How to Build Sustainable Capability for Innovation

Innovation Roundtable

April 4, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

How to make your organization a serial innovator? Learn the principles combined with a case study on an innovation initiative built by Tenneco and Strategos. Learn more.

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Where

Gleacher Center
Room 600
450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive
Chicago, Illinois

Who

Jennifer Kelly Dominiquini, '05
Principal, Strategos

Gregg DeSilvio, '99
Business Development Director
Tenneco

Program

5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.: Networking
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.: Presentation
7:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.: Discussion
7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.: Networking, Midway Club

Registration

Register Online
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Register by Phone: 312.451.4807
Please register by 4/1/2006

Questions

Atul Setlur, '04
312.451.4807

Event Details

Learn how to build a to build a systemic capability for innovation. Jennifer Kelly Dominiquini from Strategos and Gregg DeSilvio from Tenneco will present:

• Principles that guide effective innovation.
• Understanding each component of the innovation system.
• How to identify impediments to the innovation process, and overcome these.
• Linking strategy and innovation.
• Learning how to make your organization a serial innovator.
• The Tenneco Case Study: lessons from the challenges faced when the innovation process was built at Tenneco.

Speaker Profiles

Jennifer Kelly Dominiquini, '05
Principal, Strategos

Jennifer Kelly Dominiquini is a Principal at Strategos where she applies her knowledge of global markets to enable clients to create growth strategies and opportunities, and build sustainable innovation capabilities. Jennifer has practical experience in a wide range of industries including aerospace, automotive, consumer durables, consumer packaged goods, chemicals, entertainment and retail. She has worked throughout Latin America, North America and Europe.

Prior to Strategos, Jennifer started a business and communication training firm in Brazil. Jennifer has also been a consultant with Monitor Group where she developed strategic solutions for Global 500 firms in sectors such as telecommunications, aluminum and industrial products. Jennifer also consulted in Monitor's Latin American Country Competitiveness Group, where she worked with companies in Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador and Colombia to improve their competitive positions.

Jennifer has an MBA from the University of Chicago. Jennifer also has degrees in International Studies/Business and Spanish (with Honors) from the University of Scranton. She was a Fulbright Scholar in International Business to Uruguay. During her Fulbright year, Jennifer consulted with the Mercosur Commission, a regional economic organization, where her objective was to help guide Uruguay in becoming a regional service center in the information technology and transportation sectors. Jennifer speaks both Spanish and Portuguese and has consulted in both languages.

About Strategos:
Strategos is a strategy and innovation consulting firm that helps companies outperform their industry rivals by instilling innovation in the core of their organization. Strategos works closely with clients to identify, develop and act on profitable growth opportunities and game-changing business strategies. Strategos combines the business acumen of a seasoned executive, the learning focus of a leadership development expert and the creativity of an innovation specialist to enable companies to drive sustainable and profitable growth.

Gregg DeSilvio, '99
Business Development Director, Tenneco

Gregg is currently a Business Development Director at Tenneco, where his responsibilities include M&A and managing Tenneco's innovation program, a global initiative to build Tenneco's innovation capability.

Prior to his current position, Gregg was the marketing director for Tenneco's Ride Control Group where he led the marketing efforts behind Tenneco's flagship Monroe® shock absorber brand. In his marketing role, Gregg broke new ground at Tenneco with these firsts: a brand licensing program, a hispanic marketing campaign, and a plan to use agents to market Muscle® to nontraditional automotive resellers.

Throughout his career Gregg has held a variety of sales and marketing leadership positions at companies such GE and at Phillips Lighting Company, where, as National Business Development Manager, Gregg was responsible for revenue growth in traditional as well as strategic new consumer markets across the United States.

Gregg holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business and a BA in English from Kenyon College.

ABOUT TENNECO:
Tenneco is a $4.2 billion global manufacturing company based in Lake Forest, Illinois with some 18,400 employees worldwide. The company is one of the world's leading designers, manufacturers and distributors of automotive emission control and ride control products and systems for the automotive original equipment market and the aftermarket.

Tenneco sells ride control products primarily under the well-known Monroe� brand, as well as Clevite� Elastomers and Fric Rot�. On the emissions control side of the business, Tenneco markets products globally under highly recognized brands like Walker�, Gillet� and Fonos�