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THE INNOVATING WITH DIVERSITY CONFERENCE, JUNE 6TH CPH
May 2005 - Don't miss out on this conference, which has been co-organised by Susanne Justesen (founder of Innoversity Network), and features prominent speakers from Stanford University, IDEO, London Innovation Leadership Forum, Unilever, Hewlett-Packard, Imaginatik Boston, Warwick University Danish Design Center and Bang & Olufsen. Unilever,  Learn more about this conference...

UPDATE ON RESEARCH PROJECT ON INNOVATION DIVERSITY
October 2004 - Susanne Justesen, the founder of Innoversity Network, is currently working on a highly interesting research project with Copenhagen Business School under the title of "innovating with diversity". This research project is a study of innovation and the role of diversity in the innovation process. You can learn more about the research project, under the heading of "research" in the menu to the left

FASCINATING WORKSHOP ON DIVERSITY DYNAMICS
July 2004 - Susanne Justesen was priveleged to participate and do a presentation in this workshop in Bologna, Italy. The conference was framed within the discipline of complexity theory, and the diversity present at the workshop was interesting in and off itself: Biologists, economists, social scientists, geologists, physicists etc. 

INNOVERSITY NETWORK MEETUP, COPENHAGEN, MAY 4TH 2004
May 2004 - This Innoversity Network meeting was held in the Studio of DFAB, and  hosted by designer Karsten Lülloff and photographer Mikkel Molin, who told os about how they make use of diversity in designing and developing their innovative products. A highly interesting aproach to innovation, which we all enjoyed learning from.

SUSANNE JUSTESEN FEATURED IN ARTICLE ON NETWORKS
April 2004 - This article in the Danish weekly Berlingske Nyhedsmagasin, descibes the importance of network relations, and features a small interview with Susanne about the role of networks in innovation.

RESEARCH PROJECT ON INNOVATION AND DIVERSITY
March 2004 - Susanne Justesen from Innoversity Network has now entered into a three year research project with Copenhagen Business School. Susanne will be studying the role of diversity in innovation, with a strong emphasis on interorganisational networks and Communities of Practice in the partnering companies. The research partners in the project are LEGO Company, DR - The Danish Broadcasting Corporation, ARLA Foods, Nycomed, LEO Pharma, Jyske Bank and Novozymes. 

INNOVATION IN THE ORESUND REGION, COPENHAGEN FEBRUARY 27th
February 2004 - This special meeting between a small group (10 people) of innovation specialist in Copenhagen, was hosted by Innoversity Network. The purpose of the meeting was to come up with a set of ideas to revitalize the Oresund region, which seems to hold such a huge potential - but never really seems to be kicking off.

GREAT NEW TOOL: "INNOVERSITY DIAGNOSIS"
July 2003 - Innoversity Consulting is proud to introduce this new and very powerful analysis tool. In using this tool with our client organisations, we are able to identify homogenious warning zones, innovation barriers (caused by diversity), innovation potentials etc - aiding the overall ability to tap into diversity for innovative purposes. The tool draws heavily upon social network theory, and combines personal interviews with a simple survey and social network analysis! A highly valuable tool to identify potentials, and none the least for measuring results!

INNOVERSITY CONSULTING IN LONDON
June 2003 - Innoversity Consulting had the very first assignment in London in the beginning of June, and had a chance of connecting with a few Innoversity Network members on that occasion! Innoversity Consulting is therefore now teaming up with Patrick Dunn in London to develop a framework for working with Virtual Innoversity (how to tap into aspects of diversity otherwise not available by building virtual innovation communities). So expect to learn more about that soon!

SUSANNE JUSTESEN FEATURED IN IM-BOOT GALLERY
June 2003 - The weblog on innovation IM-BOOT is now featuring the founder of Innoversity Network with a short interview in the creativity Gallery of the Weblog - talking about the favourite idea: innoversity!

PARTNERING UP WITH FEAST FOR EIGHT IN NEW YORK
May 2003 - Innoversity, LLC has entered into an alliance with Feast for Eight, which is a unique chance for Innoversity Network to benefit from the F8 concept as to how to bring people of diverse backgrounds together, when doing Innoversity Events in New York. Feast for Eight and Innoversity, LLC will offer our first events in the fall of 2003, so New Yorkers - stay tuned! Learn more about Feast for Eight here. 

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT EVENT IN INNOVERSITY NETWORK
May 2003 - On May 21st Dr. Madanmohan Rao updated members of Innoversity Network about Knowledge Management. Madan recently issued his new book on Knowledge Management, and is in Denmark for a short visit on this very day. His talk will present  KM practices from more than 15 of the most celebrated IT companies from the US, Europe and Asia. After Madan's presentation we discussed our most important challenges in relation to Knowledge Management. You can learn more about Madanmohan here, and se the PowerPoints from his presentation here

INNOVERSITY FORMS ALLIANCE WITH CREATIVITY DAY
April 2003 - This organisation works to promote the existence of creativity day on April 21st every year, together with the notion of an innovation week! Innoversity Consulting and Susanne Justesen are now the Danish representative of this worldspanning organisation.

"IDEA EXCHANGE DINNER"  IN INNOVERSITY NETWORK
February 2003 - We were very happy to see 22 members of the Innoversity Network show up for our Idea Exchange Dinner on February 6th at Kavva in Copenhagen. The meeting was organised in cooperation with Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies, and arranged for members to exchange ideas with eachother on matters of interest to each of them. After the Idea Exchange we had dinner, and people stayed around even after the dinner; and Kavva made sure that we had a great evening.

SEE WHAT Z+BLOG WRITES ABOUT INNOVERSITY
January 2003 - Z+BloG is a weblog featuring pointers and commentary on the future of design, branding, innovation, sustainability and other emerging issues collected by Z + Partners in New York. And while you are there you might aswell explore the blog, which is most certainly worth a visit!

INNOVERSITY CONSULTING  IN DANISH RADIO PROGRAMME
December 3rd - Susanne Justesen appeared in the Danish National DR Radio programme 'Frekvens' on P1, in which she describes what it means to build your business as an entreprenuer based on an idea, i.e. the idea of innoversity. Other profiles in the programme are the Danish writer Tor Nørretranders and Innovation researcher Henrik Herlau.

INNOVERSITY CONSULTING OPENS IN NEW YORK, JANUARY 2003
October 20th - By mid December, Susanne Justesen will be moving to New York to be able to kick off the first projects in New York in the new year. So from January 2003, Susanne will be doing projects, talks and consulting in both New York and Copenhagen. If you want to know more, please don't hesitate to contact Susanne at susanne@innoversity.org 

NEW COLUMN AT INNOVERSITY NETWORK
October 15th - You can now find an innoversity column here at the Innoversity Network Space, where Susanne Justesen will write about new ideas, insights and learnings.  This month you can read about how to use mentorship to spice up innovation. 

FIRST AFTER WORK MEETING IN INNOVERSITY NETWORK 
October 1st - We are proud the present the first 'after-work-meeting' in Copenhagen on November 26th, which will feature an interesting talk about innovation at VELUX by Søren Søgaard from VELCAP. The meeting will take place at 17:00 - 18:30 at United Spaces, Nicolai Eigtvedsgade 26, 1402 Copenhagen, Denmark. Please join us for the meeting! Sign up...

REDUCED CONFERENCE  FEE FOR MEMBERS OF THE NETWORK
September 1st - Members of the Innoversity Network are granted a discount when signing up with the 'Innovation & Creation' conference in Aarhus, Denmark on September 18-19th. Read more...

INNOVERSITY.DK IN NEW YORK IN SEPTEMBER
September 2002 - Susanne Justesen, Innoversity.dk was in New York once more in the attempt to build a business case for innoversity in the New York area. Most of the stay focused on further developing the business plan with a new NY partner. 

EVALUATION OF INNOVERSITY WORKSHOP
July 2002 - A dissertation is currently being worked on based on the participation in and the evaluation of a workshop held by Innoversity.dk - together with actress Roxana Kia - in June in Copenhagen. We look very much forward to learning from the work done by Camilla Mortensen on the workshop. 

INNOVERSITY.DK PRESENTS AT CONFERENCE IN PORTUGAL
June 2002 - Susanne Justesen from Innoversity.dk partipated in a 5 day long Dialogue with experts in the field of Communities of Practice in Setúbal, Portugal. After the Dialogue days, a Round Table was held where Susanne presented a paper to a wider audience.

DIVERSITY IS NOT DANGEROUS, MERELY INSPIRING (IN DANISH)
April 2002 BizReport - This article by Susanne Justesen from Innoversity.dk exhibits a warning against similarity and closure in Danish Business life. Recruiting for executive boards, top management positions and employees alike seems to focus too much on similarity and too little on diversity. And we need a major shift in Denmark in this regard if we do not want to fall behind when it comes to innovation and new thinking. 'Cause if we all look alike - who do we expect to come up with new ideas??

NEW ARTICLE PUBLISHED BY SUSANNE JUSTESEN 
April 2002 - The article has been published by Leading Capacity, which is a web-based management tool for management and organisational development in Denmark. The article is in Danish and describes how to work strategicly with diversity as a means for organisational innovation. You need to be a subscriber to Leading Capacity to read the article

INNOVATION & INNOVERSITY CONFERENCE CANCELLED 
April 2002 - It was with great regret and sorrow that we have had to cancel the very first Innovation & Innoversity Conference to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark in April 2002. We simply had too few participants - But Innoversity.dk hopes to be able to realaunch another conference next year.

INNOVERSITY.DK ON DIVERSITY CONFERENCE IN DENMARK
March 2002 - Innoversity.dk participated and co-arranged a large conference in Denmark on March 18th with approximately 1000 participants. Innoversity.dk did a workshop aswell as being present in the exibition area with material, posters and inspiration. The Innoversity.dk team did a very good job in spreading the innoversity virus. Read more and see pictures from the event by clicking above

WHY INNOVATION IS A BETTER INCENTIVE (IN DANISH)
March 2002 in Information (a Danish Newspaper):  This article describes the conference about diversity which was co-organised by innoversity.dk. In the article Susanne Justesen, Innoversity.dk explains why assimilation may be the result of a too narrowminded social responsibility strategy, and how innovation as a motivation for diversity seems to offer better incentives for a better overall integration.

INNOVERSITY.DK MOVES INTO UNITED SPACES COPENHAGEN
March 2002 - Innoversity.dk is now a member of United Spaces Copenhagen, which is a flexible and efficient office solution based upon networking, knowledge sharing and creativity - - a network office. We are currently 45 different companies and 90 entrepreneurs in United Spaces Copenhagen - and the decision to move into the office has proved to be a very good one. A range of good and inspring conversations with fellow-enthusiasts have so far stirred up a lot of new ideas for use by both Innoversity.dk and Innoversity Network. Please follow the link to learn more about United Spaces

LAUNCH OF NEW DANISH PORTAL: JOBSAMTALEN.DK (IN DANISH)
The portal which was launched on March 4 was the result of an almost one-year long project directed by Susanne Justesen, Innoversity.dk. The project focused on getting diversity into the workplace by focusing on the job interview as a door opener. The information presented at Jobsamtalen.dk is based on app. 30 interviews with both recruiters and applicants, who shared their experiences about barriers and pitfalls in the job interview and give their advide as to how these barriers can be minimised, thereby allowing for an increased diversity in Danish organisations.  At the launch reception, which was held togther with the jobportal: omarjob.nu on March 4 , almost 200 people showed, including two Danish Ministers. It was a happy and none the least important day to Innoversity.dk

INNOVERSITY.DK CONSIDERS OVERSEAS EXPANSION IN NEW YORK
January 2002 - A lot of networking and searching is currently taking place in order to examine the possibilities of Innoversity.dk venturing into the New York Area. Nothing has yet been decided upon, but the ambition is to be able to launch the first Innoversity initiatives in New York by the end of 2002. If you would be interested in working with Innoversity.dk in New York or if you know of anyone who could be interested - please contact Susanne Justesen at susanne@innoversity.dk  

A PRELIMINARY STUDY ON INNOVERSITYGROUPS™
October 2001 - Together with Tine Lindhard Innoversity.dk did the very first in a serious of studies on the new concept which we have labelled an InnoversityGroup™, e.g. a group of highly different people whom, when working together in a specific way is seen to spur creativity, innovation and radical new thinking. The project seems highly promising, but certainly needs to be grounded with several more InnoversityGroups™ in the future. 

I AM FED UP HEARING ABOUT THE PROBLEMS
August 2001 - In this article Susanne Justesen explains her view on diversity and integration, and how Danes should be happy about the diversity instead of complaining. She explains how diversity is linked to innovation and how Danish companies can potentially benefit from this diversity and thereby improve their innovative practice

INNOVERSITY DEFINED IN DANISH ENCYCLOPEDIA (IN DANISH)
July 2001 - Innoversity is pleased to announce that the Innoversity Concept (developed by Susanne Justesen, Innoversity) has been acknowledged in Denmark by being included in the latest edition of the Danish Management Encyclopedia (Børsens Management Leksikon) which was published earlier this month (Link refers to Danish Site)

INNOVERSITY THEORY USED FOR GAME DEVELOPMENT (.pdf)
May 2001 - In a project handed in to Erhvervsakademiet for Informations- og Kommunikationsteknologi, Innoversity Theory is applied in order to describe the dynamics of group processes in project management. It was highly interesting to see how the Innoversity Drivers can be usefull in other theoretical fields aswell, and it was definately inspiring to read the project (app. 68 pages) 

INNOVERSITY - PUBLISHED AS A WORKING PAPER
May 2001 - Now you can finally download this Working Paper by Susanne Justesen, about the Innoversity concept and framework. The paper was originally a master thesis in Intercultural Management, but has now been published as a Working Paper by the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School. Please beware that the paper has been divided into Part I and Part II, and you should therefore make sure that you download both of them

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