Global Innovation Exchange 2007

An Approach to Driving Global Innovation

Steve LaMonte
Vice President, Innovation
Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Products
Division of McNeil - PPC, Inc.

Executing any organizational initiative across multiple functions, markets and staff levels is a complex task, and the larger the organization, the more complex the challenge. Drawing on experiences with driving systemic innovation globally at Pfizer Consumer Healthcare and Johnson & Johnson, this session will review some of the approaches, challenges and successes to global execution of an innovation strategy.

Soren Kaplan, Ph.D.
Managing Principal, InnovationPoint
Former Manager, Business Strategy, Hewlett-Packard

International Comparison of Europe’s Innovation Performance and the Turkish Paradox

Sirin Elci
Founder & Director, Technopolis Group, Turkey

Innovation is at the core of the Lisbon Strategy which aims to make the European Union the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustained economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion. The European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS), an instrument developed under the Lisbon Strategy, evaluates and compares the innovation performance of the European countries. The sixth edition of the EIS covering 2006 results includes, for the first time, a “Global Innovation Scoreboard” report (GIS). The GIS compares the innovation performance of the Europe to that of 16 countries in the World. These are the major R&D spenders and emerging economies: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russian Federation, Singapore, South Africa and the US. This presentation provides an overview of the GIS and focuses on the case of Turkey which presents a paradox in that although, unlike the other European countries, the innovation demand is the highest, the performance is low.

Predictable Plans or Radical Innovations?

Oscar Motomura
President & Founder, Amana-Key Group
São Paulo, Brazil

Based on a 30-year experience dealing with the reinvention of large complex organizations such as Fiat, Telefônica, 3M, Marubene, WWF among others, Oscar Motomura will present eight critical areas which will help your organizations identify its profile in dealing with innovation: whether it creates plans in a culture of predictability or in a culture of radical innovation.

Innovation Diplomacy- how a new national strategy is changing cross border relations for Denmark.

Marianne Toftegaard Poulsen
Executive Director, Innovation Center Denmark

Denmark has a declared objective of becoming the foremost knowledge based society in the world by 2015. One of the strategies to support this objective is to establish a number of Innovation Centers around the world. These centers will act as bridgeheads to facilitate cross-boundary cooperation and innovation. A pilot Innovation Center was established in Silicon Valley in June 2006. Based on the pilot’s results, a decision was made to establish Innovation Centers in Shanghai and Munich. This presentation explores the business model, the overall ambitions and the results from this new approach to innovation.

Thinking Out Crowd

Anil K. Rathi
President & Founder, Idea Crossing, Inc.

A growing number of organizations are turning to their consumers, the public at large or selective communities to source content, skills and wisdom. The practices of crowdcasting and crowdsourcing are two key developments to emerge from this trend. In this talk, we will discuss how organizations can tap into the expertise of outsiders by utilizing these techniques, and some of the considerations that characterize these exchanges. We will identify several malleable parameters that will help organizations structure their outreach efforts.

Value Innovation – Its journey in India.

Ishwari Store
Founding Partner, Leapfrog Strategy Consulting

Innovation as a practiced discipline is still fairly nascent in India but is fast emerging as a key priority for CEO’s and marketers alike. This presentation reveals a glimpse of the current innovation practices in India and will bring out the fact that Value Innovation through new business models has been the primary thrust for Indian firms. It provides examples to support this conclusion from several industries as well as points out the reasons behind this. It will then briefly touch upon a consumer insighting approach to capture the value orientation of Indian consumers and outline the several gaps in India’s innovation eco-system which currently limits the development of breakthrough new products. Finally it reveal how certain pioneering firms are overcoming these challenges to create a strategic shift towards creating new models for Indian product development.

Organizing for Global Innovation

Cheryl Perkins
Former Chief Innovation Officer, Kimberly Clark
Founder, InnovationEdge

It’s a question you hear all the time: How do we structure our organization, department or business unit to actually deliver innovation? This question is generally followed by others such as: What are the critical innovation capabilities and functions required to drive strategic innovation and growth over time? And what emerging competencies are required to do this in a global marketplace? Learn answers to these questions and more through practical examples from a number of leading global companies.