The Innovation
Management
Workshop
Learn to ideate, test, maintain and
sustain an innovation system.
The Innovation Management Workshop, based on the Innovation
Engineering Management System (IEMS), is designed to help your company
accelerate profitable products, services, customers, markets and processes.
Based on the principles of renowned statistician Dr. W. Edwards Deming, the
tools were developed over 25 years around the successes and failures of
more than 26,000 innovations at companies like Nike, Walt Disney, Procter &
Gamble, Hewlett Packard, Johnson & Johnson, College Board, Hartford
Insurance, American Express and Schlumberger. The processes were then
adapted to be reproducible at small and mid-sized companies.
You will learn:
THE SYSTEM: How to increase your innovation speeds by up to 6 times and
decrease risk by 30 to 80 percent. How to implement a sustainable innovation
management system.
CREATING INNOVATION PIPELINES: How to create a documented list of
ideas for growing sales and profits. How to implement tools to create
innovative ideas.
CULTURAL CHANGE: How to create a sustainable culture of innovation.
How to use pre-assessment audits and implementation methods to
incorporate the standard into your business practices.
For further information, visit us online at ies.ncsu.edu/imw
Innovation Management Workshop partners:
Manufacturing Solutions Center
NC State Industrial Extension Service
ies.ncsu.edu
To register:
Web:
ies.ncsu.edu/imw
Email: IESregistration@ncsu.edu
Phone: 919.515.2358 or
800.227.0264
Cost:
$99 per person
Date:
September 26, 2013
Manufacturing Solutions Center
301 Conover Station SE
Conover, NC 28613
A laptop or tablet with Wi-Fi
capability is recommended.
A tour of the Manufacturing
Solutions Center will be available
after the workshop.
The NC State Industrial Extension Service (IES), in
operation since 1955, helps improve, promote
and connect industry through experts and tools in
workplace safety, process optimization, business
growth, innovation, sustainability and quality
systems. In the past decade, its efforts have
resulted in over $2 billion in economic benefit to
the state of North Carolina. Its influence also
extends into the healthcare, government and
service sectors.
@NCStateIES