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Senior Director of Innovation and Collaboration at TIBCO Software Inc

TIBCO Software Inc. (TIBCO) is a provider of infrastructure software. The Company provides a range of infrastructure software solutions that help organizations achieve the benefits of real-time business. The infrastructure software gives customers the ability to connect incompatible information technology assets in a service-oriented architecture and streamline activities through business process management. The Company also gives customers the information and intelligence tools they need to make decisions, known as The Power of Now. TIBCO offers a range of software products that can be sold individually to solve technical challenges. The services offered by the Company include professional services, maintenance and support, and training. In September 2008, the Company acquired Insightful Corporation, a provider of statistical data analysis and data mining solutions software. In August 2009, TIBCO acquired DataSynapse, Inc.

A flexible, empathic, and optimistic innovation leader with decades of experience developing ideas into products and features to create value for users. A strong writer, communicator, relationship builder and collaborator, able to motivate team members to balance the aspirational with the practical, and find the best outcomes for the business. Innovation is not (just) about product. Every group in a company has their own innovation that often affects other areas of the business. In software, even product innovation has to include other functions. Collaboration is foundational element of innovation. Another part of the foundation is process, but you also have to know when to apply process as well as how much to apply at key inflection points. I was a product person before I knew what that really meant. I just see everything as a product with a value proposition for someone. I have been changing the way people work with technology tools or process tools from my earliest days. I was desktop publishing before there was desktop publishing, discovered the internet before there were graphics, walked barefoot in the snow (are you still reading), designed graphics before the art students found computers, manipulated photos when rendering a change took 15 minutes. Specialties: – Collaborative Innovation – Market-focused Product Definition – Cross-functional Team Leadership – Defining Business Models – Designing Value Propositions – Product Management/Leadership – Strategic and Tactical Thinking – User Experience and Usability – Writing and Creative Storytelling – Creating Culture and Building Relationships – Focused Prioritization – Balancing Opposing Ideas – Seriously Funny when Necessary, But Rarely on Command.