Dr. Ken Washington
Vice President
Research & Innovation
Ford Motor Company
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Accelerating
the Drive for Innovation and Collaboration at Ford
Dr. Washington currently
manages Ford's research and advanced technology strategy
- helping to lead the company's accelerated drive for
innovation throughout all areas of its business. His keynote talk will cover
how external collaboration, open innovation, creative
partnering and technology advancement coupled with deep
understanding of customer experience/needs have led to
successful product and service innovation at Ford -
going beyond vehicles into Mobility. He will also
discuss where and how Ford plans to take these
innovations and practices into the future.
Watch
this video about Ford's use of Open Innovation to
Innovate Mobility Platforms:
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Dr. Michael J. Pcolinski
Vice President
Innovation & Technology
North America
BASF
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Accelerating
Innovation and Growth through Market Focused
Collaborations
With ever increasing
demands for improved product & service performance
successful companies in the global market place are
leveraging new ways to connect and collaborate with
customers to drive innovation. Over the last years BASF
has been building on new attitudes and platforms making
open innovation a key cornerstone for market focused
collaborations. To successfully engage employees in
looking beyond current boundaries we are working on
providing these valuable colleagues the tools and
capabilities to build and strengthen their connections
across functions & geographies. New approaches to
facilitate exchange, build trust and accelerate growth
between our customers and our employees are yielding
impressive returns on our investments in people &
technologies designed around creating chemistry for a
sustainable future. Mike Pcolinski will share insights
into what & how BASF is doing to further strengthen
innovation capabilities for customers' success. |
Thomas E. Carson
President &
Chief Executive Officer
Axion Health, Inc.
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You
Can't Always Get What You Want...at least not alone.
(with apologies to Mick Jagger)
As Axion Health, Inc. has
progressed on their OI journey, the role of internal
relationships and external partnerships to support
getting new, better products to market faster and the
organizational structure to support them have also
evolved. In this presentation, you will hear Tom Carson,
the CEO, describe the importance of foundational
infrastructure and how the functions are now working
collaboratively inside, and with the right partners
outside, to drive their growth agenda. With clear
accountabilities and expectations, they have been able
to more quickly progress projects, identify the best
path forward, and leverage current suppliers and new
partners. In addition, both successes and lessons
learned will be shared regarding implementing
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Kevin
Jackson
Vice President and General
Manager, Foodservice
The J.M. Smucker Company
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Open
Innovation at the Enterprise Level:
Developing a Framework
Over many decades, The
J.M.Smucker Co. has built a strong business primarily
through acquisitions, traditional innovation and several
strategic partnerships. The
company is now increasing its outward focus to better
understand needs and more effectively find innovative
solutions.
An Open Innovation Task
Force was established to bring more discipline to
this external focus and to develop a process framework
for Open Innovation
so it becomes a key enabler of business growth.
What you will learn:
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How to build your
company's Open Innovation capability and process
framework across the enterprise.
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How to successfully
engage key stakeholders and sponsors from the start.
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The role of an Open
Innovation Advocate in championing Open Innovation
at the enterprise level.
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The importance of
vision, mission, strategy and language to enable
Open Innovation.
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Balancing the culture
and its evolution to advance Open Innovation.
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Rosemary Pennington
Senior Manager,
Marketing Innovation
The J.M. Smucker Company
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Rob Mirabella
Senior Director,
Leader - Office of Alliances
The Clorox Company
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Maximizing
the Value of Partnerships and Alliances to Achieve
Corporate Growth
Clorox has been putting a
strong emphasis on partnered innovation and developing
outside relationships that not only amplify the work of
their researchers, but also deliver results through new
business models that are aligned with the objectives of
their businesses. The presenter, Rob Mirabella who leads
the Partnership Group at Clorox, will share their
approach to partnered innovation that will continue to
influence how the company grows over the next few years.
You will learn about how they have accessed a lot of
good ideas outside the four walls of their organizations
and are seeking the best ways to go about finding and
securing them. Rob and the team are leveraging Open
Innovation to provide more solutions, and provide them
faster to their consumers and customers through
partnership and alliances.
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