Innovation Council

The Council brings together innovation leaders from many different industries. These are the leaders responsible for business development, innovation, research and technology, and strategic marketing. They include executives who oversee technical innovation outside the research function. We meet to optimize ways in which innovation can be harnessed to meet stakeholder goals from across the enterprise

Recent transformational changes in technology and business practices make it increasingly important to share experience with colleagues facing similar challenges in other industries. Council membership provides a regular opportunity for this vital exchange with an international network of peers. Activities include formal presentations, site visits, workshops, and informal, confidential discussion.

Members

Companies & Members - Innovation Council

Accenture EMEA
Aliaxis
Anglo American plc
Brambles
Cisco Systems Ltd.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain S.A.
Covestro Deutschland AG
Dow Benelux B.V.
DuPont de Nemours International Sarl
ENEL X
Ecolab
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
ING Group
JT International S.A.
Legrand
Merck KGaA
Philip Morris International Management S
Procter & Gamble
SAP SE
Sanofi
Shell International Limited
Solvay S.A.
TÜV NORD Group
Willmott Dixon

Member Benefits

Enduring relationships with trusted peers is the core of the Council experience. Enhanced by our global, enterprise-wide reach, these relationships span the world and extend the council value. Confidential peer dialogue provides you with a broader perspective and shared experiences, as well as access to specific knowledge and best practices.

Collective topic selection and problem solving that puts your issues on the agenda
Informal, real-time benchmarking of current approaches by member companies to the most challenging issues faced by product development
Multi-industry insights and best practices from non-competitive peers via in-depth discussions
Networking, reputation building and access within your peer community
Virtual communities that extend learning opportunities through a variety of online forums, webcasts, webinars, and other resources

Hot Topics

How do I leverage the scale of large with the agility
of small?
How I strategically play into Ecosystems?
How to organize New-Business and Venture
Innovation efforts – toward more business
accountability
How do I turn Digital Transformation into tangible
Business Model Innovation?
How to incorporate Sustainability and Circular into
my Innovation program?
How do I apply the proper metrics on (the front end
of) innovation?
How do I create a true Culture of Innovation going
beyond processes as Design Thinking?
How do I lead in an ambidextrous way – delivering
on short term business needs AND setting the
company up for the future?
Emerging from the covid-19 crisis - How do we
reinvent our innovation?
How better connect Asia to the rest of the world in
global eco-systems?
How to demonstrate, and leverage, the value of our
innovation, and our organizations to the company
and the investor community.

Who Should Join?

Senior leaders with strategic Innovation responsibilities C-Suite (CTO, CIO); Business Unit Innovation Leaders Senior Functional Experts in R&D or Business/Strategy Development Members based in EMEA and who represent companies from different industries and geographies with revenues of min &euro + 1bn

Council Director