“A unique opportunity to meet other like-minded 'innovation ...

“A unique opportunity to meet other like-minded
‘innovation practitioners’ for a time of exploration,
investigation and recommendation!”
ION
I N N O VA T I O N O W N E R S N E T W O R K
Thursday 15th November 2007
Lord Stafford Awards-Festival of Innovation
ION Seminar Area, Hall 12
NEC Birmingham
Commencing from 8.00am
FREE ADMISSION for all sessions
A forward thinking partnership of Government, industry and academia would
like to invite you to an intensive hands-on programme of seminars and
workshops from global leading industrial innovation specialists.
This forum will address industry’s exponentially increasing need for innovation
across all sectors of business which is creating untold difficulties in managing the
future of any business. For most, innovation is equated to risk. Innovation – whether
technical or business – is an unpredictable art rather than a science. In the past ten
years, statistics suggest that companies will get it wrong ten times more than they
will get it right.
The forum will be led by senior industrial executives and specialists who manage
innovation on a global scale. It will include;
- an insight into the role of a corporate Chief Innovation Officer
- guidance on the change management towards an innovation culture
- the creation and management of innovation outside the firm
- an introduction to key innovation tools
- the status of innovation within the emerging markets of China and India.
The event will also launch the Innovation Leadership Alliance, a not for profit global
support network of innovation practitioners who seek to access and share best
practice in innovation management.
Both the forum and the alliance are ideal for those organisations who
have (or are thinking of appointing) senior level Chief Innovation Officers
within their corporate structures.
The forum is sponsored by the following organisations;
Midlands by Design
Formerly UCE Birmingham

Innovation Owners Network Programme
In recognition of the pressures of everyday business, delegates will be offered a choice of attendance options,
starting with an Executive Breakfast and ending with an Evening Buffet.
Delegates are able to choose any or all of the presentation and workshop activities.
FREE ADMISSION for all sessions
Executive Breakfast Registration 8.00-8.30am
Breakfast
Introduction – The changing innovation arena, the emerging CIO role and need for support networks
Professor Adrian Cole, Birmingham City University’s Technology Innovation Centre
Keynote Address – ‘The Future CIO’ – Craig Wynett, CIO Procter & Gamble, US
Next Steps – Introducing the Innovation Leadership Alliance
Presentation 1 – Chindia –Innovation critical SWOT Darrell Mann, Systematic Innovation
Workshop 1 – Someone, Somewhere, Already Solved Your Innovation Challenge - Innovation happens when ideas are
transferred from one sector to another – (Case study examples and delegate opportunities)
Lunchtime Session Registration 12.00-12.30pm
Buffet Lunch
Introduction – The changing innovation arena, the emerging CIO role and need for support networks
Professor Adrian Cole, Birmingham City University’s Technology Innovation Centre
Keynote Address – ‘The Human Dynamics of Innovation’ – Michael R. Perrault, Manager of the Personal Leadership
Development team for Intel Corporation
Presentation 2 – Innovation Tools, Methods, Strategies – An Overview - Darrell Mann, Systematic Innovation
Workshop 2 – Where to Innovate – Innovation needn’t mean new products or services – A session exploring the 12
innovation domains and establishing where to play
Evening Session Registration 4.00-4.30pm
Introduction – The changing innovation arena, the emerging CIO role and need for support networks
Professor Adrian Cole, Birmingham City University’s Technology Innovation Centre
Keynote Address – ‘The Future CIO’, Craig Wynett, CIO Procter & Gamble, US
Next Steps – Introducing the Innovation Leadership Alliance
Workshop 3 – ‘Contradictions, the Route to Innovation?’ – Darrell Mann, Systematic Innovation and Professor Adrian
Cole, Birmingham City University‘s Technology Innovation Centre
Evening Buffet
All delegates will receive a copy of the Hands-On Systematic Innovation for Business & Management book plus
hard copies of the presentations, CD Rom, attendance list and an invitation to the online Innovation Owners
Network.
I’m interested. What are my next steps?
To register your interest in attending this event on Thursday 15th November 2007, please send an email,
detailing your name, company, contact details, including telephone number and choice of session(s) to:
julian.moore@tic.ac.uk
Please also notify us of any comments you would like to make in relation to the programme which has
been presented.
Thanking you in advance – we look forward to hearing from you soon.