BASF’s, Dr. Svetlana Dimovski, to present at CIMdata’s Social Product Development Workshop

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - July 21, 2015 - PRLog -- CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that Dr. Svetlana Dimovski, BASF Corporation’s Senior Manager for Innovation Excellence, will make a presentation at CIMdata’s Social Product Development & Collaboration Knowledge Council Workshop. The workshop will take place in Louisville, Kentucky on October 7-8. In addition to Dr. Dimovski’s presentation, the workshop will feature presentations from Local Motors and GE Appliances.

Dr. Dimovski’s presentation, Unleashing Innovation with External Partners: From a Corporate Initiative to a Global Movement, will take a look at how large, established companies continuously innovate, and preserve tradition while reinventing the way they connect with the world. The presentation will draw on Dr. Dimovski’s experiences at BASF, which this year is celebrating its 150th anniversary with a global co-creation initiative. The presentation will deliver insights on how to seed, grow, and unleash innovation to create a global co-creation movement in a large organization by leading from multiple positions. Key insights in BASF's journey to innovation excellence will be highlighted, such as: navigating complexity, leading innovation in an organizational matrix, creating space for everyone to experiment and contribute, synchronicity, alignment, getting to a tipping point, moving beyond the tipping point, creating flow and innovation movement, creating a Global Open Innovation Community, and aligning open innovation with communication and BASF's 150th anniversary.

The workshop will start during the afternoon of October 7 and will end on October 8. A personal tour of First Build’s Microfactory followed by a networking dinner will part of the first afternoon’s highlights. Throughout the workshop CIMdata’s Social Product Development & Collaboration Knowledge Council and a group of leading-edge users will share real-world examples of how mature companies are inventing and adopting new collaborative partnership models for innovation and joint value creation. The workshop will be facilitated by CIMdata’s Director for Collaborative Innovation & Social Product Development Consulting, Dr. Suna Polat and CIMdata’s Practice Manager for Social Product Development & Collaboration, Dr. Ken Versprille.

For more information on the workshop visit http://www.cimdata.com/en/education/knowledge-council-wor....


About Dr. Svetlana Dimovski, Senior Manager for Innovation Excellence, BASF Corporation

Svetlana Dimovski, Ph.D. leads BASF Corporation’s Innovation Excellence and Open Innovation program. BASF’s Open Innovation team is focused on creating pathways, processes, and organizational structures that facilitate innovation partnerships with BASF. At BASF, Dr. Dimovski also leads a cross-functional Innovation Competencies team, whose mission is to create employees’ learning experiences that help them grow their innovation acumen. Open innovation, innovation competencies, and other similar programs, are part of BASF’s commitment to developing state-of-art innovation capabilities, and a culture of innovation excellence.

Dr. Dimovski is a frequent speaker about innovation and technology commercialization. Her interests include meditation, writing, learning, and purpose-inspired leadership. She is currently working on a new mindful leadership book.


About CIMdata

CIMdata, a leading independent worldwide firm, provides strategic management consulting to maximize an enterprise’s ability to design and deliver innovative products and services through the application of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions. Since its founding in 1983, CIMdata has delivered world-class knowledge, expertise, and best-practice methods on PLM solutions. These solutions incorporate both business processes and a wide-ranging set of PLM-enabling technologies.

CIMdata works with both industrial organizations and providers of technologies and services seeking competitive advantage in the global economy. In addition to consulting, CIMdata conducts research, provides PLM-focused subscription services, and produces several commercial publications. The company also provides industry education through PLM certificate programs, seminars, and conferences worldwide. CIMdata serves clients around the world from offices in North America, Europe, and Asia- Pacific. To learn more about CIMdata’s services, visit our website at www.CIMdata.com, follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/CIMdataPLMNews, or contact CIMdata at: 3909 Research Park Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA, Tel: +1 734.668.9922. Fax: +1 734.668.1957; or at Oogststraat 20, 6004 CV Weert, The Netherlands, Tel: +31 (0) 495.533.666.