The capacity to innovate as part of normal day-to-day operations has become one of the most important priorities for leaders in commercial companies and public sector organisations alike.
For commercial companies innovation is now the only real source of sustainable competitive advantage and enduring success in today's fast-changing business world. For public sector organizations the incessant pressure to find new ways to provide better services more effectively and at ever-lower cost makes an innovation focus equally compelling.
Objectives and deliverables: - Understand what innovation is and why it has become so important - Explore the barriers and enablers to an innovative organisation - Appreciate the role that people and culture play in systemic innovation - Discover how to measure intangibles using new metrics techniques - Learn how to accelerate your company?s performance through innovation
For directors and senior managers who want to lead change and who want to function as architects, designers and implementers in creating an innovative organization where business performance can accelerate unimpeded.
Workshop Leader: Ian McDonald Wood is the Director of the FutureValue Programme, established to help firms improve their capacity to lead change and drive innovation. Ian is an acclaimed workshop leader and an expert in change leadership.
Video: Asimo running - Honda's humanoid robot
Honda shows ASIMO the humanoid robot at Welcome Plaza Aoyama. This short video clip of Asimo is awsome. When I first saw Asimo run it raised goose pimples on my neck. He seems so human but is just a mechanical robot.
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David Gurteen
David having a meal in the Old Singapore Market, October 2008
I help people to share their knowledge; to learn from each other; to innovate and to work together effectively to make a difference!
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