ARTICLES
& REPORTS
Professional
Development
About
Innovation Network
- P r o f e s s i o n a l _ D e v e l o p m e n t -
By Joyce Wycoff
Those questions prompted the formation of the Innovation University, a "higher education" branch of the Innovation Network. The first activity of IU was to launch the pilot Fellowship Program in May at the Ford MP&L Team Learning and Creativity Center in Detroit. This year-long, self-directed program is a project- based, intense learning experience.
Each student, guided by a faculty advisor, is responsible for three projects: Kermit -- a "leap" (hence frog ... Kermit -- it made sense at the time and the name stuck) project involving the actual implementation of an innovation initiative; a research project involving some aspect of innovation and a case study of an organization's innovation initiative. Students will meet four times during the year for intensive study of major aspects of innovation and to share project results and presentations.
One of the major projects addressed by the class is the creation of an Integrated Innovation Map. This will be a visual presentation of the entire process of innovation and will be presented to the Innovation Network membership at Convergence 97 in Atlanta.
Students in the first Fellowship Program include: Layne Cannon, Novell; Cynthia Carlisle, Strategies; Laura Donahue, Nestle Frozen Foods; Laurie S. Dunnavant, 3M Health Info. Systems; Rick Gutherie, Ford Motor Company; Ruth Ann Hattori, Rocky Mountain Clothes; Leslie Hollander, Expanding Thought; Jane Jacobs, Educational Strategies, Inc.; Jack Johnson, Smithsonian; Dan Logue, Avery Research Center; Norman Muzzy, Deere & Co.; Nancy Myers, Seeds for Change; Jim Pierce, St. Onge Company; Deborah Potts, Deborah
Potts & Associates; Arthur St. Onge, St. Onge Company; Joel Treisman, Bell South Telecommunications; Vicky Warren, Avery Research Center.
Program faculty, led by Ted Coulson, Ph.D., as director, include: Deanna Berg, Ed.D., Innovation Strategies Intl; Rick Gutherie, Ford Motor Company; Gerald Haman, Creative Solutions Intl.; Ann Herrmann-Nedhi, Ned Herrmann Group; Suzanne Merritt, InSightOut; Alex Pattakos, Ph.D., Creative Learning Technologies; Charles W. Prather, Ph.D., CW Prather Associates., Inc.; Guest Faculty -- Edward Rockey, Ph.D., Pepperdine University; Alison Strickland, Applied Creativity, Inc.; Linda Booth Sweeney; Joyce Wycoff, Innovation Network.
For more information, call Ted Coulson at 813-391-5080 or e-mail acited@aol.com; or call Joyce Wycoff at 805-965-8477; or staff@thinksmart.com.