Keynote Speaker: Maryland Product Symposium

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Michael Raynor

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Date: November 14th, 2024
Time: 9:15AM – 10:00PM

Location: Colony Ballroom, Adel H. Stamp Student Union
University of Maryland, College Park Campus
3972 Campus Drive, College Park, MD 20742

Presentation: “Innovation Pathways:  How to Know Where You’re Going When You Don’t Know the Way”

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Description: Innovation is a journey of exploration:  you are breaking new ground, blazing a trail. The resulting uncertainty can be daunting, even debilitating. But many of the most successful innovations have tended to follow identifiable paths. Learning their lessons can provide direction and purpose even when the way forward is unclear.

Author/Co-Author of The Three Rules, The Innovator’s Solution, & The Strategy Paradox


Biography:

Michael E. Raynor is a Chief Strategy Office of Canary Medical and Chief Product Office of S3 Markets, and the author & co-author of the books The Three Rules : How Exceptional Companies Think, The Innovator’s SolutionThe Innovator’s Manifesto, and The Strategy Paradox. For more than 20 years, Michael has worked to turn original research into effective, practical solutions to some of the world’s most vexing problems.

He is a co-founder and the Chief Strategy Officer with Canary Medical, Inc., which designs and manufactures connected medical implants that generate reliable, accurate data on patient activity and health. Michael also is a co-founder and Chief Product Office with S3 Markets, which creates market-based mechanisms that enable the rapid, radical decarbonization of key hard-to-abate sectors.


Michael has more than 25 years’ experience in consulting, and has worked in many and diverse industries, including life sciences, medical devices, telecommunications, high technology, financial services, media, consumer products, and others. He has helped clients with competitive and corporate strategy, product and service innovation, risk management, and, most recently, setting and meeting corporate net zero commitments.


His books are bestsellers (New York Times, Canada’s Globe & Mail) and award-winners internationally (BusinessWeek, Financial Times). He has published hundreds of articles and monographs that have shaped management discourse over decades (Harvard Business Review, Strategic Management Journal).

Michael has a doctorate from the Harvard Business School, an MBA with distinction from the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario, and an undergraduate degree in Philosophy magna cum laude from Harvard University. He lives near Toronto, Canada.

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