"The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist innovation is expensive. In the long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is expensive—and autonomy is the antidote."
- Tom Kelley, General Manager, IDEO
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (AM, PM & All-day sessions available)
Sheraton Ann Arbor
We live in an interconnected world of dizzying speed, exponential complexity and seemingly endless cost cutting. Prior strategies for maintaining world-class excellence are obsolete. In this new era, U-M leaders know that practical innovation and creativity are crucial for success, especially when you are pressed for time, money and staff.
The speakers at this year’s conference, from diverse backgrounds and experiences, will show you how to apply everyday creativity to solving daily problems and issues. They understand that today’s problems won’t be solved with yesterday’s solutions. They will help you understand why every person in your organization must move from a “reactive” mindset, where problem solving takes time, money and personnel, to a lean environment’s “creative” mindset.
AM Keynote: Josh Linkner The New Currency of Academic Success: Creativity and Innovation
Josh Linkner,
best-selling author of Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity, will describe how to jump-start the everyday creativity needed to reach departmental goals and motivate employees. Learn an easy and practical 5-step process to assist you in developing better and more successful solutions to any problem you face.
The final keynote is sure to be one of the highlights of the conference as Dr. Jim Geiger, Executive Director of the Medical Innovation Center, joins Josh and Richard to discuss how and why innovation is crucial to you as a U-M manager. Whether you face reduced staff, overwhelming daily issues, budgetary problems or change issues, these three world class innovators will share their insights into how and why you can better address those issues by doing things differently.
In addition to our keynote speakers, you’ll be hearing from:(hover over each presenter's name for bios and session details)
