Corporate Research Forum

3—4 October 2012
International Conference in Athens: Creativity & Innovation

Overview

Who is it for?

We are all coming to terms with the fact that the world has become vastly different over recent years. Political, social, economic and competitive change has had significant effects on organisations, work, education, opportunity and prosperity. Clearly difficult challenges exist – which demands that organisations do things differently.

Any executive must face this reality with new success factors. A better capacity for innovation, and being able to create, adapt, initiate and implement ideas and solutions are critical for improving society, organisations and what individuals contribute.

Overview

Unlike most conferences on this topic, our approach will be creative and innovative itself in exploring the challenges of this new reality for all organisations, and posing the questions they raise. We are all committed to making the event content rich and outcome focused – as well as stimulating and enjoyable.

Content

These are the conference themes.

Session I Creative and Innovative Environments (led by Charles Landry)

How do we ensure our societies stimulate creativity and innovation? What must we do better?

Session II Creative and Innovative Organisations (led by Professor George Day)

What must we do to enable organisations to get the most out of people? What must we stop doing?

Session III Creative and Innovative People (led by Professor Adrian Furnham)

How do we find, manage and motivate them – and prevent the ‘maverick’ syndrome?

Session IV Building Collaborative Organisations (led by Dr William Isaacs)

Increasingly, organisations will not have all the answers – and sharing resource, research and people will lead to all-round benefit.

Conference Leaders

Charles Landry is an international authority on the use of imagination and creativity in urban change. His aim is to help cities become more resilient – and to future proof themselves.

George Day is known for his research on aligning organisations with their markets, competitive strategies in global markets, strategy development, and managing innovation processes.

Adrian Furnham is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at University College London, where he has a broad portfolio of interests in research, executive education and collaboration with businesses.

William Isaacs is the founder and president of Dialogos, a consulting and leadership education firm based in Cambridge, MA, and Chairman of the Board of the Dialogos Institute, a not-for-profit action research organisation. He will be supported by Skip Griffin and Michael Jones.

Other contributors will include: Professor Michael Phillips, Honorary Fellow, Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York; Glen O’Hara, Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Oxford Brookes University; Stu Winby, Founder and Executive Managing Partner, The Sapience Group; Skip Griffin and Michael Jones, Senior Associates at Dialogos.

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