Global Innovation Exchange 2007

iCohere, Inc. (www.icohere.com)
iCohere provides software and services for building collaborative online communities – for workgroups and organizational collaboration, online learning, and knowledge management. iCohere also produces extended online (virtual) conferences. Founded by a former dean at John F. Kennedy University and the former manager of Hewlett-Packard‘s internal strategy and organizational development consulting group, iCohere‘s software and approach address the success factors involved in engaging groups of people in productive online communication and collaboration. Clients range from small to large organizations and include educational institutions, non-profits, and corporations.

InnovationPoint LLC (www.innovation-point.com)
InnovationPoint is a non-traditional consulting firm that helps its Fortune 1000 clients take a strategic approach to innovation. InnovationPoint blends traditional and unconventional methodologies to identify breakthrough opportunities, develop growth strategies and consumer-inspired new products, and to align organizational strategy and design in a way that supports sustainable innovation. InnovationPoint’s clients include Hewlett-Packard, Kimberly-Clark, PepsiCo, Frito-Lay, Philips, Dial Corporation, Charles Schwab, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Alegent Health, Visa, Chase, Genentech, and SK Telecom (South Korea).

Accept (www.acceptsoftware.com)
Accept software helps companies create tomorrow’s winning products and drive sustained competitive advantage. We provide the industry’s first innovation management solution that enables companies to know their market, align market needs with corporate strategy, product strategy and plans, and drive efficient and effective execution of those strategies and plans.

Our innovation management solution is unique because it combines three modular yet integrated capabilities—

• Voice of the Market
• Portfolio Planning and Management
• Product Planning and Development

With Accept, companies increase new product revenue, drive competitive advantage, maximize R&D investment, and improve productivity.

AIIM - The Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Association (www.aiim.org)
For over 60 years, AIIM - The ECM Association has been a neutral and unbiased source for helping individuals and organizations understand the challenges associated with managing documents, content, records, and business processes to drive revenue, reduce costs, and innovate through information excellence practices. AIIM is international in scope, independent, implementation-focused, and, as the representative of the entire ECM industry. The AIIM community has grown to 50,000 professionals from all industries and government, over 150 countries, and all levels of management, including senior executives, line-of-business, and IT. With every organization in the world handling some type of paper or electronic content, the ECM industry will continue to grow. As the industry grows, AIIM can be counted on to provide market education, peer networking, professional development, and industry advocacy.

Innovation Center Denmark (ICDK) (www.innovationcenterdenmark.com)
Innovation Center Denmark, Silicon Valley is one of the direct results of the globalization strategy designed by the Danish government in 2005 to help achieve the ambitious objective of becoming one of the leading knowledge based nations in the world by 2016. The mission of Innovation Center Denmark is to build bridges between research institutions, companies and capital in Denmark and Silicon Valley in order to accelerate the entry of Danish companies into Silicon Valley, promote US investments in Denmark, facilitate research cooperation and provide inspiration to help drive innovation in Denmark. The focus of the Center is on ICT (Information and Communications Technology), Life Science and Renewable Energy.

InnovationIgniter (www.innovationigniter.com)
InnovationIgniter this simple, anytime, anywhere learning system helps you learn how to be a more innovative thinker... at lunch... on a plane... even in your pajamas! Short, engaging videos and real-world exercises presented by 13 innovation gurus jump start your ability to take your ideas to implementation and advance your career. The Igniter is a cost-effective way to build innovation competence in innovation teams … or across your entire organization.

InnovationTools (www.innovationtools.com)
InnovationTools is the world's leading business innovation website, focused on the needs of innovation practitioners and entrepreneurs. It contains the latest news, trends and research on innovation, a large collection of thought-provoking articles, resource centers that are focused on specific areas of innovation and much more.

Knowledge Management Professional Society (KMPro) (www.KMPro.org )
Knowledge Management Professional Society is a non-profit organization serving the professional needs of the international Knowledge Management community. KMPro is the largest international association dedicated to knowledge management with more than 120,000 members located in some 90 countries and a growing base of chapters in 88 locations world-wide. We are member-centric, working together to invigorate the KM community by promoting KM awareness, support and development of best practices, and advancement of research and development. KMPro and its Knowledge Management Certification Board (KMCB) is the leading KM certifying body, offering its highly acclaimed Certified Knowledge Manager (CKM) certification workshop."

The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA)(www.pdma.org)
The Product Development and Management Association is recognized as the premier global advocate for professionals, and organizations working in the fields of new product development, management and innovation. Founded in 1976, the PDMA membership is over 3,500 product development professionals and academics from all sectors of the economy in over 50 countries worldwide. PDMA champions a global community that enables people and businesses to grow and prosper through innovation and the introduction and management of new products to the world market. Through a combination of strategically integrated resources encompassing professional development, education, experience, networking, collaboration, certification, and recognition, PDMA aims to improve the effectiveness of individuals and organizations in product development and management. 

DRM Associates (www.pdforum.com)
DRM Associates is a leading consulting firm in the field of product development. We support product planning and strategy, portfolio management, pipeline management, stage/phase-gate process. We assist product teams with project planning and management, voice of the customer, quality function deployment, target costing, and design for manufacturability. Our sister firm, PD-Trak Solutions provides project and portfolio management software. We sponsor the Product Development Forum, a source of information on product development.

PD-Trak Solutions (www.pd-trak.com)
PD-Trak Solutions provides a new product development (NPD) project and portfolio management system to help companies better plan and manage development projects based on a stage-gate type of process and use of portfolio management. The firm also provides software customization, training, and implementation support related to PD-Trak and its various tools.