Lunch & Learn - Innovation the New Currency of Business
Details
The IAOIP Washington DC Chapter is happy to present a Lunch & Learn innovation webinar, to break up the monotony of this experiment in social distancing. Come join us for a great discussion on innovation and how it has become the new currency of business.
Title
Innovation the New Currency of Business
Description
Businesses are focusing more of their efforts on innovation than ever before. Every year the amount of money they spend on innovations goes up. In 2017, worldwide spending on innovation went up by 3.2% and Amazon alone just spent over $16 BILLION on R&D efforts. However, increasingly more and more of that money is wasted as companies don't innovate effectively. A McKinsey & Company survey from 2016 showed that only 6% of corporate executives who felt that innovation was important to their firm's growth strategy were happy with the performance of their R&D efforts. Join us to learn tips and tricks to about how your firm can maximize the new currency for business - Innovation.
Our Presenter
Steve Palmer is an entrepreneur with 15+ years of experience focusing on applying innovative solutions to business problems. He has supported the government in developing a Services Oriented Architecture, designed to reduce development time and maintenance costs for Software Engineering efforts. He has led teams in support of technology experimentation and the establishment of “Big Data” environments. He has worked with small businesses to modernize processes and reduce sales overhead through the adoption of modern platforms and through task automation. His company, Ever Evolving, Inc., has designed an InnoSpecting Framework to help organizations take a manageable and measurable approach to innovation. He has spoken and led workshops at a variety of local and international locations; including the Project World Business Analyst World conference series, Centric Indiana’s Day of Innovation, the University of Maryland Project Management Symposium and PMI Silver Spring Symposium. Mr. Palmer has an MBA from George Mason University (2010) and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Mary Washington (2005).
NOTE: Webinar link / sign-up information will be provided closer to our event.