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UPCOMING EVENTS
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Event Name: |
October Event - Creating an Environment of Innovation
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Date & Time: |
Thursday, October 16, 2008 6:00 PM
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Location: |
EduCorp
7805 Mesquite Bend Dr.
Irving, TX 75063
The training facility is located near Royal Lane and Beltline in Irving. See the attached map for more details.
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Description: |
Creating an Environment of Innovation
2 Bits, 4 Bits, 6 Bits, A Few Million Dollars - What’s the Real Value of Innovation?
Innovation has always been a critical element in achieving and maintaining success for our businesses and for our country. Yet there has been a recent resurgence in market demand for business innovation, and for the understanding that an environment of innovation is necessary for continued success. Why innovation? Why Now? What are some of the reasons that innovation is such a hot business topic now? If innovation is the key to our future success and possibly to the very existence of our businesses, how do we, as professional women in technology contribute to the creation of an environment of innovation? Is there significant value in investing in innovation for our companies and our own, personal careers?
Kathy Mast offers a unique presentation on the value of innovation. She describes how to:
• Make strategy the heart of the business and ongoing leadership
• Launch new products and services in a manner that enhances the innovative environment
• Align technology investments with strategy and innovation models to maximize returns
• Inspire people to excel in an environment of innovation
Benefits of the presentation include: the following results and outcomes
• Increased knowledge of innovation, innovation initiatives and successes with innovation in a variety of markets and industries
• Identification and application of the links between innovation, strategy and technology in your own business to achieve a higher ROI for upcoming initiatives
• The use of industry-leading research to understand the innovation opportunity for personal career enhancements
• Creation of a more dynamic, engaged and profitable company
Using a distinctive approach that focuses a diverse group on the personalization of a solution for personal and organizational innovation, the program is 60 percent presentation, 20 percent individual analysis and participant interaction and 20 percent debriefing. In a safe but challenging environment, you will gain new insights into innovation and its potential for the business in which you work and your career.
Speaker:
Kathy Mast
Kathy Mast Consulting
Background:
Kathy Mast collaborates with C-level executives of global companies to achieve a sustainable advantage by solving their most complex business problems with strategies for future-focused innovation and enhanced returns on I/T investments. Kathy Mast Consulting is often called on to create, or confirm, a strategy for improving business performance. As a client observed, “Kathy provides skills that customers need and few consultants provide.”
Kathy is focused on working with large companies to improve business performance globally. Her clients are, or want to be, innovators in the Manufacturing, Retail, Professional Services, Technology and Media Industries and include global leaders such as Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, Rent-A-Center, Inc. and Prime Therapeutics, LLC.
As an executive and consultant working in global companies, Kathy has witnessed, firsthand, the transitions that occur as innovation and technology become an integrated part of everyday business. She’s learned what great leaders and exemplary employees do differently in times of change.
Agenda:
6:00 - 6:45 pm Registration & Meet and Greet
6:45 - 7:00 pm Announcements and Sponsor Recognition
7:00 - 8:30 pm Program – Creating an Environment of Innovation
8:30 - 8:45 pm Door Prizes and Wrap Up
Hosted by:
EduCorp
Food:
Appetizers
Cost:
Before October 10:
$15 for members
$25 for non-members
$10 for students
After October 10:
$20 for members
$30 for non-members
$10 for students
Day of event: members/non-members, $40
Refund policy: No refunds after October 10
No-show registrations will be invoiced.
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