Caltech ELEVATED September 2024: What Innovation Means at JPL 554h2v

Inspiring and informative session with Dr. Tony Freeman of the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) and ELEVATED host Dr. Nate Crews. Dr. Freeman has been pivotal in numerous missions at JPL, where he led the Innovation Foundry for early concept design. In this webinar, he will explore the intricacies of technology-driven strategy, offering insights into differentiation and strategic choices, creating processes and cultures that innovation and risk-taking, and illustrating how organizations can use technology lifecycles for business disruption and competitive advantage—challenging tradition and status quo. Dr. Freeman will connect these strategic approaches to project management and discuss how influence and planning can help generate buy-in to even the wildest ideas. You will learn to: • Apply analytical methods for strategic choices and decision-making • Use concepts of technology forecasting to build competitive organizational capabilities • Foster a culture for enabling innovation and thriving in uncertainty 5t471y