This workshop event will take place on December, 1, 2015 at the Conference Board in New York, NY. The event titled Collective Disruption: New Partnership & People Models for Breakthrough Innovation is subtitled, Building Transformative Innovation Capability Through Collaboration. This workshop provides corporate leaders with a framework and tools for organizing and leading breakthrough innovation efforts within mature enterprises that traditionally struggle with risk and uncertainty.
Companies searching for new sources of growth must learn how to pursue higher risk, transformative innovation outside of their core. And they need to do this within organizations that are optimized for a focus on sustaining today’s business. The collective disruption model brings together the best of corporate and entrepreneurial approaches for transformative growth. You’ll learn how to successfully apply entrepreneurial methods within the enterprise and how to partner in new ways with startups to co-create breakthrough new products, services and businesses. In addition to providing a framework and roadmap, this workshop will include compelling case studies from companies that are leading the way in this movement, including Johnson & Johnson, Cisco, Jarden and others.
Workshop participants also get free access to an easy-to-administer online transformative innovation readiness assessment for you and up to 10 of your internal stakeholders prior to the workshop.
In this session, you will learn how to:
Apply the Polarity Thinkingtm Innovation Assessment to your business to assess transformative innovation readiness and identify key opportunities and barriers
Organize internally to undertake transformative innovation, addressing key success factors including leadership, autonomy, and integration
Explore new incubation models that leading companies are using successfully, including co-creating with startups and entrepreneurs
Identify the actions you can take to dramatically improve your ability to build a balanced portfolio of core, adjacent and transformative innovation
Who should attend:
Senior executives interested in developing the capability for ambidextrous innovation – addressing a balance of core to breakthrough innovation
New business creation leaders within large companies, charged with developing new sources of growth within mature organizations
Innovation executives responsible for engaging with external partners and the startup ecosystem
Key topics include:
Assessing Your Readiness for Transformative Innovation
Harnessing Creative Tensions for Integrative Approaches to Breakthroughs
The Era of Disruption
The Collective Disruption Framework
Alternative Models for Business Incubation
Transforming the Organization
Presenters/Speakers
Michael Docherty brings unique perspectives to innovation, having been an entrepreneur, senior corporate executive and venture capitalist. It might explain why he’s passionate about the intersection of corporate innovation and entrepreneurship. In his new book Collective Disruption, Mike reveals how the smartest corporations are learning to partner and co-create with startups for transformative innovation.
As CEO of Venture2 Inc., Mike and his organization work with leading companies to develop transformative innovation capabilities, build innovation ecosystems and accelerate the commercialization of breakthrough new products, services and business models.
Mike holds an MBA degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School and BSME degree from Drexel University. He is a highly rated speaker on innovation and corporate venturing and an active supporter of the entrepreneurial community.
Workshop includes special guest presentations from practitioners:
Ms. Alexis Roberts-McIntosh – Former VP Head of Global Franchise R&D, Johnson & Johnson Consumer Businesses
Mr. Steven Rosenbaum – Serial entrepreneur (CEO at Waywire Networks, Founder at Magnify Media, Entrepreneur-at-Large for NYCEDC, et al)
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