Jeffrey Baumgartner A sculptor by training and an entrepreneur by profession, Jeffrey Baumgartner is the founder of jpb.com and the jpb group of companies.

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Jeffrey was raised in the USA and UK and has had an international career that has seen him living and working in Europe, North America and Asia. His business start-ups and acquisitions have included one of Thailand's first web development and marketing companies, a business service centre, an international e-business consultancy in Brussels and the global idea management specialist company Bwiti, which markets Jenni idea management under the jpb.com name.

Jeffrey conceived Jenni and has overseen the technical development (including much of the early programming) of the software as well as its international marketing. In addition, Jeffrey works closely with business partners and clients to ensure that every user of Jenni gets the optimal experience. He also ensures that every suggestion is seriously considered for future implementation in Jenni – and most suggestions are.

In addition, Jeffrey co-created and co-manages with Andy Whittle the Brussels Imagination Club, a non-profit group that runs experimental workshops on a wide range of topics. The Imagination Club is a place where facilitators, trainers and enthusiasts can try out ideas and methodologies with a receptive international group of people from a wide variety of backgrounds. Jeffrey also occasionally uses the club as a venue for trying out his own ideas, such as visual brainstorming and applied creative problem solving methodologies.

Jeffrey's writing has included books (including his recent tome on organisational innovation), regular magazine columns in the 90s and Report 103, a popular monthly newsletter on creativity and innovation in business. He has written many of the papers on this web site as well as magazine articles and contributions to innovation books. He was recently invited to contribute a chapter on idea management in a seminal business encyclopedia to be published in autumn 2010.

Jeffrey lives with his two sons and two cats in a small farming village in Belgium. His slightly eccentric web site which includes creative thoughts and art work is here.

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