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Editorial by Dr
Steffen Conn, ISPIM Secretary General
ISPIM Events Members' News |
New
Member Profiles - Alok Chakrabarti - Dmitry Khomutsky - Michael LoBue - Kevin McFarthing - Yevgeny Sinyakov |
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Editorial Dear Members, With two weeks to go, preparations for the 2008 Conference in Tours are almost complete. The provisional conference programme is available and the conference proceedings are already in production. We have again increased the number of workshops this year to try to stimulate greater interaction and networking between our Academics, Business Leaders and Consultants. Similarly the composition of the plenary speakers reflects this goal. I can report that we received abstracts from 267 people wanting to present this year. In 2007 we received just over 200 so this is the sixth year in a row that has seen an increase. The benefit of this is that the review process could be correspondingly more rigorous to increase the general standard of the sessions. There will be 130 presentations in Tours and we are predicting the total number of delegates to be about 230. Again this is the sixth consecutive yearly increase. We hope that with the careful selection of keynote speakers, the increased number of workshops and more selective review process the conference will increase in quality as well as quantity every year. Like last year, 36 nationalities from six continents will be represented, with the majority being from Europe. Delegate organisations include well-known multinational organisations, SMEs, educational institutions, research centres, public agencies and consulting companies. The most numerous group is educational institutions and the group with the biggest growth is the private sector. Unsurprisingly, given the theme of the conference, the most popular topics relate to Open Innovation and its management, measurement, tools, networks and implementation. This is not surprising given its current prevalence in both academia and industry. The social side of ISPIM Conferences is again very important and I believe that this year’s social events will be excellent. Sunday features a welcome reception, town tour and a taster of local cuisine in four local restaurants. The gala dinner on the Monday is at the famous Chateau Royal d'Amboise and on Tuesday the imposing town hall is the setting for a gastronomic education so you should come away knowing a lot more about "vins et leurs propres mets"!. With the exception of Amboise, all events are within 10-15 minutes walk of the central hotels. All cuisine, music, activities and venues reflect French culture, gastronomy and history. More details are available from the conference programme. On a different note, June will see the formation of the new ISPIM Advisory Board which will replace the current ISPIM Fellows. Dick Marsh has acted as the Head Fellow since the formation of the ISPIM Fellows and he has now decided to retire after many years supporting ISPIM. We are all extremely grateful to him for his fantastic support and amazing energy. The new Advisory Board, with Sally Davenport at its head, includes Dick Marsh, Mai Anttila, Markku Tuominen, Kazuyoshi Ishii, Takaya Ichimura, Jens Arleth, Desai Narasimhalu, Eric Stevens, Jeff Butler, Bruno Woeran and Michael Dell. Knut Holt is of course still Honorary Chairman.
I am also happy to say that we have finally updated the ISPIM constitution to reflect current practice. For this reason the VPs are now Directors and the President is now the Executive Director. Elections are still every two years, but the elections are on a team, rather than an individual basis to provide for greater continuity. And for the first time ever, ISPIM has appointed a part-time employee to deal with daily matters as Secretary General. I look forward to seeing you in Tours on the 15th June.
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ISPIM Events XIX ISPIM Conference, Tours, France
The 2008 ISPIM Conference - Open Innovation: Creating Products and Services through Collaboration - will be held in Tours (Loire Valley), France on 15-18 June 2008. Organised by ISPIM and supported by ESCEM School of Business and Management, this conference will bring together academics, business leaders, consultants and other professionals involved in innovation management. The conference format includes plenary and parallel sessions with both academic and practitioner presentations and workshops. Additionally, the conference will provide excellent networking opportunities together with a taste of local culture. The conference has been extremely popular this year and will include 130 presentations plus 4 workshops, 2 discussion panels and an expert presentation from Bill Docherty on how to better communicate innovation . The following keynote speakers have been confirmed: Prof. John Bessant, Professor of Innovation and Technology Management and Senior Fellow, Advanced Institute of Management Research, Imperial College London; Martin Roulleaux Dugage, Knowledge Officer, PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory; Dr. Ray Strong, Technical Leader, Impact of Future Technology, IBM Almaden Research Center; Gilles Toulemonde, CEO, I-Nova (with Christine de Gennes Sanciaume, Quality Innovation, Sustainable Development Division, Total Refining & Marketing); Mark Turrell, CEO, Imaginatik; Dr. Bettina von Stamm, Catalyst, Innovation Leadership Forum. To book your place at the conference, visit
www.ispim.org/conference.
1st ISPIM
Innovation Symposium, Singapore
The 1st
ISPIM Innovation Symposium -
Globalisation of technology and the strong interconnectivity of the different nations through reliable telecommunications has given rise to a significant movement towards outsourcing and off-shoring. Further, the escalation of the cost of carrying out all R&D and innovation in-house and the availability of intellectual capital with access to global networks have encouraged firms to embrace open innovation principles even if, in some cases, somewhat reluctantly. Open innovation can be interpreted at several levels including, across people, across divisions of a company located in different places, across different organisations and across countries. Managing innovation in such a connected world is something new to several organisations. It is therefore important for academics, businesses and consulting firms to understand the challenges faced in managing innovations in such a connected world and to be able to find the solutions to harness the value that can be generated by the intellectual capital available in the far corners of our globe. ISPIM has always focused on themes that address cutting edge issues and managing innovations in a connected world is a pressing theme. Academics and Practitioners are encouraged to submit papers/outlines and workshop/discussion topics related to the symposium theme including but not limited to the subareas listed below:
Important Submission
Deadlines: Visit the symposium website at www.ispim.org/symposium
In an initiative started by ISPIM member Desai Narasimhalu, ISPIM is again running the minitrack on Innovation and Innovation Management at the Hawaiian International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS) that will take place in Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii from 5-8 January 2009. This minitrack addresses issues at the crossroads of Technology, Markets and Firms. We invite new models of both theory and practice in innovation and innovation management. We are particularly interested in studies and research that show how technology was a key enabler for the creation of market and business innovations. We are very interested in panels and tutorials that can present recent examples that highlight both theory and practice in Innovation and Innovation Management. The deadline for papers is 15th June 2008 and further details on the
minitrack can be found at
www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_42/minitracks/os-iim.htm. Co-chairs: Desai Narasimhalu, Marko Torkkeli, Iain Bitran |
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Input to New Book/Innovation Resources Dear Friends, As some of you know I’ve been working for many years on textbooks to support learning about managing innovation. It’s been a long process of continuous innovation, where we have been listening to ideas and feedback, incorporating different kinds of resources and in different ways trying to improve the book and website as a resource for students, teachers, policy makers and practising managers. In the process we’ve added a variety of resources apart from the written text – for example the website has a rich set of cases, tools, suggested teaching outlines, assessment questions and some video/audio material. We’re now working on a new edition of the ‘Managing innovation’ book (see www.managing-innovation.com for details of the current one). One of the things we’d really like to change this time is to make this even more of an ‘open source’ project, bringing in your ideas, resources, cases, tools, stories, video, audio – any material which you use and are prepared to share. Our publishers, John Wiley, have configured the website to be an open resource and the idea is to make this a platform from which we can configure materials to suit specific needs, locations, etc. This link will take you to the new edition website where you can see what we have in mind and get involved if you are willing www.wiley.com/go/innovation. I’ve also been experimenting with a wiki around innovation resources (which includes a link to the Wiley project) – again you’d be very welcome to join in. The URL is http://innovationresources.wetpaint.com. Look forward to hearing – and working – with you. Meanwhile all good wishes, John John Bessant Contact details: New Russian Connection & Innovation Conference ISPIM members Dmitry Khomutsky and Yevgeny Sinyakov are organising The First International Conference of Professionals in Innovation Management: Russia 2008 which will take place in Moscow from 26-27 June 2008. The conference has been conceived to discuss important innovation management issues that have recently become of great relevance in the emerging markets such as Russia. The bridge between innovation theory and innovation practice is still too often omitted in the emerging markets, and academic developments in the innovation management are often deployed ineffectively. The goal of the Conference is to help decrease the gap between innovation theory and innovation practice by discussing modern models, methodologies, techniques and approaches that could be successfully implemented by businesses in their practice. ISPIM is delighted to support this conference and Iain Bitran, ISPIM's Executive Director, was in Moscow recently and met with Dmitry and Yevgeny to record a welcome message that will be broadcast during the opening session. We looking forward to continuing this relationship for many years to come.
The conference website is
innovationdirector.ru/index.php?section=pages&PID=20.
The success that was achieved with the 2004 and 2006
editions of the Luxembourgish Colloquium on knowledge economy within an European
perspective leads us to the launch of a third, grand Colloquium En route vers
Lisbonne. This colloquium is under the auspices of the Luxembourg Ministry
of Economy and Foreign Trade, and endorsed by the Service Central de la
Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (Statec), by the Observatoire de la
Compétitivité, and by the Public Research Centre CRP Henri Tudor.
Three years after the re-launch, a national (in Luxembourg, via audits in the Chamber of Deputies) and international assessment will be made in the course of 2008. National action plans are effectively, on different country level, the object of an intermediate evaluation, and the Council of the European Union will refer to the general assessment. In such a context, that last colloquium before the expiry date of 2010 becomes a real importance, and confirms its necessity of providing space-time for reflection on the evaluation of active politics, on achieved and expected results, and on the difficulties of implementing actions from various, already identified, directions. Our colloquium has always aimed at being an open forum, a meeting of scientists and decision-takers, a space where scientific analyses meet. It is also a place for debates and proposals. Numerous instructors, from both Luxembourg and other European countries, will guide through the different sessions. With such objectives, the colloquium sees itself as open to all, and from all methodological, disciplinary and instructive branches. Numerous instructors from Luxembourg and other countries, scientists, university staff, members of the Luxembourg administration or from international organisations have contributed to the different round tables and sessions in 2004 and 2006. The organising committee hopes to broaden the variety of instructors even further in 2008. The programme will be in relation to communications received and reviewed by the Scientific Committee. The presentation of about thirty communications will be permitted. An Internet Website is at your disposal at the following address: www.tudor.lu/Lisbonne2008
Institute for Innovation &
Information Productivity – Profile
Overview The techniques for measuring performance today, from factory floors to the delivery of services to the outcomes of innovation, often fall short because they do not consider the value of new technology or provide meaningful indicators to determine tradeoffs among multiple investments. The Institute for Innovation & Information Productivity was formed in 2006 to break through outmoded, industrial-age biases and redefine knowledge economy measurements for individuals, teams, firms and nations. The IIIP develops new measurements and best practices to better understand the factors affecting business and organizational performance, studies the impact of technology, and encourages a global dialogue on improving operational results. The IIIP is a mutual benefit, non-profit corporation. The membership and focus are global; the headquarters are located in San Francisco, California, USA. An elected board of directors, who are representatives of member companies, governs the Institute. IIIP Work
The IIIP work helps to: How IIIP is Addressing Challenges
The IIIP is working to address the challenges by: IIIP’s Unique Approach The IIIP is unique in the sense that it is a research collaborative driven by industry leaders with an active group of leading academic advisors. Our academic advisors are not only leaders in their fields of study and research, but they represent a wide range of academic disciplines, and are from a diverse collection of well respected institutions from Australia, seven European nations and the United States. The Institute is not like a typical think-tank in that it does not have a particular market or public policy agenda to promote. For example, the Institute does not believe that “more technology will increase productivity”, or that “the market should simply increase its spending for technology”, or that “governments should undertake large-scale technology initiatives.” Rather, the Institute would subscribe to the notion that they is probably sufficient technology in the market, but an insufficient understanding of how these investments have effected productivity and information technology contributes to innovation to improve productivity in the future. Because the Institute’s research is funded from member dues, the research questions are practical at their core, driven by real challenges facing complex organizations of today. The following materials are available at no cost on the IIIP web site:
The IIIP Innovation Confidence Index – 2007 Report
– January 2008 – International index of Innovation Confidence Disruptive Communications and Attentive Productivity – March 2007 – Pilot experiment to determine impact of interruption and disruption caused by communication through voice, SMS text messaging and instant messaging. Information Technology, Productivity and Innovation – March 2007 – This is a comprehensive review and analysis of literature over the past decade concerning information technology, productivity and innovation. The authors looked at official measures of the value and productivity of technology, and suggested some broader alternatives for measuring the value of technology on the economy, especially including intangible assets. The
Virtual Workforce: A Shifting Paradigm –
December 2007 Making Virtual Distance Work in the
Digital Age – December 2007 The website of the Institute for Innovation & Information Productivity is www.iii-p.org. |
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New
Member Profiles The following people have recently joined ISPIM. To view the full list of ISPIM members please go to www.ispim.org/memberaccess.html and login using your login and password (please note that this facility is restricted to ISPIM members only). Please ensure that your own details are up to date by clicking on the "Modify your details" link. Alok Chakrabarti, Distinguished Professor of Management & Industrial Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Dr. Alok Chakrabarti is Distinguished Professor of Management and Industrial Engineering at New Jersey Institute of technology where he has served as the Founding Dean of the School of Management for eleven years. He has been a visiting professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Helsinki University of Technology, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel Germany, and Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta India. During 2001-03 Dr. Chakrabarti was Sloan Foundation Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he studied the local innovation systems. Dr. Chakrabarti is the Editor for E-Business at the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. He is an associate editor for International Journal of Strategic Change. He serves on the editorial board of International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital. Dr. Chakrabarti has published many articles and papers in journals in the US and Europe. In 2004, he received the research excellence award from the International Association for Management of Technology.
His research and teaching interests are in strategic management of technology
and management of health care services. He got his degree in Chemical
Engineering from Jadavpur University, post-graduate diploma in business
administration from IIM Ahmedabad . He received his PhD in Industrial
Engineering and Management Sciences from Northwestern University.
Dmitry Khomutsky, PhD, MBA, Russia Guest speaker at a number Moscow universities and at the Baltijas Starptautiskā Akadēmija (Riga, Latvia). Author of the monograph “Managing Innovation in an Organisation” (Solon Press, Moscow, 2008). Consultant on innovation management. Author of educational module "Embedding Idea Management System in an Organisation" that has become an integral part of seminar "Idea Manager" led conjointly with Yevgeny Sinyakov in Russia and CIS. Michael LoBue, CAE – The Institute for Innovation & Information Productivity
LoBue’s professional experience spans government, non-profit management, academic administration and business. LoBue has been involved in non-profit management and governance since 1978, in youth service organizations and since 1993 with international trade associations in the computing and communications industry segments. LoBue’s interests in innovation are in the small incremental process improvements to enable client organizations to focus on the impacts they were formed to create in their market segments and to assist board of directors to excel at governance versus management. LoBue presently serves on the board of directors of the AMC Institute, the international trade association for association management companies and is the president of the board of trustees for a private school in San Francisco (K-8).
LoBue holds a Master of Science in Management and Public
Policy from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor of Arts from the
University of California, Berkeley. Kevin McFarthing, Global Director, Strategic Alliances, Reckitt Benckiser
Kevin has been with RB for 15 years. Before that he was General Manager for Diagnostics R&D with Serono, and spent 8 years in Biotech with Amersham (now part of GE). He is originally a Biochemist, with a PhD from Liverpool University.
Yevgeny Sinyakov, MBA, Russia  Founder
of innovation management consultancy TRIUNA Leaders, Managing Director of
PHARMLOGIC Projects. Member of Global CTT Network. In Russia, the only
consultant certified as an expert in all Cultural Transformation Tools
applications. Member of International Society for Professional Innovation
Management (ISPIM). Guest speaker on Organisation Culture at Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia). Consultant on innovation management. Author of educational module "Roadmap for Creating Innovation Culture in an Organisation" that has become an integral part of seminar "Idea Manager" led conjointly with Dmitry Khomutsky in Russia and CIS. | |||
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Innovation-related Events 2008 June 15-18 June 2008The XIX ISPIM Conference Open Innovation: Creating Products & Services through Collaboration Location: Tours (Loire Valley), France www.ispim.org/conference 17-20 June 2008 26-27 June 2008 July 3 and 4 July 2008 8 July 2008 27-31 July 2008 September 13-17 September 2008 14-17 September 2008 17-19 September 2008 25 and 26 September 2008 October 1 October 2008 December 4 and 5 December 2008 The 1st ISPIM Innovation Symposium Managing Innovation in a Connected World Location: Singapore www.ispim.org/symposium 2009 January 5-8 January 2009HICSS-42: The Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii, USA ISPIM is managing the track on Innovation and Innovation Managementwww.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_42/apahome42.htm |
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Head
of Department (Education projects) at Mail.Ru Ltd, a local internet services for
consumers and businesses. Member of International Society for Professional
Innovation Management (ISPIM).
LoBue
founded an association management company (AMC) in 1993 serving international
trade associations. LoBue remains active in the management of the firm and
the practice of association management as an executive director for client
organizations. 
Kevin
McFarthing is Global Director for Strategic Alliances at Reckitt Benckiser. In
this role, he is accountable for the delivery of significant additional business
through working with other companies, both large and small. This includes joint
marketing and product development as well as leading the growing brand licensing
programme. Prior to this position he was Global R&D Director for Health &
Personal Care.