April 2017 Chapter Meeting

Hollins University, Moody Hall

Topic: Innovation Planning Using Non-Traditional Methods

Speaker: Dr. Jane Keathley

Agenda:

6:00 – 6:45 – Dinner at Moody
6:45 – 7:00 – Chapter Business - Wetherill Visual Arts Center
7:00 – 8:00 – Speaker/Presentation

Presentation Content:

The presentation will cover how to plan Plan for Innovation – the differences between traditional project management and managing for innovation.

“In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable (D.D. Eisenhower).”

Are our traditional planning methodologies (e.g., business, strategy, project, quality) applicable to innovation? Find out why or why not in this presentation, and come away with new thinking, approaches, and tools that can help with your innovation plans.