Purpose
and Rationale of the Innovation Practitioner
Network
“The presence of many
smart people outside your own company is not simply a
problem for you or a fact of life to be regretted. It poses
an opportunity for you.
If the
smart people within your company are aware of, connected
to, and informed by the efforts of smart people outside,
then your innovation process will reinvent fewer
wheels…(and)be multiplied many times through their embrace
of other’s ideas and inspiration.”
From Henry
Chesbrough's book, Open Innovation (2003)
The Innovation
Practitioner Network applies this to innovation management
(parenting) principle and practices,
specifically.
2007
Schedule
April 30-May 2, 2007
Inter-Company Conference 1, Dallas, Texas
June 22, 2007 9am PST Inter-company Conference Call
August 11, 2007 9am PST Inter-company Conference Call
October 1-3, 2007 Inter-Company Conference 2, Location TBD
November 20, 2007 9am PST Inter-company Conference
Call