Innovation Masterclass

Organisational Innovation; a survival imperative?

The theme of this event is “Innovation”, a subject area identified as critical to ongoing professional development in recent research findings from the OUBS alumni. As a result we have developed a masterclass combining industry-leader and academic perspectives that will explore how innovation can be fostered at all levels within an organisation.

A separate but complementary evening event will be hosted by the Dean of the Business School, Professor Rebecca Taylor with guest speakers Evan Davis and Ken Keir, Executive VP, Honda Motor Europe.

Facilitator

Elvin Box,

Associate Director of Mace, Open University MBA

Speakers

Ken Keir OBE,

Executive Vice President of Honda Motor Europe

Evan Davis,

Visiting Professor and presenter of The Bottom Line

Adrian Simpson,

Chief Technology Officer for SAP UK & Ireland

Sukhvinder (Win) Dhat,

UK Practice Leader, Kates Kesler Organisation Consulting

David Harrison MBA,

Entrepreneur and Founder & Managing Partner of True Potential

Imran Razzaq,

Central Eastern Europe Cloud Lead, Microsoft

Professor Rebecca Taylor,

Dean of  the OU Business School

Professor James Fleck,

Professor of Innovation Dynamics at the OU Business School

Dr Leslie Budd,

Reader in Social Enterprise at the OU Business School 

Daytime innovation masterclass

In challenging economic times, innovation is in demand; every organisation needs ‘it’ at a strategic, operational and product level, but how do you attain it?

This CPD masterclass illustrates the elusive mix of people, culture, process and technical elements that combine to deliver success through innovation and will provide techniques and case studies that can be applied to your own context during the action learning sets.

• 10:00 - Arrival, registration, coffee
• 10:30 - Welcome, overview, objectives
• 10:45 - Innovation in organisations. A research perspective on innovation and an overview of the nature of innovation - Professor James Fleck
• 11:15 - Leveraging Technology to Drive Organisational Innovation. A business perspective - Adrian Simpson, Chief Technology Officer, SAP
• 11:45 - Over to you. Group work relating the research and business insights to own challenges and experiences.  Facilitated by Professor James Fleck
• 12:45 - Lunch
• 13:45 - Expert Panel. Business and research experts give their views and personal experiences of success factors in innovation in organisations. Chaired by Professor James Fleck

          Win Dhat - Organisation Design and Change Consultant, KatesKesler

          David Harrison - Entrepreneur and Managing Partner, True Potential

          Dr Leslie Budd  - Reader in Social Enterprise, OUBS

• 15:00 - Over to you. Group discussion and facilitated work responding to opinions from the Expert Panel.  Followed by Q&A. Facilitated by Professor James Fleck
• 16:30 - Maintaining an innovative brand. A business perspective - Imran Razzaq, Eastern Europe Cloud Lead, Microsoft
• 17:00 - Reflections, Learnings and Close - Professor James Fleck
• 17:30 - Day event closes

Evening programme

• 18:00 - Registration
• 18:30 - Welcome by Professor Rebecca Taylor, Dean Open University Business School
• 18:40 - The importance of innovation in economic recovery - Evan Davis, Visiting Professor & presenter of BBC Bottom Line
• 19:00 - How innovation drives our business - Ken Keir, OBE, Executive Vice President Honda Motor Europe
• 19:30 - Q & A
• 20:00 - Buffet  and networking
• 21:00 - Close

Event information and booking

The inaugural Business Perspectives event is now fully booked!

You may also be interested to know that we will be holding a webinar, on Tuesday 4 December for OUBS students and alumni,  with edited highlights from the event.  We will be promoting this event in the coming weeks and further details of how to register will be available here. 

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