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Innovation
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Managing Innovation
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No less a figure than Peter Drucker has said that the only real asset an organization has today is the collective brains of its people. The implications of this are severe: the successful leadership and management of innovation is now the most important strategic weapon any company can wield in the marketplace.
Leading innovation is the ultimate challenge for CEOs for by definition, no road map is possible. Drawing on the in-depth research from his best-selling book, Who Owns Tomorrow?, strategic planner and professional futurist Richard Worzel assesses this challenge in a hard-headed, yet surprising and entertaining keynote presentation that covers the key elements required for innovation leadership, including:
- The battle for talent - recruiting, training, and retaining key people;
- The dangers of the technology gap - jumping across too early is expensive, falling behind is fatal;
- Micro-managing is hazardous to your wealth, yet hands-off management can lead to loss of accountability;
- Flexibility as a tactical weapon, arising from the exploitation of technology, training, and effective delegation; and
- Awareness of the major factors shaping the competitive marketplace of tomorrow, including the coming demographic upheavals, changes in society's values, and the rising threats of weakening governments.
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Creating an Innovation Organization: The Deliberate Act of Devising New Business (Workshop)
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Innovation has become a corporate religion, in part because there is so much happening in so many areas that organizations must now innovate to survive. Yet our own natural biases often defeat innovation before it begins, resulting in organizations where people know how to look good, but don't actually innovate. In this workshop, futurist and strategic planner Richard Worzel identifies the forces that oppose innovation, provides strategies to create an environment that encourages it, and then offers specific techniques that will allow you to arrive at new ideas, new directions, and practical new products and services. These techniques will allow you to focus on the future needs and wants of your clients and their clients, to broaden your thinking beyond the confines of your present thinking, and to develop the outlines of a game plan to bring your ideas into commercial reality. This workshop will provide you with take-aways you can use immediately in your business, as well as a tool kit of techniques that you can use over and over again. Innovation is a skill that can be learned - and this workshop teaches it explicitly.
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Accountable Innovation: Creating an Innovative Organization that Maintains Accountability
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Any organization that wants to entrench innovation as an important part of its culture accepts that innovators sometimes fail. But if you allow your people to try things and occasionally fail, how do you maintain accountability? What, in short, constitutes 'responsible failure' and how does it differ from any other kind of failure? In this keynote presentation, futurist and strategic planner Richard Worzel talks about the keys to innovation, and how they can be successfully balanced against the needs for individual accountability and responsibility. This creative tension actually produces higher levels of innovation, rather than stifling creativity.
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Innovation Thinking (Workshop)
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Innovation has become the Holy Grail of business today, and with good reason. Changes are happening so fast, and the consequences of being left behind are so extreme, that companies believe - correctly - that innovation is the only way to thrive and survive. Yet most people believe that creativity is only open to the artistic. Like art, everyone is creative to a greater or lesser extent, but few ever learn how to exercise their creativity, and fewer practice it on a regular basis, so that they get flabby results when they do try.
There are specific techniques, just as there are in art, that can help those who are not practiced in innovating, and can help the already creative individual become even more innovative. In this workshop, futurist and strategic planner Richard Worzel will walk you through the techniques of innovating, and show you how you can create new ideas, new products, and new results. These techniques will include immediately practical techniques, such as those focused on product innovation, and developing an opportunity matrix to identify new needs and ideas. You will leave this workshop not only with new ideas you can use immediately in your business, but with a toolbox of techniques that you can use over and over again.
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