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Gerald Bradley author of Gower’s Benefit Realisation Management recently conducted a webinar for The International Institute of Business Analysis titled – Benefit Realisation Management: A Practical Guide to Achieving Benefits Through Change. You can take a look at this webinar and other expert offerings from the IIBA at their website.
Gower author Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez is one of the speakers who has recorded a podcast for ca technologies’ Global IT Illuminaries ’12, a virtual event featuring IT innovators. Nieto-Rodriguez who is Professor of Project Management at the Solvay Business School and Head of Portfolio Management at BNP Paribas Fortis, is speaking on Selling Project Portfolio Management to the C-Suite. This 24hr virtual event is on 29th February – for further information and to register click here.
Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez is author of the forthcoming Gower title: The Focused Organization: How Concentrating on a Few Key Initiatives Can Dramatically Improve Strategy Execution.
Patent laws have no application or force outside the country in which they are enacted so it is important to determine in which jurisdictions you should obtain patent protection, and on what basis you should make such decisions.
Donal O’Connell has written a paper on this subject called International or foreign patent filing strategic considerations and can be found in the following places:
The Faculty of Engineering at the National University of Singapore and
Practice source, a website for Australian and Asian legal news
Donal has also recently presented a talk on Open Innovation: The Challenges and Solutions, it was recorded at a British Library event in London and can be viewed here: http://youtu.be/RfkTpU8K2BU
Donal is the author of Harvesting External Innovation
Donal O’Connell is unequivocal in his message for those involved in collaborative forms of innovation. This piece from his website provides a succinct argument as to the risks of jointly owned IP and offers some suggestions for alternative solutions. Donal O’Connell is author of the Gower book, Harvesting External Innovation.
To many of us, mobile phones may seem to represent everything that is wrong about the current economic model; products associated with unbridled consumerism, with people’s wants rather than needs, and products that are produced using resources from conflict zones. So I found the article Engaging Developing Markets, co-authored by Anxo Roibás, a very interesting read. The authors focus on how mobile phone providers have engaged with developing markets and, in the process, reveal the extraordinary power this techology has for enabling technological and social change. It is interesting to see such a contrasting perspective on the same technology, seen through the lens of the developed and the developing world. Anxo Roibás is co-editor of the Gower book, Design for Sport.
The recent Irish Times Innovation roadshow at the University of Limerick, included Gower author, Donal O’Connell (Harvesting External Innovation) as one of its contributors. Donal highlighted the challenge of an innovation process that involves ambiguity, controversy and non-linearity. The event was filmed very professionally and the resulting programme is well worth a look: Innovating Cities and Communities of Practice.
APM Project Management Conference chairman and founder and director of the National Centre for Project Management, Professor Darren Dalcher, has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Association for Project Management. Professor Dalcher is also Series Editor of Gower’s Fundamentals and Advances of Project Management Books. He has built a reputation as leader and innovator in the area of practice-based education and reflection in project management and has worked with many major industrial and commercial organisations and government bodies. He received international recognition in 2009 with appointment as a member of the PMForum’s International Academic Advisory Council, which includes leading academics in project management from some of the world’s top universities and academic institutions. The Council showcases accomplished researchers, influential educators shaping the next generation of project managers and recognised authorities on modern project management.
Professor Dalcher is a Fellow of both APM and the BCS as well as a member of PMI, the Academy of Management, the IEEE and the Association for Computing Machinery. He is a member of the PMI Advisory Board responsible for the prestigious David I Cleland project management award. In 2008 he was recognised in Project magazine top 10 for his contribution in “integrating and weaving academic work with practice”. He has been chairman of the agenda setting APM Project Management Conference since 2009. He is Professor of Software Project Management, at Middlesex University and visiting Professor of Computer Science at the University of Iceland. Professor Dalcher will receive his Honorary Fellowship at the APM Project Management Awards on 20th October 2011 at the Brewery, London.
Here is a wonderfully pragmatic and informative article by Donal O’Connell, author of Gower Publishing’s Harvesting External Innovation, on the practicalities of running a patent review board. He looks at the role of the Board and of specific members within it; typical questions and decision options as well as more strategic issues such as performance measures. Well worthwhile reading if you are responsible for your organizations intellectual property.
I am fascinated to see the event at which Tim Cooper (Editor, Longer Lasting Products) is acting as a panel member. Sustainability in Crisis is a three-day cross-disciplinary consultation (26th to 28th September) hosted by the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion and the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics. Given that many groups now argue a religious perspective to the whole sustainability debate, it makes absolute sense to mobilise Christian and other groups to help transform our corporate social behaviour.
