“Innovation for Engineers”
Bio-IT World,
Discussion Moderator: Bernard P. Wess, President
Innovation is
the process of creating measurable
economic value from a product or service.
It requires engineers to build high performance organizations, learn how
to define and execute on customer requirements and to develop continuous
quality improvement processes to measure the performance and value of
information systems. The presentation
will focus on the definition of innovation for engineers, provide examples of
innovation inside and outside of healthcare and the biosciences and introduce
methods and tools to encourage IT professionals to contribute to innovation in
their enterprises. The complex
interactions among critical success factors, the engineering organization, the
definitions of failure and success, requirements management and continuous
quality improvement will be discussed.
The goal of the presentation is for an engineer to understand what
innovation means for his or her engineering organization: how to design a high
performance organization, measure its engineering results, "sell it" to
senior management and measure its success (and avoid failure). Strategically, our goal is to avoid in the
biosciences, process and engineering failures experienced in other industries
in the past.