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The evidence suggests innovation has not been treated as a skill that anyone, from students to senior executives, across any field, can learn and I'm not advocating a universal recipe for becoming innovator. That would be a fool's errand. I'm asserting that certain basic elements of innovation can be learned, taught and mastered, making innovation a discipline. The premise is that a person can become innovative in the same way they learn to ride a bicycle. The analogy is that innovation is natural to human beings, something learned at an early age and mastered to a significant degree and never forgotten. In fact, learning how to become innovative should be as easy as learning how to ride a bicycle, and is a skill that can be developed at a very early age. So the question becomes, "How does one synthesize what has been published about innovation allowing an individual to acquire the required educated point of view useful in developing innovative behaviors?" Accepting the definition of innovation as being a human response to, and exploitation of, a change creating wealth in the present, then it seems reasonable that a process can be delineated enabling individuals to become more innovative by first recognizing change, defining its meaning to the individual's circumstances, assessing what responses to make and why, combined with a starting point of how to exploit the change force, creating wealth in the present and then preserving the wealth created. A precondition for such a process to work is that innovation must have common features that are independent of the context in which the innovation will occur. These common features suggest that innovation is fractal, looking the same whatever your vantage point. The approach for developing this educated point of view is combining the thinking of thought leaders in the field of innovation, with the experiences of actual practitioners, into a holistic framework. This framework begins with a strategic view defining what chang
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Dr. Di Biase is the president of Premier Insights, LLC, an innovation practices consultancy, a member of Cornerstone Angels, a Chicago-based angel investor group, served as the Chief Executive Officer of Laser Application Technologies, a high technology company delivering technology to the food service industry. As a Vistage Chair, he currently mentors CEOs of technology-based start-ups. Previously, Dr. Di Biase served as the Chief Scientific Officer of Elevance Renewable Sciences, a high technology specialty chemicals company, and as the Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer for the Research Development and Engineering Department at Diversey, Inc. In these roles he was responsible for technology innovation, research, development efforts, and technical resource management. He is a 1974 graduate of St. John Fisher College, with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry, and earned a doctorate degree in chemistry from Pennsylvania State University in 1978. Prior to joining Diversey in 2004, Dr. Di Biase was Vice-President of Emulsified Products at The Lubrizol Corporation located in Wickliffe, Ohio. Dr. Di Biase joined Lubrizol in 1978 as a chemist, and in 1981 became a group leader in Chemical Synthesis. In 1987 he became Manager of Technology, Administration, and Planning, and in 1989 he took the role as Manager of Industrial Technology. From 1990-1993, he served in the position of Director of Strategic Research. In 1993 he was elected Vice-President of Research and Development. In 2001, Dr. Di Biase became Vice-President Emulsified Products where he managed new business development activities. Dr. Di Biase is also a past member of the Board of Trustees for Mt. Union College and the Industrial Research Institute and sits on the Science Advisory Board for The Pennsylvania State University. He has served as chairman of The Lubrizol Foundation Scholarship Committee, Chairman of the Northeastern Ohio Section of the American Chemical Society, Board member of the Cleveland Area Research Directors (CARD) and in The Boy Scouts of America where he served in a variety of posts. Dr. Di Biase has been honored by The Pennsylvania State University College of Science with its 2007 Distinguished Alumni Award. He is also an adjunct professor at Benedictine University and guest lecturer on entrepreneurship and innovation at the Kellogg Innovation Network at Northwestern University.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1505416876
- ISBN 13 9781505416879
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages444
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