Planning Workshop for a Thought Leadership Network on Data-driven Innovation and Value Creation
Bentley University – June 22, 2015
What is a TLN? Thought-Leadership Network is a coordinated network of scholars and practitioners aimed provide to advance knowledge and innovation. Our TLN focuses on topics related to data-driven innovation and value creation.
Broader Initiative: The workshop is funded by a grant from the Bentley Research Council in the context of the Bentley University thought leadership network initiative
Main objectives of the workshop:
- Communicating the core idea underlying the network to the Bentley community
- Evaluating the feasibility of the concept underlying this network collaboratively, potentially changing the direction if necessary
- Encouraging as many members of the Bentley community as possible to explore the potential value of this network
- Engaging the invited external experts in the network planning process and maximizing the learning based on their experience and expertise
- Planning the next stages for various elements of the process of creating this network.
Tentative workshop schedule:We will start the event with breakfast at 8:30am and end the day by 4:30pm.
Core Bentley TLN Team
- Heikki Topi (CIS, PI)
- Mystica Alexander (LTFP, Co-PI)
- Joel Deichmann (GLS, participant)
- Jeff Gulati (GLS, Co-PI)
- Wendy Lucas (CIS, Co-PI)
- Marco Marabelli (IPM, Co-PI)
- David Oury (MA, Co-PI)
- David Szymanski (NAS, participant)
- Sam Woolford (MA, Co-PI)
- David Yates (CIS, Co-PI)
TLN External Advisory Board Members Attending the Workshop
- Azer Bestavros (Boston University; http://azer.bestavros.net/)
- Ola Henfridsson (Warwick Business School; http://www.wbs.ac.uk/about/person/ola-henfridsson); will participate remotely because of a conflict with an accreditation visit
- Gerry Kane (Boston College; http://www.bc.edu/schools/csom/faculty/bios/kane-g.html)
- Theresa Pardo (University of Albany, SUNY; http://www.albany.edu/news/experts/14269.php)
- Jason Thatcher (Clemson University; http://www.clemson.edu/cbbs/about/profiles/?userid=JTHATCH)
- Joseph Valacich (University of Arizona; https://mis.eller.arizona.edu/people/joseph-valacich)
Contact information: htopi@bentley.edu