
Lanny Vincent, Founder: Vincent & Associates,
Ltd., The Maverick Roundtable and The Innovation
Practitioners Network. Co-Author: The Maverick Way:
Profiting from the Power of the Corporate Misfit,
and “Innovation Midwives: Sustaining Innovation
Streams in Established Companies.”
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Seminar
2: Charting the Intersection of Ideation and Innovation
A
growing number of writers on the subject of innovation
and innovation practitioners give voice to the themes
of learning from experimentation, the need for protected
spaces in which to learn from failures, and in general,
point to the power and importance of play—not
only the playful attitude of the innovator, but
also the play experience of the innovation itself.
When it comes to the principles and practices of
innovation management, particularly in the context
of our informal, implicit networks of practitioners,
we help you chart the intersection that exists between
fostering innovation and purposeful play in your
context.
8:30 a.m. Introduction and Overview
9:00 a.m. What Nature Wants Us to Know About Play
10:30 a.m. The Emerging Science of Play
12:00 p.m. Brown Bag Lunch (Q&A)
1:00 p.m. What Play Science Evidence Suggests About
Innovation
2:30 p.m. Charting the Intersection of Play and
Innovation (Principles and Practices)
4:00 p.m. Conclude
Featured Speakers
Lanny Vincent, Vincent & Associates, Ltd. and
Stuart Brown, M.D., Founder of the Institute for
Play in Carmel Valley, California, a non-profit
organization dedicated to bringing science and evidence
based knowledge about play into fuller public consciousness.
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Seminar
3: Smart Collaboration in the Open Innovation
Era
"There
has been a growing appreciation for the struggle
to create a value proposition for our research output,
and for the fact that this struggle is as valuable
as inventing the technology itself.” —
John Seely Brown, Xerox PARC
The
tyranny of the company’s prevailing business
model, among other factors, has been a chronic,
and often unnecessary, constraint on the healthy
development of many innovations. This often leads
to well-intentioned, but often misguided, commercialization
efforts that stunt the innovation’s growth
and potential. Through a fresh look at both intellectual
property and complementary business assets, many
companies are finding the practical means and approaches
to smarter collaborations in, what Henry Chesbrough
has so aptly dubbed, an “open era of innovation.”
This seminar focuses on these new perspectives and
practices.
8:30 a.m. Introduction and Overview
9:00 a.m. Open Innovation: What it is and what is
it not
10:45 a.m. Complementary business assets—a
way to unlock the business model issue
12:00 p.m. Brown Bag Lunch (Q&A)
1:00 p.m. Viewing and managing intellectual property
2:30 p.m. Using intellectual property and complementary
business assets to create smart collaboration
3:15 p.m. Navigational tools for plotting smart
collaborations
4:00 p.m. Conclude
Featured Speakers
Lanny Vincent, Vincent & Associates, Ltd., and
James P. “Jim” O’Shaughnessy,
the former chief patent counsel for Rockwell International,
who now heads his own consulting practice, where
he gives advise and counsel to clients at the intersections
of business, technology and intellectual asset strategies.
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“Mavericks
and innovation practitioners make the difference between
winning organizations and also-rans.”
- John M. Siebert, Ph.D., CEO, CyDex, Inc.
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Maverick
\ ‘mav (e) rik \ noun [after Samuel A. Maverick, 1870 American
pioneer in Texas who did not brand his calves] 1 West: an unbranded
range animal; especially a calf on the range that is unbranded
and not followingits mother 2a: a refractory or recalcitrant member
of a political party who bolts at will and sets an independent
course; 2b: an intellectual or a member of any other group who
refuses to conform and takes an unorthodox stand. - Webster’s
Dictionary
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