DAY ONE: Wednesday May 10th, 2006
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8:00 AM
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REGISTRATION & SPONSOR EXHIBITS OPEN – CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
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8:45 AM
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Opening Remarks from the Chair
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Chuck Frey, Founder, INNOVATION TOOLS
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Keynote Address
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9:00 AM
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The Idea Organization: Creating Sustainable Excellence
from Employee Ideas
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Ideas are the engine of progress. Without them, organizations stagnate
and decline. Yet most organizations are far more effective at suppressing
employee ideas than promoting them.
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- Hear enlightening examples from a wide-range of industries
- Learn how managers have achieved exceptional performance through worker
ideas
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Come away with a road map and practical tool kit for totally integrating
ideas and idea management into the way managers work and the way their
organizations are structured.
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Dean Schroeder, Co-Author, “Ideas are Free”
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10.00 AM
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Create an Innovative Operating Model to Enhance
Your Company's On-Going Performance by Delivering Innovative Ideas
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Whirlpool understands that consistent innovation relies heavily on corporate
culture. By creating an operating model that is innovative in itself you
can drive creativity within the company.
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- Align goals among company stakeholders to facilitate the innovation
process
- Develop a plan of execution to increase the amount of innovative ideas
produced
- Match innovation capability and mindset
- Move beyond innovative ideas to create an innovative business
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Learn the techniques you need to ensure that everyone in the company
is working toward the same innovation goals.
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Pamela Rogers, Corporate Director, Global Customer Excellence
& Innovation, WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
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10:45 AM
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NETWORKING BREAK
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Take a moment to visit our sponsors/supporters and learn how their organizations
are contributing to innovation.
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Special Interactive Presentation
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11:15 AM
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Know Your Brain™ Game (Interactive Team Innovation
Experience)
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Join Gerald “Solutionman” Haman as he leads you in a fun and
stimulating exercise to facilitate innovative thinking. Experience a game
played by over 50,000 innovators at Google, Motorola, and American Express
and by innovators in 26 countries.
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- Discover how thinking styles impact personal and professional success
- Understand the strengths and weaknesses of your thinking styles
- Learn how to accelerate innovation and manage high performance teams
- Network with diverse thinkers
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Leave refreshed and energized with new tools and methods to increase
your innovation and creativity.
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Gerald “Solutionman” Haman, Founder, SolutionPeople
& The Chicago Thinkubator and Adj. Professor of Innovation,
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
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12:15 PM
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Networking Luncheon
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Join Conference speakers and your peers for a relaxing luncheon and discuss
the ideas presented in the morning sessions.
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Case Study
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1:45 PM
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Sing Kumbaya in the Innovation Chamber: How to
Get Cross-Functional Buy-in From the Start
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The innovation process is best when it is iterative and collaborative.
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- Create a cross-functional environment where marketing, product development,
sales and logistics work together to move viable ideas swiftly to market
- Weave in advanced qualitative methodologies to identify deep-seated
needs, possibilities and opportunities
- Transform a lowly widget into a branded lifestyle experience to raise
awareness and create excitement in a low-involvement category.
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When AirPlus for Her was developed and launched in 2004, it revitalized
a tired category and woke up the competition. Hear how.
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John Andrews, Vice-President of Marketing , IMPLUS FOOTCARE,
LLC.
Ellen Karp, ELLEN KARP RESEARCH + CONSULTING
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Case Study
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2:30 PM
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Embed Consumers in Your Product Development Process:
How to Develop an Experiential Innovation Strategy
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We are confronted more and more with a commoditized world in which our
products have been outsourced and we need to find new and better ways
of generating value. Learn about the tools and methods that Philips Design
has developed to meet these interesting challenges.
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- Compete in an outsourced world
- Value creation for the new century
- Unearth unique consumer insights that drive strategic direction and
inspire creativity
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Learn the tools and methods you need to know to help translate consumer
information into the creation process.
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Clive Roux, Senior Director, New Business USA, PHILIPS
DESIGN
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3:15 PM
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Networking Break
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Enjoy a light snack as we head into the final two sessions for the day.
Take a minute to pick up some useful literature from our sponsors.
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Case Study
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3:45 PM
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The True Measure of a Good Idea: Analyzing New
Ideas to Determine Their Merit and Invest Your Innovation Dollars Wisely
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What distinguishes an idea from an innovation? In it’s 130 years
of business, Kimberly-Clark has succeeded in consistently developing truly
revolutionary products.
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- Measure the quality of an innovative idea
- Determine which new ideas deserve your investment dollars
- How to distinguish between mere invention and innovation
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Develop a methodology to consistently identify winning ideas.
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Becky Walter, Director of Innovation Design and Testing,
KIMBERLY-CLARK CORPORATION
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Industry Expert
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4:30 PM
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Identify New Areas for Consumer Growth: Breakthrough
Strategies to Recognize the Gap in Product Offerings and How Your Company
can Fill it
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In a market already saturated with products and services it is not easy
to find new areas for development. However, those areas do exist and you
can learn how to find them:
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- Discover the “white space” in consumer driven industries
- Take advantage of previously un-chartered territory
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Leave this session with the insight you need to reveal untapped growth
opportunities.
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Robert Kincaide, Managing Director, THE HAZELTON GROUP
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5:15 PM
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Conference Adjourns to Day Two
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DAY TWO: Thursday May 11th, 2006
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8:00 AM
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REGISTRATION OPENS
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8:30 AM
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Recap of Day One by Chair
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Corinne Miller, Director, Global Functional Learning, MOTOROLA,
INC.
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Case Study
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9:00 AM
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The Spanx Story: New Solutions to Differentiate
your Product and Maximize Its Draw to Consumers
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In five years, Spanx has set record sales in a declining industry and
has quickly become the preferred brand in top tier markets across the
country. Laurie Goldman, CEO of Spanx, will share the concepts behind
the success and discuss how she leads her team to set Spanx apart from
the competition.
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- Realize the power of branding
- Understand consumer attitudes toward your product or service
- Identify your products value
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Come away with the knowledge you need to set yourself apart from the
competition.
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Laurie Ann Goldman, CEO, SPANX, INC.
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Industry Expert
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10:00 AM
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Your Profit, Their Ideas! How Companies Are Becoming
More Profitable by Harnessing the Brainpower of Their Customers
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Attend this session and you will learn how the challenges your customers
have with your products and services can be turned into profitable solutions
for your business.
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- Methods to identify hidden product / service challenges
- Uncovering unique solutions and quantitatively separating the best
from the worst
- Realize the selling potential of ideas that come from those who are
buying
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Leave this session knowing what you can do tomorrow to start profiting
from customer ideas!
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Scott Robinson, VP Business Development, HOTSPEX INC.
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10:45 AM
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NETWORKING BREAK
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Take a moment to visit our sponsors/supporters and learn how their organizations
are contributing to innovation.
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Case Study
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11:15 AM
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Take a Risk: Moving Beyond the Fear of Failure
to Create a Safe Zone for Ideas and Encourage Non-Traditional Thinking
Throughout Your Organization
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- Develop a systematic approach to allow your employees the freedom
to innovate
- Promote innovation by considering every idea proposed
- Tap into unconventional areas for growth
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Discover why creating a safe-zone for innovation will unlock the hidden
potential of every employee.
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Tom Malloy, Senior Vice President and Chief Software Architect, Advance Technology Labs, ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
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12:00 PM
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Networking Luncheon
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Join Conference speakers and your peers for a relaxing luncheon.
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Industry Expert
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1:30 PM
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Identifying your Innovators: Harnessing the Creative
Capability of Your Employees to Deliver New Ideas that will Fill Your
Idea Pipeline
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- Understand the different styles of innovation
- Recognize various methods of creativity
- Learn how to anticipate the needs others may have for innovation initiatives
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Develop tactics to deal with the unique needs people have in order
to tap into their creative genius.
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Mark Turrell, CEO, IMAGINATIK
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Case Study
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2:15 PM
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Collaboration as a Driver of Innovation: Transforming
the Space Where you and Your Customer Engage into an Innovation Engine
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Kraft's partnerships with customers have driven Supply Chain innovation
and facilitated "outside in innovation" that is customer centric
and demand driven.
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- Invite non-traditional parties to the customer engagement table
- Remove the barriers that separate your team from true customer-centric
innovation
- Transform business partnerships into “strategic thinking”
partnerships
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Hear how you too can profit and drive innovation by integrating trading
partners and clients into your strategic culture.
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Ron Volpe, Director, Customer Supply Chain, KRAFT FOODS
INC.
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3:00 PM
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Networking Break
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Enjoy a light snack as we head into the final two sessions for the day.
Take a minute to pick up some useful literature from our sponsors.
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Case Study
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3:30 PM
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Innovations in Design: Increase Brand Recognition
by Using New and Unique Packaging
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This case study will discuss how truly innovative packaging can change
how consumers interact with your product. Hear how Tea Forte has redesigned
the everyday tea bag into a powerful branding tool.
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- What makes packaging good: the impact packaging has on branding
- Considerations and constraints when considering packaging innovations
- How to translate consumer insight into profitable designs that help
drive sales
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Increase the success of your new consumer product by incorporating
the packaging solutions discussed in this session.
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Peter Hewitt, Owner and Founder, TEA FORTE
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Case Study
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4:15 PM
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Champion Innovation within the Company to Capitalize
on Unlimited Potential and Accelerate the Growth of Your Firm
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Cargill has succeeded in advancing innovation across the organization.
Hear how this initiative has boosted sales and enabled new product ideas
to make the billion dollar multinational organization more agile and profitable.
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- How to make the case for innovation to top management
- View innovation as a discipline and get your institution to embrace
it
- Convert every employee into an innovator
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This session provides the best practices you need to gain support
for and successfully implement a corporate innovation strategy.
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Carol Pletcher, Vice-President and Cargill Innovation Officer,
CARGILL
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5:00 PM
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Conference Adjourns
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