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2008 Annual Conference
Strategic Planning & Action: Driving Growth from Change
Thought Leader Deep Dive Workshops
Deep Dive sessions are focused small-group presentations that take a deeper
look into specific strategic planning-centric subject matter. Since these
sessions have limited capacity you are encouraged to book at the time of
conference registration.
Milind Lele
Managing Director, Strategic Leverage Consultants
Biography...
Dean Chung
Director, Strategic Leverage Consultants
Biography...
Cross Border Strategies
This seminar will focus on the opportunities and challenges in doing
business with India. The content and insights are based on extensive
in-country research and interviews with companies, executives, and public
officials, resulting in a first hand look at India.
 Monday 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Soren Eilertsen, Ph.D.
Managing Director of Kollner Group, Inc.
Biography...
Blue Ocean Strategy
Apply Blue Ocean Strategy (BOS) within your business and launch new
initiatives that break with traditional competition, creating new demand and
uncontested market space. Research has shown that such initiatives result in
significantly more profit as well as marketplace longevity than traditional
competitive approaches. Participants will discover a new way to look at
their firm's strategy through the lens of value innovation and practical
strategy tools to help clarify the company's current and future market
position. This is a highly interactive workshop. Each teaching point is
illustrated with examples and exercises. Participants are encouraged to
provide additional examples and enter into dialogue.
Monday 9:15 am - 12:15 pm
Art Kleiner
Editor-in-Chief, Strategy + Business
Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton
Biography...
Power and Legitimacy in the Living Organization
Most corporate strategy professionals are keenly aware that the impact of
their work is measured in results — and that this in turn depends on
an understanding the capabilities and limits of the organization they
operate within. In this interactive workshop, we'll explore the concepts of
power and legitimacy: aspects of living systems that can be applied and
influenced as they circulate through an enterprise. Living systems have
circulatory systems, and like the systems in the human body, each of these
has its own innate qualities and capabilities. Can you learn to work more
effectively with the systems of the living organization — the
hierarchy as it is (not as you'd like it to be), the networks of weak links,
the market-driven flow of goods and services, and the dynamics of the core
group? If so, you have a better chance of moving organizations, for their
own good and the good of the world around them (and both are increasingly
interrelated).
Monday 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Kevin O'Brien, Ph.D.
Director, Business Development and Innovation Programs, SRI International
Biography...
Five Disciplines of Innovation
Innovation is now the primary driver of growth, prosperity, and quality
of life. Fortunately, we live in a world of abundance — not scarcity.
There have never been more opportunities. But it is a world where
individuals, their teams, and their enterprises need the right innovation
skills to first identify and then develop these opportunities — fast.
Few do.
Globalization and technological developments will only expedite this
downward spiral. We are witnessing a profound shift as many markets and
business activities become knowledge based.
Today, innovation is the primary means for growth, prosperity, and
improved quality of life. It's a time of tremendous opportunity for
innovation and entrepreneurship with many opportunities available in all
major market segments. If you ignore these opportunities and take a reactive
vs. proactive approach to the market, your company will eventually go out of
business.
SRI international is in the business of innovation. With over 1,400 of
the world's most accomplished researchers and technologists, SRI is in a
unique position to inspire world-changing innovation nearly every day. In
fact, in the last decade alone, SRI clients have sponsored more than two
billion dollars in R&D in every scientific and technology endeavor
imaginable from robotics and artificial intelligence to drug discovery and
alternative energy solutions.
SRI has created a unique roadmap for others to put knowledge in to action
for themselves and their businesses.
This lively and informative workshop will focus on the importance of
innovation to the success of every business, and will offer practical
knowledge to stimulate innovation within your own team or organization.
Monday 9:15 am - 12:15 pm
Stephen Haines
Founder and CEO, Haines Centre for Strategic Management
Biography...
STATE OF THE ART BEST PRACTICES REPORT: PART II*
Leading Strategic and Cultural Change: The Systems Thinking Approach®
Primary Benefits as a result of attending this Executive Briefing:
- You will have significantly enhanced your knowledge, skills, and success in Leading Strategic Change (i.e. implementing your Strategic Plan) rather than falling into the traps that almost all organizations do.
- You will learn the results of the Strategic IQ Audits conducted in numerous organizations by the Haines Centre in the past six years, as well as the experiences of Cox Communications including top 12 Common Mistakes almost all organizations make.
The Top 12 Common Mistakes most organizations make in Leading Strategic Change are in:
- Lack of Execution through Monthly Change Leadership Team Meetings
- Lack of Involvement of Key Stakeholders
- Lack of Required Change Infrastructure
- Missing the Players and Key Roles of Change
- Missing the Organizational Capacity for Change
- Ignoring the Power of Simplicity
- Failing to Understand and Use the Rollercoaster of Change
- Failing to Understand and Appreciate the Nature of Cultural Change
- Mostly Focusing on Economic Alignment
- Mostly Focusing on Cultural Attunement
- Lacking Management Appreciation and Competencies in Leading Strategic Change
- Lacking a Culture of Discipline
( *Note: this is Part II. Part I, Strategic Planning: State Of The Art, was given at our 2007 national
conference. Copies of this 2007 Report will be given to this year's attendees as well.)
Tuesday 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Stuart Jackson
Author, Where Value Hides (Wiley 2007)
Vice President, L.E.K. Consulting
Biography...
Better, Not Just Bigger
Most organizations - manufacturing companies, service businesses, even
charities and government departments - are constantly trying to build scale
and expand their mission. But they often fail to address the question of how
getting bigger increases organizational effectiveness and creates value for
customers and investors. In this interactive workshop we'll explore
techniques that can help strategists ensure that plans for growth in scale
and market share will result in increased profitability and value.
Tuesday 2:15 - 5:15 pm
Adrian Ott
CEO of Exponential Edge, Inc.
Biography...
This Is Not Your Father's Ecosystem: How the Connected Economy Changes the Game
The emerging field of Customer Behavior Networks™ is changing the way businesses
interact and compete. Enabled by recent advancements in mobile, communities and monitoring
technology, new online and offline offerings are now embedded into customer routines and habits.
Such offerings are a source of competitive advantage and generate new revenue streams.
Through case studies and participatory exercises, participants will discover:
- How to identify strategic opportunity in the connected economy
- Why Digital Demographics matter to all industries.
- How companies in all industries can innovate using Behavior Nets
- How Customer Behavior Network mindsets differ from traditional ecosystem approaches
- Why Share of Customer Day™ is a key metric in the connected economy
- When to use Behavior Nets
- How Behavior Nets could be applied to your business or industry
Tuesday 2:15 - 5:15 pm
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