Innovation is not an end unto itself, but a means to creating profitability.  When objectives are clearly defined, innovation can increase revenue and decrease costs. 

Anne has an extensive background in innovation strategy and can help your organization define and reach its objectives.  Anne can help your organization

• Expand into new markets by creating or sourcing strategic products
• Leverage existing markets by meeting additional product or service needs
• Create a pipeline of new products through partnerships, alliances, and in-house development
• Provide additional services or products needed by existing clients
• Improve the product delivery process to decrease the cost per customer

Anne combines deep domain knowledge about the processes of innovation with strategic planning, business development, and project management experience.

• Founding President of Young Inventors International
• Pioneered the BrainBuzz, a novel model for innovation through live collaboration
• Certified by the World Intellectual Property Organization in Intellectual Property Management
• Conducted innovation research at the University of Toronto (with the Innovation Systems Research Network) and at Carnegie Mellon University (with support from the Kauffman Foundation)
• Guest lecturer on commercialization and intellectual capital management at MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Wisconsin at Madison, University of Waterloo, and 30 others
• Columnist for Xconomy on topics of innovation and entrepreneurship
• One of GLAMOUR Magazine’s Top Ten College Women – “Most likely to change the world” for her work with innovators

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Anne is an Xconomist and author of the following articles:

• Sourcing the Right Crowd
• Universities: An Entrepreneur's Ecosystem

Take a look at this recent World Intellectual Property Organization's Magazine article about YII and its members.