Military Review English Edition July-August 2014 | Page 49

CULTURE OF INNOVATION

on Columbus Day weekend, 2013, at the University of
Chicago Booth School of Business. Over one hundred
men and women of varying ranks and ages, and from
all four services, gathered to discuss innovation and to
propose creative solutions to challenges facing the DOD.
The three-day conference included a series of keynote
speeches by successful innovators from the DOD and
the private sector. Inspiring stories from small business
CEOs and Internet startups were followed by proposals
for creative solutions to complex institutional