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Extract from the Interview at Idea Connection (Vern Burkhardt)
“External collaboration is one of the key ways we deliver crop-focused solutions to our customers. Our future success will depend on our ability to maximize new technologies, and discover and develop innovative value-added products for agriculture. Open Innovation means different things to different people. What it means to me is being open to any form of problem solving or offer of technology across the divisions within Syngenta as well as outside the company. Not all smart individuals or companies currently work for, or collaborate with, Syngenta. You don’t know what you don’t know, so it’s a matter of being open to different insights from adjacent areas.” – Joseph Byrum
Joseph Byrum is an accomplished executive leader, innovator, and cross-domain strategist with a proven track record of success across multiple industries. With a diverse background spanning biotech, finance, and data science, he has earned over 50 patents that have collectively generated more than $1 billion in revenue. Dr. Byrum’s groundbreaking contributions have been recognized with prestigious honors, including the INFORMS Franz Edelman Prize and the ANA Genius Award. His vision of the “intelligent enterprise” blends his scientific expertise with business acumen to help Fortune 500 companies transform their operations through his signature approach: “Unlearn, Transform, Reinvent.” Dr. Byrum earned a PhD in genetics from Iowa State University and an MBA from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.
