Driving Business Growth through Innovation

Innovation is now widely regarded as the key to success in today’s fast changing, knowledge based economy. Whether it is incremental or radical innovation, businesses need to build their innovation capacity and increase their innovation momentum in order just to survive.

This conference will demonstrate how to:

ˇ Make innovation a core competency

ˇ Direct the process of innovation step by step

ˇ Predict with a high degree of certainty the evolution of organisation’s products and services in the marketplace and be ready with profitable breakthroughs.

Attendees will gain:

ˇ A new insight into the importance of Innovation

ˇ An Innovation Performance Improvement methodology

ˇ A practical example of how to improve Innovation in their company

ˇ An opportunity to interact with colleagues from other industries and learn from their best

Programme

KEYNOTE: Are You Missing The Obvious?

Dave Snowden, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Cognitive Edge Pte Ltd

WORKSHOP: Living at the Edge of Innovation

Elizabeth McMillan, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Complexity & Change, Open University

WORKSHOP: Delivering the Unknown Unknowns

Omar Cheema, Director of Strategic Marketing & Alliance, Imperial Innovations Ltd

CASE STUDY: Building a culture for innovation.

Paul Sloane, Head BQF Innovation Unit and Director of Destination Innovation

Day Two

WORKSHOP: Managing Innovation through Strategic Performance Management

Bernard Marr, Chief Executive, The Advanced Performance Institute

CASE STUDY: Innovation - Driving Business Growth And Competitive Advantage

Sue Whittaker, Project Manager, University of Bedfordshire

CASE STUDY: Materials Innovation for the Low Carbon Economy

Graeme Purdy, CEO, Ilika Technologies Ltd,

CASE STUDY: Innovating through openness and entrepreneurship

Rebecca Ward, Consultant, SQW

CASE STUDY: Innovation through SmartPartnering (and SmartSourcing)

Julian Howison, Global Chief Executive, Arrk Group of Companies

Close of conference

Web: www.unicom.co.uk/innovation

For further information contact Huma Hamid, huma@unicom.co.uk, tel + 44 1895 256 484