A great example of how entrepreneurship is taking place in Asia was given by Victor Cui, founder and CEO of One Fighting Championship (http://www.onefc.com/). This company promotes and covers ‘multi martial arts’ (MMA) events – a field which is the fastest growing sport in the world and which combines excitement, glamour and several thousand years

Recognising the Opportunity
Emma Taylor – Denso Systems
In this video Emma Taylor of Denso Systems talks about some of the challenges in empowering and enabling employees to become part of a sustained innovation effort across the organization.
Helle-Vibeke Carstensen
Helle-Vibeke Carstensen is responsible for innovation within the Danish Ministry of Taxation and in this video talks about some of the challenges of enabling innovation in the public sector. More details can be found at: http://www.skm.dk/foreign/ She is also involved with Mindlab, an innovation support agency which develops new approaches and builds innovation management capacity
David Simoes Brown
In this video interview David Simoes-Brown of 100% Open talks about some of the innovation management challenges involved in working with the new ‘open innovation’ environment. More about the company and some case studies and examples can be found at: http://www.100open.com/
Catherina van Delden – Innosabi
These days there is a great deal of interest in user involvement in innovation – not least in the potential for ‘co-creation’ of products and services. But whilst the principle is exciting the challenge of actually making it happen – and building a business around user-led co-creation – is significant. Catherina van Delden, founder and
Simon Tucker

Activities
- Using the 4Ps approach to explore innovation space
- Uses for ….
- Uses for …
- TRIZ
- The Way We Do Things Around Here
- Success and Failure in Innovation
- Strategic planning for implementation
- Strategic advantage through knowledge
- Strategic advantage through innovation
- SPOTS – an audit framework for new product or service development

Cases

Deeper Dives
