Innovation Roundtable Insights

Fredrik Hacklin, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Vlerick Business School and Managing Director of the Corporate Innovation Lab, discusses the advantages and disadvantages of digitalization. Hacklin further discusses the challenges and opportunities of turning business into a platform and stresses the importance of having a strategic identity.

Mario Pieper, CDO at BSH Group, delves into digital transformation and its impact on the home appliance industry. Pieper explains how to uncover customer needs and turn ideas into feasible projects. Furthermore, he highlights the importance of effective leaders and an innovation culture in digital transformation journeys.

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Linda Hill, Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration and Faculty Chain, Leadership Initiative, sat down with us to explain how activating the company's Collective Genius can increase innovation potential and accelerate overall speed-to-market. She also discusses how companies can manage diverse and heterogeneous teams, and how Collective Genius can be enabled within organizations.

Sean Carney, Chief Design Officer and GM Business Leader Healthcare Transformation Services of Philips, sits down with us at the 2016 Summit to talk about design thinking approach in reducing various healthcare challenges in the modern days. Carney presents Philips’ approach to design thinking branded as ‘co-creation’ and emphasizes the benefits of having diverse people involved in creating solutions, not just designers.

Hendrik Esser, Manager Special Projects at Ericsson, discusses agile transformation in large organizations. Esser covers how agile initiatives are organized and agile teams are enabled, as well as how to manage the impact of failed experiments and transitioning successful ones into the organization.