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I am running three one-day workshops for BQF entitled Gaining Competitive Advantage through Innovation. These workshops will cover advanced idea generation techniques that really work for new products and services. Delegates will practise and learn practical methods that they can take back and use in their organisations to help improve innovation. There are details here. [...]  Innovation in a competitive environment – BQF seminar kindly hosted by Glaxo Smith Kline at their Weybridge offices on 3 Nov. Non-members are welcome http://ping.fm/O2Nt6 The speakers are from the consumer products division of GSK and include: Simon Gunson, VP, New Product Development and Site Director Alexis Roberts-Macintosh, VP, Aquafresh Future Team R&D Peter Harding, VP, Aquafresh [...] I am running a one day Master Class on Innovation for Competitive Advantage for the BQF on Sept 15th in central London. It is guaranteed to give you great techniques for generating innovative ideas. More details here: Paul Sloane Date: 3 November 2009 Theme: Delivering innovation in a highly commercial and competitive environment Venue: Kindly hosted by GSK, Weybridge, Surrey
Time: 0930 – 13.15 followed by a sandwich lunch Includes: Site Tour. Weybridge is a site where all parties (ideation, new product research and development, scale-up and commercial functions) involved [...] I ran a short workshop session today after the BQF Annual General Meeting. The first thing we did was to construct a new elevator pitch. Each delegate had to write down how they would currently describe their organisation in one sentence. We got a lot of short mission statements and advertising tag lines. Then people designed [...] I spoke at the BQF Leadership Conference yesterday. One of the other speakers was Vernon Barker, Managing Director of FirstPennine Express, a company which won a franchise to provide rail services across large parts of the north of England and southern Scotland. He told a fascinating story about leading the business. In their first year of [...]
Lord Drayson The BQF is delighted that Lord Drayson, The Minister of State for Science and Innovation, will attend the BQF/DIUS Innovation Summit on 22 April. The summit will provide the opportunity to hear from Lord Drayson and senior members of his team, and to discuss with them current innovation policy and the relationship [...] You are invited to the next meeting of the BQF Innovation Unit on Wednesday 22 April in Victoria, London. It will be hosted by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS). The programme includes: Christine Hewitt, Deputy Director Innovation Delivery, DIUS The innovation ecosystem, design, standards, accreditation and public sector innovation Fergus Harradence, Deputy [...] There was a lively meeting of the Innovation Unit today when Philip Kyte and Greg Venters of Arthur D Little led a workshop on Innovating for Cash. They defined this as innovation that leads to quick wins by increasing short term revenues or by lowering operating costs. So for example you could boost revenue by [...] The next meeting of the BQF Innovation Unit will take place on the morning of Feb 18th in Westminster. Details and booking here. The session will be led by Philip Kyte of consultants Arthur D Little. He says, ‘The concept is “Innovation for Cash” which we are finding very relevant to today’s situation. It is [...] |
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