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4.7.2004
New pre-conference event added!
How can you quickly design and develop innovative new products?
Attend the IDSA pre-conference workshop sponsored by Pactiv on Friday, April 16 at The W Hotel in Chicago!
WHEN: Friday, April 16 - 8:00am to 12:00 noon
WHERE: The W Hotel - City Center (Previously announced Lakeshore location was a mistake.)
TUITION: FREE for IDSA Members (courtesy of Pactiv), $199 for non-members
MATERIALS: KnowBrainer innovation tool ($100 value), Resource Kit and
innovation worksheets
REGISTRATION:
- Limited number of free spaces available for IDSA members,
see link to register:
http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=12475
- Non-members register with a credit card by visiting
http://www.solutionpeople.com/training-idsa and using the SolutionStore
- For more info contact: idsa-reg (at) solutionpeople (dot) com, phone (312) 829-2852 or visit http://www.solutionpeople.com/training-idsa
Facilitated by Gerald "Solutionman" Haman Haman is founding partner of SolutionPeople, developer of the
Thinkubator in Chicago, and teaches innovation at Northwestern University. Formerly with Procter & Gamble and Arthur Andersen, he is the award-winning inventor of the KnowBrainer, a tool that has proven to increase creativity by over 500%. Haman gained international acclaim for establishing a world brainstorming record by facilitating 8,000 people in a Thinkathon at the Singapore Stadium to generate 454,000 ideas in less than 60 minutes. He has been profiled in 50 major news publications including FAST Company, the New York Times, Newsweek Japan, The Australian, and Investors Business Daily. Haman holds a Masters Degree in Communications and Training from the University of Minnesota and is a contributing author of the New Product Development Handbook. He has published articles on innovation for the Journal of Innovative Management, Training Today and The Meeting Professional.
SolutionPeople has recently been recognized by Fortune magazine as a "Winning Workplace" finalist and the American Society for Training & Development awarded them a "Learning Excellence Citation" for their training effectiveness. The firm has also been profiled in the "Creating Customer Evangelists" book and recognized for their unique business practices. SolutionPeople's training, tools and techniques have been used by over 100,000 people to generate over 2 million ideas that have produced over 2 billion dollars in value. Every month people from around the world come to the SolutionPeople's Thinkubator in Chicago to experience Accelerated Innovation training.
Archives
January 2004
February 2004
March 2004
April 2004
May 2004
Maria Weber (Webb Scarlett), Larry Fenske (Bit7), Paul Hatch (TEAMS Design), Zach Kaplan (Inventables), Craig Berman (Ignite USA), Sue Kim (Wilson Jones), Brian Urbanik (Kaleidoscope), Tim Copeland, Eric Schultz (Models Plus), Michael Carrow.
Apologies to anyone we've missed / mispelled / misrepresented. Please let us know if we inadvertantly left your contributions unknown!
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The economy, culture, business,
manufacturing, design trends, technology, the environment.
What do they have in common? They're all shifting. Modern
life is becoming defined by a constant rate of change, and
shows no sign of stopping.
Shift Happens, and the best way to deal with it is
to stay abreast of these changes and adapt... or be left behind.
The Shift Happens Midwest IDSA Conference
will focus on movement in the design industry. It will be
a unique and innovative conference: We have a number of new
events to make this an inspirational and rewarding weekend.
The collective presentations will aim to give the attendees
a sense of current shifting trends, and therefore point the
way to what the future holds for us. Get ahead in shifting
topics such as:
Asian Competition, Design Trends, New Technology, What Corporations
Want, Designing Green, Big-Box Monopolies, and shifting
from Industrial Design to Management.
Shift Happens IDSA Regional Conference, W City Center Chicago, April 16 - 18 2004.
The New Face of the Silicon Age - Tech jobs are fleeing to India faster than ever. Remember that old Silicon Valley mantra, "Change is good"?
The Rise of the Creative Class - Millions of us are beginning to work and live much as creative types like artists and scientists always have - with the result that our values and tastes, our personal relationships, our choices of where to live, and even our sense and use of time are changing. Leading the shift are the nearly 38 million Americans in many diverse fields who create for a living-- the Creative Class.
What is the IDSA?
The IDSA is the voice of the industrial
design profession, advancing the quality and positive impact
of design.
Have a web link that illustrates shift?
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