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Cal
Poly College of Engineering Strategy Completed
Charlotte, NC, May 1, 2008. Robust Innovations led the final 1.5 day
working session for development of Cal Poly's College of Engineering
Strategy. The strategy team, consisting of about 40 members of the
faculty and staff, produced a comprehensive challenge map from which
they converged on six strategic objectives. They then generated
preliminary plans for achieving the objectives. Dean Mohammad Noori
described the objectives as "perfect" and expressed his delight that
Robust Innovations' planning process had produced concurrence on the
objectives across the College of Engineering.
Alignment Modeling For GGB Bearing Technologies
Charlotte, NC, April 1, 2008. Dr. Lee led the Senior Management Team of
GGB Bearing Technologies through development of a detailed Alignment
Model. This model is described in detail on the "Culture Alignment" page
of his web site. The 1.5 day working session produced detailed action
plans to align "people" (including training), "culture" and
"organization" (including structure and responsibilities) with strategic
objectives that were earlier selected from the GGB Challenge map. The
team enthusiastically endorsed the effectiveness of the model and the
productivity of the working session.
Strategy Development Course
Charlotte, NC, June
25, 2007. Robust Innovations, Inc. has launched a 5-day
short-course on development of integrated business/innovation
strategies. This hands-on course teaches skills for applications of
Robust Innovations’ Structured Creative Problem Solving Approach to
strategy. This is the same process that Dr. Jerry S. Lee, President of
Robust Innovations, has applied successfully for Goodrich Corporation,
several EnPro Industries Companies, The Ohio Aerospace Institute, the
School of Engineering at The California Polytechnic Institute, The
Glennan Microsystems Initiative, The Aeronautical Department at Ohio
State University, and many others.
This is an in-house course for
industrial companies, nonprofit organizations, and academic departments
and schools. Each course will include participants from only one
organization so that information be shared openly.
For additional information on this
course, please see the "Strategy Training" page of this website or call
Dr. Lee at 704-814-7970.
Strategy For College Of Engineering At
Cal Poly
Charlotte, NC, March 15, 2007. Robust
Innovations, Inc. has been engaged to lead the development of a
comprehensive strategy for the College of Engineering for The California
Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) in San Luis Obispo, California. This
will be done over a six month period beginning in March. Because of the
need for broad understanding and support of the strategy, it was
proposed that the strategy team be composed of about forty people,
including faculty, staff, and students. Dean Mohammad Noori
enthusiastically accepted this recommendation. Working sessions are
planned for late-March, June, and August.
Multi-Tier Planning For GGB Bearing
Technologies
Charlotte, NC, February 15, 2007. Robust
Innovations, Inc. successfully completed a series of planning and
problem solving initiatives for GGB Bearing Technologies, an EnPro
Industries company. Over a period of approximately three month in the
last half of 2006, Dr. Lee guided the GGB senior management team in the
development of a comprehensive, multi-year business strategy. Management
then engaged him to guide three separate multifunctional teams to (1)
develop of a technical strategy consistent with the business strategy,
(2) improve manufacturing efficiency in the U.S. and (3) improve
manufacturing efficiency in multiple European operations.
New Strategy For Ohio Aerospace Institute
(OAI)
Charlotte, NC, January 26, 2007. Robust
Innovations, Inc. successfully guided the management team of the Ohio
Aerospace Institute (OAI) in the development of its new strategic plan.
OAI is a nonprofit research organization with industrial, academic, and
government laboratory stakeholders. Gaining realistic inputs from the
stakeholder was a requirement. It was accomplished through 55
face-to-face interviews with leaders of ten Ohio universities, NASA
Glenn Research Center, Air Force Research Laboratory, and nine
companies. The strategy was then formulated using the Structured CPS
process in two working session with OAI’s management team over a two
month period. Subsequently, Dr. Lee reviewed the strategy with OAI’s
Board of Trustees on January 24, 2007. The strategy received strong
endorsement.
Integrated Strategy For Garlock Sealing
Technologies
Charlotte, NC, December 1, 2006. Robust
Innovations completed its responsibility for leading the development of
a comprehensive strategy for Garlock Sealing Technologies, an EnPro
Industries company. Using the Structured CPS approach, Garlock’s senior
management team chose a new five-objective strategy to focus the
business over the next 3-5 years. The entire strategy process was
complete in three, one and one-half day working sessions over a time
span of approximately three months. Additionally, the team completed an
alignment model that clarified the roles and responsibilities of both
Garlock management and its business unit management teams.
Dr. Lee Begins Affiliation With
California Polytechnic Institute (Cal Poly)
Charlotte, NC, November 1, 2006. At the
invitation of Dean Mohammad Noori, Dr. Jerry S. Lee, president of Robust
Innovations joined the Dean’s Advisory Council for the College of
Engineering at The California Polytechnic Institute in San Luis Obispo,
California. In addition to being a member of the Council, Dr. Lee will
chair the University-Industry Partnership Committee. This committee has
the charter to plan and implement a world-class university-industry
partnership program.
Innovation Workshop at Frost and Sullivan
Conference
Charlotte, NC, June 23, 2006. Robust
Innovations, Inc, OAI, and NineSigma gave a one-half day workshop
entitled “Building a Structured Framework for Innovation” at Frost and
Sullivan’s 2nd Annual Emerging Technologies, New Product
Development and Marketing Innovations Conference, which was held in San
Diego on June 19-21. Based on feedback from approximately 50
participants, Frost and Sullivan ranked the workshop as “very good”.
Robust Innovations Presents at 2006 IRI
Annual Meeting
Charlotte, NC, May 23,
2006. Dr. Jerry S. Lee gave an invited presentation entitled “Leading
Innovation Strategy Planning” today at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the
Industrial Research Institute (IRI), held at The Broadmoor in Colorado
Springs. The presentation will be available on IRI’s website (www.iriinc.org).
Robust Innovations Improves Its
Customers’ Innovation Performance
Charlotte, NC, May 17, 2006. Robust
Innovations, Inc announces that this new company is now seeking clients
who require substantial improvement in their innovation performance.
Innovations may be in the areas of new products and systems, new and
improved processes, and reductions in development cost and cycle time.
In the last area, reductions of 40-50% are achievable.
Dr. Jerry S. Lee, Robust Innovations’
founder and President, achieves results by (1) fully engaging the
client’s management team in innovation leadership and (2) helping the
team embed a proven set of innovation processes that engage and empower
the enterprise. Innovation processes include full integration of
business and innovation strategies, planning streams of innovation,
practicing a single development process enterprise wide, aligning
culture for business achievement, and consistently measuring innovation
capability. Robust Innovations has the processes and has the experience
to embed them in both for-profit and nonprofit enterprises.
In March 2006, Dr. Lee retired from the
position of Sr. Vice President of Technology and Innovation for Goodrich
Corporation. At Goodrich, he led the development and implementation of a
process-driven approach to innovation that is delivers a steady stream
of new products and dramatically reduces cost development cost and cycle
time.
Robust Innovations, Inc was incorporated
in North Carolina on January 2, 2006. It began working for clients in
mid-April. Visit
www.robustinnovations.com for details of its processes and its
approach to working with customers. The web site also includes the
sharing of a series of “Innovation Tips.”
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