Innovators are really, really good at figuring things out on the fly.

We have to be – there’s there’s no playbook to help us navigate the complex challenges we face on a regular basis. Sure, there are books and theories and frameworks that can help us get started, but very few actually address the real-world issues that arise when you’re innovating from within a large, traditional organization.

The best advice comes from the experience of others like us – intrapreneurs who have been there, done that, and survived to tell the tale.

Innov8rs events are designed to help you connect and collaborate with people in similar roles, chasing similar objectives, facing similar challenges. To hear the real-life and raw stories from your peers, in the trenches, with bruises and scars and all- but still making it happen, step by step.

Today we're pleased to announce the first 6 innovators case study talks for our upcoming Atlanta event, March 22-23. Have a look below- and join the conversation!

We distilled 3 key lessons from the stories shared by 6 intrapreneurs
from LEGO, Commonwealth Bank, Mazars, Pearson, Allianz and Takeda
during #Innov8rs Singapore and Toronto in a blog. Read it here

Activating Innovation Ambassadors

Matthew Solomon & Geetika Casmon (EY)  // Session details //

Two years ago, EY began a journey to drive a cultural shift which has rippled across the entire organization. EY created a platform to activate “Innovation Ambassadors” – a platform which has become the foundation for how the firm learns, shares and inspire innovation within EY.

Since inception, the program has expanded rapidly, engaging employees from all career levels, business units, and geographies in both locally driven and enterprise sponsored activities – ranging from crowdsourcing campaigns, innovation workshops, authoring thought leadership, or attending speaker series with some of the most influential minds both internal and external to EY.

Bringing Sticky Notes into the Office

Heather Turney (Porsche) // Session details //

As the Culture and Innovation Manager at Porsche Cars North America, Heather will share insights from a two-year journey to amplify innovation and integrate design thinking behaviors into how ideas get built.

Innovating Reinvention

Mariano Maluf (NCR)  // Session details //

As Director of Disruptive Innovation at NCR, Mariano will share key insights from an 18-month journey inside an iconic company, with 134 years of reinvention history.

In our DNA: Disruptive Innovation at FedEx

Tod Taylor (FedEx)  // Session details //

Innovation has always been part of FedEx's DNA. It started in 1965 when their CEO and Chairman, Fred Smith, then a Yale undergraduate, came up with a system to allow for the delivery of time-sensitive shipments. Within a decade, that idea established an entirely new industry — hub and spoke express shipping. But they didn’t stop there.

Tod will share how FedEx continued to pioneer new innovations throughout the company using their innovate or die mindset, fail fast approach all with an eye on connecting people and possibilities by providing better solutions for their customers.

The New CX Playbook: AI, Consumer-centric Data, Predicting Success – and Boosting Badness

Geeta Wilson (Humana)  // Session details //

The art and science of Customer Experience is evolving exponentially. Why do people want to “hire” your product? What jobs are they trying to get done? How can you innovate to make sure new products will succeed? Using big data and AI to tell the whole story, we’re observing, testing, learning – and acting on what customers are really trying to do.

The founder of Humana’s FastStart Lab, a CX innovation incubator, shows you how to create the space to seek answers and solve for actual consumer problems. Avoid mediocrity by purposely focusing on the wrong things and failing fast as you experiment with real customers. Here’s how to engineer and deliver whole experiences, strike down weakness, and boost your team’s badness!

Driving Robust and Repeatable Innovation

Paul Fletter (Hollister Incorporated)  // Session details //

Paul Fletter will provide details on Hollister's innovation journey focusing on developing the foundation for a robust and repeatable innovation process, the structure of their corporate innovation office as a centralized unit, and how they are developing core innovations by leveraging Planbox innovation management software to connect a global community and serve as a digital system of record for innovation.

Hollister’s innovation competencies have matured over the years, where best practices and lessons learned are helping to advance organic capabilities to generate and implement the “best” ideas. The most recent Hollister innovation successes and lessons learned will be shared along with future plans to how their program will continue to evolve into a global platform to foster agile cross-collaboration across employees, medical experts, and their customers.

 

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