ANN ARBOR – Jeff DeGraff, the “Dean of Innovation,” will keynote the MichBio Annual Meeting & Showcase April 18 when he talks about how he helped spur Domino’s meteoric growth during the 1980s from a regional success story to an international franchise phenomenon.
The MichBio Annual Meeting is scheduled for April 18 at the Inn at St. John?s in Plymouth.
DeGraff is the Clinical Professor of Management and Organizations at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, teaching MBA and executive education courses; the Managing Partner of Competing Values Company, a consulting firm that assists leaders in facilitating change, innovation and growth; and the Executive Director of the Innovatrium Institute for Innovation, Ann Arbor.
?Jeff?s ability to take the concept of innovation and break it down at multiple levels to make it useful and practical is unique,? said Stephen Rapundalo, PhD, MichBio president and CEO. ?Specifically, he has insightful perspectives on the evolving dynamics playing out in the bio-industry and what that means for innovation in the sector nationally and internationally.?
The charismatic and thought-provoking DeGraff is known as the ‘guru to the innovation guru’ at companies such as Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, GE, Apple, Yahoo!, Toyota and many others. He has created a broad array of widely used tools and methodologies for implementing innovation.
DeGraff is the best-selling author of ?Leading Innovation: How to Jump Start Your Organization?s Growth Engine,? as well as numerous other articles and books.
The MichBio Annual Meeting & Showcase attracts about 200 biosciences leaders from throughout the state. The 5-7 p.m. event includes a strolling dinner and exhibits followed by brief comments from Rapundalo and the keynote address.
The event also includes optional workshops leading up to the meeting. A day-long session titled BioBriefing: Industry Knowledge for the Non-Scientist, will be hosted by MichBio and BioTech Primer, a company committed to educating non-science professionals in the basics of biotechnology.
?The BioBriefing is led by credentialed BioTech Primer instructors who teach participants with a wide variety of non-science backgrounds to become more instrumental in their organizations? success by understanding the science and technology driving the biotech and pharmaceutical industries,? said Rapundalo.
In addition to the BioBriefing, an afternoon workshop titled, ?Driving Value in Your MedTech Company: Successful Growth Strategies in a Competitive Environment? will also lead into the MichBio Annual Meeting & Showcase. The workshop will provide attendees with the tools to understand the drivers of value in businesses and how to exploit them to become more profitable, grow and win. Topics covered will include market, innovation and operational-led growth, M&A as a strategy, strategic and corporate planning & implementation, and bioscience case studies.
?Workshop participants will gain a better appreciation for the challenges and typical solutions to achieving optimal business alignment and growth,? Rapundalo said.
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