Engines of Innovation 1-Day Workshop
Santa Clara Convention Center
May 24, 2006
Key Agenda Issues
 

Note: Bring your Problems, Issues, & Opportunities!
We will be sure to make them a priority for the Workshop

Workshop Agenda

• How to make the case for Innovation to my peers, customers, partners, and Suppliers
• Why Innovation is the Most Sustainable Competititive Advantage in today's world
• Why You Can’t Cost-Cut your way to Prosperity
• Why Alliances are so well suited for Innovation
• The Three Amigos: Innovation, Speed, & Integration
• The Five Different Types of Innovation
• How Anyone can be an Innovator (No, you don't have to be an engineer to excell at innovation)
• The Top & Bottom Line Payoffs for Innovation
• Why strategic relationships with other companies will make you an excellent innovator
• How to make customers, suppliers, alliances, and channel partners, your greatest
   (and usually most cost effective) innovation partners
• How to double your innovation success rate
• Key Strategies you will need
• How to empower Innovation Champions
• New ways to make Intellectual Property Issues a positive experience
• How to Organize for Success
• Core Practices to create a powerful Performance Engine
• Critical Metrics required

REMEMBER, WE WILL ALSO WORK ON YOUR KEY ISSUES DURING THE WORKSHOP