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As the boundaries between internet and mobile blur, the mobile phone sector's identity is undergoing a massive overhaul. It used to be all about handset design and features. But the mobile phone is not just a handset anymore - it's a content provider, a navigational device, a sound system, a games station and potentially much more. While the sector grows into its new skin, are upstart rivals stealing a march? And while mobile has an undoubted reputation for agile innovation in technology and product design, how well is it performing in the latest competitive arena: business model innovation?

Mobility is driving true globalisation and is creating opportunities for enterprises to become more agile, more flexible, and more responsive than ever before.  The pace of global competition is quickening, with Generation Y's adoption of new technology, the need for real-time responsiveness and the emerging world of machine to machine communication.
So how does this affect the CIO in a multi national company?  The impact to attitudes and decision making highlights the even greater need for simplicity and clarity of vision in what many see as a highly complex, uncontrollable world.

Understanding what customers want is what distinguishes innovation from novelty. Successful innovation, therefore, is all about finding new ways of meeting customer needs. Having a grasp of the trends - consumer, social, environmental and macroeconomic - shaping the marketplace of the future can only help in this effort.

Generate ideas and ways of solving problems with peers and experts. A dynamic 2-hour session in small, mixed-sector groups of up to 12 delegates. This is an opportunity for delegates to contribute to the debate, network and discuss what's hot (and what's not!) and to cross-pollinate ideas and solutions.

Topics to include:

• Making the transition from 'closed' to 'open' innovation

• Innovation strategy: Having lots of ideas is easy, having the right ideas isn't

• Accelerating speed to market: Critical gates to mitigate risk in the innovation process

• The role of technology in the future of innovation

• Effective Innovation Metrics

• How to build a cross-functional innovation team

• Business process innovation and its implementation

• Innovation in emerging markets

• Innovation frontiers: New tools, new techniques, new thinking

• Tapping into the power of collaborative innovation

• Meeting the challenge of bringing innovation to market

• Customer Co-Creation from the Coalface

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