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Subscribe Today! Update your profile or join BPMInstitute.org today to subscribe to the Business Decision Management Bulletin. While you're there, select from these bulletins as well: SOA Business Decision Management Business Architecture Organizational Performance Government Editorial Director Peter Fingar Author of Extreme Competition: Innovation and the Great 21st Century Business Reformation  Round Table Online Meetings Featuring Industry Analysts and Experts Upcoming Round Tables - reserve your seat today!             Understanding Innovation: What Exactly is Innovation, and how does Innovation Happen? Featuring: Peter Fingar, author of Extreme Competition: Innovation and the Great 21st Century Business Reformation Unless a company can innovate, it will be left behind in the brave new world of total global competition. But, what exactly is innovation, and how does innovation happen? These are the most important business questions of our times. Join Peter Fingar for the Inaugural Round Table of our dedicated Innovation "section" on BPMInstitute.org.     Hosted By: View this round table.           Extending Processes Beyond the Edge Points of BPM  Featuring: Alan Tam, Product Marketing Manager, Adobe Systems   Realize the full potential of automating human-centric business processes. Streamline operations, enhance customer communications, and improve your organization's ability to comply with regulations. Adobe process management solutions enable you to automate, manage, and track the processes that capture critical data and extend the reach of core business applications.   Hosted By: View this round table.

Welcome to the dedicated Innovation Section of BPMInstitute.org.

What strikes fear in the hearts of today’s business leaders? Commoditization and Globalization. Unless a company can innovate, it cannot make margins and will be marginalized as a commodity player. Unless a company can innovate, it will be left behind in the brave new world of total global competition. But, what exactly is innovation, and how does innovation happen? These are the most important business questions of our times. In this Innovation Section we will explore the many facets of innovation and distinguish between Business Innovation and the notion of invention. Business Innovation isn't some occasional event; it's an ongoing process that companies must master if they are to set the pace of innovation in their industries. And that's precisely what will separate the winners from the losers in the 21st century.

Topics covered will include many of the most cited issues around Business Innovation. They include:

Through articles by a variety of guest authors and round tables featuring industry thought leaders and practitioners, our focus will be on the alignment of strategies, processes, performers, measures, technologies and management to innovate innovation itself.

Applied Creativity and Value Discipline: The Innovation Cycle - Part 2 By: Jeremy Alexis, Assistant Professor - Institute of Design, IIT and Cynthia Benjamin, Office Director, Senior Engagement Manager - Strategic Decisions Group Part 2: A manager's guide for application and implementation of the Innovation Cycle Innovation is currently a hot topic in the executive suite and in business publications. Amid the buzz, managers are uncertain about how to reconcile the seemingly opposing calls for increased innovation and bottom-line productivity. As a result, when challenged to grow their businesses they often default to...

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Business Drivers: Designing new Innovation into your Business Utilizing A Successful Customer Innovation Process – A Fortune 100 Case Study Featuring: Lynda Davis, Managing Partner, Strategic Crossroads, LLC Innovation is essential to create long-term competitive advantage in today’s business environment. We’ll present a case study on a new innovation process that was successfully implemented in a Fortune 100 Company. The Customer Innovation process (CIP) engages strategic partners in a collaborative partnership, integrating their knowledge and capabilities in new ways to meet unique customer needs....

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DC - June 25-26, 2008
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Brought to you by BPMInstitute.org (the Peer to Peer Exchange for BPM Professionals), this Conference provides guidance and insight to Business and IT leaders looking to apply process thinking to critical business processes for organizational effectiveness. 

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