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The external seminar series is directed primarily towards practitioners, from our cooperating companies or from others. The series has two legs, on one hand seminars with external researchers, preferably international, and on the other hand seminars and work shops based on our own research and research findings.
The seminars with external researchers takes advantage of the visits from international researchers and is run in co-operation with CPE (Chalmers Professional Education) seminar series. The seminars are announced on the CBI News and more information may also be found at www.chalmersprofessional.se. The seminar presenters will though include other relevant speakers, from Sweden and other countries. Please see below for upcoming seminars and also reports from already held seminars. For the latter, click the ‘read more’ link below each seminar to learn more about the topics discussed and about the external seminar leader.
The 2nd leg of the series – work shops based on our research – is organized with participants from the industrial and academic arenas. The purpose of the seminars is two-fold. Firstly, we want to create an arena for the diffusion of the knowledge gained from our portfolio of research projects and secondly, the workshops will extend our research network, which, in turn, will improve our ability to create important and interesting future research collaborations.
CBI Day
On December 1st 2011, we will hold our annual ‘CBI day’ with all collaborating partners invited to take part in an open forum. It will be aimed at: (1) spreading knowledge about our projects and way of working; (2) presenting research results; and (3) providing a forum for actors from companies, academia and institutions to meet. The theme for the CBI day will be decided upon later. Please note the date!
Seminars
Click the read more link below each seminar to learn more about the topics discussed and about the external seminar leader.
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A CBI/CPE Executive Cooperation
Bob Dorf
Wednesday November 30, 2011
A seminar with Bob Dorf, serial entrepreneur from the US, and co-author of the book "Four Steps to the Epiphany" together with Steve Blanks, gives a seminar.
Customer Development, the rigorous methodology developed by serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Blank, brings what is often called the "scientific method" to the typically chaotic, seemingly disorganized startup process. This step-by-step process helps innovators at small startups and big company intrapreneurships to "get it right" long before they bring the product to market. Spend a day understanding the key elements of the powerful Customer Development process and learn how to put it score steps - Customer Discovery and Customer Validation - to work.
For more information, visit http://www.chalmersprofessional.se/en/programs?tags=executive&id=1982 |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 15 December 2011 17:09 |
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A CBI/CPE Executive Cooperation
Professor Gina O'Connor
Friday, September 30, 2011
Innovation is emerging as a distinct management discipline in major corporations across the world. But how can firms work systematically and strategically with innovation? In this seminar Professor O'Connor will share her insights on how large firms can develop, embed and sustain radical innovation management capabilities. She is a recognized thought leader on innovation from the Lally School of Management and Technology in Troy, New York and the Director of the Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship and the Radical Innovation Research Project.
For more information, visit: http://www.chalmersprofessional.se/en/programs/?id=1809&tags=executive
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Last Updated on Friday, 01 July 2011 15:11 |
CBI arranged a seminar on Open Innovation with Jan and Petra Bosch, both recently recruited to Chalmers. They shared their insights from implementing open innovation in practice as well as researching that very process. The seminar took place in the department seminar room (2456) on May 4 - 12-13.
Introducing Open Innovation at Intuit
Open Innovation can provide a powerful complement to internal innovation and M&A to drive revenue growth. Hence, 3 years ago, Intuit ($3.5B, 8000 employees, Silicon Valley, USA) decide to embark on an initiative to introduce and grow open innovation. This seminar presents the journey that the organization went through and the experiences that were collected during the process from a participant-observer perspective. In addition, based on the case we present a framework for introducing open innovation in an organization. The seminar will be interactive with the opportunity for participants to share theoretical perspectives and additional industrial experiences to complement the presented case and framework.
Jan recently returned to a professorship in Software Engineering at Chalmers after 7 years in industry working as a vice president at Nokia and Intuit. At Nokia, he led the Software and Application Technologies Laboratory at Nokia Research Center with sites in Helsinki, Tampere, Budapest, Bejing, Boston and San Diego. At Intuit, he was, among others, responsible for introducing Open Innovation, managing Intuit's engineering processes and leading the central mobile technologies team.
Petra is an associate professor at Chalmers at Construction Management. Earlier she was a visiting scholar at Stanford University, California, and senior researcher at Aalto University, Finland as well as at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She has a PhD from the University of Groningen in management and organization and a Licentiate degree from Lund University, Sweden.
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Last Updated on Monday, 16 May 2011 09:56 |
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A CHAMPS CBI Cooperation
Dr Alexander Osterwalder
A one-day seminar with the internationally acknowledged innovation thought leader and business model guru Dr. Alexander Osterwalder.
This seminar goes far beyond the buzzword "business model". You will learn how to describe, challenge and reinvent your business model with a practical and engaging method applied in leading companies around the world. It applies to executives, entrepreneurs, and consultants alike who either want to improve their existing business model or want to design new ones.
Osterwalder is considered the guru of business model innovation and his latest book, "Business Model Generation - a handbook for visionaries, game changers, challengers" is a global bestseller. His research has generated a lot of interest all over the world and companies such as Telenor, IBM, PricewaterhouseCoopers, 3M and Deloitte have all applied his method.
The seminar took place on November 18th, 2010, in Göteborg, Sweden.
For more information, contact Sofia Börjesson or Maria Elmquist at CBI.
Please download the Osterwalder seminar folder here.
(Photo: Marjolijn Kamphuis)
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A CHAMPS CBI Cooperation
Professor John Bessant
Professor John Bessant, the Director of Research and Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Exeter, U.K. Professor Bessant is the author of 15 books on innovation and has extensive experience from advising various national governments, international bodies including the United Nations, The World Bank and OECD and many companies such as Lego, NovoNordisk, Mars Toyota, UBS and Morgan Stanley. John Bessant, University of Exeter
A CHAMPS CBI Cooperation
Discontinuous Innovation on September 27th
Learning to manage open collective innovation on September 28th
Both seminars were about innovation as a survival imperative. In the executive seminar on the 27th, the focus was on discontinuous innovation. Unless we change what we offer the world and the way we create and deliver them, there is a good chance that we may not survive in today’s hostile business environment. Making a success of innovation depends on active management – innovation leadership.
The trouble is that even if we manage innovation in terms of keeping up – the risk is that this may not be enough. We also need the capacity to do something completely different- discontinuous change - or someone else may. In the seminar, Prof Bessant brought up issues such as how to organize and manage the innovation process and also hoe we could learn and keep up with ‘best practice’ in such a dynamic field; How do we deal with challenges which come beyond the ‘steady state’?. He pointed at ways to pick up early warning signals about discontinuous change.
In the second seminar - which was a scholar seminar - the focus was on collective and open aspects of innovation with the title Learning how to manage open collective innovation. The seminar started from the assumption that recent years have seen a rapid expansion of ‘open’ approaches to innovation with emphasis shifting from knowledge production to ways of enabling extensive knowledge flows on and out of organizations. Three converging trends can be seen underpinning extensive experimentation around this: Opening up R&D to a wider range of external players; Opening up innovation to a wide range of internal players (via innovation contexts, etc.); and Opening up innovation to a wider range of user inputs.
. Significantly this also opens up interesting questions for how we – as a research community – engage with the problem including the potential to make use of such approaches within our research and teaching.
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A CHAMPS CBI Cooperation
Professor Amy Shuen
On Friday May 7th, 2010, Professor Amy Shuen held a seminar for academics in the CBI Seminar Series.
About the seminar
In the seminar “Web 2.0 Strategy for Innovation”, based on a recent book, Professor Amy Shuen discussed how the web has changed the economics of business and collaboration. She argued that this has changed the core principles of strategic advantage and competitive advantage in all industries, not only in high-tech industries. Taking the stance in the seminal Strategic Management Journal article on Dynamic Capabilities that she co-authored in 1997 (Teece et al, 1997) , and her extensive experience in the field, Professor Shuen shared her insights on how companies can orchestrate their dynamic capabilities to meet the web 2.0 challenges.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 01 July 2010 09:26 |
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A CHAMPS CBI Cooperation
Professor Verganti
On Friday 26th of March, 2010, Roberto Verganti held a seminar for scholars, hosted by CBI and Business Design Lab at Gothenburg University.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 01 July 2010 09:26 |
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