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Webinar Teach your Innovation Team to fix your Innovation Process fast
  This session presents two fast working, powerful tools for driving innovation success into your teams.
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$149.00
Webinar Creating Open Innovation Networks
  This session will show you how to take your company beyond technology scouting to develop an open innovation network (or ecosystem) that attracts the best ideas and partners available.
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$149.00
Webinar Adding Service Innovation to Products to Create Breakthrough Innovations
 

Increasingly industry leaders complement their product offerings with service innovation to enhance the overall customer value. HP, Apple, Rolls Royce, Motorola, Oracle, and GE can all credit service innovation with boosting their innovation returns and market position. The net result of product plus service (i.e., integrated) innovation is growth in existing markets and expansion into adjacent markets. In this Webinar, Mr. Shelton will show how companies have raised their game (and profits) by making the transition to integrated products and services, along the way describing how companies can use key levers to create innovative solutions—not just products—to customer and consumer problems.

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$149.00
Webinar Creating compelling reasons to buy - taking the fuzziness out of the front end
  Following December’s successful "Introduction to Value Innovation" Webinar, this session will delve deeply into key tools that you can use in your business to identify specific opportunities to add value for customers. The buyer experience cycle, the six utility levers, and the 6 Questions (or ERRC Grid) will help you uncover every opportunity to create ‘blue oceans’ of market opportunity for your business.
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Publication The Essential Guide to Technology Strategies
  Technology project failures are often due to to lack of ‘homework’ during the early phases of the innovation process. Yet, despite recognising this is an area of weakness, companies still devote limited effort to managing technology planning and initial development within what has become known as the ‘Fuzzy Front End’...
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$299.00
Webinar Using Patent Intelligence to improve Product Development
  IP strategy expert Barry Brager will show how to use patent intelligence to support and improve new product development, and in particular, how to identify competitive opportunities in a crowded IP landscape. He will also discuss how mining the IP landscape can be used to improve business strategy.
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Webinar Virtual Customer Environments and Customer Co-Innovation
  In this highly practical session, Professor Nambisan will introduce the topic of Virtual Customer Environment (VCE) and explain its role as a strategic element of a company’s innovation management and customer relationship management. He will discuss why a company should consider partnering with its customers in product development and under what circumstances such a partnership would deliver value for the company.
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Webinar Patent Portfolio Management
  Patent expert Dr Martin Bader will introduce the so-called St.Gallen approach to the strategic management of technologies and patents. The approach was developed in the early 1990s at Europe's well-known Institute of Technology Management at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland and has been constantly fine-tuned to practice on the basis of numerous industry projects. The methodology for the strategic management of patent portfolios, based on and developed from this approach, is presented in this webinar and is enriched with numerous mini-case examples.
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Publication External scouting for innovative Ideas, Technology, Products and Services
  Based on an interview with Jean-Marc Frangos, BT Group’s Technology Innovation Vice President, this Quick Insight explains how Mr Frangos leads a small team of talented, hand-picked people to find and integrate the most valuable technologies and innovations in the world today into BT’s business operations.
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Publication The five rejection strategies that stop you from developing disruptive innovations
  An analysis of Standard & Poor’s index of the 90 most important US companies found that an organization joining the index in the 1930s could expect to remain listed for 65 years. By 1998 this had dropped to just 10 years. Today’s organizations face increasingly “discontinuous” business environments and will need to engage in disruptive innovation for long-term survival.
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Webinar Building the Business Case for Innovation
  Building a Business Case for Innovation provides participants with an understanding of the key differences between an innovation business case and business cases for other processes. This webinar provide specific steps to take to build the business case to define and implement an innovation process in participants’ organizations. The webinar will address the transition from “we must innovate!” to the reality of making innovation a manageable process. We’ll address the basics of getting started to innovate, including the people and processes necessary, and look at the key differences between a standard business case and starting an innovation initiative, including handling risk and uncertainty.
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Webinar Patent Intelligence for Open Innovation – a medical device case study
 

While the world recognizes the importance of intellectual property rights, few know how to rapidly find and leverage opportunities hidden in the exponentially growing body of patent literature. Barry will share a compelling medical device case study that demonstrates exactly how product pipelines can be improved by identifying high value patent open innovation opportunities. He will demonstrate analytical approaches to find important patents as well as quantify how patent intelligence rapidly increases certainty around technology licensing and transfer.

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Publication Harnessing a global network of Technology Experts
  René Rohrbeck of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories provides a piece by piece overview of the company’s scouting process. This includes a description of its ‘Technology Radar’ methodology; its goals and the process, along with the outline of a generic process. This Insight includes unique diagrams and models that other companies can use and adapt to generate or refine their own technology scouting activities, and also provides a framework for incentivising technology scouts.
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Webinar Bridging the Chasm between the Technical and the Marketing Team
 

During this insightful session, Mr. Crowley will identify the key barriers to bridging the gap between customer requirements and the product development process. For many organizations, innovation is technology – not customer centric. How does a firm ensure that innovative products will appeal to the market? How do you bridge the gap between the marketing and technical community in order to provide a direct path for customer insights to reach the technical community? And how can a process be developed to ensure that firms have a customer centric approach to innovation…each and every time they develop a new product?

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Webinar Getting Innovations to Market the Motorola way
  Do innovations take too long to get to market? Missing the market window? Disgruntled innovators and product managers who seem to be from different planets? Learn what roadblocks to look for and how to remove them. Learn what one global company has done to bring innovations to market nearly ten times faster. Dive into the case study of how a one week institute made big reductions in time to market. Presented by Dr. Arthur Paton, Senior Learning Consultant for Motorola and Director of the Motorola Innovation Leadership Institute.
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Webinar Mass Customization and Customer Driven Value Creation
  This session will share some of the latest research on setting up successful mass customization systems and will discuss recent trends in product configuration systems from the perspective of strategy and marketing. Mass customization addresses the challenge of many companies to react on the exploding heterogeneity of demand and rapid changes of trends and customers’ preferences. The term refers to a customer co-design process of products and services which meet the needs of each individual customer with regard to certain product features – and the manufacturing of these custom goods with mass production efficiency.
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Webinar The Top 10 Secrets to Innovation
  This session will focus on the Innovator’s Top 10 List and how adhering to its simple principles can ensure any organization stays innovative, competitive and relevant.  In it, Mr. Turrell will discuss the many reasons innovation should be the priority of any organization. He will explain why focusing on outdated sources for innovation or limiting one’s scope of what is possible can be detrimental to a company’s future. There are many innovation challenges facing organizations today and Mr. Turrell will highlight them and provide insight on how to work around them. The content of the session is based on over a decade’s worth of interviews with over 300 successfully innovative companies. The research examines the common pitfalls encountered during the innovation process and how they can be avoided in order for any organization to succeed in today’s demanding and fickle world.
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Publication Outsourcing to overcome Development Bottlenecks
  Most product development processes suffer from bottlenecks; whereby a resource that is shared by most projects – be it a specialist design function, prototyping workshop or development administration activity - ends up acting as a black hole, where work goes in but never seems to come out again. One approach increasingly used to deal with this situation, and the time, resource, and efficiency issues they involve, is to outsource these often non-core development activities.
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Publication Successfully tapping into and managing external resources
  British Telecom’s Customer Centricity Programme makes use of external vendors to deliver specific improvements to the online capabilities of the company. It then stands these vendors down as soon as their part of the program has been delivered. By highlighting the factors companies must consider to make collaborations successful, this Quick Insight takes a look at what two leading companies are doing to improve the productivity of their New Product Development processes.
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Publication Implementing a co-development process with suppliers
  This Quick Insight investigates supplier co-development, with a focus on performance measurement. It focuses on how a leading automotive manufacturer developed a co-development performance management system from scratch, covering topics such as up-front planning, key issues and potential benefits. This Quick Insight is an essential read for anyone looking to manage supplier-manufacturer relationships.
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Webinar The next logical step? - Outsourcing your innovation to Asia
  While the outsourcing of Manufacturing has a well documented and widely recognized place in the evolution of New Product Development, what is less well known is that vendors are increasingly offering in-house design and development services. Hard questions must now be asked, for example: What is the best way to access this skilled creative development expertise? How best do we interact with a team that grew up in, and understands the fastest growth market in the world? This session will deliver a hands on look at the experiences of working in the East from an ‘on the ground’ perspective and includes guidance on how best to work with a team distributed far away from home.
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$149.00
Webinar Fast-start Strategic Technology Roadmapping
 

In this practical session, Rob will provide an overview of the roadmapping approach widely used in industry to support strategic planning and innovation. Strategic roadmaps are simple visual diagrams that chart the overall development and alignment of activity across the business, linking technology investments to business goals and market drivers. The principles of roadmapping will be illustrated with examples that highlight alignment strategy, participants, process and key perspectives from a range of industries.

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$149.00
Webinar Using Virtual Models for Competitive Advantage
 

In this insightful Webinar Dr Louise Guay, CEO of My Virtual Model describes how, the rapid growth of Personal Virtual Communities will affect tomorrows new product development and Retail business in unprecedented ways. Personal catalogs and stores are just the start of and extended innovation revolution that will fundamentally change the way you approach tomorrow’s innovation. Driven by a refusal to separate art, creativity and knowledge from life itself, Louise saw that advances in technology were leading to the potential for dramatic advances in Customer Driven Design, or in her own words ‘innovation from everyone!’

Session attendees will be inspired (and perhaps a little shocked) to learn, from a speaker of international repute, of a refusal to be bound by the conventions of yesterday’s success and hear of advances at the converging edge of technical possibility and user driven needs.

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Webinar What is Open Innovation?
 

During this Webinar, Cheryl and Mike will define open innovation and its benefit to transforming businesses to create value and deliver sustainable growth. From the basic elements of Open innovation, you’ll be able to learn about how companies are using processes, systems and tools to deliver sustainable growth through a robust product pipeline. In this informative session, Cheryl and Mike explain what you need to know about the basic dos and don’ts are to practice open innovation.

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Publication Open Innovation as a clear business strategy
  The last 10 years has seen an increasingly external outlook for many organizations, getting closer to customers, focusing on users and understanding customer needs better. However open innovation doesn’t just mean leveraging the people within the organization, it requires organizations to find ways to overcome barriers to the external world and to lower transaction costs with external communities. In essence, it requires a very creative change in the way companies operate and innovate. This Quick Insight takes a look at what open innovation is, why companies are beginning to adopt open innovation models, and describes the means by which DSM aims to generate €1 billion of additional sales from open innovation by 2010.
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Webinar Why Current Voice of the Customer Methods Fail
 

New Product Development success rates have hovered around 20% for the past couple of decades. Why is that? Shouldn’t we all have become collectively smarter about innovation? The sad fact is that we have not – companies of all sizes still struggle mightily with the innovation process and most companies find that 50 – 90 % of their innovation initiatives fail. Companies have come to the realization that being customer driven is just not good enough. Why? because companies talk with their customers to find out what they want –listen to them and still fail, in so doing, concluding that listening to your customers can HURT your innovation process or that customers do not know what they want.

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Webinar How to Develop and Deploy Open Innovation
 

During this Webinar, Cheryl will explain how to set up an open innovation model including strategies, structures, processes, and metrics. From these basic elements of Open innovation, you’ll be able to learn how to create some quick “wins” and engage executive and middle management teams in open innovation practices that will deliver new-to-company solutions and business models that generate growth. She will also explain what you need to know about company cultures that can increase or slow down the open innovation process.

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Webinar User Manufacturing, Instant Companies, and Customer Co-Creation
 

This session will discuss the upcoming user manufacturing trend, a development that recently is taking shape in larger scope and scale: User manufacturing refers to a publicly available software, manufacturing, and distribution infrastructure that enables creative users and customers to design, build, and sell their own creations to a larger public – without the traditional investments in setting up a business. User manufacturing supplements – or substitutes – mass customization strategies which many companies have implemented. It also may become the most efficient strategy to serve the long tail of variants in many industries.

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Webinar Managing Risk in an Uncertain World
 

Guy Merritt is director of engineering at Tellabs Broadband Products group where innovation risks are at the forefront of his daily business. His extensive experience in project management has helped clarify his thinking around risk management – what is risk, how can it be managed, and how can risk and breakthrough opportunities co-exist? As NPD teams feel the need to take risks and differentiate from the competition is stronger than ever, this webinar proves to be one of the most insightful as Guy discusses reconciling these two seemingly opposing forces: creating and assessing levels of risk that are acceptable without sacrificing true innovation.

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Webinar Open Innovation Networks
 

During this Webinar, the third in a 'start to finish guide' to Open Innovation, Mike will further define Open Innovation and its benefit to transforming businesses to create value and deliver sustainable growth. This session introduces more elements of Open innovation, including the concept of Open Innovation Networks. Attendees will be able to learn about how companies are using processes, systems and tools to deliver sustainable growth through a robust product pipeline. In this informative session, Mike will explain what you need to know about the key do's and don’ts required to practice Open Innovation.

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Webinar Cost-Effective Intellectual Asset Tools
 

This Webinar is aimed at helping companies and inventors decrease costs and increase returns on Intellectual Asset (IA) investments by developing holistic IA strategies to better protect products and processes. It begins with a review of a wide scope of patent strategies, including tips on telling the inventive story, considering unconventional patent approaches, and integrating marketing strategy with patent strategy. It also covers intellectual assets other than patents, including aggressive techniques such as defensive publications, digital intellectual assets, and other tools. The session covers specific case studies, best practice tips, and resources for next steps. Key topics include: defensive publications, domain names, digital intellectual assets, patents, and trademarks.

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Webinar Creating An Open Innovation Culture
 

Are you struggling with implementing open innovation at your company? Identifying and harnessing external sources of innovation requires a creative organization with the right culture, processes and tools to make it happen. Internal factors can either stimulate or stifle open innovation. This Webinar is targeted at senior leaders to provide practical strategies and tools for ensuring the successful implementation of open innovation. The toolbox will cover elements of strategy, processes, and culture to enable company leaders to fill their growth pipelines using open innovation.

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Webinar 8 Dimensions of Excellence for Aligning Strategy, Measures and Customer Priorities
 

How would you feel to discover your car engine was only running on one or two of its eight cylinders? Whether your “car” is an organization or a key project, you wouldn’t knowingly continue to drive it that way. Yet change initiatives often promote customer success as a priority but put all the attention on improving process. That only improves performance on 1 of the 8 Dimensions. Learn about the other seven and how users have achieved more than 5-to-1 ROI. This high content Webinar will enlighten, inspire and equip you to get all 8 cylinders working together like you never thought possible.

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Webinar Anticipating and Capitalising on Technology Disruptions
 

Disruption occurs when the introduction of new technologies enables changes in business models or fundamentally alters the cost base or functionality of products or services. Many elements of the enterprise surrounding products and services are vulnerable entry points for disruptive technologies: value chains, supply chains, delivery pathways and processes. This Webinar highlights common actions that companies can adopt to foresee these threats as well as insights into potential disruptions and how they can be exploited for competitive advantage. There are no quick fixes, but through attending, companies can start to address these points by anticipating possible disruptive scenarios before events unfold. The Webinar is led by three of Sagentia’s thought leaders, each with an interest in different sectors (industrial, medical and consumer goods) and draws on case studies, experience and tools and techniques that have been successfully deployed to identify disruption signals and help companies to respond defensively and offensively.

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Webinar Building a Capability for Breakthrough Innovation
 

In this session, Professor O’Connor will discuss how companies seeking to compete on the basis of major, disruptive innovation can build sustainable competencies to do so. Rather than relying on strong willed project champions to break company rules in bringing breakthoughs to market, Prof O’Connor and her research team have identified three distinctive competencies that firms must develop to ensure that breakthroughs do not happen by brute forces alone, but rather are the results of a management system designed for innovation that aligns with the well-honed management system of operational excellence that is predominant in most established companies today.

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Webinar The Role of Innovation in Entering Developing and Emerging Markets
 

In this Webinar Elanor and Patrick will discuss the difficulties and challenges of global growth into the Developing and Emerging (D&E) markets. It will especially look at those where no established statistical / published information is available. They will share their extensive expertise in opening up new market opportunities for companies in Eastern Europe, Russia and Asia. In the course of the presentation, they will talk about a process for filling the blanks in and developing criteria for market attractiveness. They will also highlight challenges they faced in establishing their own networks of sources and potential partners as well as how they overcome and adjusted to the market, cultural differences in customers’ requirements and ways of doing business.

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Webinar Looking in the Mirror: Are you a Partner of Choice?
 

During this Webinar, the 5th in a highly popular series of 6 Webinars designed to delve deep into the process of Open Innovation (from beginner to expert levels of implementation), Mike Docherty will look at the keys to success in 'being open'. For example, if your busy looking for the best external ideas, but consistently getting surprised by innovations that your competitors find first, what do you do? It will also look at the crucial role of reputation and the types of partners you work with when collaborating externally. Whether you are just begining your open innovation efforts, or aiming to drive them to a higher level of success, this Webinar will define why your partnering strategy is a critical element to get right from day one.

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