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How to Become a Breakthrough Innovator: Catapult your products, company and career into new realms of opportunity

Speaker: Rod Greder

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Location: Doubletree Park Place Hotel -- 394 & Park Place Minneapolis

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11:30 AM - 12:00 PM	Registration
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM	Lunch and Networking
12:30 PM  - 1:15 PM	Speaker Presentation
1:15 PM - 1:30 PM	Q & A

Companies are launched, careers are made and businesses are reinvented when breakthrough products are developed.  Cutting costs and reducing development times are important but creating new-to-the-world products reshapes industries, companies and people’s career trajectories. Think iPod, Google, the Tesla electric car, and Michael Dell’s direct-to-consumers approach to the PC market. These products and services are changing or have changed our lives, and the lives of the developers. In this session we will discuss powerful tech¬niques and processes and consider mindsets and corporate cultures that are necessary to foster breakthrough thinking and to transform ideas into wildly successful products and businesses. Learn how the right amount of structure and process can help you develop a system for repeated innovation. Learn the power of simple questions and the necessity to look at the world in new ways. We will also explore the psychology of innovation and product development.

Rod Greder, Ph.D. is an international trainer, speaker and consultant in the area of new product development and innovation. He helps companies ensure they are “doing the right projects in the right way”. His clients have compressed cycle times, slashed development costs and knocked down barriers to innovation. Dr. Greder serves on the board of the Product Development & Management Association of Minnesota, is co-chair of the R&D SIG of Life Science Alley, serves on the Education-Industry Council for BioBusiness Alliance, writes a bi-monthly column on product development for Manufacturer’s Alliance and is a member of the American Society of Training & Development. He is also an adjunct instructor at St. Thomas and Augsburg.