GIBS Workshop on innovation
Business leaders are realising that in order to safeguard a sustainable business into the 21st century and beyond, they need to transition from creating short-term shareholder value to creating long-term, inclusive wealth for all stakeholders and to shift from business as usual to innovative, out of the box thinking. Change is the "new normal". Preparing effectively for the future will present substantial new "white space market" opportunities and risks, differentiate and provide a significant competitive advantage. Executives, business leaders, and decision-makers faced with this daunting task of retooling and revitalising their enterprises for change need thought leadership, "new" tools and "active" networks to successfully embed a culture of Innovation in their organisations.
Topics and issues
• Envisaged future - Value chain innovation and re-design for sustainable development
• Design principles 2025
- Inclusive wealth
- Innovation to zero (Harm, waste, pollution, emissions, etc.)
- Skills, automation and workforce of the future
- Disruptive/clean technologies
• Tactical tools for change enabling NDP 2030
- Closing the loop - Systems i.e. "Cradle to Cradle" - thinking
- Innovation (Ideation/creative problem solving)
- Design thinking
• Cross industry transformation case studies
• Effective collaboration and innovation networks
Who should attend
• Heads of innovation/Chief innovation officers
• C-level executives or senior leaders in charge of a business unit
• Executives seeking to improve or adjust strategy in a given area i.e. growth, differentiation and sustainability
• Senior innovators and innovation champions seeking insights into best practices
• Innovation practitioners looking to expand their knowledge and capabilities
• Heads of sustainable development
• Product development managers
• CEOs of small businesses
• Entrepreneurs
Facilitator
Raldu Nel
Managing director, Blank Canvas International
Executive director, SoA - Sustain our Africa
Blank Canvas International is recognised in the Industry for formalising technological innovation strategies, processes and toolkits, co-creating envisaged futures, as well as facilitating the implementation of these "possible futures" through embedding a culture of innovation for growth, differentiation and sustainability for large multinational organisations.
Date: 03 July 2014Venue: GIBS, Johannesburg
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26 Melville Road, Illovo, Sandton, Johannesburg