Anthony Mills

Anthony Mills

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
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  • GInI - Global Innovation Institute Graphic

    GInI - Global Innovation Institute

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    New York, New York, United States

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    London Area, United Kingdom

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    London Area, United Kingdom

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    Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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    Dublin City, County Dublin, Ireland

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    Dublin City, County Dublin, Ireland

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    Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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    New York City Metropolitan Area

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    Global

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    Greater Chicago Area

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    Greater New York City Area

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    Greater Milwaukee Area

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    Holland, MI

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    Holland, MI

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    Holland, MI

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    Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

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    Cameron, NC

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    Dearborn, MI

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    Raleigh, NC

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    Greenville, NC

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    New Hill, NC

Education

  • GInI - Global Innovation Institute Graphic

    GInI - Global Innovation Institute

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    Activities and Societies: Senior Editor of the GInI Applied Innovation Master Book & the GInI Innovation Associate Reference Book.

    Global

    Leading the development and deployment of GInI's comprehensive professional certification program in Innovation - covering:
    Certified Innovation Associate - CInA
    Certified Innovation Professional - CInP
    Certified Design Thinking Professional - CDTP
    Certified Innovation Strategist - CInS
    Certified Chief Innovation Officer - CCInO
    Authorized Innovation Assessor - AInA

    Leading the development and deployment of GInI's comprehensive business accreditation…

    Global

    Leading the development and deployment of GInI's comprehensive professional certification program in Innovation - covering:
    Certified Innovation Associate - CInA
    Certified Innovation Professional - CInP
    Certified Design Thinking Professional - CDTP
    Certified Innovation Strategist - CInS
    Certified Chief Innovation Officer - CCInO
    Authorized Innovation Assessor - AInA

    Leading the development and deployment of GInI's comprehensive business accreditation program in Innovation - covering:
    Certified Innovative Organization - CInOrg
    Certified Government Innovative Organization - CGInO
    Accredited Innovation Lab - AInL
    Accredited Business Incubator - ABI
    Accredited Accelerator Program - AAP
    Accredited Innovation Training Program - AInTP
    Accredited Innovation Education Program - AInEP
    Innovation Endorsement - InE

    Leading the growth and development of GInI's global membership community around the world... community.gini.org.

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    Hyderabad, India

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    London, UK

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    Holland, Michigan

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    Grand Rapids, Michigan

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    Raleigh, North Carolina

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    Raleigh, North Carolina

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    Greenville, North Carolina

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

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    Member of Evaluation Board - IoT Open Innovation Lab

    Northeastern University

    - 2 years

    Science and Technology

    Work alongside peer board members to evaluate and select new IoT concepts for the IoT Open Innovation Lab to prototype and study so as to ascertain select concepts' potential for large-scale adoption and thus commercial and/or social value.

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    President - West Michigan Chapter

    PDMA - Product Development and Management Association

    - 1 year 3 months

    In this volunteer position, I led a board of talented innovation and NPD professionals from a broad array of industries to develop and deliver a highly engaging programming agenda and other member benefits. As a team, we shared the vision of bringing international awareness to West Michigan as the creative and innovative hub that it is. With key anchor companies like Steelcase, Herman Miller, Whirlpool, Amway, Kellogg, Gentex, Stryker, and Wolverine Worldwide, the region has a strong presence…

    In this volunteer position, I led a board of talented innovation and NPD professionals from a broad array of industries to develop and deliver a highly engaging programming agenda and other member benefits. As a team, we shared the vision of bringing international awareness to West Michigan as the creative and innovative hub that it is. With key anchor companies like Steelcase, Herman Miller, Whirlpool, Amway, Kellogg, Gentex, Stryker, and Wolverine Worldwide, the region has a strong presence in the international innovation community.

    The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) is the premier global advocate for product development and management professionals worldwide. PDMA accelerates the contribution that innovation makes to the economic and professional growth of people, businesses, and societies around the world. PDMA is the only organization that focuses on addressing the challenges of developing new products and services by providing opportunities for professional development via education, experience, networking, and recognition.

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    Vice President of Marketing - NY / NJ Chapter

    PDMA - Product Development and Management Association

    - 1 year 6 months

    The NY/NJ Chapter of PDMA serves the Greater NYC area, with all key events being held in and around Manhattan. Due to the great diversity of industries in the NYC area, this chapter was able to facilitate exceptionally high quality cross-industry knowledge sharing.

    In this volunteer position serving on the chapter board, I held responsibility for overseeing all marketing activity around the chapter and its events, including managing the chapter's social media presence on LinkedIn…

    The NY/NJ Chapter of PDMA serves the Greater NYC area, with all key events being held in and around Manhattan. Due to the great diversity of industries in the NYC area, this chapter was able to facilitate exceptionally high quality cross-industry knowledge sharing.

    In this volunteer position serving on the chapter board, I held responsibility for overseeing all marketing activity around the chapter and its events, including managing the chapter's social media presence on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

    The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) is the premier global advocate for product development and management professionals worldwide. PDMA accelerates the contribution that innovation makes to the economic and professional growth of people, businesses, and societies around the world. PDMA is the only organization that focuses on addressing the challenges of developing new products and services by providing opportunities for professional development via education, experience, networking, and recognition.

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    Mentor

    Platinum Minds

    - 3 years 5 months

    Education

    I mentored a gifted high school student from an underpriveleged, inner-city (NYC area) community through the Platinum Minds program (www.platinumminds.org).

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    Advisor - Computer and Automated Systems Association

    SME

    - 3 years

    Served as a volunteer Advisor on the Board of Advisors of the Computer and Automated Systems Association of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (CASA/SME).

    Chaired and led all of CASA/SME's Technical Forums for the years 1999 to 2001. This included establishing the forum's theme, identifying and securing appropriate speakers, and serving as the event host / MC.

    Collaborated with other members of the CASA/SME Board to coauthor CASA/SME's annual Technology Trends Document for…

    Served as a volunteer Advisor on the Board of Advisors of the Computer and Automated Systems Association of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (CASA/SME).

    Chaired and led all of CASA/SME's Technical Forums for the years 1999 to 2001. This included establishing the forum's theme, identifying and securing appropriate speakers, and serving as the event host / MC.

    Collaborated with other members of the CASA/SME Board to coauthor CASA/SME's annual Technology Trends Document for the years 1999 and 2000.

    Authored two Blue Books for CASA/SME... "Collaborative Engineering as an Element of the Integrated Manufacturing Enterpise" (1999) and "Manufacturing Enterprise Leadership: Insights for Adaptation and Survival in the 21st Century" (2000), that latter of which won CASA/SME's "blue book of the year" award for 2000.

Publications

  • Future Fit Manifesto

    Future Fit Manifesto Think Tank

    The Future Fit Manifesto - crafted collectively by this think tank on the Twentieth Anniversary of the Agile Manifesto - sets forth a new set of values challenging organizations to proactively shape their futures, rather than reactively awaiting the future to see what it offers them. This is the only recipe for long-term, enduring success - strategic action that ensures the ongoing relevance and long-term resilience of the organization, regardless of where we take the future.

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  • The Other Side of Growth: An Innovator's Responsibilities In An Emerging World

    Global Innovation Institute

    The Other Side of Growth presents nine distinct views of the role that innovation plays in corporate growth. In so doing, it challenges business leaders to ask some very deep questions about the innovations they are pursuing - ensuring that in the process they are considering those innovations' impacts on all stakeholders holistically, across the long run - including the possibility that these innovations might be used in ways not originally envisioned. This is a groundbreaking, must-read…

    The Other Side of Growth presents nine distinct views of the role that innovation plays in corporate growth. In so doing, it challenges business leaders to ask some very deep questions about the innovations they are pursuing - ensuring that in the process they are considering those innovations' impacts on all stakeholders holistically, across the long run - including the possibility that these innovations might be used in ways not originally envisioned. This is a groundbreaking, must-read book.

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  • Applied Innovation Master Book

    Global Innovation Institute

    The GInI Applied Innovation Master Book is the world's most comprehensive Body of Knowledge book on the subject of business innovation.

    It is written for the working business professional needing to implement a high-performing corporate innovation program. As such, it covers the foundations, and then progresses from very tactical / individual details to increasingly strategic / organizational details about innovation.

    The AInMB serves as the source for all of GInI's professional…

    The GInI Applied Innovation Master Book is the world's most comprehensive Body of Knowledge book on the subject of business innovation.

    It is written for the working business professional needing to implement a high-performing corporate innovation program. As such, it covers the foundations, and then progresses from very tactical / individual details to increasingly strategic / organizational details about innovation.

    The AInMB serves as the source for all of GInI's professional certifications - CInP, CDTP, CInS, CCInO, and AInA.

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  • Manufacturing Enterprise Leadership: Insights for Adaptation and Survival in the 21st Century

    Society of Manufacturing Engineers

    CASA/SME Blue Book that examines the key business and organizational practices essential for the continual adaptation and sustained growth of manufacturing enterprises entering the 21st Century.
    Awarded the CASA/SME Blue Book of the Year Award for 2000.

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  • Collaborative Engineering as an Element of the Integrated Manufacturing Enterpise

    Society of Manufacturing Engineers

    CASA/SME Blue Book that provides a summary discussion of how Collaborative Engineering practices serve as an integral and foundational element of the Integrated Manufacturing Enterprise.

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  • “People Make It Work”.

    Society of Manufacturing Engineers

    Viewpoint article, published in Manufacturing Engineering magazine, Vol. 123, No. 1, April 1999.
    This article promotes the idea that effective people are what make effective organizations possible.

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  • Collaborative Engineering and the Internet: Linking Product Development Partners Via the Web

    Society of Manufacturing Engineers

    This was the first full-length book published specifically on the subject of Collaborative Product Development. The book covers concept definitions; tools, processes, and infrastructure for collaboration; case studies; management guidelines; and forward-looking projections regarding this practice.

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  • “Setting Up a Project Home Page”

    Penton Publishing

    Article published in Computer-Aided Engineering magazine, Vol. 17 No. 6, June 1998.
    This article examines the steps required to establish and make effective use of intranet and/or extranet sites for project management of collaborative work in various sorts of development projects (such as in new product development).

  • Evaluating acoustic absorption coefficients by comparative analysis—Experimental part

    Acoustical Society of America

    Experimental methodology for a new method for evaluating acoustical absorption coefficients of materials that is suitable for field evaluations. The method employed an inexpensive system comprised of a simple PVC tube, board, loudspeaker, 2 microphones, corks, and a basic FFT analyzer & signal generator.

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    • Charles E Spiekermann
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  • Evaluating acoustic absorption coefficients by comparative analysis—Theory part

    Acoustical Society of America

    Mathematical treatment of a new method for evaluating acoustical absorption coefficients of materials that is suitable for field evaluations. The method employed an inexpensive system comprised of a simple PVC tube, board, loudspeaker, 2 microphones, corks, and a basic FFT analyzer & signal generator.

    Other authors
    • Charles E Spiekermann
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Organizations

  • Global Innovation Institute

    Executive Director

    - Present

    I provide executive leadership of this premier international certifying membership organization.

  • PDMA - Product Development and Management Association

    President - West Michigan Chapter

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    Former Vice President of Marketing for the NY/NJ Chapter.

  • Platinum Minds

    Mentored a gifted NYC-area inner-city high school student

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    www.platinumminds.org

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