Dick founded ISIS International in 1982 in Connecticut, USA, to assist domestic and international clients to more rapidly, fully and profitably exploit the commercial potential of business assets, new technologies and product innovations. ISIS is best known for systematic and accelerated approaches for technology commercialization; technology assessment and acquisition, innovative business growth and breakthrough product innovation. Dick was responsible for the creation of several industry-acknowledged market-driven development methodologies to enable these results including The Summit Business Development Systemsm, MarketDiscoverysm, Speed-Based Commercializationsm, Speed-Based Innovationtionsm and Precision Innovation(r). Each of these systems acts as an 'intermediation vehicle,' bringing global Industry & Technology Opinion Leaders -- i.e. corporate decision makers and visionaries from market leading companies -- and client decision-making teams together to form ad hoc alliances to launch profitable new business. Through early 2005, these systems, working in close collaboration with client management teams, have generated in excess of US$27 billion of business opportunity.Dick's 30 plus years of diverse senior management, consulting and entrepreneurial experience in international strategic planning, marketing, business development, intermediation, diversifications and new product development bring a wide, pragmatic perspective to the design and direction of client programs. He applied this advanced form of "business development and innovation technology," upon which ISIS is based, to the creation of new and value-enhanced business for such leading corporations as AT&T, Exxon, Rockwell International, Neste/Dynea Chemicals, FMC, Shell, Hoechst, The Dow Chemical Company, W. L. Gore & Associates, Gillette, Best Foods, Allied Chemical, CIGNA Insurance, Levi Strauss, Kimberly-Clark, Tampella, Weyerhaeuser, Valmet/Metso Corporation, ICI Americas, Th. Goldschmidt/degussa, Perlos Corporation, Sulzer Technologies, SABA of Sweden and Swedish Tobacco.
Earlier in his career, Dick was vice president of Innotech, an international new business and product innovation think tank, where he was responsible for the planning and management of key client programs in the U.S. and internationally. He was also responsible for the development of new client services and new businesses, where he successfully applied a unique methodology for projecting market/societal needs to the formation of new product and business strategies.
Dick was a member of the Licensing Executives Society; appears in several of Marquis' Who's Who publications; and had conducted numerous international lectures and workshops dealing with market-driven new business development and innovation. As contributing editor, Dick was published internationally in Technology Business Magazine authoring articles dealing with Market-Driven Development and as contributing writer for Chemistry Business, the journal of the American Chemistry Council. Articles discussing results of ISIS' proprietary services have also appeared in such business and trade media as The Harvard Business Review, Business Finance Magazine, Business-To-Business, Filtration News and Technical Insights' Inside R&D.
Additionally, Dick authored Commercialization Through Cooperation for the Bradford, England-based Emerald/MCB University Press where he discussed the history and premises upon which ISIS systems and intermediation services are based, and offered a detailed case history.
Dick received his BS degree in Business Administration, Advertising from Syracuse University in 1964, and participated in Hofstra University's MBA program with a major in Business Management.
