Presented by Institute for Lean Innovation
Historic Grand Hotel
Mackinac Island, Michigan
August 20-22, 2008 |
Combining Game Changeing Thinking With Cost, Quality & Speed
Lean Innovation is a rapidly emerging technology that takes lean sigma thinking to a new level.
This new field says innovation is no mystery. It can be a systematic, understandable, repeatable way of doing business. And, done right, it can build quality, cost and speed into any solution right from the start.
Lean Innovation techniques are now being applied to corporate strategies, products, services, and transactional systems.
Every summer, Lean Innovation thought leaders from leading organizations meet at historic Mackinac Island, Michigan (www.mackinac.com) to share new techniques in this growing field.
Please join us August 20-22, 2008 at the Grand Hotel (www.grandhotel.com) for this outstanding event.
Bart Huthwaite, Sr.
Founder, Institute for Lean Innovation
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Make innovation a sustainable management process, rather than a random event.
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Integrate Lean Innovation into your existing lean and six sigma initiatives.
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Measure whether you are on the right innovation track early enough to make course corrections.
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Use Lean Innovation to find new market opportunities.
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Apply Lean Innovation to improve your day-to-day business operations.
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Get all ‘stakeholders’ on board from Day One. . . and keep them on board.
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Systematically go outside your corporate boundaries to discover new ideas.
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Enable teams to innovate without creating chaos, delay, and low morale.
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Create an innovation idea bank to store ideas for future use.
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Predict disruptive market, technology and competitive forces of change.
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| 11:00 |
Topic: “The Essentials of Lean Innovation Leadership.” Why innovation leadership is tough and how to avoid the “fatal flaws.” |
| 12:00 |
Lunch at the Grand Hotel. |
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Topic: “Integrating Lean Innovation with Lean Six Sigma Initiatives.” |
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Topic: “Affordability from Day One: An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure.” How to move your organization from lean “fire fighting” to “fire prevention” with Lean Innovation. |
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Topic: “Implementing Lean Innovation in the Smaller Organization.” How to Develop Game Changing Ideas on a Shoestring.” |
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Day One session ends. |
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Welcome to the
Grand Hotel,
America’s Summer Place |
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There’s no place quite like it, and the experience cannot be duplicated. The Grand Hotel opened in 1887 and is where guests enjoy exceptional service and accommodations.
Mackinac is a Victorian island without cars, and where horse-drawn carriages and bicycles are the only modes of transportation. It has the slower, more leisurely pace of the past, but with all the amenities of the present. For more on Mackinac Island visit www.mackinacisland.org. |
| Agenda Day One |
Social Agenda |
Wednesday, August 20 |
| 8:00 |
Conference Registration / Continental Breakfast. |
| 9:00 |
Welcome by Bart Huthwaite, Summit Chairman. |
| 9:30 |
Attendee “take home” goals. “What I Want to Take Away from this Lean Innovation Summit." |
| 10:00 |
Topic: “Recognizing Ripening Bananas: How To See New Opportunities Before Your Competition Wakes Up.” Why just listening to the voice of your customer may mean you are already too late. |
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Topic: “Microsoft’s Quest for Permanent Innovation.” How Microsoft is finding new fields of opportunity. |
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Topic: “Fast Innovation Learning Cycles at Steelcase” How America’s leading business equipment manufacturer is getting better products to market faster at lower cost |
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5:30 – 9:00 Enjoy a horse drawn Island tour followed by reception and traditional Mackinac Island dinner at Huthwaite Family cottage. You will be treated to an “insider’s” view of one of the world’s most unique communities. Spouses invited.
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| Agenda Day Two |
Social Agenda |
Thursday, August 21
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Continental breakfast. |
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Mini-Workshop: “The Lean Innovation CUBE: A Protocol for Replicating the Dynamics of Innovation” |
| The Lean Innovation CUBE takes the mystery out of innovation to make it understandable, practical and doable. You will be given a “hands on” tour of the CUBE using an actual case study. |
| 12:00 |
Lunch at the Grand Hotel. |
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Topic: “Lean Innovation at Raytheon Missile Systems.” How one of America’s highest technology companies is making affordability a core company skill. |
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Spouses will be taken on a guided Island tour and to the Chippewa Hotel for Lunch.
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| Agenda Day Three |
Previous Attendees |
Friday, August 22
| 8:00 |
Continental breakfast. |
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Topic: “DuPont’s Pursuit of Innovation” How DuPont is using systematic innovation to propel its worldwide growth. |
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Topic: “Lean Innovation at General Electric.” How GE is taking innovation to the global market. |
| 10:30 |
Topic: “Innovation in China: Can China Really Move from Just “Made in China” to “Innovated in China?” Exclusive insights into China’s plans for nationwide innovation. |
| 11:30 |
Summit formally ends. |
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Air Products & Chemicals
Black & Decker
Boeing
Bose Corp.
Boston Scientific
Chrysler Corporation
Corning, Inc.
DuPont
Eaton Corporation
Ethicon
Fed Ex
FMC Corp
Ford Motor Company
Gulfstream Aerospace
Hershey Foods
Hewlett-Packard
Honeywell
IBM
Intel
Johnson & Johnson
Kimberly Clark
Masco Corporation
Merck
Microsoft
Pfizer
Raytheon
StorageTek
Sun Microsystems
UPS
Waterloo Industries
Zimmer
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Workshop
The Innovation CUBE:
How to Make Innovation Understandable, Systematic, and Repeatable. |
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Lean Innovation is now a top priority for survival and growth. Yet over 80% of all innovative efforts fail to meet objectives. What is needed is a “repeatable innovation process.”
The Innovation CUBE does this by replicating the dynamics of innovation. It takes the “mystery” out of innovation to make it understandable, practical and doable. |
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Make innovative thinking part of any project, process, business system or product improvement. |
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Link innovation to existing initiatives such as: Six Sigma, Lean, Quality Function Deployment, Portfolio Planning, and
Effective Project Management. |
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Find new “blue water” opportunities before your competition. |
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Discover the values that customers crave. |
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Generate ten times your usual number of practical ideas. |
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Measure solutions against one another to make sure you make the right decision. |
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Create your own innovation data bank to store ideas for future use. |
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Develop a corporate-wide rapid innovation management improvement effort.
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Workshop Leader:
Bart Huthwaite, Sr., Founder,
Institute for Lean Innovation |
This is a “hands-on” workshop.
You will be able to use the CUBE to begin turning your project ideas into a winning business solution.
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Accomodations
The Grand Hotel
Mackinac Island, MI 49757
For hotel reservation forms call:
Emily at 906-847-6094
Discounted room rates are available through July 18, 2008 rooms are limited.
Attire
All events are casual dress. However, please bring a windbreaker and sweater. Mackinac evenings can be cool. Those who may decide to dine at the Grand Hotel will want to remember to bring a tie and jacket for evening dining. The Grand Hotel is the only facility on the Island requiring a tie after 6:00 p.m.
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Fees & Registration
Conference Fee: $2,995 per person. Fee includes continental breakfasts, networking reception and dinner, refreshment breaks, complimentary copies of “The Lean Design Solution: A Practical Guide to Streamlining Product Design & Development,” “Rules of Innovation” and a “pop-up” Innovation CUBE all created by Bart Huthwaite.
Team Discounts: Teams of 2 or more may deduct $100 per person – discount applies to teams that register together.
No-Risk Guarantee: Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. If you are not satisfied with the quality of this program, let us know in writing and we will refund your entire registration fee.
Registration Options
Call: 906-847-6094 (9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. EST)
Fax: 906-847-6047
Mail: Institute for Lean Innovation
Lean Innovation Leadership
P.O. Box 1999
Mackinac Island, MI 49757
E-mail: (the following information) to:
emily@innovationcube.com.
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