BUSINESS BREAKFAST: Creating a Culture of Innovation – Demystifying the Process
From new markets to mature markets and across every industry, innovation plays a critical role in an organization's success. A culture of innovation, when done right, gives you a competitive edge because it makes you more nimble with an increased ability to sense and respond to change.
But a culture of innovation is more than new ideas. It needs to be repeatable, predictable, and sustainable. This only happens when you treat innovation like you treat all other capabilities in your business. This means having, amongst other things, a defined process. Your company's culture is a living, breathing and ever-evolving entity. It's defined more by your actions as a leader and the people you hire than by your words or wishful descriptions in the corporate handbook. More importantly, culture is the energy that fuels innovation.
Our panel includes:
Michael A. Teets - OCLC Vice President, Innovation
Kameron deVente - VP Navigator Management Partners LLC
Susan Alexander - Founder, Rosebud Coaching & Consulting
Take Aways:
- Share Latest thinking in how to structure an organization to support innovation
- Talk about a systems approach to innovation – what are the elements
- Stories from successful companies
- Qualities individuals demonstrate that supports success
- Conversations that support innovation vs. incremental improvement
Agenda:
7:30-8am: Networking and refreshments
8am-9am: Presentation
9am-9:30: Q & A / networking
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Speaker Details:
Michael A. Teets
OCLC Vice President, Innovation
Mike was named Vice President, Innovation, in February 2010. He was formerly Vice President, Enterprise Architecture and Vice President Global Engineering. Since starting his work at OCLC as a research assistant, Mike has been instrumental in the startup of most of OCLC’s leading edge products. He graduated from Ohio State University Engineering College with a bachelor’s degree in Computer and Information Science, Information Systems.
Kameron deVente
Vice President Navigator Management Partners LLC
As Vice President of Navigator’s Columbus Office, Kameron brings 21 years of consulting experience to his leadership role within the firm. Kameron is responsible for managing client relationships, understanding their business opportunities, assembling and participating on client service delivery teams, providing delivery quality oversight, and attracting local talent to bring to our clients. Throughout his career, Kameron has focused on helping companies achieve business results through leadership and systematic approaches to strategic and tactical business objectives. Kameron has experience across a variety of industries, including healthcare, manufacturing, retail and distribution. Kameron has delivered business consulting, outsourcing, and enterprise systems implementation programs. Kameron has managed collaborative multi-organization teams through complex business transformation programs involving over 200 people each. Over his career, Kameron has recruited, organized, and developed many diverse high performing teams.
Susan Alexander
Founder, Rosebud Coaching & Consulting
Susan Alexander is a certified ontological coach – her practice is grounded in the distinctions of “who you are being” that life is showing up the way that it is. Fundamentally, ontology teaches us to examine how we see life’s circumstances and question the beliefs and assumptions that we hold as true. In this process, we begin to notice that it is our “view” that stops us from achieving our goals. And in learning that our “view” is just one way of observing life, and certainly not the only way, we can then begin to create a new perspective that allows us to take different actions to produce “breakthrough results”.