IEDP INVITATION: Professor Vijay Govindarajan has been cited by BusinessWeek, The Economist, Forbes, and The London Times as the top thought leader in strategy.
Ranked amongst the latest Thinkers50 listing of the world’s top business thinkers, Vijay will be discussing his new book 'The Other Side of Innovation' at London Docklands on the 2nd September at 6.30pm. You are invited.
(If you can’t join us 20 FREE books are available – see below)
Invitation
Meet Professor Vijay Govindarajan, Professor of International Business at the Tuck School, Dartmouth. He says that whilst companies can't survive without innovating most put much more emphasis on generating Big Ideas than on actually executing them - turning those ideas into real breakthrough products, services, and process improvements.
In his new book The Other Side of Innovation, Vijay Govindarajan reveals how to execute an innovation initiative - whether a simple project or a grand, gutsy gamble. Drawing on examples from innovators as diverse as Fisher-Price, BMW, Timberland, and Infosys, Govindarajan explains how to build and organise the right team and how to navigate the delicate and conflict-rich partnership between innovation and ongoing operations. He also outlines how to manage a disciplined experiment to enable team members to quickly test their assumptions, translate results into new knowledge and measure progress.
This is a unique opportunity to meet the author of The Other Side of Innovation (published by Harvard Business School Press) and learn how to navigate the innovation execution process - so your Big Ideas deliver their full promise.
The ticket price of £30 includes drinks, canapes and a copy of the book. Tickets may be purchased on the night.
Agenda
6.00pm Reception
6:30pm - 7.30 pm – Vijay will discuss the core concepts behind The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge and take questions.
The event will be followed by drinks & canapés
Venue
McGraw-Hill Companies, 20 Canada Sq., London E15 5LH, United Kingdom
About the author
Vijay Govindarajan is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business and the founding director of the Center for Global Leadership at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, and the 2009 Professor-in-Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant for General Electric. He is the co-author of the international bestseller Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators (HBRP, 2005), and his work has been published in Harvard Business Review, the MIT Sloan Management Review, BusinessWeek, Fast Company, and the Financial Times. Vijay was named as one of the world’s fifty most influential living management thinkers in the 2009 Thinkers 50 ranking published in The Times.
20 FREE copies of 'The Other Side of Innovation' are available to the first 20 applicants.
To apply for a free copy please email: info@iedp.com with your full mailing address.
