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Innovationedge and Pure Insight to deliver Innovation Webinars
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Neenah, Wis. (January 1, 2008) — Cheryl Perkins, President and Founder of Innovationedge, has announced a partnership with the UK-based research firm Pure Insight. The partnership will provide real-world insights and innovation best practices from thought-leading practitioners via a library of Web-based presentations.
Innovationedge will be the sole U.S. solutions provider to host Pure Insight Web seminars, or “Webinars,” which will enable corporate innovation leaders, inventors and entrepreneurs to access the most current innovation best practices right from their desktop.
The Webinars will cover a range of topics including strategy, structure, culture, open innovation and portfolio management, to name a few. Each Webinar presentation will provide examples and insights into ways to implement leading-edge innovation practices, and allow listeners to hear the successes and challenges directly from those who have successfully faced and solved them.
“The unique partnership between Innovationedge and Pure Insight provides a wide range of educational opportunities for anyone who leads their company’s innovation charge, as they look for ways to build their internal capabilities and grow their organizations through structured innovation practices,” said Cheryl Perkins. “Webinars allow us to efficiently provide innovation insights to the right people at the right time.”
“We are excited to work with Innovationedge to expand the reach of our insight driven Webinar offering into North America and to build on the success we have experienced by working with some of the most admired companies in Europe,” said Klaus Schnurr, co-founder and Chief Executive of Pure Insight. “The partnership will allow us to expand our network of global thought leaders to deliver even greater value products and services for our customers.”
Both live and recorded Webinar sessions can be found at Innovationedge’s Webinar Page.
About Innovationedge:
Innovationedge is a global strategic innovation consultancy based in Wisconsin. The team’s fearless champions of innovation break barriers to help executives define their business strategy, develop new capabilities, design a winning organizational structure, and deliver breakthrough innovations through a robust growth pipeline of solutions and new-to-the-world innovations. The company also gives inventors an edge by crafting winning business propositions and creating strategic corporate partnerships that deliver commercial success. For more information, visit Innovationedge.com.
About Pure Insight:
Pure Insight specializes in providing strategic and practical business information for practitioners in design, product development, innovation and technology. With over 300 corporate customers and 500 contributors across 20 countries, its practical tools and information are delivered in convenient formats suited to the demands of busy professionals. Webinar customers include 3M, Goodyear, Bayer, Boston Scientific, Clorox, FedEx, Honeywell, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Xerox, and many others.
Innovationedge Partnership to bring disruptive innovation from Russia to the U.S.
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Appleton, Wis. (DATE, 2008) — Innovationedge Founder and President Cheryl Perkins announced today that Innovationedge and partner InnovationPoint will collaborate with the Russian government to bring a consortium of that nation’s most promising scientific institutes and inventors together with American corporations.Innovationedge and InnovationPoint were awarded a multi-year contract with Russia’s International Science and Technology Center (ISTC), based on each company’s expansive network of clients and partners at Fortune 50, 100 and 150 companies. As external strategy and innovation consultants, both Innovationedge and InnovationPoint have led marketing and business development activities with companies across diverse industries including Hewlett-Packard, Phillips, Cisco Systems, Inc., Colgate–Palmolive Company, Kimberly-Clark, WD-40, Genentech, PepsiCo, Dean Foods and numerous other leading companies.Russia’s ISTC provides former U.S.S.R. weapons scientists and engineers with opportunities to redirect their talents to civilian activities. ISTC grants are awarded on a competitive basis. “This is exciting news for Innovationedge as we forge new strategic partnerships between Russian inventors and U.S. corporations to deliver commercial success,” said Perkins, founder and president of Innovationedge and former Chief Innovation Officer for Kimberly-Clark. “The partnerships we build will span U.S. companies across diverse industries to bring new capabilities, skill sets, operating models and strategies leveraging these externally skilled resources.”
Innovationedge, a consultancy based in Wisconsin, is collaborating with InnovationPoint, a consultancy in California, to deliver a competitive advantage to U.S. corporations that see the strategic benefits of tapping into the expertise of Russian innovators. These scientists are highly skilled in biotechnology, agriculture, biomass, health care, nanotechnology and bioengineering. Innovationedge and InnovationPoint will formally launch its partnership with ISTC in Moscow this month.
“Through Open Innovation, we can tap into new capabilities that organizations in the United States currently do not possess at a fraction of the cost. Our partnership with ISTC not only will benefit the scientific community in Russia, it will provide an enormous competitive boost to U.S. companies that join the ISTC Partnership Program,” said Soren Kaplan, Managing Partner at InnovationPoint.
Perkins added, “We will design a team-based, collaborative model with ISTC to deliver high-quality results as well as create alignment to ultimately ensure rapid delivery of solutions. The key to success will be to match technology capabilities and innovation strategy to US-based industry-specific trends and opportunities.”
About ISTC
The International Science and Technology Center (ISTC) in Moscow employs thousands of former Soviet scientists in useful civilian work. The ISTC was developed to counter the threat of “brain drain” from the former Soviet Union to countries wishing to acquire nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons. The ISTC’s principle activity is to develop, approve, finance, and monitor science and technology projects for peaceful purposes. For more information visit http://partners.istc.ru/eng/.
About Innovationedge:
Innovationedge is a global strategic innovation consultancy based in Wisconsin. The team’s fearless champions of innovation break barriers to help executives define their business strategy, develop new capabilities, design a winning organizational structure, and deliver breakthrough innovations through a robust growth pipeline of solutions and new-to-the-world innovations. The company also gives inventors an edge by crafting winning business propositions and creating strategic corporate partnerships that deliver commercial success. For more information, visit Innovationedge.com.
About InnovationPoint
InnovationPoint is a strategic innovation management consulting firm focused on helping organizations achieve business breakthroughs that grow the top line – through opportunity identification, new business creation, strategy development and new product, service and category innovation. InnovationPoint also helps its clients build sustainable innovation capability by addressing strategic, organizational and cultural challenges. www.innovation-point.com
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Cheryl Perkins featured in new book; partners with author for Webinar series
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Appleton, Wis. (October 29, 2007) — Cheryl Perkins, Founder and President of Innovationedge and former Chief Innovation Officer for Kimberly-Clark, announced today she has partnered with author and marketing expert Hunter Hastings to deliver a webinar on “Insights to Innovation.” The webinar is geared for anyone wishing to significantly improve innovation in their organization through new insights capabilities and tools, and will run on Oct. 30 at 2 p.m. Eastern.
The announcement comes the same day as the release of Hastings’s new book titled, Improve Your Marketing To Grow Your Business, in which Perkins shares her expertise on how building a new insights capability delivers innovation.
“Insights are the raw material for innovation. If you have identified an insight about your customer’s or consumer’s needs, it’s possible that you can meet those needs in a unique and superior way. In this book as well as in the webinar, I cover the critical nature of insights that shed light on the motivations that drive behavior,” said Perkins, President of Innovationedge.
Perkins helped Hastings pen one of the chapters in the book, and the foreword is by her friend and former boss Tom Falk, CEO of Kimberly-Clark. For more information on Hastings’ book from Wharton School Publishing, click here.
About Innovationedge:
Innovationedge is a global strategic innovation consultancy based in Wisconsin. The team’s fearless champions of innovation break barriers to help executives define their business strategy, develop new capabilities, design a winning organizational structure, and deliver breakthrough innovations through a robust growth pipeline of solutions and new-to-the-world innovations. The company also gives inventors an edge by crafting winning business propositions and creating strategic corporate partnerships that deliver commercial success. For more information, visit Innovationedge.com.
About the Author
Hunter Hastings is the co-founder and CEO of EMM Group (www.emmgroup.net), an enterprise marketing management consulting firm that helps clients unleash growth by applying best practice-based marketing processes and marketing technology. Hastings has led innovative marketing consulting practices throughout the world, ultimately founding the revolutionary marketing approach now called enterprise marketing management.
For the latest innovation trends and insights, be sure to check out Cheryl’s “On the Edge” Blog page at www.innovationedge.com.
Cheryl Perkins featured speaker at Burning Questions 2007 conference in London
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(London) October 23 – Cheryl Perkins, Founder and President of Innovationedge and former Chief Innovation Officer of Kimberly-Clark will be a featured guest panelist for this year’s Burning Questions 2007: Leading for Innovation. The event is sponsored by Harvard Business School Publishing, and is held October 24-26 at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower in London.
The invitation-only gathering of global business leaders is designed to stimulate open engagement between thought leaders and senior executives charged with plotting their organization’s strategies for the next two-to-five years. The conference agenda is to ask the essential “burning” questions are around how you do it, and the format is highly-interactive panel sessions around several key innovation topics.
Perkins will be featured on a panel titled, “Culture: How do you create sustainable innovation capability?”
“A winning culture of innovation isn’t just about generating ideas, but about solving the driving problems your customers are having. This conference not only asks the important burning questions, it delivers practical and applicable answers about how these ideas can be incubated into profit-making business solutions that resonate with your customers,” explained Perkins.
Joining Perkins at the Burning Questions conference will be innovation thought leaders from companies all over the world, including Coca-Cola, Symantec, Unilever, Google, Capital One and more. For more information visit the Harvard Business Review Burning Questions 2007 site.
About Innovationedge
Innovationedge is a strategic innovation company founded by Cheryl Perkins to lead companies to identify and transform insights, designs, technologies and capabilities into total solutions and new-to-the-world innovations. The company’s fearless champions of innovation break barriers to help executives define their strategy, develop capabilities, design a winning organizational structure and deliver breakthrough innovations through a robust growth pipeline. Innovationedge also gives inventors an edge by crafting winning business propositions and creating strategic corporate partnerships that deliver commercial success.
For the latest innovation trends and insights, be sure to check out Cheryl’s “On the Edge” Blog page at www.innovationedge.com.
Innovationedge
920-967-0475
aspreeman@innovationedge.com
Cheryl Perkins featured speaker at 13th Annual Innovation Immersion event
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Appleton, Wis. (October 15, 2007) — Cheryl Perkins, Founder and President of Innovationedge and former Chief Innovation Officer of Kimberly-Clark will share best practices on how companies should organize for innovation during this year’s 13th Annual Innovation Convergence Innovation Immersion: “The 360 Degree Innovation Experience.”The event is October 15-17 at the Caleo Resort & Spa in Scottsdale, Ariz. The annual innovation immersion experience will encompass big picture thinking and corporate case studies as well as hands-on skill application in innovation labs, workshops, and special interest forums.
“Executives want to know which critical innovation capabilities and functions are required to disrupt today’s marketplace and deliver shareholder value, but often their organizations aren’t structured in a way to build and maintain those capabilities,” explained Perkins. “This conference is an exciting opportunity for innovation leaders to learn and apply best practices from top innovation thought leaders.” Perkins will team up with Innovationedge partner Soren Kaplan, Managing Partner of InnovationPoint, to present new processes for organizing corporate organizations, departments and business units to deliver sustainable growth through innovation For more information, visit IIRUSA.
About Innovationedge:
Innovationedge is a global strategic innovation consultancy based in Wisconsin. The team’s fearless champions of innovation break barriers to help executives define their business strategy, develop new capabilities, design a winning organizational structure, and deliver breakthrough innovations through a robust growth pipeline of solutions and new-to-the-world innovations. The company also gives inventors an edge by crafting winning business propositions and creating strategic corporate partnerships that deliver commercial success. For more information, visit Innovationedge.com.
Cheryl Perkins to share how Open Innovation bridges product development with competitive intelligence at Madison conference
For Immediate Release
(Madison,
“Open-source business models and collaborative approaches to innovation and business growth are a must-have in today’s changing global economy,” said Perkins, Founder and president of Innovationedge. “Attendees will learn new strategies, processes and tools for creating stronger interdependencies with the right partners.”
Perkins will be joined by executives from Motorola, Kimberly-Clark, Rockwell Collins Avionics, Applied Marketing Concepts, Aurora WDC and Bou-Matic, for a full day of dynamic presentations and a panel discussion of innovation experts. The event is Thursday, September 19 at the Olbrich Botanical Gardens from 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and is co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Chapter of PDMA (Product Development & Management Association) and SCIP (Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals).
For more information or to register, visit the Wisconsin PDMA Web Site.
About Cheryl Perkins and Innovationedge™
Innovationedge is a strategic innovation company founded by Cheryl Perkins to lead companies to identify and transform insights, designs, technologies and capabilities into total solutions and new-to-the-world innovations. The company breaks barriers to help executives define their strategy, develop capabilities, design a winning organizational structure and deliver breakthrough innovations through a robust growth pipeline. Innovationedge also gives inventors an edge by crafting winning business propositions and creating strategic corporate partnerships that deliver commercial success. For more information, visit www.innovationedge.com
About PDMA
The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) is the premier global advocate for product development and management professionals. The PDMA provides resources for professional development, information, collaboration and promotion of new product development and management. The Wisconsin chapter was established by a team of professionals and relies on the volunteer work of its members. Contact www.pdma.org for more information.
About SCIP
The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) is the only global not-for-profit membership organization for everyone involved with the development and use of competitive intelligence. SCIP’s mission is to enhance the success of its members through leadership, education, advocacy and networking. For more, visit www.scip.org.
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Cheryl Perkins to facilitate Innovation-Driven Growth forum at Consumer Goods Technology conference in Miami
(Miami) September 2007 — How are successful corporations sparking innovation and driving growth? On September 25, Innovationedge Founder and President Cheryl Perkins brings together a panel of industry experts for “Innovation-Driven Growth,” an exciting sharing of insights on how some of the world’s leading consumer goods executives reshaped innovation and transformed their businesses to create value and deliver sustainable-growth innovation.
The discussion takes place during the 2nd Annual Consumer Goods Technology Growth and Innovation Forum in Miami. The theme of this year’s two-day event is The New Roadmap to Business Excellence.
“Top corporations know the key to forward-moving, sustainable solutions, and these visionary leaders will share how they are now better able to deliver new products to market,” said Perkins, Founder and president of Innovationedge and former Chief Innovation Officer for Kimberly-Clark. “Forum attendees will benefit from these insightful perspectives on how changes in leadership, culture, organization design, processes, metrics, incentives, capabilities, systems and tools can increase or slow down innovation and growth.”
The panel discussion will include Marketing, Sales and Supply Chain experts as well as innovation leaders from Sara Lee, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Services and Anheuser-Busch. A globally-recognized innovation champion herself, Perkins helps guide client companies to redesign their ambiguous corporate culture and organizational structure.
“Many companies struggle with how to change their corporate culture in a way that stimulates strategic innovation,” Perkins said. “But as these panelists know, every person within each business sector has a role in driving innovation. These experts will define the different roles for executive teams, middle management and individuals.”
About Consumer Goods Technology
CGT provides consumer goods executives with actionable insight, benchmark analysis and peer-to-peer networking—through integrated media—in order to help them improve business performance. Consumer Goods Technology serves a targeted audience of over 25,000 senior-level business and technology executives in the various segments that comprise the consumer goods market, from traditional packaged goods firms to cutting edge consumer electronic firms.
About Cheryl Perkins and Innovationedge™
Innovationedge is a strategic innovation company founded by Cheryl Perkins to lead companies to identify and transform insights, designs, technologies and capabilities into total solutions and new-to-the-world innovations. The company breaks barriers to help executives define their strategy, develop capabilities, design a winning organizational structure and deliver breakthrough innovations through a robust growth pipeline. Innovationedge also gives inventors an edge by crafting winning business propositions and creating strategic corporate partnerships that deliver commercial success.For more information, visit www.innovationedge.com, or contact:
Marketing Strategy and Communications
Innovationedge
920-734-8562
Jeff Lindsay Joins the Innovationedge Team
(Appleton, Wis.) August 13, 2007 — Jeffrey D. Lindsay, Ph.D., a leading researcher and expert in Intellectual Asset law and strategy, is joining the Innovationedge team. As Director of Solutions Development, Lindsay will work with inventors from all over the world to bring their new-to-the-world solutions to market including products, services and new business models. He will leverage his expertise to align the solutions and their intellectual assets to the strategic business goals of each inventor.
“I am very excited about Jeff joining the Innovationedge Team. Jeff will play a key role as leader of our Solutions Development Team,” says Cheryl Perkins, President and Founder of Innovationedge. “His background and experience will be invaluable as we work to expand our organization capability and broaden our market reach. With his diverse technology exposure and creativity, he will be able to talk the language of inventors and help them know what to consider when protecting their ideas, while enabling them to transform their vision of their innovative solutions into a reality.”
Lindsay began his career as an Associate Professor at the Institute of Paper Science and Technology on the Georgia Tech Campus, where he was named Teacher of the Year in 1993 and received several Best Paper awards for his research. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow. He currently chairs the BioProducts Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and has also chaired events for AIChE including RFID and smart packaging as well as serving as the Research Fellows Chair. In his most recent role as a Corporate Patent Strategist and Senior Research Fellow at Kimberly-Clark, Lindsay developed and advanced the concept of “Disruptive Intellectual Asset Strategy,” where intellectual assets are used to overcome normal barriers to disruptive innovation. This breakthrough concept has been well received at international conferences.
About Innovationedge:
Innovationedge is a strategic innovation company founded by Cheryl Perkins to lead companies to identify and transform insights, designs, technologies and capabilities into total solutions and new-to-the-world innovations. The company breaks barriers to help executives define their strategy, develop capabilities, design a winning organizational structure and deliver breakthrough innovations through a robust growth pipeline. Innovationedge also gives inventors an edge by crafting winning business propositions and creating strategic corporate partnerships that deliver commercial success.
Cheryl Perkins to Share Innovation Insights at Process for Innovation 2007 in Chicago
(Appleton,
Cheryl is joined by innovation leaders from Motorola, Cargill, Humana, DaimlerChrysler to provide simple and structured approaches to innovation, as well as the methods required to deploy it across organizations. The theme of this year’s event is, “Combining Creativity & Discipline for Systematic Solutions,” and is designed to give attendees a multitude of case studies on corporate innovation.
“This is a valuable learning experience for those who are looking for insights into how to jumpstart innovation at their companies,” says Perkins, Founder and President of Innovationedge, and former Chief innovation Officer for Kimberly-Clark Corporation. “I am looking forward to joining other leaders of innovation to share methods for aligning leadership around their innovation agenda, as well as how to foster creativity and extend the life of disruptive products and services.”
Perkins will present a course on metrics that teaches attendees a strategic and disciplined approach that will enable them to create a family of innovation metrics for their maximum return on investment. She’ll also lead a lunchtime roundtable discussion engaging executives on their use of metrics to measure innovation.
For more information on Process for Innovation 2007, please check out the brochure, or register here.
More about Cheryl Perkins and Innovationedge:
With over 20 years experience directing growth and innovation, Cheryl Perkins is a thought leader in innovation and most recently served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer for Kimberly-Clark. As a creative catalyst in brand-building initiatives, Perkins brings her expertise to Innovationedge, a strategic innovation company she founded to lead companies to identify and transform insights, designs, technologies and capabilities into total solutions and new-to-the-world innovations. The company breaks barriers to help executives define their strategy, develop strategic capabilities, design a winning org structure and deliver breakthrough innovations through a robust growth pipeline.
Additionally, the Innovation Edge model gives inventors an edge by crafting winning business plans and aligning strategic corporate partnerships for commercialization.
More about IQPC:
IQPC provides business executives around the world with tailored practical conferences, large scale events, topical seminars and in-house training programs, keeping them up-to-date with industry trends, technological developments and the regulatory landscape. The organization’s conferences are market leading “must attend” events for their respective industries. IQPC produces more than 1,500 events annually around the world, and continues to grow. Founded in 1973, IQPC now has offices in major cities across six continents including:
Amy Spreeman Director of Marketing Strategy and Public Relations
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Innovationedge hosts “Chief Innovation Officer: Leading Your Company’s Growth and Innovation Initiatives”
(Appleton,
“I am passionate about helping leaders take the guesswork out of innovation by designing a unique roadmap for their companies to build capability and deliver strategic innovation and growth,” says Cheryl Perkins, Founder and President of Innovationedge, and former Chief innovation Officer for Kimberly-Clark Corporation. “I firmly believe that knowing how to enable the right people, employ the right tools and identify the right projects to drive a successful innovation initiative will ultimately contribute to any organization’s sustainable growth and long-term success.”
The comprehensive curriculum is designed around four core topics:
• The Emerging Role of the CIO
• Fostering an Innovative Company Culture
• Establishing a Systematic Innovation Process
• Accelerating Innovation in Your Organization
Perkins is co-hosting this second event with Breakthrough Management Group, coming off this year’s launch of the first CIO conference held April 30th – May 1st. Faculty for the upcoming CIO event in October includes Perkins along with co-host David Silverstein, President and CEO of BMG and author of the book, Insourcing Innovation, and Dr. Phil Samuel, Chief Innovation Officer for BMG.
For more information on Chief Innovation Officer, please check out the course brochure, or go to BMG’s Web site to register.
About Cheryl Perkins and Innovationedge:
With over 20 years experience directing growth and innovation, Cheryl Perkins is a thought leader in innovation and most recently served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer for Kimberly-Clark. As a creative catalyst in brand-building initiatives, Perkins brings her expertise to Innovationedge, a strategic innovation company she founded to lead companies to identify and transform insights, designs, technologies and capabilities into total solutions and new-to-the-world innovations. The company breaks barriers to help executives define their strategy, develop strategic capabilities, design a winning org structure and deliver breakthrough innovations through a robust growth pipeline. Additionally, the Innovation Edge model gives inventors an edge by crafting winning business plans and aligning strategic corporate partnerships for commercialization.
About Breakthrough Management Group:BMG is the world’s leading provider of training and consulting for performance excellence. Specializing in Lean, Six Sigma and Innovation, BMG works with leading companies around the globe to help “in-source” new capability and develop new core competencies. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in