Topics to be Addressed January 30 – January 31, 2007

Using innovation to grow your business can be a successful strategy – but it is not without challenges. Often innovation requires significant changes in your operations, execution, market and resource allocation. Hear from the experts how to thrive on these challenges:

• The Challenges of Innovation
• The Strategy Paradox
• Talent Acquisition and Development as an Integral Part of Innovation
• Building Alliances
• Alliances That Work
• The Threatened Future of Innovation
• Using the Customer in the Innovation Process
• Eliminating the Barriers to Innovation
• Learning From Mistakes: Key Failure and Key Success Factors for Innovation
• Focusing your Resources
• Using Creativity to Find Innovation
• Harnessing International Innovation
• Human Resources as an Integral Part of Innovation
• Service Sector Innovation
• Bringing New to the Old — Growth and Innovation in an Industrial Setting
• Looking into the Future