Winning Through Innovation

Winning Through Innovation - 16th March 2010

In its broadest sense, innovation is about "the successful exploitation of ideas". Innovation means constantly trying to see your business in a new light. Some people think it means introducing new technologies or processes. Some think it means commissioning research. Some think it means developing new products or services.

To be successful it may mean any or all of these, but it should also mean thinking afresh about your business, your staff, its customers, its markets, its methods and its business model.

Innovation is not the preserve of high-technology companies or high-volume manufacturing businesses. Any business - any organisation - can benefit from injecting a culture of innovation into what it does.

This event will drive the discussion on using innovation to develop, grow and energise your business and help you to take a new exciting direction for 2010.

Keynote Speaker
Doug Hall

Our keynote speaker is Doug Hall who is founder and CEO of Eureka! Ranch International, an Innovation Research & Development firm that uses scientific methods to help business leaders find, filter and fast-track innovations that are meaningfully unique versus those of the competition. After earning a degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Maine, Doug spent 10 years working in Procter & Gamble’s Brand Management Department where he rose to the rank of Master Marketing Inventor. In 1990, he retired from corporate life and founded what is today known as “America’s No. 1 Idea Company” (Inc Magazine), the Eureka! Ranch. Doug also works with the US Government's Commerce Department and was on the US version of Dragon's Den.

Watch a taster of Doug at work

Speaker
Mike Southon

Mike Southon our host and facilitator is one of the world’s top business speakers, a Fellow of The Professional Speakers Association and a very experienced conference facilitator and moderator, having interviewed over 100 top business people, now featured every Saturday in his Financial Times column, “My Business”. Mike is co-author of several best-selling business books, including The Beermat Entrepreneur and is a Visiting Fellow in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at London South Bank University.

Watch a video of Mike in action

Event Format

• Innovation Exhibition – meet the people who will be able to help you realise the maximum potential of your innovative ideas.

• During the morning sessions our 2 speakers will help you understand why innovation is essential to the survival of your businesses and how you can engage your staff to successfully exploit ideas.

• Lunch – the Innovation Exhibition will be open during lunch when you will also have the opportunity to network with likeminded individuals.

Like what you’ve seen? In the afternoon you will have the opportunity to join a taster session which will provide you with an understanding of how you will benefit from attending one of our follow-on workshops. You will be advised of the taster session options and asked to confirm your preferences upon booking of the morning event.

This event will be in high demand and places are limited to 2 attendees per company. They are not aimed at intermediaries or suppliers of innovation services. Joining Instructions will follow after event registration.