Lanny Vincent

Summary

For over three decades, Vincent & Associates, Ltd. has been helping clients get the most out of their innovating efforts, viewing clients’ innovating processes as part of their company’s innovating system. To manage those processes effectively clients must have insight into their whole innovating system. The majority of our consulting assignments each year comes from repeat clients, typically in three practice areas: foresight, invention and hindsight. Clients use our innovation management services when they are looking for: • complete and compelling targets for their innovators (foresight), • sets of invention disclosures for strengthening their patent portfolios (invention), • leverage points for improving their innovating system performance (hindsight). Over the past 40 years, we have come to believe corporate innovating requires sensitive, challenging and creative conversations between diverse, knowledgeable voices. We design and facilitate these kinds of dialogues because we believe the essence of innovating is learning applied to creating value, which happens in sequenced, iterative conversations.