We need to evolve from pursuing innovation for the sake of exploring innovative technologies and start creating relevant applicable customer advantage. That will only happen if the customer utilization will be at the center of everything we do.
The most innovative companies (and kitchens) know that successful experimentation can’t happen in a vacuum. Whether you’re working on your holiday meal or your intrapreneurial initiatives, try this five-step plan to help you get cooking.
Midsized businesses have special needs and fewer resources than large enterprises. Here’s what to keep in mind.
Why risk hiring or acquiring when you can build better from within? CEOs share tips on sparking homegrown innovation that wins.
To succeed, leaders must stop chasing the disruptors and instead make bold and proactive choices now to ensure stability in the long term. Seven imperatives.
How one manufacturing firm breathed new life into a mature infrastructure, boosting creativity and innovation in the process.
Roundly blamed for leveling the house that Jack built, Immelt offers an after-action report of lessons learned during his tenure.
Sometimes it takes a crisis to realize that your company’s innovation process is not where it should be. One leader shares how she discovered that painful truth, and what she did to fix it.
Three ways business leaders can drive both growth and innovation in today’s fast-evolving and unpredictable environment.
At Infragistics, adopting a culture of innovation starts during the hiring process and includes inspiring passion through an internal innovation lab and encouraging the autonomy to run with ideas.
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1:00 - 5:00 pm
We are in a period of rapid change. Customer needs, technologies, competitors and internal capabilities require companies to review and update their strategies for the new realities. In this workshop, strategy experts Steve Rutan and Denise Harrison will show you a systematic approach to strategic planning to help you refine or redefine your business strategy and approach including:
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Female leaders face the same issues all leaders do, but they often face additional challenges too. In this peer session, we will facilitate a discussion of best practices and how to overcome common barriers to help women leaders be more effective within and outside their organizations.
Limited space available.
10:30 - 5:00 pm
General’s Retreat at Hermitage Golf Course
Sponsored by UBS
General’s Retreat, built in 1986 with architect Gary Roger Baird, has been voted the “Best Golf Course in Nashville” and is a “must play” when visiting the Nashville, Tennessee area. With the beautiful setting along the Cumberland River, golfers of all capabilities will thoroughly enjoy the golf, scenery and hospitality.
The golf outing fee includes transportation to and from the hotel, greens/cart fees, use of practice facilities, and boxed lunch. The bus will leave the hotel at 10:30 am for a noon shotgun start and return to the hotel after the cocktail reception following the completion of the round.
