Innovation for breakthrough New-business growth

September 4, 2003

Location: Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Bldg., Room EE/CS 3-180

Abstract:

For business today, there are two roads to increasing profitability. One is a short-term fix, reducing operating cost. The other road, the one less traveled, is a more sustainable option, creating profitable new-business growth. Learn how to create new growth by: identifying significant new growth opportunities, changing the rules of the game and achieving breakthrough vs. incremental innovation. Ron will present his road-map for Innovation for Breakthrough New-Business Growth. This presentation draws on more than 34 years of Ron’s hands-on industry experience, 28 of which were with 3M. He works with firms world-wide that are determined to improve their new business growth performance.

About the Speakers:

Ronald H. Kubinski is a Managing Principal of Strategic Innovation Partnerships LLC, a firm providing training and consulting in Innovation, New Business Growth Strategy, Market Research and New Product Commercialization.  Ron is also a hands-on industry veteran with more than 34 years of experience in new product development, customer interfacing and long range business planning. During his 28 years at 3M, a company renowned for innovation, Ron was responsible for providing training and consulting on leading edge processes to accelerate innovation, breakthrough new business growth and speeding time to market.

Prior to forming Strategic Innovation Partnerships, Ron served for two years as the President and Managing Principal of IdeaScope Associates, a Boston based firm with an eighteen year history in innovation and new business growth strategy. Ron is a member of the Advisory Committee to the U.S. Conference Board’s Learning Group on “Growth Through Innovation.” Ron is also a member of the Executive Board of the Minnesota Strategic Leadership Forum.