Keynote Presenters...
Dr. Andrew Lippman, Associate Founding Director - MIT's Media Lab
Architectures for Innovation: The End of Products
Today the disruptive element in industry is speed. We can anticipate many technologies but the stability we assume in planning is now lost. One reason for this is the raw technical empowerment that we have diffused through society; the other is that generations are changing more quickly than ever, bring to maturity a new audience with new expectations every three years. I call this a "horizontalization" of business. It is characterized by grassroots, viral technologies that sweep through the world like hurricanes, by mashup rather than well-packaged products, and by social interactions that explore data and distributes it among friends. In return, most companies can react by highlighting their innate agility, and organizing to optimize it. This talk will show some places to look for technological change -- from opportunistic communications that use social networks and context to navigate our world, and to the next generation of teleportation and telepathy. In the end, we will develop partnerships with customers to engage them in product development, and we will expect to arm them with tools rather than finished goods. This may make our job harder, but it will also make it more responsive and rewarding. Expect to learn:
- Being viral is about ideas that start small, and grow incrementally
- Scaling is the key issue facing us today -- ideas are the easy part, scaling them is the challenge
- Context and place are the coming threshold ideas -- putting the world at your disposal and making sense of it
- Wizardry is now in the hands of the users, there are no more customers, instead we have partners
LinkedIn Public Profile for Dr. Andrew Lippman: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/641/130
Helen Greiner, Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board - iRobot
From Passion to Reality: The Story of iRobot
"That's too science fiction," a venture capitalist told iRobot Chairman and Co-Founder Helen Greiner when she pitched the idea for the iRobot® Roomba® vacuum cleaning robot. For Greiner and iRobot, the company she started with two fellow MIT roboticists more than a decade earlier, robots were already a reality and rejection was nothing new. But thanks to persistence and flexibility, iRobot was now on the cusp of becoming a worldwide commercial success.
Founded in 1990, iRobot began only with a passion for robots and the belief that they could have many valuable applications. Today, iRobot is at the forefront of the growing robot industry, delivering home and government robots that are making a difference. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology spin-off has grown to a $249 million public company and a global leader of practical robots. Roomba is the world's first affordable home robot - more than 2 million have been sold. More than 1,500 iRobot® PackBot® tactical mobile robots have been delivered to military and civil defense forces worldwide, performing thousands of dangerous missions while keeping personnel out of harm's way.
Join Greiner for an informative and entertaining presentation about iRobot's journey as a pioneer in the robot industry - from its humble beginnings to the overwhelming success of Roomba, PackBot and other home and government robots. See how iRobot was able to penetrate the market, promote robots and expand its product line. Get insight into the successful iRobot business model. Plus, learn about strategic partnership opportunities with iRobot that are designed to foster technological exploration, drive innovation and fuel the era of robots.
LinkedIn Public Profile for Helen Greiner: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/295/382
Takashi Tanaka, Founder - QV System, Inc. & "Father of the Obeya Room"
The Next Generation of "Fast": Visual Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Using Obeya, the "Big Room"
Employing visual methods to create spontaneous and active project management has dramatic impact on New Product Development. Far more than displays of "dashboards" or passive controls like Gantt charts, using "Obeya" combines visibility of the work and structured human interaction and allows ever faster discovery, problem resolution and decision making. Developed by Takashi Tanaka in Toyota over 10 years ago, the method fits the "Toyota Way" and has become standard throughout their system.
- In order to improve the work, you have to be able to see it. This is not easily done in the knowledge work of New Product Development.
- Making the implicit decision-making structure visible and explicit is the first step towards better and faster decisions.
- Rather than copying Toyota tools, success depends on understanding Toyota thinking and principles so they can be applied to the specific work of Product Development.
This session will be co-led along with Don Kieffer, Former Vice President Operational Excellence & General Manager Powertrain Operations - Harley-Davidson
LinkedIn Public Profile for Don Kieffer: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/6/494/866
Dr. Gunter Henn, Architect, Principal - Henn Architekten How Architecture Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Collective Intelligence
BMW Project House Munich - Innovation in Real Time:
Coordinating Innovation from the center is taken literally at BMW Group. Innovations are the result of interaction between individual activity in the specific workplace and face-to-face communication with other people.
In the BMW Project House - the latest element of the auto maker´s Research and Development Center for nearly 8000 staffers - architecture and work are growing together. Where development teams of up to 200 engineers and specialists work together, the specific design of building ensures that the right people meet at the right time in order to guarantee development in real time. Opened in Munich in 2004, the Project House is the culmination of nearly two decades' research, discussion and collaboration between Gunter Henn, Tom Allen and key senior managers of BMW on the issue of how the building can most effectively support the company's innovation process and the specific requirements of product development.
- Organization and Architecture - Types of Communication / Organizational Structures
- The Flow of Communication in Physical Space
- Increasing Awareness - Centers of Gravity and Awareness
- The BMW Project House - Innovating in Real Time
This session will be co-led along with Tom Allen, Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management, Emeritus - MIT, Sloan School
Dr. Gunter Henn and Tom Allen are co-authors of "The Organization and Architecture of Innovation."
Joseph Zisken, Vice President of Corporate Strategy - IBM Corporation
The Enterprise of the Future
The 2008 IBM Global CEO Study: The Enterprise of the Future reflects the insights of over 1,000 CEO and public sector leaders, representing 40 nations, and 32 industries. Based on the collective wisdom of the CEO crowd, this unprecedented study defines the five core traits of the Enterprise of the Future - shedding light on how outperforming CEOs are capitalizing on the diverse set of opportunities brought on by the globally integrated economy. Compelling findings around corporate social responsibility, customer collaboration & partnering, global integration and business model innovation are all addressed. The Enterprise of the Future addresses:
- New and Changing Customers
- Global Integration
- Business Model Innovation
LinkedIn Public Profile for Joseph Zisken: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/5/572/83b
Thomas Easterday, Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel - Subaru of Indiana Automotive (SIA)
Best Practices in Environmentally Sound Manufacturing: A Look at Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc.
In 1998, Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc. (SIA) became the first automotive assembly plant in the United States to be ISO 14001 certified. Through innovative programs, SIA then achieved zero landfill status in May, 2004. In addition, SIA's entire 832-acre site has been designated a Backyard Wildlife Habitat by the National Wildlife Federation. SIA's award-winning environmental programs have been the focus of Subaru's national ad campaign, a segment on CNBC's "On The Money" and the subject of articles in a variety of publications.
- Learn how to achieve zero landfill status, thereby protecting our environment, reducing operating costs and enhancing brand image
- Hear how SIA achieved a 45% reduction in waste generated since 2000, resulting in over one million dollars in annual cost savings
- See examples of the Kaizen process and lean manufacturing principles playing a key part in SIA's environmental stewardship efforts
- Discover innovative techniques for making environmental stewardship a top priority throughout your organization - THINK GREEN
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