TOPIC: Data Innovation-What Thomas Edison would have done with your data
Sarah will review several unique ways Thomas Edison developed and reviewed data, creating a large body of unique solutions to the innovation challenges he faced. Many of these methods enabled Edison to generate innovation breakthroughs. His approaches include:
- Writing down all experiments and their outcomes
- Sharing outcomes across project groups
- Using analogies to find deeper meaning in outcomes
- Probing anomalies
- Spotting patterns in outcomes
- Devising unique hypotheses and experimentation methods to intentionally drive new outcomes
Participants will learn new methods for generating and reviewing data which can lead to diverse, innovative insights
A great grandniece of Thomas Edison, Sarah Miller Caldicott has been engaged in creativity and innovation throughout her life. Inspired by a family lineage of inventors dating back five generations, Sarah began her 25-year career as a Marketing executive with major brand-driven firms including Quaker Oats, and Unilever. For nearly 15 years, Sarah worked in both domestic and international Marketing capacities, bringing innovative products to consumers across the globe.
Concerned that America was losing its innovation leadership just as the new millennium dawned, Sarah began examining Thomas Edison's innovation methods in 2004. Following three years of research at Rutgers University where she worked with leading Edison scholars, Sarah co-authored the first book ever written on the subject of Edison's world-changing innovation methods. Entitled Innovate Like Edison, Sarah's book identifies the Five Competencies of Innovation™ which spurred Edison to pioneer 6 new industries in less than 40 years.
Innovate Like Edison has been featured in The New York Times, Fortune Small Business, and USA Today among many other publications. Sarah has appeared as an innovation expert on PBS television, the Fox Business Network, and NPR. She has also recently reinstated the prestigious Edison Awards™, honoring America's top Innovators and Innovations. Sarah is President of her own Chicago-based consultancy, The Power Patterns of Innovation, which offers guidance to companies seeking innovation success in the global economy. She has just begun work on her second book, entitled The Collaboration Code , describing how Edison's methods for developing world-class innovation teams can be applied by companies today.