Pragmatic Innovation: How to Translate Company Skills Into Profitable Products January 10, 2006

MORE INFO: http://west.cmu.edu/prospective_students/professional_development_center/innovation?category=Development%20Management&courseid=1697357

Despite the notion that innovation depends upon serendipitous inspirations from creative individuals, today's pioneering companies rely on disciplined research and procedures to achieve innovation.

These procedures for creativity are fundamentally different from what we typically think of as "procedures," but they are procedures nonetheless, and they can be learned, used, and adopted by anyone. Anyone, at least, who is willing to intelligently take the uncertainty head on, to risk and endure failure in the disciplined quest for a brilliant product or service.

For anyone who wants to grow top line revenues through new products, learn not only how to identify significant product opportunities but also to create the right new products for the market!

Date: January 10 - 11, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Continental breakfast and lunch is served.
Complementary networking cocktail event is included.

Directions: http://west.cmu.edu/who_we_are/visitor

Cost:
General Registration: $1880
Alumni: $500
Carnegie Mellon Students: $150

MORE INFO:
Website: http://west.cmu.edu/prospective_students/professional_development_center/innovation?category=Development%20Management&courseid=1697357
Email: Pdc@west.cmu.edu
Phone: 650-335-2847

About Carnegie Mellon West:
Carnegie Mellon West in Mountain View offers non-traditional part-time MS programs in software engineering and management. The educational approach is team-based, project-oriented, and learning-by-doing, aimed at working professionals. The Center for Open Source Investigation does research and professional education on technical, business and organizational issues related to open source software.