Services

Unifying organizations through innovations and diversity of thought

Higher Education

R&D Development

  • Promoting competitiveness of faculty/clinicians/physicians.
  • ​Institutional oversight.

Improving University/ Industry Partnerships

  • Negotiating agreements.
  • Simplifying intellectual property concerns.
  • Mitigating the different R&D cultures.

Improving Inter/Intra-Institutional Collaborations

  • Best practices to establish and oversee consortia/centers/intitutes.
  • Governance and funding mechanisms.
  • International collaborations.

Management of Tech Parks, Research Corporations, Specialized Facilities, and Remote Campuses

  • Justifying mixed tenant campuses.
  • Seeking profitability from mix tenant buildings/facilities.
  • Role fo research corporations.
  • Administrative and faculty entrepreneurism.
  • Rewarding facuty and student entrepreneurism. 

Industry and Non-Profits

Chartering a Course for a Successful C-Team

  • Why innovation and entrepreneurism?
  • Building a culture of accountability and risk-taking.
  • Missions and visions gthat can respond to change and stakeholder expectations.
  • Locating and drawing out corporate innovators/entrepreneurs.
  • Identifying and rewarding innovators.

Responding to Crisis/Opportunities

  • Innovators stepping up to the creation of reshuffled opportunities/priorities.
  • Clear crisis communication and why speed counts.
  • Skunk-works outside traditional corporate reporting units to speed innovation.

Using the HR Department as a Key Member of Corporate Innovation

  • Recruiting and planning for a culture of change.
  • Develop protocols to reward visionaries and change agents.
  • Hiring for building teams rather than for individual capabilities.

Corporate R&D and Use of the Ivory Tower

  • R&D partnerships with universities.
  • Alignments of expectations.
  • Agreements that have accountability built in.
  • Inellectual property.