Business & Process Innovation Summit

KEYNOTE: David Eckoff

David Eckoff, Vice President New Products at Turner Broadcasting talks about the innovation process in fast moving markets
Check out David's blog at www.davideckoff.com

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Dennis Thomas on A new Architecure for the Knowledge Economy

Conventional technology cannot capture knowledge because of its limitations - it hits the complexity barrier. Dennis talks about technological innovations that can be made to eclipse the complexity barrier to allow machines to reason like humans.



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KEYNOTE: Kevin Fickenscher, MD

Dr. Kevin Fickenscher looks at the qualities and challenges of leadership as they apply to the fundamentals of innovation and processes excellence. Podcast coming - Check back.

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Toyota Case Study

Nari Kanaan says enterprises usually expect to get quality or speed or cost benefits from implementing changes to business processes. He says don't underestimate what you can achieve. Why choose two when you can get all three?!



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Nissan Case Study

James Heideman found that enterprises can get a lot more from Six Sigma methodologies than they originally planned for. At Nissan, a fresh look at the Six Sigma toolset led to innovation and real cultural change.



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KEYNOTE: Neil Montogomery

Neil Montgomery, CEO at Canadian based Davis Controls, applies process management at ground zero, facing many of the cultural and organizational challenges in a refreshingly practial way. Listen to this glimpse of what Neil will cover in his BPIS Keynote. You can also read about Neil's efforts in Baseline Magazine.


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A Glimpse into "The Road to Agra"

NOTE: Some personal thoughts on my journey from Delhi to Agra, home of the Taj Mahal

The Road to Agra is a long one, up to 4 hours by car. But it is a road that speaks to the amazing beauty, challenge and promise of India. At its end is the magnificence of the Taj Mahal - a wonder to even the most jaded globetrotter.

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Podcast from the Last Innovation Summit

Tom Koulopoulos, Carl Frappaolo and Hadley Reynolds discuss highlights from the last Summit on Innovation and Knowledge Management held earlier in 2006. This 22 min. podcast provides opinions on a range of topics that were covered at the event.

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Audio - An Introduction to Smartsourcing

An Introduction to Smartsourcing

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Sarah Zapp of CN8 New England NewsMakers interviews Smartsourcing co-authors Tom Koulopoulos and Tom Roloff along with Bentley Provost and London school of Economics prof. Robert D. Galliers and New England Medical Center CIO Bill Shickolovich.



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Audio - What's your world view?

Smartsourcing: A series of podcasts dealing with smartsourcing.

J-Curve or G-curve? Another take on innovative growth.

We all know what a J curve is - the phenomenon of exponential growth that causes a market to suddenly take off on a steep incline. The interesting thing about J-curves is that they actually do not "take off" suddenly but instead ramp slowly over long periods of time until some catalytic event causes them to emerge from below the threshold of visibility. 

I'd like to offer another metaphor to describe rapid and apparently sudden acceleration of markets - a G- curve.  G- curves describe the breakthrough that allows a J-curve to occur. The term G-curve comes from the early days of the aviation industry, when fighter aircraft began to exceed a pilot's ability to fly. In many ways this feels like the point we are at with many information technologies today.  Find out more by listening to this podcast.


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