Innovation for innovation’s sake does not benefit anybody. Can we measure innovation? How? To be effective, innovation needs to add value to the company. It needs to increase revenues and efficiencies or cut costs. Upskilling employees with a learning-by-doing approach enables them to apply leadership and innovation skills directly in their projects and add demonstrable value to their company.
Alan Cabello holds a PhD from the Swiss Institute of Technology on Strategic Innovation, having been a Visiting Researcher at Stanford’s d.school. He also holds a M.Sc. in Management and a Dip.Eng. in Mechatronics. His latest previous professional experience includes positions as General Manager at Adjoint, a blockchain fin tech, and as Innovation Manager for Allianz corporate insurance. Currently Alan is the CEO of Sparkademy, a partner and co-founder of Spark Works, is an associate and lecturer at ETH Zürich, a business angel and sits on the board of a different start-ups.
After a career as Software Architect and Project Manager in System Integrators and Hardware/Software companies, Vincent joined Philip Morris International (PMI) in 2005 where he occupied over the past year different positions with growing accountabilities (cumulating to Head of IT Innovation). Since April 2017, Vincent acts as Founder and Head of PMI Competency Center for Design Thinking and Lean Enterprise with the mission of deeply and sustainably anchoring those new ways of working across the company. Since 2020 Vincent is also Adjunct Faculty and Guest Lecturer at International University in Geneva and University of St.Gallen delivering Digital Transformation and Innovation Principles & Tools courses to Master and MBA students.
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