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2023 Innovators Summit – Risk Mitigation and Climate Change
Climate change is expected to affect every country in the world, but not all regions are equally impacted. Data from climate science, including precipitation, wind, temperature, drought, and sea level rise, assist with identifying locations with the greatest climate change impacts. Such data can then be used to fuel engineering solutions and provide climate resilience opportunities in the short- and long-terms.
Slides
Sustainability and ESG
10/03/2023
Estelle Chaussard
2023 Innovators Summit – The Innovation Team’s Role in Shaping Organizational Generative AI Strategy and Implementation
Discover the role of innovation teams in adopting generative AI across your organization. In this interactive session, we will explore strategic guidance and decision-making processes that innovation teams can use to contribute to their organization. Participants will gain insights and explore ethical aspects, best practices, and potential obstacles when incorporating generative AI into an organization’s framework. By prioritizing responsible implementation, our aim is to equip you with the knowledge and tools that can help you to effectively utilize generative AI.
Slides
Technology Roadmapping, Employee Innovation
10/03/2023
Dr. Jaap De Vries
2023 Innovators Summit – Using AI to Achieve Deeper Learning & Accelerated Productivity
This workshop is intended to give both new and experienced AI users the tools to become more productive as professionals and to achieve deeper learning on the topics in which they are most interested. We will set the stage for where AI is today and where it is headed, how you can decipher the best products from a burgeoning array of new AI offerings, how to perform real practical examples of things you can accomplish in minutes as opposed to days, how to ensure that the results of your AI journey benefit both you and your organization rapidly, and how you can easily keep up with the advances in this technology and stay at the cutting edge of learning.
Slides
Tools and Techniques
10/03/2023
Joe Mazzeo
2023 Innovators Summit – R&D Product Development Innovation Management Application of Collabortive Tools and Dashboards
Innovation management and team empowerment benefit greatly from the use of dashboards and collaborative tools like Google platforms, which allow for consolidated, open information accessible to all team members, linked to projects, budgets, and potential intellectual property. These tools empower category leaders to adapt plans quickly as needed and facilitate full ownership of projects that align with the corporate strategic innovation pillars. Learn about the successful development and adoption of this system at Colgate-Palmolive, driven by a collaboration between a senior leader with extensive R&D experience and an early-career scientist, both keen to embrace emerging technologies for focused R&D innovation leadership.
Slides
Digital Innovation, Tools and Techniques, New Product Development
10/02/2023
Yumiko Garcia et al.
2023 Innovators Summit – Exploring Sustainable Solutions
Learn about the major challenges in sustainability, with an opportunity to delve into potential solutions through cross-sector collaboration and innovation. The focus will be on understanding the circular economy, decarbonization, chemicals of concern, and social issues, providing you with comprehensive insights and tools to tackle these key issues.
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Sustainability and ESG, Alliances and Collaborations
10/02/2023
Jamie Pero Parker
2023 Innovators Summit – Demystifying Knowledge Management
What exactly is Knowledge Management (KM) anyway? Depending on who you ask, it can seem like it is software, training, IP portfolio management, or just fancier information management. This session will demystify KM and how it works to help propel organizations toward their goals. Seasoned information and knowledge professionals will give you a glimpse of how they approach and leverage KM in their organizations for business benefit.
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Knowledge Management
10/02/2023
Innovation Research Interchange
How Milliken removed PFAS from its operations – Sustainability Thought Leader Interview with Jeff Strahan, Director of Research, Compliance, and Sustainability at Milliken & Company
Explore Milliken’s proactive response to the challenges posed by PFAS, from initial realization to strategic shifts in R&D and analytics. We delve into leadership alignment, communication with customers, and SAP-related challenges. Concluding with an evaluation of the PFAS supply chain’s reaction and Milliken’s current status post-PFAS removal.
Audio Presentation/Podcast
Knowledge Transfer
09/28/2023
Jeff Strahan et al.
Community Forum – What growth potential do you see through innovation?
A: What growth potential do you see through innovation? Our organization is updating the long-term forecast and we want to benchmark what growth potential others are expecting through innovation. From our point of view, the key challenge is the maturity of our industry, leaving us with the question: is there any growth left for the […]
Survey (Community Forum)
Knowledge Transfer, Artificial Intellegence
09/26/2023
Innovation Research Interchange
Staying at the bleeding edge of digital innovation – Digitalization Thought Leader Interview with Brian Standen, Global Head of Digital Innovation at BASF
Learn how BASF stays at the forefront of digital innovation. Brian Standen gave highlights of their process, from identifying potential trends to placing bets on which technologies will have the most impact to incubating then rolling those technologies out more widely in the organization. He shared techniques for managing a portfolio of new technologies (Spoiler: Don’t be afraid to be bold.) and ways to get buy in from relevant parts of the organization.
Audio Presentation/Podcast
Tools and Techniques, Digital Innovation
09/21/2023
Brian Standen et al.
Technology Intelligence and Digitalization in the Manufacturing Industry
This study discusses the readiness of established companies in mature industries to revamp and reorganize their technology intelligence processes as they adapt to digitalization. Technology intelligence is a crucial activity for firms that are trying to keep abreast of rapid technological change. Yet technology intelligence is hardly integrated into companies’ strategic decision-making processes—particularly in manufacturing companies. We explore how the case study firms’ existing processes compare to those of the ICT industry. We discuss the challenges manufacturing companies face regarding their technology intelligence activities, especially in adopting digital technologies and leveraging the potential advantages of digitalization. We provide suggestions to practitioners on how to address these challenges—notably more organized and systematized technology intelligence processes than those we observed in our sample of firms.
RTM Publication
Digital Innovation, Managing Emerging Technologies
09/20/2023
Sen Fang et al.
Advice from the Front Lines on Building New Businesses
This is an In Conversations with RTM interview with Uri Levine. He is an entrepreneur who wrote Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution: A Handbook for Entrepreneurs.
RTM Publication
Breakthrough Innovation, Conducting Business Experiments, New Business Development
09/20/2023
Uri Levine et al.
Smart Glasses: Balancing expectations and reality – Thought Leader Interview with Dan Abramowicz, CTO, and Alberto Rodriguez, Digital Optimization Team Leader at Crown Holdings, Inc.
Smart glasses enabled Crown Holdings to continue to carry out plant trials even in the face of a pandemic. However, as travel restrictions and social distancing measures have been dropped, so have the use cases for smart glasses. Learn about the areas in which Crown finds value in using smart glasses and how they plan to use them as the technology matures.
Audio Presentation/Podcast
Tools and Techniques, Digital Innovation
08/17/2023
Dan Abramowicz et al.