Innovation Leadership & Customer Focused Open Innovation – March 7th & 8th Chicago

Eric Bartsch at Chanute Consulting Group will be teaching a course for Marcus Evans Professional Training on: “Leading and Implementing Customer -Focused Innovation” during March 7th and 8th 2013 in Chicago IL.

Benefits of attending this comprehensive course include:

• Understand the most productive applications of Open Innovation (OI) processes for your business
• Form more productive partnerships for external R&D
• Avoid common pitfalls encountered when involving external resources
• Integrate the needs of your customers into an innovation program
• Understand when the voice of the customer may lead in the wrong direction if used inappropriately
• Use Open Innovation (OI) to more efficiently find better solutions for customer needs
• Identify and evaluate opportunities for external collaboration
• Link innovation strategies directly to business results
• Identify the right external partners for OI initiatives
• Assess their internal innovation program to focus OI initiatives productively without duplicating efforts
• Explore and discuss innovation trends outside the classroom in downtown Chicago while exploring breakthroughtrends in Consumer Electronics, Fashion, Architecture, Consumer Products, Financial Services, and Retailing