The Leading Practitioners' Resource for Product & Technology Development
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Past audio sessions
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Complete Audio Session Archive (accessible to FastTrack members only)
Innovation Mojo: How to Get (and Keep) it Going
Audio Session: Wednesday, August 4, 2010 1:00pm
A 90 minute audiosession/webinar on “Innovation Mojo: How to Get (and Keep) it Going.” During this session you will learn: • Identify exactly where your product is in its lifecycle • Restore equilibrium, re-ignite confidence, and move forward • Adopt practices in the organization that bring sustained predictable success
Eric Von Hippel Interview on Social Media, Innovation and the Future of Product Development
Audio Session: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 12:00pm
In this one hour interview, leading innovation authority, Eric von Hippel and social web expert, Deborah Schultz discuss the issues and challenges of using the social web to fuel innovation
Innovation and Social Media: Openness vs Control - What’s Your Strategy?
Audio Session: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 1:00pm
A 90-minute audiosession and discussion on Open Leadership for Product Innovation: How to Create an Effective Social Technology Strategy
Breakthrough Innovation 2: Opportunity Engineering
Audio Session: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 1:00pm
Opportunity Engineering (OE) is a straightforward tool that will enable you to engineer the risk out of uncertain opportunities so that you can pursue more high-payoff innovations. Alex van Putten and Ron Pierantozzi will draw on their combined research and industry experience to explain how.
Breakthrough Innovation Guru Series
Audio Session: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 1:00pm
a two-part series which looks at how to apply Discovery Driven principles, both organizationally and financially. In two 90-minute sessions held a week apart, Gina O'Connor, Alex Van Putten and Ron Pierantozzi, colleagues of Rita Gunther McGrath, will discuss: How do you capture true breakthrough opportunities? What processes must be in place to realize the full potential and earnings from new discoveries, services, and technologies? How should you manage innovation platforms and the functions that support them? How do you escape the mindset that limits investments to low-impact innovations so you can pursue serious growth opportunities? These two sessions will provide real-world, practical insight into building organizational capability and using decision criteria to ensure high-payoff innovation.
Breakthrough Innovation 1: Building Organizational Capability
Audio Session: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 1:00pm
Gina Colarelli O’Connor, Ph.D, renowned innovation guru and author of "Grabbing Lightning," will discuss how to build organizational capability for breakthrough innovation. To be sustainable, innovation must be recognized and managed as a business function. It is not just a process, nor is it a cultural element of an organization, the responsibility of a strong senior leader or an impassioned champion, but rather requires a management system of its own.
Leading Second Generation Lean – Challenging the Orthodoxy of Product Development
Audio Session: Wednesday, April 7, 2010 1:00pm
Today, leading companies are using different lean methods to suit an environment of innovation and uncertainty. In this exclusive session, foremost authority Don Reinertsen will discuss the logic behind this second generation approach and how it overcomes the inherent limitations of a simplistic adoption on lean manufacturing ideas.
Innovation through Alliances - Integration, Ecosystems, ‘Compartnering’
Audio Session: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 1:00pm
More than 2,000 strategic alliances are launched worldwide each year and this number increases about 15% annually. More than half fail and only about 9% of the companies "build alliances well." Of these, Cisco Systems has been one of the most successful. As head of alliances at Cisco, Steve Steinhilber will draw on his experience to describe the key tools and processes that lead to this success.
Lost in Transition: Matching Your Leadership Style to Organizational Change
Audio Session: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 1:00pm
The most successful leaders adapt their leadership style as conditions change in their organizations. You may be facing the “hidden transitions” that are part of normal growth and downsizing—or coping with a merger, reorganization, or new leadership. In this session, Michael Watkins explains how to steer product development through these often-difficult changes.
Innovation and R&D in Emerging Markets – The New Networked Model for Global Success
Audio Session: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 1:00pm
To capitalize on the rapid rise of emerging markets like Brazil, China, and India, global corporations must abandon their ethnocentric innovation model — which concentrated all their R&D resources in the West. Instead, they must embrace a "polycentric" model. Renowned expert Navi Radjou will draw upon real-life case studies on Cisco, GE, IBM, John Deere, and Nokia to articulate the business benefits of polycentric innovation and offer a phased (and realistic) roadmap for traditional companies to embrace this new innovation model fit for success in a globally-dispersed knowledge economy.