Dwayne Spradlin

Dwayne Spradlin

Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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Proven executive with 20+ years of experience and a successful track record in business…

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    Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    Nashville, Tennessee, United States

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    Austin, Texas, United States

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    Austin, Texas, United States

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    Boca Raton, FL

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    Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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    Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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    Waltham, MA

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    Austin, Texas, United States

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    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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    Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States

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    Houston, Texas, United States

Education

Volunteer Experience

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    Advisory Board Member

    121Giving

    - Present 11 years 2 months

    The purpose of 121 Giving is to help charities get the products they need, when they need it most, while providing companies an efficient and cost effective way to do the most good with the goods they already have.

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    National Thought Leaders Council

    Edith Sanford

    - Present 11 years 6 months

    Health

    The mission of the Edith Sanford Breast Cancer Foundation is to unlock each woman’s genetic code to advance today’s prevention and treatment, and end breast cancer for future generations.

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    Strategic Advisor (Strategic Advisory Board)

    InnoCentive

    - Present 11 years 7 months

    InnoCentive crowdsources innovation solutions from the world’s smartest people, who compete to provide ideas and solutions to important business, social, policy, scientific, and technical challenges.

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    Mentor

    the Wond'ry

    - Present 2 years

    Education

    Mentoring students and budding entrepreneurs!

Publications

  • Are You Solving the Right Problem?

    Harvard Business Review

    How many times have you seen a project go down one path only to realize in hindsight that it should have gone down another? How many times have you seen an innovation program deliver a seemingly breakthrough result only to find that it can’t be implemented or it addresses the wrong problem? Many organizations need to become better at asking the right questions so that they tackle the right problems. I offer here a process for defining problems that any organization can employ on its own.

  • The Open Innovation Marketplace: Creating Value in the Challenge Driven Enterprise

    FT Press

    The Open Innovation Marketplace, published in the Spring of 2011, introduces groundbreaking strategies and models for leveraging the world’s best innovation sources to drive far more value from new products, services, and business models – and do it with far less risk. Drawing on their experience building InnoCentive, authors Alph Bingham and Dwayne Spradlin show how to dramatically increase the flow of high-value innovations your organization can discover—and deliver.

    Through detailed…

    The Open Innovation Marketplace, published in the Spring of 2011, introduces groundbreaking strategies and models for leveraging the world’s best innovation sources to drive far more value from new products, services, and business models – and do it with far less risk. Drawing on their experience building InnoCentive, authors Alph Bingham and Dwayne Spradlin show how to dramatically increase the flow of high-value innovations your organization can discover—and deliver.

    Through detailed case studies,from leading innovators such as Procter & Gamble, Eli Lilly, and NASA, Bingham and Spradlin demonstrate open innovation at work in pharmaceuticals, consumer products, software, aeronautics, and beyond. They show how to construct Challenges that focus innovation on critical business needs, can attract breakthrough strategies and solutions, and how to transform your enterprise to do it over and over again.

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