The Innovation Toolkit: Insights to help executives stay ahead of the curve

As the leader of your company, you must stay on top of your industry or risk obsolescence. This can be a daunting task. Get ready to solve your biggest challenges and learn how to capitalize on your biggest opportunities. Executives depend on external advisers to fill knowledge and experience gaps; to help them make a case for change; or, to have an experienced mind audit their thinking. The Innovation Toolkit: Insights for executives to help stay ahead of the curve brings together a wide range of proven thought leaders from around the globe and makes them available to you. Get access to insights, advice, and the tools you need to succeed. "The secret is that there are a relatively small number of things, needs you might say, which are required for you to appeal to your customers. If you do those things really well, you build a marvelous footing on which to create a really great customer experience." - Stephen Hewett, Founding Director at iCustomer "There is a huge difference between capability and competence. Competence is what you get from going to a course, or a training program, or you are taught in school, or as an MBA. That gets old pretty quick. What you learned in the MBA program can kill you ten years later. The thing is to focus on how to learn, how to act, and be proactive—that is capability." - Magnus Penker, CEO Innovation360 "Who people are underneath is quite aligned with the roles that they aspire to. If we can get them in the right roles, they're much, much more likely to perform well, experience less stress, and are more likely to stay in the role and perform well*"* - Dr. Stewart Desson, CEO Lumina Learning "And the paradox here is, when leaders let go of power, they gain more power back because more is achieved with less effort and they are seen as a true leader. " - Professor Vlatka Hlupic, CEO, The Management Shift Consulting "I think every business today needs to find that like-minded platform, that like-minded technology which allows them to bring more ideas together more quickly, because that identifying, filtering, and implementing is what pushes your business forward. The more you can connect, the more you can collaborate, the more open you are, the more successful I ultimately believe you can be."- Ken Tencer, CEO, Spyder Works "It's not really about there being good ideas, because there's all sorts of good ideas. It's about what you do with them when you have them. How do you decide which ones are the most likely to have an impact on your organization? Which ones are going to have a positive return?" - Gerry Purcell, ICG Global Partner Strategy & Innovation "The demonstration of our success is understanding the motivation of the buyer in the market. Forty percent of our success is the relationship that we generate as we go to market. I don't care how motivated you are. If they don't believe that you have their back, if they don't believe that you're going to look after their best interest, if they believe that you're just trying to sell them something, they won't buy from you." -Mark S.A. Smith, Business Growth Strategist, Bija Company "I think we need to start thinking about how we get ready for change and be able to make change happen regardless of what that change is. I think this is a fundamentally new way of thinking about how we manage, how we design, how we invest, and how we approach our markets*."* -Roger Burlton, President, Process Renewal Consulting Group Inc.