This week we are hosting our annual worldwide user conference, Invention Machine Power to Innovate, in Boston. I am looking forward to catching up on our customers’ successes, hearing about their challenges and collaborating on their innovation initiatives.
I am also looking forward to discussing our technology roadmap with our advisory council members from AkzoNobel, Applied Materials, Boston Scientific, Leggett & Platt, Northrop Grumman and StatoilHydro. Their input is invaluable in designing our future products.
The theme of this year’s conference is ‘collaborate to innovate’. Therefore, over the next few days attendees will hear a lot about collaboration and the role of knowledge in sustaining the innovation process. As innovators, you know that collaboration is key to fueling innovation and that the right innovation intelligence can boost efficiency and product delivery. I also think it’s time we step up collaboration between companies, government and academia.
At Power to Innovate, we’ll provide an overview of the Innovation Intelligence Ecosystem™ and how it leads to increased revenue and competitive edge as well as ways to successfully deploy the initiative across an enterprise. Attendees will also hear from a company that significantly increased productivity by designing a process to capture, share and reuse knowledge.
In addition, the agenda is packed with in-depth innovation sessions and best practices from some of the brightest minds in innovation. We hope participants will find the sessions informative and that the networking will open doors for worldwide collaboration between peers. If you are not attending, but would like to get event highlights, please follow Invention Machine on Twitter or #P2I09.
In the meantime, I’d like to get your opinion on collaboration. Do you think it’s essential to driving and sustaining innovation?
Posted by Mark Atkins 
