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Editorial - by Iain Bitran, ISPIM Executive Director
ISPIM Events ISPIM Research Members' News |
Member Offers - Invitation to Global Innovation Leader Summit 2008 - FT Innovate 2008 Conference
New Member
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Editorial Dear Members, This is the first newsletter following the Tours conference but this year is a little different for us at ISPIM as we now have two international events to organise! Let me first reflect on the Tours conference. This was the best attended ISPIM conference ever and demonstrates the progress we have made over the past 5 years. Not only are delegate numbers increasing (there were 239 this year, an increase of 19% on 2007) but so is the quality of the content so a big thank you to all presenters (all 130 of you!) and chairs! This year we again had some excellent keynote speakers and we were able to welcome a friend back to the fold - Prof. John Bessant was the ISPIM 1985 conference chair in Brighton, UK and a keynote in Tours. We have also resolved the issue of journal special issues and we are delighted now to have the support of two additional mainstream innovation journals, The R&D Management Journal and Technovation. I would like to take this opportunity to thank our sponsors, Imaginatik (Gold), UTEK (Silver) and I-Nova (Bronze) (without their support we would not have been able to dine in such lavish surroundings as the Royal Chateau in Amboise!) and especially our hosts ESCEM School of Management, in particular Prof Eric Stevens, the conference chair, and Aude Rychalski who made sure everything worked well behind the scenes. As I have already mentioned this year we are also organising a second international event, the Ist ISPIM Innovation Symposium which will take place in Singapore from 14-17 December 2008. We have received an excellent response to our call for papers with just over 200 submissions received. The format of the symposium will be more interactive than that of the conference and we are planning to include facilitated themed sessions as well as workshops during the three days of the symposium. The symposium chair is Prof. Desai Narasimhalu who is a member of the new ISPIM Advisory Board. We are indebted to him and to the Singapore Management University who are co-organisers and hosts. I am certain that all of you who decide to come to Singapore will have a great experience both professionally and socially! To find out more about the symposium, please visit www.ispim.org/symposium. Also in the planning phase is the next conference which will take place in Vienna, Austria from 21-24 June 2009. The conference chair is Bruno Woeran who is also a member of the new ISPIM Advisory Board. The theme of the conference is "The Future of Innovation" and you will find the call for papers in this newsletter and on the website at www.ispim.org/conference. There is one thing that I would like to stress at this point. Although the numbers of delegates are increasing at our events we are still committed to ensuring that ISPIM events retain their sense of intimacy as we are very much focused on people and not on numbers. It is mainly for this reason that we have decided to run two events per year as we feel it is better to have two events of 250 people than one event of 500! It also enables us to take ISPIM around the world and include new people from different backgrounds and cultures in the ISPIM family. I look forward to welcoming you to one of our events soon.
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ISPIM Events The 1st ISPIM Innovation Symposium, Singapore
The 1st ISPIM Innovation Symposium - Managing Innovation in a Connected World - will be held in Singapore on 14-17 December 2008. Organised by ISPIM together with Singapore Management University, this symposium will bring together academics, business leaders, consultants and other professionals involved in innovation management. The aim of this symposium is to stimulate discussion and connect people from different backgrounds and cultures. The format will include interactive workshops and discussion panels together with academic and practitioner presentations. As with all ISPIM events, this symposium will provide excellent networking opportunities together with a taste of local culture.Keynote Speakers:
Symposium Programme: Sunday 14th December: To book your please, please visit the symposium website at www.ispim.org/symposium The XX ISPIM Conference, Vienna, Austria
The 2009 ISPIM Conference - The Future of Innovation - will be held in Vienna, Austria on 21-24 June 2009. Organised by ISPIM, hosted by The Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, and supported by DANUBE - European Programmes for Training, Research and Technology and Ratio Strategy & Innovation Consulting, this conference will bring together academics, business leaders, consultants and other professionals involved in innovation management. The conference format will include facilitated themed sessions for academic and practitioner presentations together with interactive workshops and discussion panels. Additionally, the conference will provide excellent networking opportunities together with a taste of local Viennese culture. Globalisation is one of the major forces that have made innovation imperative for any industry. No organization, business nor government, can afford to leave innovation to a few motivated individuals. The future of innovation revolves around the paradox of managing the unmanageable. What processes can ensure an uninterrupted flow of new creative ideas? How can we entice all employees to be part of this effort? How do we select and develop the most promising ideas? How can we speed up this process? How do we balance radical and continuous innovation? How do we manage the dependence on internal and external knowledge sources? Finding answers to these questions is crucial for the future success of innovation. Submissions from academics, consultants and managers on innovation-related topics are strongly encouraged and should focus on the following:
Important Submission
Deadlines:
Click here to Submit Online For more information, please visit the conference website at www.ispim.org/conference.
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. 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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During the ISPIM conference in Tours, we devoted a panel to the "Future of Innovation". This topic will be the focus of our next conference in Vienna on 21-24 June 2009 - see www.ispim.org/conference. Why do we consider this issue so important? In the last decade the importance of Innovation Management has been finally recognised by practitioners and scholars in managerial disciplines. This recognition has a great value for those people and institutions whose mission is the development of innovation culture (and ISPIM is certainly among them). At the same time however the diffusion and enlargement of this culture raises, paradoxically, some problems of effectiveness of the current practices and concepts of innovation management. This is not unusual ! The concept of cyclical stages of development are largely used by economists (think about a couple of examples of the cyclical waves of Kondrat?ev in the Twenties, next recalled by Schumpeter in "The economic cycles" in 1939). They are however also familiar in organizational and managerial theories (refer to the contributions of Larry Greiner in the Sixties mainly concerned with complex organizations and those of David Teece in the Seventies mainly concerned with relationships between innovation stages and economic success). Following these perspectives, once a determined concept has become the engine of one stage of development (a dominant paradigm), while it gains diffusion and recognition in theory and in practice, it starts losing its strengths and capacity to produce excellence . It ceases to be the determinant of success, and becomes a (mere) prerequisite that all competitors have to start from. At this point companies and managers need to make a further step and focus again on new and different concepts and skills that can ensure success and excellence. This is exactly what is happening with innovation management?..and to contribute to this effort of development ISPIM is proposing to focus on the Future of Innovation. Our international conferences are certainly milestones in this process, but to foster the confrontation of ideas and suggestions, ISPIM has decided to launch a research project on "How Innovators see the Future of Innovation". We delivered a short questionnaire to the Tours Conference delegates and are now implementing the next step, reaching a larger sample of innovators. If you would like to contribute to this research project, please either complete the online questionnaire at www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=yI8B1MAFFJFz8uXtqv56Bw_3d_3d or download the questionnaire here and email it to Ferdinando Chiaromonte, ISPIM's Director of Research at chiaromonte@ispim.org. |
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ISPIM now has two online networking sites available for members to
join: Click on www.linkedin.com/e/gis/56751/4C01DB36AABF to join the ISPIM group.
New Book: Active Knowledge Modeling of Enterprises by F. Lillehagen, Active Knowledge Modeling - AKM, Lysaker, Norway; J. Krogstie, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway ISPIM member Frank Lillehagen is the co-author of the book
Active Knowledge Modeling published by Springer (ISBN
978-3-540-79415-8). The AKM technology is about discovering, externalizing, expressing, representing, sharing, exploring, configuring, activating, growing and managing enterprise knowledge. An AKM solution is about exploiting the Web as a knowledge engineering medium, and developing knowledge-model-based families of platforms, model-configured workplaces and services. This book was written by the inventors of AKM arising out of their cooperation with both scientists and industrial practitioners over a long period of time, and the authors give examples, directions, methods and services to enable new ways of working, exploiting the AKM approach to enable effective c-business, enterprise design and development, and lifecycle management. Industry managers and design engineers will become aware of the manifold possibilities of, and added values in, IT-supported distributed design processes, and researchers for collaborative design environments will find lots of stimulation and many examples for future developments. See www.springer.com/978-3-540-79415-8
smE-MPOWER
Community Workshop
In recent years there has been a great deal of attention paid to risks during the process of using new technology. This Special Issue of Technological Forecasting and Social Change on the theme of "Risk and Technology" is intended to present recent advances in this area and their applications to business. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and applied articles addressing the theme of this Special Issue.Topics of interest Topics include, but are not limited to the following: - Expert systems in risk management Paper submission Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you are responsible for understanding and adhering to our submission guidelines. You can access them from www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505740/authorinstructions. The guidelines can also be found in every issue of Technological Forecasting and Social Change. Please thoroughly read these before submitting your manuscript. Each paper will go through a rigorous review process.Desheng Dash Wu* RiskChina Research Center, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 3G3. Tel.: +1 416 880 5219. E-mail address: dwu@rotman.utoronto.ca, dash@risklabchina.ca. MOT 2009 
IAMOT 2009 - The 18th International Conference on Management of Technology, Orlando, Florida, USA - "Management of Green Technology" The 2009 Conference will focus on the Management of Green Technology (GT). The conference will inform about technologies, issues related to its management, trends and research in this technology which is receiving much attention and interest. From green energy to green construction, material, and services; developed and developing countries are racing for innovations and development of new products that promise a high impact on living, the environment, national and regional policies. The conference will address other issues related to MOT Education, R&D, technology transfer, and theory of technology, with special attention to emerging technologies that contribute to the quality of life.
For more information, please visit the conference website at www.iamot2009.com. Call for Papers - IASP World Conference on Science & Technology Parks
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Member Offers Invitation to Global Innovation Leader Summit 2008 - 3 – 4 Nov 2008, Copthorne Hotel, Slough, Windsor, UK Dear ISPIM Members, In today’s uncertain economy, some companies are relying on cost cutting strategies to ride out the storm. Innovation leaders are taking advantage of the current environment to exploit new markets, win greater market share, and spur organic growth. With that in mind I would like to personally invite you to our upcoming Innovation Leader Summit 2008. !!! SPECIAL OFFER – DON’T MISS OUT !!!
As being part of the ISPIM community you
are entitled to a 20% discount using the promotion code ‘ISPIM’ The Summit has been carefully designed to provide you with up to the minute strategies and actionable learnings you can use to turn today’s uncertainty into competitive advantage which cannot be found at any other innovation conference. To download a full Summit brochure click here. Delivering real sustained innovation is a true leadership challenge that requires a combination of creativity, experimentation, organisation capabilities and deep customer insights. This Summit focuses firmly on ‘how to’ and not just ‘what’ and ‘why’ - and it will increase your ability to deliver against each of these challenges, via:
I am particularly excited about the global faculty we have attracted to the Summit.
Please join us at the First Annual Innovation Leader Summit by simply register at www.innovationleadersummit.com or call +44 (0)1325 329 870 to guarantee your place. Yours sincerely, Klaus Schnurr FT Innovate 2008 Conference - 10-11 November 2008 | The Cumberland | London
The key focus of discussion for this year’s conference is
“collaborative innovation.” Increasingly companies – often competitors –
are coming together to solve problems and develop customer-centric solutions.
Attend FT Innovate 2008 to hear who’s doing it, why they’re doing it, and
crucially, how are they doing it? For more information and to register, visit www.ftinnovate.com. ISPIM members receive a 15% discount off the advertised fee by quoting code ISPIM15 when registering. Click here to download the conference brochure. |
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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.
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Enterprise
Modeling has been defined as the art of externalizing enterprise knowledge,
i.e., representing the core knowledge of the enterprise. Although useful in
product design and systems development, for modeling and model-based approaches
to have a more profound effect, a shift in modeling approaches and methodologies
is necessary. Modeling should become as natural as drawing, sketching and
scribbling, and should provide powerful services for capturing work-centric,
work-supporting and generative knowledge, for preserving context and ensuring
reuse. A solution is the application of Active Knowledge Modeling (AKM).
Technological
Forecasting and Social Change 
Now
in its third year, FT Innovate is developing a reputation as the premier event
of its kind, with great speakers talking incisively and candidly about
innovation’s challenges and successes. 
Jeff Hovis
Robson
Endrigo Simões Lisboa
