Innovate or Fail—The Value of Collaboration for Innovation

Innovation isn’t hard, but it certainly isn’t easy. Most successful innovators would say that the ability to collaborate can make all the difference between successful innovation and failure to effect any change. For this exciting webinar we bring together top thinkers and doers—people who have built and fostered creativity and collaboration into innovative advancements. How do you solve hard problems? How do you move from an idea to a result? How do you build and support a culture of innovation from the bottom up and from the top down? Join us to hear how our panelists have answered these questions. Whether you are someone who actively innovates as part of your job or you are someone who wants to move your organization towards being more innovative, this webinar will offer valuable ideas, inspiration, and practical applicable examples. Whether you are someone who actively innovates as part of your job or you are someone who wants to move your organization towards being more innovative, this webinar will offer valuable ideas, inspiration, and practical applicable examples.

Publication Date

2023 | September

Webinars

30

The SSP webinar program delivers a series of highly informative, thought-provoking webinars designed to challenge and stimulate discussion. Covering timely topics and offered regularly throughout the year, our one-hour webinars are available for viewing 180 days after the live broadcast.

Ashley Postlethwaite

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Business Systems Manager, Duke University Press

Ashley Postlethwaite is the Business Systems Manager at Duke University Press. Ashley manages a team of business analysts and product owners who leverage technology to meet DUP’s business needs and strategic objectives. An avid problem solver and dedicated documentarian, Ashley provides system analysis and project management for press-wide efforts. Ashley enjoys the strategic business side of her work as well as getting into the weeds on workflow changes, SQL quandaries, and troubleshooting.

Monica Granados

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Assistant Director, Creative Commons

Dr. Monica Granados has a PhD in ecology from McGill University. While working on her PhD, Monica discovered incentives in academia promote practices that make knowledge less accessible and has since devoted her career to working in the open science space in pursuit of making knowledge more equitable and accessible. She has worked on open knowledge initiatives with Mozilla, PREreview and the Government of Canada. Monica is now an Assistant Director at Creative Commons working on the Open Climate Campaign promoting open access of climate and biodiversity research.

Rich Remington

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SVP and Managing Director, Elsevier

Rich Remington is the SVP/Managing Director of Submission Systems, Data Science, and Product Analytics at Elsevier. He is based in Atlanta, GA and has been with Elsevier since March 2020. He has spent his career in various product, technology and marketing roles at large scale data companies including RELX, Equifax, and Dun and Bradstreet. Rich has led global teams to drive change and innovation in new areas as well as in existing product portfolios.

Shirley Decker-Lucke

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Content Director, SSRN/Elsevier

Shirley Decker-Lucke is Director of Content, at SSRN, Elsevier's preprint server. She has leads innovative cross-departmental initiatives that ensure Elsevier is understanding and meeting our customer needs. She is responsible for ensuring the SSRN platform supports content and researcher needs for the dissemination of early stage research (preprints). Throughout her career she has focused on merging content and technology in innovative ways that serves the research and those who rely upon it. Before this role she was Publishing Director at Elsevier.