NEWS
RELEASE
Tuesday,
August 24, 2004. Denver, Colorado
What’s
the Big Idea?
How to Leverage Idea Power in Your Company
For
R. Buckminster Fuller, getting innovation to market was simply
a waiting game. “I just invent, then wait around until man
comes around to needing what I’ve invented.”
However,
in today’s extreme business environment, few can afford
to wait. What innovators and innovating companies need is a process
to turn big new ideas into revenue-producing products and services
-- and that is what the Knowledge Continuity Center, located in
Denver, Seattle, and Hartford provides.
David
Harden, founder of KCC, and Fred Vail of Saudi Aramco will present
“What’s the Big Idea?: How to Leverage Idea Power
in Your Company” at the 2004 Colorado Innovation Summit,
to be held on September 23 and 24 at the Stonegate Manor Event
Center in Thornton, CO. The author and speaker will shed light
on the age-old management dilemma, “How can I give people
more autonomy for innovation, but still ensure that we have order
and productivity in the organization?" Harden will demonstrate
how Saudi Aramco systematically saved an estimated $250 million
in 10 months by bucking the traditional top-down master plan.
Instead of creating roadblocks to building something big and eternal,
they implemented a framework that encourages self-organization
of ideas.
Harden
emphasizes that this hot topic relocates the responsibility for
value-added work into the hands of the people who actually touch
the product or provide the service – eliminating costly
external supervision and bureaucratic overhead. His viewpoint
grows out of his varied experiences. As an active duty Air Force
pilot, he has logged over 2,500 flight hours, including combat
time in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Kosovo. As a speaker, writer,
and practitioner on knowledge continuity and innovation, he has
worked with companies all over the world. And, as the director
of a parenting education program for disadvantaged families. he
has been nominated for the Ten Outstanding Young Americans Award.
(David Harden can be reached at 888-787-0392 and harden@knowledgecontinuity.org.)
The
Colorado Innovation Summit fills a significant gap in Colorado
industry conferences by serving midsize and larger corporations.
Though Colorado is rich in programs for entrepreneurs, no other
conference targets innovators in companies of 100 people and larger.
The Summit is also unique in recognizing the full breadth of innovation.
Tracks this year are organized around innovation of new businesses,
products, services, as well as internal processes, strategies,
and technology transfers.
The
2004 Colorado Innovation Summit presents “Lessons from the
Real World.” Each session, from opening keynote to final
panel, will deliver practical, actionable, take-home-and-use lessons
that apply across industries and across types of innovation.
Speakers
in 18 sessions over two days will engage an audience of up to
350 people – roughly 70% corporate management and innovation
staff, with the rest a mix of service providers, entrepreneurs,
government representatives, economic development professionals,
and students.
| The
Colorado Innovation Summit accelerates innovation
vision, process, and profits through lessons from the real
world that deliver more competitive, timely, and valuable
innovations. Program, exhibits, and networking serve both
management and staff in midsize and larger organizations.
Date:
September 23-25, 8:00-5:00 with an informal reception on
Thursday
Registration: $445 before September 19
and $495 thereafter
Register at www.InnovationSummit.com or by calling 303-666-4133
Venue: Stonebrook Manor, near I-25 at 120th
Avenue in Thornton
|
The Colorado
Innovation Summit is organized by Gary Lundquist, President of
Market Engineering, and Thomas Frey, Executive Director of The
DaVinci Institute. Market Engineering accelerates innovation and
brand equity with services in strategic visioning and management
of businesses, products, strategies, and launches. The DaVinci
Institute is a futurist think tank that produces unique, one-of-a-kind
conferences to stimulate debate and action on a variety of topics.
Media
Contacts:
Mary Wilson Callahan, 303-774-0499, mary@silverstreakpartners.com
Gary Lundquist, 303-840-9929, GaryL@Market-Engineering.com
