Disruption and Innovation for Competitive Advantage

creating an innovation culture

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it. Steve Jobs

Sustainable competitive advantage is the holy grail of business. This session looks at the role developing an innovation culture has in creating market-leading products and propositions.

We will start the session by considering how our culture can positively support innovation - from recruitment, through reward policies to organisational structures. Through a series of case studies we will show that you don't need to be a tech company to be either disruptive or innovative.

Date: 23 October 2019

Time(s): 8.15am (for 8.30am) til 10.30am - FULLY BOOKED

12.15pm (for 12.30pm) til 2.30pm - FULLY BOOKED

Where: The Enterprise Centre, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ

FULLY BOOKED

The Masterclass will last 2 hours with questions.

Refreshments will be available. There is no charge for the Masterclass but you may like to consider a donation of £20 to Ormiston Families MPower project that supports parents who have had a child taken into care.

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