Dear researcher/practitioner:

Globalization and hyper-competition have created an extremely challenging business environment for companies in the forest industry. Future ability to compete, grow, and create value depends on the ability to innovate.


In this spirit, Oregon Wood Innovation Center from Oregon State University and the Forest Products Management Development Institute from University of Minnesota is glad to present this free webcast seminar with Mark Turrell, CEO of Imaginatik.  Mr. Turrell has worked with over 300 companies including HP™,  Sprint™, McDonald’s™, Georgia Pacific™, Cargill™, Gap™, Nestle™, Pfizer™, BP™ and many others, on innovation management and related topics of knowledge management and collaborative technologies.

For live access to this seminar please login to:
https://www.gotomeeting.com/join/330218283 on Wednesday May 17th at 12 Noon CST. Audio for the webcast will be accessible via phone at 319-256-0510 (acess code and meeting ID 330-218-283).

 

 
Mark Turrell has worked with over 300 companies including HP™,  Sprint™, McDonald’s™, Georgia Pacific™, Cargill™, Gap™, Nestle™, Pfizer™, BP™ and many others, on innovation management and related topics of knowledge management and collaborative technologies. He co-founded Imaginatik in 1994, which is now a world leader in Innovation and Idea Management, and in 2001 he initiated the Imaginatik Research group, which is dedicated to fundamental research in corporate innovation and produces regular reports and papers on Idea Management, Knowledge Management, and Innovation Management.  Mark is a frequent speaker on Innovation and Idea Management and is widely recognized as the leading authority in the field of Idea Management, having authored numerous magazine articles and white papers. He has been an expert guest on innovation topics on CNN, CNBC, CNET Radio and TechTV. Mark has recently been named a Research Fellow of Penn State University, and also lectures at several business schools including Cass School of Business (U.K.), INSEAD (France), and Harvard Business School (U.S.A.).

 

Cordially inviting:

Dr. Eric Hansen
Professor, Forest Products Marketing
Oregon State University
Phone: 541-737-4240
E-mail: eric.hansen2@oregonstate.edu

Dr. Timothy Smith
Associate Professor, Corporate Environmental Management
Director, FPMDI
University of Minnesota

Phone: 612-624-6755
E-mail: timsmith@umn.edu

 
       
 
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