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Embry-Riddle Worldwide Launches New Program to Stimulate Management Innovation Across Aviation & Aerospace Industry

Daytona Beach, FL, Jan. 30, 2009 – Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University – Worldwide announces the launch of a new program designed to stimulate collaborative innovation across the aviation and aerospace industry. Called the i2i Program, this unique program offers a new and different way for firms to systematically share innovative solutions to common problems across the industry.

The i2i Program consists of three integrated parts. The first part includes a series of “i2i Forums,” which are small professionally facilitated meetings of industry professionals that convene periodically to share best practices and innovative solutions in areas predefined by the participants. Six to eight i2i Forums will be held in a variety of locations each year.

The second part of the program involves the “i2i Leadership Award.” The purpose of this award is to recognize leaders in management innovation. Nominations will be solicited once a year and winners will be selected by a panel of industry experts. Each winner, in turn, will be invited to participate in the third step of the process, which is the “i2i Annual Roundtable”.

The i2i Annual Roundtable provides a platform for the winners of the i2i Leadership Award to present their stories to a broader audience. This event is also used to present a summary of key findings from the i2i Forums throughout the year.

Benefits of the i2i Program include in-depth knowledge networking among peers, i.e., peer-to-peer exchange of explicit and tacit knowledge in a professionally facilitated small group setting; feedback from peers, when requested, on a participant’s own business practices; international visibility for the winners of the i2i Leadership Award; and access to Embry-Riddle Worldwide’s i2i knowledge database.

According to Robbie Griggs, Joint Strike Fighter Global Sustainment Operations at Lockheed Martin, “we are always looking for innovative ways to improve our operations, and look forward to participating in the program.”

For more information on the i2i Program contact Dr. Robert Materna at Robert.Materna@erau.edu.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, offers more than 30 degree programs in its colleges of Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Engineering, educating more than 34,000 students annually in undergraduate and graduate programs. Doctoral programs in aviation and in engineering physics are pending approval by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) for the University to offer programs at the doctoral level. Embry-Riddle educates students at residential campuses in Prescott, Ariz., and Daytona Beach, Fla., through the Worldwide Campus at more than 130 campus centers in the United States, Europe, Canada, and the Middle East, and through online learning. For more information, visit www.embryriddle.edu.