Podcast Series Incite Innovation!

Incite Innovation is a podcast series designed to advance innovation leadership and inspire teams. Featuring Cheryl Perkins, it offers fresh insights and incisive guest interviews on key trends, practices, technologies, and ideas. Check out our first two episodes:
 
Episode 1 Collaborative Innovation, Partnerships, and Ecosystems for the Digital Age. How top companies build their networks to deliver complete customer experiences. Open innovation has grown up; what does it take to win today – and in the future?
 
Episode 2 Balancing Long-Term Growth with Short-Term Profits. How to make the business case; what to do when torn between big bets with high growth potential and maintaining the ‘bread and butter.’

2007 Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference – Milwaukee

The fifth annual Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference is a road map for entrepreneurs. It offers hands-on training in the tactical strategies necessary to navigate the pitfalls and roadblocks of entrepreneurship. The agenda includes more than 20 panel discussions, a seminar for angel investors, the Governor’s Business Plan Awards, and more. Cheryl is a panelist on the

13th Annual Innovation Convergence: Innovation Immersion – Scottsdale, AZ

Caleo Resort & Spa, Scottsdale, Ariz. Improve your organization’s innovation program to drastically advance capabilities, deliver value and obtain immediate results. Presenters include Cheryl Perkins, President of Innovation Edge; Arkadi Kuhlmann, Chairman, President and CEO of ING Direct; Chip Heath, co-author of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die; and Gunter Pauli,

Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) Conference

Breakthrough Management Group’s (BMG) Chief Innovation Officer conference was held in Denver this year, giving aspiring CIOs a robust overview as well as a deep-dive into the processes, tools and culture needed to successfully shape innovation at today’s forward-thinking companies.

CGT Growth and Innovation Forum – Miami

Consumer Goods Technology is holding its 2nd annual Growth and Innovation Forum in Miami on Sept. 24-26. Visionary leaders will gather for two days of networking, relationship building and insights from some of the world’s leading consumer goods executives and analysts around driving innovation and sparking creativity. The theme of this year’s CG Growth &

Burning Questions 2007: Leading for Innovation – London

Burning questions 2007: Leading for Innovation (produced by Harvard Business School Publishing Group) will convene thought leaders and global executives for insightful discussions that bridge the theory and practice of innovation. These leaders will gather to discuss the most pressing issues and unanswered questions related to innovation. They desire to get past the buzz associated

Cheryl Perkins delivers game-changing solutions to customers looking for an Edge on Innovation

(Appleton, Wis.) June 1, 2007 — Cheryl Perkins, Founder and President of Innovationedge and former Chief Innovation Officer for Kimberly-Clark, is creating new strategic business opportunities for companies seeking a competitive advantage in delivering disruptive solutions.

As a thought leader in innovation and 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.

Innovationedge is committed to giving clients the power of knowledge so they can be self-sufficient in applying innovation to improve the performance of their portfolios,” says Perkins, President of Innovationedge. “Through a patented holistic innovation model, Innovationedge helps executives define their strategy, develop strategic capabilities, design a winning org structure and deliver breakthrough innovations through a robust growth pipeline.”

Additionally, the Innovationedge model gives inventors an edge by crafting winning business plans and aligning strategic corporate partnerships for commercialization.“Innovationedge gives those shaping today’s corporate innovation the ability to rethink their business processes and re-align their culture of innovation,” Perkins says. “We see our role as building and transferring strategic innovation to our clients and facilitating their use of creative and design tools to continuously improve their thought leadership and market performance.”

SatyamWorld Customer Summit 2007

Satyam is hosting its fifth “SatyamWorld Customer Summit,” an annual event held exclusively for our esteemed clients. The event will take place from May 20-22, 2007 at the Marco Island Marriott Beach Resort, located in Florida. We feel that this location will provide a perfect backdrop for Satyam’s clients and business partners to participate in

PDMA/IIR Front End of Innovation Conference

The 5th Annual Front End of Innovation Conference was co-sponsored by PDMA & IIR and was all the buzz in Boston. The content and discussion topics are the most critical reasons why people come back each and every year. The goal was to focus on the quality of presentations in the breakout sessions, so that

Webinar: Organizing for Open Innovation

This Webinar event on Open Innovation matched a team of experts including Cheryl Perkins. CEO of Innovation Edge, to discuss how a strategic organizational design coupled with the open innovation model will fill internal capability gaps and increase business output.