Roundtable Discussions
1. Can Outsourcing Drive your Innovation Strategy?
Outsourcing is a mature and widely followed strategy for cost reduction, but can it drive innovation? This roundtable will discuss outsourcing's potential return on investment beyond a one-time cost saving. It will identify how CIOs and CFOs across Europe measure the return on outsourcing, discuss some measurement challenges and identify how outsourcing can lead to innovation and value. Working with your service provider as a trusted partner, organisations can build innovation objectives into their outsourcing arrangements and proactively drive innovation to take the business forward.
Matt Havens, Head of Europe & AVP, Cognizant Business Consulting
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2. How to Solve Your Most Complex Challenges Through Open Innovation
What if you could speed up your innovation efforts, reduce (or eliminate failures) and save money at the same time? The solution may be Open Innovation.
Open innovation is a parallel process where failures and successes happen simultaneously. You broadcast your problem and receive dozens or hundreds of solutions. Some solutions will not work but all you need is one solution that does work. And with open innovation, you only pay only for the solutions that do work. Failures cost you nothing in terms of time and money. With traditional internal iterative development, you pay for the successes AND the failures.
In this session, Stephen Shapiro, InnoCentive's Chief Innovation Evangelist, will discuss how organisations can speed up their innovation clock by tapping into a large and diverse group of solvers. The best solutions often exist outside the four walls of your organisation - and quite often exist outside of your industry. Open Innovation allows you to connect with solvers and solutions you never knew even existed.
Stephen Shapiro, Chief Innovation Evangelist, InnoCentive
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3. The Rise of the Social Innovation Process
There's no doubt that Social Media has made a profound change in businesses the world over. Just as it has opened up our personal lives to a new social reality where sharing, collaboration, and a global sense of community have become commonplace; Social Media is having a similar effect on the business world, forcing them to open up business processes to take advantage. The power of having the world quite literally at your fingertips has become a powerful new source of competitive advantage that is driving business transformation at a previously unheard of speed. Your customers, your employees, and your shareholders not only want you to participate - they expect you to do so.
Key to capitalising on this transformational force is a robust innovation process that engages all of a company's social resources both internal and external to the traditional corporate boundaries to supercharge the effectiveness of the process as a whole.
So what happens when the two most powerful forces in modern day business intersect? Join this Roundtable session to participate in an interactive discussion to discover how companies have been using Social Media as a channel through which to drive corporate innovation. Together, we'll explore questions such as:
How does Social Media relate to Innovation?
How should I use Social Media channels to supercharge my Innovation Pipeline?
Where do I start?
Which media should I be using?
What are the rules for this new game?
Boris Pluskowski, Founder & Principal, The Complete Innovator
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4. Driving growth through active R&D portfolio management
R&D portfolio management is at the heart of successful innovation and the engine for growth. And yet more than 70 percent of companies still do not have an effective process for managing their R&D portfolio. In this interactive session we will look at portfolio management through a practical lens, identifying common pitfalls and exploring what best practice can teach us about the factors that determine success.
Areas for discussion will include:
- How to size and ringfence budgets for different types of innovation
- Maximising the bang for your buck
- Ensuring strategic alignment and operational effectiveness
- Understanding the impact of current economic conditions on your R&D strategy
Marc de Jong, Global Knowledge Development Leader, McKinsey & Company
Christophe Meunier, Associate Principal, McKinsey & Company
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5. Harnessing the Power of Social Networks to Generate New Ideas & Profit
The world is changing at a rapid pace, which means businesses have to think differently to adapt and survive in the current market.
In this session, Blake Chandlee, Vice President of Sales, EMEA at Facebook, will talk about how companies can foster innovation and adapt to this changing world.
Blake will give an insider's view on how Facebook approaches innovation, both in terms of its technical development as well as the company's unique approach to advertising.
Drawing on his experience at Facebook Blake will discuss:
" How companies can build innovation into all facets of the company including its culture, decision making, planning, business models and communications
" The new media landscape and how it has changed the way consumers view and interact with media
" How brands have used Facebook in innovative ways to achieve success
" The power of online communities and how companies can tap into that to engage with consumers in a meaningful and valuable way
Blake Chandlee, Commercial Director, Europe, Facebook
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6. How to Achieve Innovation Breakthroughs
Companies would like to achieve "Breakthrough" innovation on a regular basis. Creative thinking and starting an innovative initiative is relatively easy to achieve consistency at innovation over the long term requires a lot of dedication. Creating and maintaining a culture that supports and enables innovation takes time and is not quick and simple. But we all know that breakthrough Innovation can alter the fortunes of a company, or even a country, dramatically. Implementing a more effective innovation culture and process means changing the way people think, work, and are compensated; it means saying 'goodbye' to weak portfolio management; cleaning up 'clogged pipelines of projects which need to be killed', marshalling resources for the few big ones that change the frame of reference for consumers and company alike and ability to be humble enough to leverage external partnerships and expertise.
Sucheta Govil, VP Innovations, PepsiCo Foods and Beverages, AMEA Division
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7. How to Boost an Innovation Culture throughout the Company
This session will explore how leading organisations are moving from focusing on product and process- oriented innovation to a culture-based approach.
The session will be supported by a brief review of some very successful examples to stimulate discussion amongst participants. Together, we will draw lessons from delegates' own experiences and case examples of successful practitioners of this approach. Typical barriers and some of the ways to overcome them will be identified.
Participants will leave the roundtable with key elements enabling them to boost their organisation's innovation culture and a copy of the bestselling book 'Blue Ocean Strategy'.
Niall McDonagh, Senior Consultant, StratX
Laurent Bonnier, Partner, StratX
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8. Adding Value
Increasing employee engagement and your income through innovative partnerships with the voluntary sector
One of the key drivers for innovation is working with others who are not like you. The voluntary sector- strapped for cash, on the front line and mission driven - is a rich and often untapped source of innovation. You can learn from their experience of engaging with their users and delivering more for less
Employees want to feel that their work is worthwhile. You could increase your levels of employee engagement and develop a successful business model to boot by partnering with a local or national charity.
Katherine William-Powlett, NCVO's Innovation Officer, will give you some inspiring examples of cross-sector working benefiting all, to stimulate a discussion on what it could mean for you.
Katherine William-Powlett, Innovation Officer, NCVO
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9. The Innovator's Kitbag
There's a lot of talk about innovation and less doing. In this session we will focus on the tools, techniques, structures & behaviours that help make innovation happen. We'll be looking to answer questions like: how do you get fresh insights, how to you build momentum and energy, how do you take things through to implementation? We will share stories & lessons about what works & what doesn't and we'll aim to give everyone new ideas to test & try out back at work.
Harry Blundun, Partner, ?What If! The Innovation Company
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10. Public Service Innovation: Designing a 21st Century Welfare State
It is increasingly evident that even before the fiscal crisis, current models of service delivery are struggling to connect to people’s lives in a way that will foster deep and meaningful change. Innovation, where it does exist, is hard to scale. Within this context the work of Participle has attracted international attention and is showing early promise – new models of social innovation are addressing entrenched social issues at less cost.
Hilary Cottam the founder of Participle will explore key aspects of
Participle’s work including:
• Beveridge 4.0 – the philosophy underlying Participle’s work that replaces a needs based approach with one that fosters capabilities
• Transformation Design – Participle’s unique innovation process
• Practical Insights – case studies from Participle’s work with the elderly, young people and chaotic families.
Hilary Cottam, Co-Founder and Principal Partner, Participle
