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SUMMARY:Creating New Business Opportunities with Radically Disruptive Tech
 nologies - Jim Keri Li
DTSTART:20140516T090000Z
DTEND:20140516T094500Z
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CONTACT:Yongjiang Shi
DESCRIPTION:Jim Keri Li\, ex-IfM member and now working in Singapore as a 
 very successful engineer\, manager\, and technological entrepreneur\, is g
 oing to share his experiences and thoughts about disruptive technology and
  new business innovation.\n\n"In recent history\, successful technopreneur
 s\, such as Steve Job of Apple\, Larry Page & Sergey Brin of Google\, Bill
  Gate of Microsoft\, have leveraged on emerging technologies to create ama
 zing new products/services that have profound implications on how we work\
 , play and live\, also have motivated some of the brightest minds to becom
 e entrepreneurs. However\, making the “right” choice to seize a busine
 ss opportunity\, while vital is risky to any start-ups\, veteran entrepren
 eurs and is no less challenging even for the top management teams of large
  multinational corporations. Failure to identify and timely engage in a te
 chnology based business growth trend together with an incapability of extr
 acting the commercial values within the often limited technology-life cycl
 e could be costly in term of time\, resources and entrepreneur’s emotion
 . Above all\, it could prove devastating to a new venture or spin-offs.  T
 his presentation would shed light with insightful strategies in industry p
 ractice on how to systematically identify emerging technologies that could
  be rapidly acquired and deployed to create radically innovative new produ
 cts which could then deliberately seek to marginalize\, thus disrupt a con
 ventional product range and take over its existing market share.  Implicat
 ions on tech-based firm growth model\, systematic innovation\, R&D road ma
 pping are illustrated and real case examples will be presented."\n\nJim gr
 aduated as an electronic engineer with a 1st class honours degree (B Eng.)
  in 1989\, and continued his research in the area of Information Storage a
 nd Retrieval Systems leading to a master's degree (M Sc.) at the Universit
 y of Manchester in UK. He gained his PhD at Cambridge University for work 
 on Collaborative New Product Introduction (NPI) Strategy. He has published
  in the areas of manufacturing strategy and mid-sized technology based bus
 iness models.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 3\, Alan Reece Building Institute for Manufacturing 
 (IfM)\, 17 Charles Babbage Road\, Cambridge CB3 0FS
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