Author Steven Johnson, How We Got to Now, Innovative Initiatives workshop, Innovative Technology Partnerships Office (IPTO); Credit: NASA/Goddard/Bill Hrybyk
To facilitate a conversation about managing innovations (both technology and business management practices), Goddard management, scientists, engineers, and innovators were invited to participate in the Innovative Technology Partnerships Office’s (ITPO) Innovative Initiatives Workshop Fall 2014 on November 13, 2014. Steven Johnson, author of How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World and host of the PBS series How We Got to Now with Steven Johnson, spoke with over 100 attendees about exploring connections between often unrelated disciplines and how these subjects are often interdependent—and essential to the collective interest at Goddard. Mr. Johnson also co-facilitated a Roundtable Meeting with Center management.