Learnings From Theory vs Practise on Open Innovation Projects

Innovators Insight with

Suzanne Balima

Corporate Entrepreneur & Innovation Designer at Vale

15 March, 16:00 CET/11am EDT/8am PDT

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About the session

Innovation is one of the top strategic priorities for many global organizations and executives: 84% of executives believe innovation is important for growth [1]. To continue growing in a rapidly changing market, many organizations have relied on methodologies proven successful in the world of design and technology, such as Design Thinking and Agile. Although these methodologies come predefined with some clear principles to follow, they also come with mindsets - a prerequisite and key ingredient for successful outcomes.

Using her experience in Open Innovation over the past 2 years in a global mining company, Suzanne will share some lessons learned in this session, exploring the variances and drawing parallels between theory and practice in applying such methodologies.

About the speaker

Suzanne’s mission is to help people and organizations transform and reinvent themselves by harnessing their unique gift of creativity to generate value. She draws from her diverse experiences in engineering, management consulting, technology implementation, digital transformation, corporate innovation, as well as leading corporate diversity initiatives.

At Vale, Suzanne leads entrepreneurial projects using open innovation with the goal of helping her company tackle some of its most complex problems, requiring reimagining rather than incremental innovation; while also accelerating innovation for the mining industry as a whole. With her corporate innovation experiences across industries, she understands that a company’s culture plays a fundamental role in the adoption and dissemination of innovation. The nuance and complexities of the mining industry, and the industrial nature of the work make innovation a particularly challenging exercise – but also a very rewarding one!

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