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Gwen Smith Ishmael, Sr. Vice President of Insights and Innovation at Decision Analyst in Arlington, TX, has led marketing and new product development activities in the CPG and technology industries since 1986. She also conceived and developed ground-breaking Web-based promotional vehicles, two of which are patent pending. Gwen holds an MBA in Marketing and is a featured speaker on insights and innovation around the world. Her writings have been featured in international text books, most recently in Managing 4 Ps of Marketing FMCG Sector, and Product Innovation: A Strategic Tool for Growth, by ICFAI Publications, 2006 and 2007, respectively.

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Renee Hopkins Callahan Renee Hopkins Callahan started IdeaFlow and serves as chief blog-wrangler. She is Director of Innovation Services at Decision Analyst in Arlington, Texas, is a former journalist who worked as an editor and reporter for The Dallas Morning News and the Nashville Tennessean, and was managing editor of D, the Dallas city magazine. She has a master's degree in rhetoric and has also taught college-level English and informal logic.
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June 14, 2005

Special CPSI coverage on IdeaFlow

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Posted by Renee Hopkins Callahan

You'll notice IdeaFlow looking temporarily a little different over the next month or so. I'll be attending the Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI, pronounced "sipsee") again June 24-July 1, and while there I'll be part of the Ethnographic Learning Journey Team headed by Maren Elwood of On-Site Research.

During the conference the Ethno Team will conduct ethnographic research into the CPSI culture. Ethno Team members will embed themselves within different aspects of CPSI and collect audio and video feeds, which will be part of the end report.

So until June 25, I'll be posting about the Ethno Team's reparations for CPSI as well as my usual posts on innovation and creativity. From June 25 to July 1, IdeaFlow will be devoted to CPSI and the Ethno Team. I'll be posting my own observations as well as Ethno Team video, photos, and audio multiple times a day.

NOTE: I will *not* be emailing each post to the mailing list during this time! That would be highly annoying to everyone! Instead, I will continue to email non-CPSI posts and a wrap-up post at the end. Email readers are welcome to come to www.corante.com/ideaflow anytime and see what's happening with the CPSI ethnographic project.

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