Agenda

WELCOME TO THE GIL JOURNEY

Keynote:

THE JOURNEY TO VISIONARY INNOVATION 

  Speaker: Dorman Followwill, Partner and Director EIA, Frost & Sullivan

To survive and thrive in the future business environment, both as an individual and as a company, innovation has now become an essential ingredient. Dorman will talk about why innovation is critical to success, where innovation comes from, how to become a visionary innovator and your next steps. Whether you are inspired about future prospects or anxious about the negative impacts the future will bring, this research-based talk will bring some valuable insights to your life and future strategy.

Key Take Aways:

• Why Innovation is essential for all players in the global economy
• Corporate Enlightenment: What it is and how it can stifle success
• Where Innovation comes from and how to nurture it
• How to create a foundation or platform for Innovation
• What you can do today to start your path to Visionary Innovation
• How Visionary Innovation can change your life

THE 'NEW' MEGA TRENDS

Growth Thought Leader: Sarwant Singh, Partner, Frost & Sullivan

This presentation provides a unique guide to the “New Mega Trends” such as City as a Customer, Smart is the New Green, New Business Models, Connectivity and Convergence and Innovating to Zero. The unique feature of this session lies in its ability to not only identify and evaluate emerging Mega Trends, but also to translate those opportunities to everyday business and personal life. This visionary session will help you paint a picture of how these new Mega Trends will change your work and personal lives in the years to come.

Key Take-Aways:

• Keen insight on the Macro to Micro implications of New Mega Trends
• Best practices to align future Mega Trends to your company's current vision and strategy
• A new capability to identify uncontested white space opportunities
• Opportunities to immediately take advantage of – or protect yourself from – these changes

GIL 2012: GROWTH, INNOVATION AND LEADERSHIP AWARD

Presenter: Brian Denker, Vice President & Global Head - Growth, Innovation & Leadership, Frost & Sullivan

Award Recipient: David Bott, Director of Innovation Programmes, Technology Strategy Board

10:15 AM

Growth Thought Leadership: 

VALUE LEAKAGE - THE GREATEST THREAT TO PROFITABLE GROWTH

Speaker: Jeff Thull, CEO and President, Prime Resource Group, Inc.

If you are investing heavily in creating innovative and high-value solutions, but are not seeing the profitable growth you expected, value leakage could be sabotaging the execution of your strategy. Innovation is not complete until your customers comprehend and invest in the total value of your solutions and can accurately measure net profit impact. Translate your strategy into bottom line results.

Key Take-Aways:

• Examine how you may be innovating beyond your customer’s ability to capitalise on your unique value
• Recognise how innovative value becomes fragmented and commoditised
• Understand why customer net profit is at the heart of innovation and growth
• Seven tough questions to bring your leadership team into alignment

Think Tank 1: 

THE IMPACT OF GLOBAL MEGA-TRENDS ON INDUSTRIES, INVESTMENTS, AND CAREERS

Facilitator: Sarwant Singh, Partner, Frost & Sullivan

Mega Trends are global, sustained and macroeconomic forces defining our future world and its increasing pace of change. Mega Trends have diverse meanings and impacts for different industries, companies and individuals. An analysis of these Mega Trends and their implications forms an important component of a company’s future strategy, development and innovation process, and impacts product and technology planning.

The objective of the workshop is to set the stage for visionary thinking by learning how to leverage interactive tools to:

• Understand opportunities/threats arising out of future Mega Trends and to prepare contingency plans based on probable scenarios
• Prioritise seeking future customers based on emerging Mega Trends in new geographies, emerging economies, and new attitudes and preferences of consumers
• Align future Mega Trends with your current vision and strategy
• Align current strategy to expected accelerating change in future technology and needs of the “Customer of the Future”
• Learn the Macro to Micro methodology of applying Mega Trends and uncovering the billion dollar Innovation opportunities

Structured industry groups will give you the opportunity to collaborate with your industry's peers and Frost & Sullivan Growth consultants/ analysts to brainstorm on how to effectively capitalise on growth opportunities.

12:30 PM

Growth Success Story: 

SMART INVESTING - SURVIVING IN A WORLD OF VISIONARY INNOVATION

Growth Thought Leader: Andrew Calvert, Vice President, Business & Financial Services, Frost & Sullivan

Think Tank II:

IMPLEMENTATION EXCELLENCE - LEVERAGING BEST PRACTICES FOR THE TOP 10 GROWTH PROCESSES 

Facilitator: Dan Goldenberg, Senior Vice President and Global Quality Leader - Growth Partnership Strategy, Frost & Sullivan

CEOs report their greatest internal challenge to growth is "implementing the growth strategy with the current management team." This interactive workshop will provide a hands-on experience, exploring the top 10 growth processes while providing delegates the opportunity to apply tools in a real-time exercise to validate and benchmark their existing strategies against best-practice implementation. Companies that master these tools will have a tremendously powerful competitive advantage!

Key Take Aways:

• Understand the top 10 Growth Processes and how they are implemented
• Learn how to benchmark your company with these best practices
• Gain insights on how to spark this programme in your own company

Growth Thought Leadership: 

 BEST-IN-CLASS GROWTH SOLUTION SUCCESS STORY

Growth Thought Leader: Angela Selden, Co-Chairman, Arise Virtual Solutions

Think Tank III: 

THE GROWTH DIAGNOSTIC - MEASURING YOUR COMPANY’S FUTURE GROWTH POTENTIAL  

Co facilitators:
Dorman Followwill, Partner and Director EIA, Frost & Sullivan

Brian Denker, Vice President & Global Head –Growth, Innovation and Leadership, Frost & Sullivan

An essential element of any company’s growth process is to understand where the company is positioned today in terms of growth and to gain an understanding of where the future growth potential of the company is headed. This system will provide the diagnostic tools and measurement system to provide a totally new perspective on how to benchmark your company versus the industry and gain new insights into its future growth potential.

Key Take Aways:

• Learn how to benchmark and diagnose your company’s growth processes vs. best practice
• Gain insight and a measurement system on "the future growth potential" of your company
• Learn how to apply this tool to strategy, investments and your career

Growth Thought Leadership: 

 A BEST-IN-CLASS INDUSTRY VISIONARY: TRUE INNOVATION IN AN INDUSTRY FACING MASSIVE SEA CHANGE 

Growth Thought Leader: Boris Azaïs, Director - Industrial Policy Europe & Canada, MSD (Merck Sharp & Dohme)

Key Take Aways:

    How can Mega Trends drive the sea changes in the pharma industry?
    How to truly innovate your way to the future?

GIL Bites:

FROM VISIONARIES, INNOVATORS AND LEADERS - THE GOLDEN NUGGETS OF IDEAS, INSIGHTS AND INSPIRATIONS

Presenter: Brian Denker, Vice President & Global Head Growth, Innovation and Leadership, Frost & Sullivan

Award Recipient: Martha Lane Fox, UK's Digital Champion