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May 2013

New column on Fast Company Co.Design

Jeneanne Rae and Greg Berguig's piece on improving customer efficiencies was published on Co.Design. Read it here: How To Eliminate Customer Angst—And Improve Your Bottom Line.

April 2013

Motiv Strategies certified as a woman-owned business

Motiv has officially been certified as a woman-owned business by the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). "We're thrilled with the good news and look forward to connecting with the WBENC community," said Joy Thomas, Strategist.

March 2013

Ian Campbell to present at mobile health seminar

Ian will speak at "M2M: The What, How & Why of Machine 2 Machine Communication & Mobile Health in Medical Devices" on April 14th. The seminar will include panels that address technical and business issues such as as system architecture, regulatory concerns and monetizing the cloud.

February 2013

Jeneanne Rae addresses U.S. Census Bureau leadership

Jeneanne Rae gave a talk to the U.S. Census Bureau entitled "Reimagining Your Organization in a Digital Era" discussing creative problem-solving via innovative uses of big data.

November 2012

Jeneanne Rae featured in Compass Magazine

Jeneanne Rae spoke on the importance of customer experience for the inaugural issue of Compass Magazine, which discusses the rise of the experience economy. Read the full article here.

Motiv hosts roundtable on social media for corporate innovators

Mostiv hosted open innovation and intrapreneurship expert Stefan Lindegaard on November 12 for a roundtable on using social media to drive open innovation. Stefan, who is based in Copenhagen, has written three books on open innovation and was in Washington to advise the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as an Innovation Fellow Technical Advisor.

Greg Berguig judges Georgetown Business Pitch Competition

On Friday, November 9, Greg served as a judge of Georgetown University's 3rd Annual Rocket Pitch Competition, part of the Startup Hoya Challenge, a university-wide program designed to help entrepreneurial students come together and explore the creation of valuable new businesses.

October 2012

Jeneanne Rae reappointed to Georgetown University faculty

Jeneanne Rae will return from a three-year hiatus as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. She will begin teaching new product and service development to MBA candidates again in the spring semester of 2013.

August 2012

CEO speaks on the business of design at 2012 IDSA Conference

Jeneanne Rae spoke on service design on a panel entitled The Ever-Expanding Design Profession at the 2012 IDSA "The Future Is..." Conference. Other panelists included Heather Boesch, Business Operations Lead at IDEO, Melissa Quinn, Partner at Monitor Group, and Steve Kaneko, Partner Director of Design at Microsoft.

April 2012

Piece published on Fast Company Co.Design

Jeneanne Rae's "6 Keys For Turning Your Business Into A Design Powerhouse" was published online. See it on Co.Design or download the PDF.

Jeneanne Rae leads High Table virtual panel discussion

Revolutionary or evolutionary innovation--which is the right approach for your business? On April 24, Jeneanne Rae will lead a panel discussion on managing innovation with two former executives of Coca Cola and General Mills and GE Water and Process Technology. Join the HighTable webcast here.

Jeneanne Rae judges first annual MBA Innovation Case Competition

On April 20, Jeneanne Rae will serve as a judge at the first annual Innovate Washington MBA Case Competition, sponsored by the Washington Metropolitan Transport Association and hosted by Georgetown University's Technology, Innovation + Design Graduate Asociation. Competitors will seek solutions to designing a better community for Washington, DC. More information can be found at innovatewashington.com.

New publication in InnovationManagement

Director Carl Fudge's paper "Ten Tips For Innovation Teams" has been published in InnovationManagement. See it online or download the PDF.

March 2012

Ian Campbell judges the Hoya Challenge

Director Ian Campbell will serve as a judge for Georgetown University's 2012 Hoya Challenge, where he will provide feedback and mentoring to students exploring the creation of new businesses.

Jeneanne Rae's 30 Second MBA for Fast Company

CEO Jeneanne Rae's second Fast Company 30-Second MBA, where she discusses best practices for developing openness to change, has been published on their website.

Article published in InnovationManagement

Our article "Growing B2B Services: 3 Trends To Act Upon Now" has been published by InnovationManagement. Click here to download it as a PDF, or view it online.

February 2012

Motiv welcomes Ian Campbell as new Director

We are happy to announce the new addition of Ian Campbell to the Motiv team. Ian is a leader in health care innovation, focusing on identification of unmet needs, creating new product and service concepts, and testing and validating concepts in various stages of the product development process. Ian has extensive experience managing voice of the customer projects and brings a blend of creativity and business analysis to solving complex problems for client organizations. He joins us as a new Director. Welcome aboard, Ian!

Jeneanne Rae's Fast Company "30 Second MBA" posted

Fast Company has posted Jeneanne Rae's "30 Second MBA" on collaborating with others. See the video here.

January 2012

Column published on Fast Company Co.Design

"Great products are nice. But great businesses add services to them." Jeneanne Rae's debut column in Fast Company's Co.Design channel can be found here.

Column published in Businessweek

Jeneanne Rae's article "Ten Innovation Resolutions for 2012" was published by Bloomberg Businessweek's Management channel. Click here for the full text.

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