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 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.
Fortune Innovation Forum starts tomorrow -- in person and in blogs too!
Posted by Renee Hopkins Callahan
The Fortune Innovation Forum begins tomorrow in New York and goes through Thursday, Dec. 1 (if you're interested in going, click on the text link rather than the image). Dominic Basulto has been writing the very active and well-done Business Innovation blog for the past six weeks, sponsored by this conference, featuring interviews with leading innovation bloggers and thinkers (and me too!). Now Dominic will be live-blogging the conference as well as pointing to blog posts that others will be writing, so the Business Innovation blog is still the source for information on this event. I'll point to some of the best posts as well, both here and on the Corante Network marketing hub. While I won't be there in person, my team's leader, Gwen Ishmael, will be. So if you see Gwen Ishmael from Decision Analyst at the Fortune Innovation conference over the next couple of days, tell her "hello" and identify yourself as an IdeaFlow reader!