2012 TI Summit Speaker: Maria Thompson of Motorola

   

Maria Thompson

Director of Innovation Strategy,

Intellectual Asset Management at

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

CTO Innovation Champion

Past

·         Director, Legal Operations: Portfolio and Change Management at Motorola Solutions
·         Director, Intellectual Asset Management Process and Tools at Motorola
·         Invention Leadership and Software Process Improvement Program Management at
      Motorola

Maria coordinates, plans, and facilitates Directed Innovation creative problem solving sessions, resulting in high-quality, novel, and patentable solutions to targeted critical challenges. She benchmarks, tailors, adapts and manages the transition and institutionalization of process and technology best practices to enhance organizational capability.

Significant Achievements

·         Facilitated over 100 Directed Innovation ideation workshops, resulting in 1000's of patent applications and novel solutions to consumer, product, process, service, market, organization, and infrastructure problems.

·         Digitized entire IPR (patent) Management lifecycle from idea conception through to patent expiration and records retention compliance.

·         Prototyped, trialed, tested and deployed seminal methods and technologies for organizational quality, cycle time and productivity improvement, incl.: C++, Apollo workstations, Systems Dynamics, NLP, MBTI, TRIZ, Mindmapping, Policy Deployment, Scenario Planning, House of Quality, Digital Six Sigma, Six Thinking Hats, Lateral Thinking, DATT, Invention Machine, Thomson Aureka/ Micropatent/Innovation/IPManager, Pantros IP, LexisNexis, Autonomy.

Specialties

·           Creative Problem Solving, Invention and Innovation Facilitation

·         TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving)
·         Change Catalyst
·         Systems Dynamics
·         Scenario Planning
·         Information Technology Management
·         Organizational Process design, Re-engineering and Improvement ( e.g., SEI  CMM)
·         IPR Management: Prior Art Searching, Patent legal processes and tools,
        Patent Analytics
·         Human-Computer Interaction and Communication devices
·         Coaching and Speaking

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