Description
Looking to reboot your approach to innovation projects? Have they failed to achieve the impact or organizational buy-in you had hoped for? Have you experienced misfires with consultants or among your own team? Have project results failed to support downstream action?
Innovation projects are made or broken at the outset, and yet, all too often, teams skip important first steps. Join RTI’s Innovation Advisors to learn tips and a tool for setting up projects for success. Discuss key success drivers like defining learning objectives, teaming well, and steering the work to a decision point. In addition to beginning with the end in mind, we’ll talk about how to make sure you’re embarking on the right kind of project.
Come follow along with a new project in mind (or recent project failure) and see what you might be missing in those crucial first steps.
For those interested, here is the link to the
worksheet that was reviewed during the session.
Contributors
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Adrienne Brown, Innovation Advisor, RTI International
As an Innovation Advisor, Adrienne helps companies, federal agencies, and regions realize their innovation goals. She believes innovation is the work of teams rather than of the lone genius, so her focus is often on building relationships, shared language, and an appreciation of the power of a collective. She specializes in the alchemy that is getting the right people in the room and helping them create a shared vision and the will to take the next step. Adrienne has 20 years of experience in strategy- and innovation-centered roles in commercial R&D, economic development, and non-profits.
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Brandy Salmon, Innovation Advisor, RTI International
Brandy helps companies explore best practices in innovation, assess and integrate current processes and activities, work collaboratively across organizations, and through a disciplined approach, identify and evaluate new sources of innovation. Brandy also serves as Program Lead of the Sanitation Technology Platform, STeP, for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, providing program leadership and oversight to integrate and accelerate innovations in sanitation through in field testing, market intelligence and business planning, commercialization in strategic locations globally.