LISTEN TO THE EXPERTS ON THE BENEFITS AND POWER OF INNOVATION AND SPREAD THE VIRUS OF THINKING AND ACTING DIFFERENTLY

If you are looking for a way to introduce your team or company to innovation, discover what innovation is about and how it adds value to companies, or if you want to encourage them to finding new ways of thinking and acting to solve problems and impact the business, we can give a speech that will get them started.

Custom speeches are also possible.

IM-201 Demystifying Innovation
Understand what Innovation is and how Innovation happens in organizations. Learn about how companies are leveraging mega-business-opportunity trends, nuances in basic human needs and winning business models to develop innovation breakthroughs. In addition, find out how you can kickstart innovation in your own organization. This is a popular, entertaining and easy-to-understand presentation with takeaways that could be applied on Monday morning.

IM-202 Thinking + Acting Differently
Managing the core business is different from creating a new business. Rarely is a manager punished for missing an opportunity but many an innovator has been fired for taking on risk. Most managers are short-term focused, risk-averse, and have a command-control style while innovators need to think long-term, be comfortable with ambiguity, be willing to take risk and leverage other people’s knowledge and competence. To be a great leader, you have to do both - utilize the power of And. You have to think short-term and long-term, take incremental risk and breakthrough risk, be disciplined and creative - in essence you have to keep your eye on the ball and look around. This is a great talk for getting out of your "sand box" and for leadership development in any company.

IM-203 Sustainability Innovations
“Green” is a megatrend driving innovation and creating opportunities for companies across industries. This trend to reduce, renew or recycle is happening everywhere not just in developed markets in North America and Europe. In this speech, you will learn to look for the right opportunities within the sustainability arena and how you can leverage those opportunities to find the win-win-win.

IM-204 Innovating in a Downturn
During this time of economic uncertainty, what happens to innovation activities within organizations? Is it a problem for the organization or will it be a force that saves the company? Is innovation a nice-to-have or is it a must-have? What is the conventional wisdom and what should be your strategy? These questions will be answered during this exciting presentation on how you can use innovation to emerge out of the downturn stronger and well-positioned to take advantage of opportunities for growth.

IM-205 Connectivate
Connectivate is the story of 50 companies that have changed the world by connecting machines, people, companies, governments, and other entities in new and more meaningful ways to capture new value for themselves. These companies like Zipcar, Alibaba.com and University of Phoenix are leveraging information, wireless communication and the internet to create a singularity around space and time to be always available, anytime, anywhere. While other institutions like Hult International Business School with their global locations, China Railways and their fast trains and Natura with their 1.3 MM sales consultants and warehouses are leveraging changing income demographics across the world, deploying assets in new locations and mobile experts to make the world a smaller place to make it easier to be available anytime anywhere. The lessons learned from working with suppliers in new ways, having new processes of production, creation of new offerings and experiences, finding new ways and times to deliver and new business models should be applicable to all businesses. This speech is about what can you do to apply Connectivate to your business and business model.