Keep those ideas flowing. Article by Bob Rosenfeld in the South China Morning Post.
CEO Bob Rosenfeld Receives Excellence in Innovation Award
MTIV book review in Business Strategies Magazine
Innovation workshop at the Nature of Innovation Conference
ICS Mosaic Director article featured in UN Chronicle magazine
CEO featured in fall edition of OnCenter Newsletter
Innovation is the focus of the October 2006 Leading Effectively newsletter from CCL
CEO featured in the Center for Creative Leadership Online Newsletter
Emotion: Friend or Foe?
Dr. Patricia Romano McGraw Presents a lecture for The World Bank.
Workshop on Community Development
Spirit and Leadership: Building Community Two People at a Time
Workshop on Innovation
Understanding the Human Principles for Sustaining Innovation
Upcoming Webinar
Making the Invisible Visible - The Human Principles for Sustaining Innovation
Announcing...
The book on innovation, Making the Invisible Visible: The Human Principles for Sustaining Innovation by Robert Rosenfeld, is now available!
Keep those ideas flowing
Article by Bob Rosenfeld in the South China Morning Post. "Driving and sustaining innovation is key, and leaders should encourage creative thinking, writes Robert Rosenfeld."
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CEO Bob Rosenfeld Receives Excellence in Innovation Award
President/CEO of Idea Connection Systems, Inc., Bob Rosenfeld, is a speaker at the recent Indira India Innovation Summit held in Mumbai, India, February 15-16, 2008. He has been awarded an Excellence in Innovation Award.
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Making the Invisible Visible, Part Two coming soon!
Making the Invisible Visible, Part Two: A Practical Guide for Sustaining Innovation, by Robert Rosenfeld and Gary Wilhelmi with Andrew Harrison
Bob Rosenfeld’s first book, Making the Invisible Visible, laid out the human principles for sustaining innovation. Now, in part two of the series, the innovation guru teams up with Gary Wilhelmi, an implementation expert with over 30 years of experience. This new book takes the human principles for sustaining innovation and puts them into action. If your organization is looking for sustained top and bottom line growth, Making the Invisible Visible, Part Two: A Practical Guide for Sustaining Innovation, is a book you need to read.
To add your email to our list to be notified of the book availability or for more information, email us at books@innovating.comMTIV book review in Business Strategies Magazine
Robert Rosenfeld’s book Making the Invisible Visible receives a positive review in the May 2007 issue of Business Strategies Magazine
Link to ArticleRobert Rosenfeld and Gary Wilhelmi to present a hands-on experience innovation workshop at the Nature of Innovation Conference
The Creative Education Foundation presents Creative Problem Solving Institute: The Nature of Innovation Conference. This 53rd annual conference is being held in Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, Georgia on June 24th-29th, 2007.
Bob Rosenfeld and Gary Wilhelmi will be presenting an Innovation Workshop based on the book by Bob Rosenfeld, Making the Invisible Visible: The Human Principles for Sustaining Innovation. This workshop will prove to be a valuable learning experience for those truly passionate about advancing their organizations and themselves into the elite realm of being true innovation leaders.
For more information, click the "More Info" link to access the conference website.
ICS Mosaic Director article featured in UN Chronicle magazine
Turning Diversity Into An Asset: How Mosaic Helps Municipal Communities Achieve Their Potential written by Dash Douglas, Director of the Mosaic Partnerships Program, is featured in the September – November 2006 edition of the UN Chronicle, published by the United Nations. Read the complete article by clicking the link below.
UN Chronicle article on the webCEO featured in fall edition of OnCenter Newsletter
Our CEO, Robert Rosenfeld, is featured in the Fall 2006 newsletter, OnCenter, from the Center for Creative Leadership.
Download PDF of NewsletterInnovation is the focus of the October 2006 Leading Effectively newsletter from CCL
Its all about the principles of innovation as Robert Rosenfeld perspective on innovation is featured in the October 2006 newsletter, Leading Effectively, published by the Center for Creative Leadership. Click the link below to read the newsletter.
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Dr. Patricia Romano McGraw Presents another lecture for The World Bank
October 24, 2006
As part of Domestic Violence Awareness month, Dr. Patricia Romano McGraw, Senior Associate for Idea Connection Systems, and author of “Its Not Your Fault: How Healing Relationships Change Your Brain” will be presenting a lecture for The World Bank. The emotional element in business is often overlooked. Focusing on preventing emotional trauma caused by events such as sudden layoffs and work-related stress, in the business environment and that stress and trauma impede innovation and creativity, Dr. McGraw will discuss the impact of negative trauma and the importance of recovery processes. She previously gave a lecture to The World Bank in June on relationships.
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CEO featured in the Center for Creative Leadership Online Newsletter
October 2006
Articles by Robert Rosenfeld, CEO of Idea Connection Systems, Inc. are featured in the October issue of the Center for Creative Leadership online newsletter, Leading Effectively. Topics include The Essence of Innovation, Creating an Environment for Innovation and much more. Click the following link to take you to the current issue online.
CCL October NewsletterWorkshop on Community Development
Spirit and Leadership: Building Community Two People at a Time
Presented by: Dash Douglas and Bob Rosenfeld
Green Acre Baha’i School
Retreat & Conference Center
Eliot, Maine
December 1, 2006 - December 3, 2006
The story begins with the journey of one city’s desire to address this country’s most vital and challenging issue—racial polarization. In 2001 Rochester, N.Y. implemented a race relations and trust-developing program called Mosaic partnerships, which continues to develop five years later. The success of this Baha’i-inspired program is garnering increasing interest from cities across the country, including: Greensboro, NC, Milwaukee, WI, Philadelphia, PA, Boston, MA, Norfolk, VA, and from some communities around the world. This presentation will provide a thorough understanding of the Mosaic Program, the spiritual principles on which it is based, and will also include experiential portions designed to better understand the deleterious effects of racial estrangement. The participants will leave with a basic understanding of the trends that have led us to our current conditions of racial polarization and to a potential solution for increasing the unity in our communities.
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Understanding the Human Principles for Sustaining Innovation
Monday, November 6 - Thursday, November 9, 2006
An Innovation Series event sponsored by Center for Creative Leadership and Idea Connection Systems, Inc.
Innovation remains one of the most important strategies an organization can use to survive and thrive in the 21st century. However, as many organizations have discovered, making innovation happen is about more than bringing the right business and technology skills together. Innovation is about people and all the human dynamics that create the right “environment” for the innovation process to end in a “quantifiable gain,” however that is defined by the organization.
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Sponsored by Center for Creative Leadership
Making the Invisible Visible - The Human Principles for Sustaining Innovation
October 4, 2006
1:00 – 2:00 pm (ET)
Duration: 1 hour
Anyone who has been in a leadership role for a long period of time knows that coming up with a new innovation can be very difficult. They also know that sustaining innovation over the long haul is a whole order of magnitude harder. Bob Rosenfeld in his new book, Making the Invisible Visible, has isolated the eight principles that are essential for sustaining innovation over time. His book makes the invisible visible! In this Webinar participants will be introduced to all eight principles. In addition, Bob and Gary Wilhelmi will delve more deeply into two of the eight guiding principles to help everyone understand in greater detail what they are, why they matter, and what happens if these principles are ignored.
For more information and to register click here.Roundtable on Wicked Problems
Held on September 15, 2006
Bob Rosenfeld and Gary Wilhelmi facilitated the roundtable held at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, NC.
Attendees of the roundtable leaned about:
• How to identify a wicked problem
• How to chop the problem down to size so that it becomes manageable
• The four key elements involved in solving a wicked problem
• Roundtable participants were asked to bring a wicked problem to the
roundtable for evaluation and discussion by the facilitators and other attendees.
This is just one of a series of events on Innovation hosted by the Center for Creative Leadership.
For more info on these events...July 12, 2006
Announcing...
Making the Invisible Visible: The Human Principles for Sustaining Innovation
by Robert B. Rosenfeld with John Kolstoe is now available at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and Xlibris.com
Making the Invisible Visible
sets forth principles that are necessary to create an innovative culture
and help innovation leaders find, fund and nurture the right people. Chapter
summaries and included workbook exercises help the reader focus on the
most significant points and relate them to his personal situation. It
is for managers, innnovation leaders, or anyone inspired by a love of
actualized ideas.
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Endorsements for the book:
“Bob Rosenfeld has devoted a lifetime to understanding innovation, and has distilled his knowledge into this clear, compelling and useful guide. His focus is on human dynamics: the passion, pain, processes and values that underlie successful innovation. Through storytelling and a wealth of examples he brings eight principles of innovation to life. Any business facing an imperative to change could benefit from Bob's insights.”
Hallmark Cards, Inc.
“An innovation that has a chance of success within an organization often lands there with the impact of a thistle-down on a warm summer afternoon. It takes extraordinary skill and human empathy to design innovation approaches that can catch this innovation and develop it into it's full potential. Bob Rosenfeld, as one of the premier innovators of our time, brilliantly lays out the underpinnings of these approaches and gives us wonderful insight into the full rich tapestry and interrelationships of the human component that is the quintessential ingredient in any successful innovation undertaking. This is ‘Must’ reading for those developing or implementing innovation systems in the business world today.”
Science Applications International Corporation
January 16, 2006
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