Proven solutions help your people drive innovation. Innovation is important in all industries and is especially vital in manufacturing. Successful businesses must do more than conceive ideas-they must also empower their people to make those ideas into opportunities. Learn how Microsoft can help you identify the right technology and resources your people need to develop, refine, and convert good ideas. Download the brochure, Business for Today’s Enterprise: Driving Innovation.

Learn how leading executives see the challenge. It’s hard to translate innovative ideas into action. Download the white paper, The Road Map for Innovation Success, to learn more about a recent PRTM survey in which more than 200 leading executives in a variety of industries reflected on the challenges facing their global organizations.

Then view our complimentary webcast. Join Automotive News for a complimentary webcast, “Managing Best-in-Class Innovation: Leveraging Technology and Collaboration.” Presented by Microsoft, this webcast will reveal how today’s innovators are:

• Leveraging social networking and enterprise search to enhance innovation
• Instilling structure and process to minimize the ad-hoc nature of innovation
• Using rich collaboration and communication technologies to connect internal communities, outside vendors, and customers
• Empowering people to discover and contribute new ideas

Why Microsoft?
Microsoft offers essential tools, such as Microsoft Portfolio Server and the 2007 Microsoft Office system, that support the business framework for innovation. The Microsoft industry solutions organization works constantly to identify techniques to assist manufacturing clients address the challenges presented by innovation.