Biography

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Creativity at Work: Ian Rose

Associate

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Ian Rose has consulted for 25 years with major corporations, government departments and non-profit groups across North America, Europe, S.E. Asia, Australia, Africa and the Middle East, to help solve their leadership and organizational problems, and to create their human resource management and development strategies.

He specializes in developing highly motivated workforces by means of fostering creativity and innovation in the workplace, improving the effectiveness of corporate learning, managing organizational knowledge, and identifying management practices that impede business success.

His client list comprises many of the largest companies in the world, including 3M, Abbott Labs, BP, EDS, Honeywell, Johnson & Johnson, Lockheed Martin, Shell and Unilever. He has also worked extensively with the British, Canadian and U.S. Governments, and has undertaken several assignments with the United Nations (including making recommendations to the Secretary General on the more efficient use of personnel in humanitarian and peace-keeping operations).

Assignments include:

Research
Ian has conducted extensive, in-depth research on Recreating the Organization, Valuing Intellectual Capital, Fostering Creativity and Innovation, Improving the Effectiveness of Corporate Training, and Measuring the Value of Training, with such companies as Baxter, Dow Chemical, Du Pont, Ford, Monsanto, Rubbermaid, Saturn, Texas Instruments and Xerox.
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The findings of this ongoing research have been utilized by many of his other clients around the world, including Sonofi-Aventis, BP, Clorox, Merck and Shell.

3M: Consulted with the Corporate Marketing group on their innovation and knowledge management strategies, to ensure that ideas generated by their operations around the world were not lost, but distributed in such a way as to maximize their usefulness.

Johnson & Johnson: Developed a comprehensive database of creativity resources (university courses, books, consultants, etc.) that managers around the world could access for fostering innovation in their business units.

NASA: Worked with the CIO at the Johnson Space Center on strategies for stimulating creativity in the workplace and, as a result, was asked to give the keynote address to senior NASA executives on the morning of John Glenn's return to space.

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