Accept Announces "Open for Innovation" Webinar Series

2008-09-30 15:00:02 -

- Eastwick Communications Elisabeth Simmons, 650-480-4039 esimmons@eastwick.com Accept, the expert in on-demand innovation management solutions, today announced that it is hosting "Open for Innovation," a webinar series featuring prominent innovation experts. Smart companies know that innovation is the single most important key to competitive advantage in today's dynamic markets, and they are committed to seizing every new idea that has the potential to shape the future of their business. This Accept webinar series provides insight and practical recommendations on how to leverage social media, tap the collective wisdom of online communities and systematically transform the best ideas into successful products and services.

To register for any webinar or to listen to past events in the series, visit www.acceptsoftware.com/news_events/webinars.html. The calendar of upcoming topics and speakers will be updated regularly and includes:

The Three Essentials of a Practical Open Innovation Framework

Presenter: Andres Jordan, Vice President of Innovation at Deutsche Telekom North America, Inc.

When: October 15, 2008, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. PT

Recognized as one of today's most savvy open innovation transformation leaders, Andres Jordan's knowledge extends well beyond the boundaries of his industry. In this one-hour, interview-style webinar, attendees will have the opportunity to hear from, and interact with, Mr. Jordan on practical ways to create a successful open innovation framework in their own companies.

Keys to Thriving in Today's New Open Innovation Landscape

Presenter: Henry Chesbrough, Adjunct Professor, Executive Director, Center for Open Innovation, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

When: October 29, 2008, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. PT

Henry Chesbrough is an advocate of open innovation. He currently leads the Center for Open Innovation at Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and has authored two books on the topic; Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology, and Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape. In this webinar he will share his insight about how companies are managing intellectually property differently in order to capture value from their communities and innovate more openly.

Tapping the Collective Wisdom of Affinity Communities for Competitive Advantage

Presenter: James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds and regular contributor to The New Yorker

When: December 10, 2008, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. PT

James Surowiecki is the foremost authority on how to harness the collective wisdom of affinity communities for competitive advantage. In this webinar he will discuss systematic ways that organizations can improve their return on innovation by gathering and aggregating community intelligence in order to arrive at superior decisions--often better than those that individuals would make.

Profit from Open Innovation

(Archived Webinar)

Presenter: Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics

No company today can innovate fast enough or big enough by itself. Collaboration externally with customers and partners, and internally across geographic and organizational boundaries, is a must. Web communities, social media monitoring, ideagoras, co-creation, prosumer models--they're all part of the new innovator's toolkit. In this one-hour webinar, learn how new open innovation models are changing everything--and how you can thrive from this sea change. Learn how you can tap into this rapidly expanding stream of dialog and collaboration to open up a whole new world of innovation.

Turn Social Media into an Innovation Opportunity

(Archived Webinar)

Presenter: Josh Bernoff, co-author of Groundswell

Your customers are writing about your company in the millions of blogs, forums, and affinity communities exploding across the Web--rating your products, re-defining your brand, even engaging with your competitors. Learn how to turn this social media "groundswell" into an innovation opportunity.

About Accept

Accept is the expert in on-demand innovation management solutions. Products include Accept Ideas, Accept Portfolio and Accept Requirements. Leading product and service organizations use the award-winning Accept solutions to create successful new offerings with certainty and speed. Accept customers include Intuit, Fidelity, BEA Systems, Cadence Design Systems, TeleAtlas, and Hewlett-Packard. For more information, visit www.acceptsoftware.com.

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