We’ve all heard it. Culture eats strategy for breakfast (and lunch, and dinner). It’s also been said that culture change takes 7 years or more. So how does a leader quickly implement lasting change while delivering high impact business results? An objective and foundational roadmap built on strategy and values.

Key Take-Aways:

• Critical factors in generating an honest assessment of your organization
• Best practices for setting business priorities based on a foundation of values
• Proven ways for measuring (and celebrating) success

In this era of a technological first disrupted society we must pause to reflect on the grounding forces that will govern the coming ten years. The Visionary Innovation Group’s year long research project gathered insights from all over the world to create an aggregate assessment of those trends that are critical for all to focus on for organizations of all types, regardless of geography or market.

Key Take-Aways:

• A focused view of the fop five trends that with attention have the potential to increase your success
• Insight into how to approach the top five trends with examples of companies already focusing on specific areas
• Techniques in how to plan for the future using futurecasting

To lead in a time of continuous change, organizations need to accelerate their rate of innovation and re-imagine their business models. End-to-end operational transformation will be critical to realizing success at scale and will require digitization and emerging technology application.

Key Take-Aways:

• Insight into new and emerging business models and cross-industry ecosystems
• Operational transformation best practices – covering people, process, systems
• Fresh perspectives into existing and emerging digital enablers

As companies look to become more diversified in new markets, the customer requirements for suppliers is changing at faster speeds than ever before. This is resulting in companies needing to look at more systematic pathways for their growth opportunities. This interactive session will look at how to standardize your new product development by analyzing and connecting the endless amounts of data people have today.

Key Take-Aways:

• Framework for aligning business strategies to innovation strategies
• Techniques for gathering data and communicating it
• Key findings to align and accelerate product development

Many organizations go through journey mapping exercises, but few come out of these exercises with journey maps that guide next steps and execution. This interactive session will cover key features of effective journey maps, the data needed to complete them, and how to use them to identify next steps and achieve desired outcomes.

Key Take-Aways:

• Template for creating an effective journey map that clearly articulates action items and next steps
• Techniques to collect data and complete the journey map
• Guide of how/when to effectively weave metrics into the journey map
• Lessons learned from journey map shortcomings and how to avoid them

Today large corporations face an imperative of responding to disruption and growing top line revenue. To outperform competitors and succeed in the long term, companies must compete in the right places, at the right times, with the right solutions. However, strategy is not a static concept. Disruption is now the norm. Ritual revisions are required as shifts occur across markets, industry, technology, customers, competitors, and world.

Key Take-Aways:

• A new lens on disrupting from the inside out
• Insight into why technology is not always the best indicators of incoming disruptive changes based on lessons learned and steps to mitigate that reliance
• A method to systematically and continuously evaluate your universe of opportunities
• Best practices for measured adjustments grounding your organization’s growth approach in reality
• Proven ways to shorten your learning curve & provide a robust pipeline to fuel future growth

As Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Technology change the competitive landscape it is vital to leverage it effectively in the spaces of product discovery and innovation. This session addresses the promises and perils in leveraging AI.

Key Take-Aways:

• Lessons learned from leveraging Artificial Intelligence in an enterprise setting
• Best practices on creating Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning products and going to launch
• Key ideas from examples of real world delivered Artificial/ Machine Learning projects
• Ways to address the explainability and bias in AI based products/solutions

With evolving tools to integrate data in real time, the ability to facilitate real-world executive and employee engagement is unlike any other time in history. Understanding what augmented reality solutions are and how they can be integrated into corporate, industrial, and real-world practices to improve operational efficiencies and effectiveness is critical as these technologies’ capacity expands and evolves.

Key Take-Aways:

• Real-world examples of how augmented reality solutions are being integrated into companies to improve operations
• Insights on how such tools may be further advances using real world data to improve employee and customer experiences
• Blueprint approaches to adoption and integration of augmented reality solutions into business practices

We are in the midst of the SINGLE largest migration in human history, where 70% of the population will live in urban areas by 2050. This phenomenon will continue to cause social unrest and systemic issues, which bring new opportunities. This talk will focus in on cities, their specific challenges and the latest trends and business models.

Key Take-Aways:

• Insight on the current urbanization trend, creating disruptive opportunities
• Guide to the six technology trends that are shaping these opportunities, and crossing multiple industry areas
• Blueprint of the new business models that require public-private partnerships and creative funding arrangements

AI holds the promise of transforming data into business value at massive scale. However, most companies don’t know where to start and most AI pilots eventually fail. This fireside chat will examine strategies for driving a flywheel of value creation with AI.

Key Take-Aways:

• A framework for analyzing where AI can create value and drive competitive differentiation for your business
• Examples of how businesses in different industries have applied AI to their highest value workflows to drive efficiency and effectiveness
• A playbook for launching an AI pilot, ensuring it sticks, and driving a flywheel of digital transformation and value creation

Over the first 50 years of the Silicon Valley, the G1000 didn’t pay much attention to start-ups except as technology providers. All that changed in the last five years as the Silicon Valley ecosystem began to focus on disrupting every single existing large industry, including yours. Who will win the battle for innovation? Do you really think startups will eat your lunch? Do you believe that you and your company can fight back and win against the disruptive upstarts? Large companies have the ideas, brand, talent, capital, customers, channels and global reach that surpass even the best funded startups. Learn how the Global 1000 are beating startups at their own game.

Key Take-Aways:

• A lens on how the Global1000 is creating, building and launching new ventures from within
• An understanding of how companies like Schneider Electric, JetBlue, Pernod Ricard and TDK are designing and managing world-class corporate venture groups to create new lines of growth for their parent companies
• Insight into how G1000 and start-ups are combining forces to create the next generation of digitally native mega-companies
• A glimpse into how leading companies like Standard Bank and Stanley Black and Decker are building their own incubator to develop a pipeline and portfolio of new ventures

Without a change in mindset, mechanics just don’t matter.

To drive an innovation engine, of course you need a framework, new impact-focused metrics, different tools, and revised decision architecture, but most importantly, you have to create a learning culture. A culture where executives are prepared to demonstrate humility – a willingness to ask questions and learn, employees have a safe sand box to experiment and fail, and where a journey of exploration and personal growth is valued. This change is not easy and cannot be achieved by simply attending a training class.

Key Take-Aways:

• Best practices for embedding real, sustainable change within the organization, learning needs to be ongoing and continuous. It needs to be available to all employees, from executives to new hires.
• Insights on implementing real, experiential and disruptive executive developmenteffectiveness
• Learnings gained from the personal experience of immersing over 30,000 employees in a new way of working
• Practical approaches that have proven successful in the world of enterprise, ranging from aviation to CPG

This session will explore the challenges that face organizations when identifying future disruptive competitors based on early warning signals given off by the market, and the right techniques and tools that can provide those “early warning” indicators. Gain insights into some of the strategies you can employ in your businesses on a daily basis to identify changes to the competitive landscape, enabling you to take proactive action before the tsunami hits.

Key Take-Aways:

• Frameworks and techniques that will provide you with a blueprint to help you frame these changes
• Insight into why technology is not always the best indicators of incoming disruptive changes based on lessons learned and steps to mitigate that reliance
• Creative ways to leverage the inquisitive mind of today’s millennials to help you spot emerging trends

Leading voices who are paving the way for a new generation of workers share all you need to know about Gen Z. From maintaining attention spans to encouraging entrepreneurship, integrating the gig economy, and determining the role of social media, learn how others are creating a dynamic workplace to win in the next decade.

Key Take-Aways:

• Vision of what new workers will look like in 2025—what skills they bring to the table and what they will need for success
• Perspectives on upcoming generations—Gen Z and, by the end of the next decade, Gen Alpha—as emerging disruptors
• Insight into what are the hot skills companies will need to quickly build capability

So you have that big idea, that big dream, that new path for your company, that game changing innovation that can transform your company to the next level that most others says is “impossible” to make happen. This executive overview will inspire you and have you armed with real strategies and tactics enabling you to “make the impossible possible”.

Key Take-Aways:

• Key implementation success factors
• Proven ways to get buy in across the board
• Best practices to execute with excellence

Growth organizations in highly competitive markets require more creative thinking than ever, but most organizations actually impede it. We’ll cover the neuro-science of creative thinking, how most organizations kill creativity and what you can do across your organization to build critical creative capabilities across your organization.

Key Take-Aways:

• A neuro-science framework for creative thinking
• A checklist of creativity killers to eliminate in your organization
• A list of creative capabilities to improve across your organization