Acquiring Innovation: Build, Borrow, or Buy?
This video is from SIIA Ed Tech Industry Summit 2008 in San Francisco.
Thanks to Berkery Noyes for underwriting the filming of this conference so people who couldn’t make it in person can watch online.
Innovation can be totally home-grown–or it can be acquired, either product by product or in one fell swoop through acquisition of a company. This discussion focuses on the decisions a company makes around feeding a steady pipeline of innovative products and services into the marketplace.
When does a company invest in organic growth (people and other resources) and when is it both cheaper and faster to look outside? What are the potential risks and rewards of each strategy? What would a blended strategy look like?
MODERATOR
- Dick Casabonne, Chief Executive Officer, Casabonne Associates, Inc.
PRESENTERS
- Robert Fiance, Chairman, Flatworld/Education 2000
- Jessica Lindl, Vice President, Marketing, Scientific Learning
- Tim Loomer, President and CEO, Campus Management
- Mark Malaspina, President, The Grow Network/McGraw-Hill
Jason Kichline is ScribeMedia's project manager. He likes typos, fast food and MacGyver like solutions to life's nagging problems.
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