Innovation mastery: Guiding innovation from the boardroom

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Speaker(s): Adrian Packer , Peter Lee , Ross Pearce
Date: 5:00pm — 7:30pm, 31 October 2024
Venue: Newmarket Innovation Precinct
Location: 298 Khyber Pass Road, Newmarket, Auckland, 1023
Price: $80.00 incl GST

Overview

In today's rapidly evolving landscape, marked by swift technological progress and dynamic market changes, the necessity for directors to actively champion and enable innovation has never been more critical. With the success rate of product innovation hovering around 5%, it's clear that traditional approaches are no longer sufficient.

To address this pressing need, the Auckland branch of the Institute of Directors, in collaboration with IMS Projects, offers an immersive and impactful two-hour workshop. Designed by directors for directors, this workshop equips participants with the essential competencies to drive innovation from the boardroom and lead their organisations into the future.

At the heart of this workshop is the case study of a traditional New Zealand manufacturing business at a crossroads. Although the legacy physical product business remains profitable, declining margins signal a need for transformation. Should the business pivot to leverage the data generated by its products? This critical question will set the stage for exploring key themes crucial to guiding innovation from the boardroom: dynamic strategy, leadership of innovation, managing innovation risk, and inspiring entrepreneurial management.

Participants will:

Develop dynamic strategies: Learn how to craft robust yet flexible strategies that embrace uncertainty and accommodate emerging technologies and market trends.
Enhance leadership capabilities: Assess and refine your innovation leadership skills and learn how to foster an entrepreneurial mindset within your organisation.
Master innovation risk management: Discover fundamental principles and practical methods to manage innovation risks effectively without compromising ambition.
Drive change from the boardroom: Understand how to steer and stimulate innovation, enabling your organisation to thrive in a rapidly changing environment.

Empower yourself to lead your organisation through the challenges of today and into the opportunities of tomorrow. Numbers are limited.

Bought to you in collaboration with

Adrian Packer

CMInstD

Adrian established IMS Projects in the UK in 2004, quickly gaining a reputation for a collaborative and outcome-focused approach that delivers business success through people. In 2009, he relocated to New Zealand, with his family. Today, IMS Projects is a respected provider of high-quality, innovative programs and services that help NZ businesses achieve world-class levels of performance.

IMS Projects' services encompass Strategy and Planning, Leadership Development, Operational Excellence, Innovation, and New Product Development. Adrian's strong consulting background includes work with prominent organisations such as Silver Fern Farms, Inghams, Toitu, Southern Cross Hospitals, Kiwicare, Pfizer, Rinnai, Fletcher Steel and Rinnai. Adrian recently worked with the NZ Defence Force to craft their innovation strategy and is currently supporting them to deliver increasing value through the application of science and technology.

Adrian is a director of an innovative and fast growth NZ business, Auto Mossa Holdings and a Chartered Member of the Institute of Directors. He holds an MBA from Cranfield School of Management in the UK, and is also Master NLP Practitioner, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, and qualified coach.

Known for his collaborative and outcome-focused approach, Adrian excels in delivering business success through capability building.

Peter Lee

MInstD

Peter is an enthusiastic advocate and practitioner for technology commercialisation. He graduated from the University of Auckland in 1975 with a PhD in engineering. This qualification quickly led to a career in technology commercialisation.

His involvement with technology commercialisation began in the US and led to several decades of leading the commercialisation of R&D within large US multinational corporations. More recently, Peter returned to New Zealand and for eight years enjoyed realising the full potential of academic research as CEO of UniServices, the University of Auckland's technology commercialisation company. UniServices received the top Vero Award in 2010 for business excellence among companies with revenues greater than $100M. Peter retired from UniServices in 2013 and was awarded the Thompson Medal for the value he added to research in New Zealand by The Royal Society that same year.

Peter is a Registered Technology Transfer Professional and currently holds several advisory roles, including as a member of the Government's Return on Science Investment Committee, a member of the Ministry of Business and Innovation’s College of Assessors, and Chair of New Zealand’s Defence Technology Agency as New Zealand's Chief Defence Technologist. He supports numerous deep tech start-ups as chair, board member and advisor.

At the University of Auckland’s Business School Peter enjoys combining academic rigour with his practical experience by teaching subjects related to innovation, entrepreneurism and commercialisation as Adjunct Professor. He is also an academic programme leader for Executive Education at the Business School.

This set of experiences and associated networks enables Peter to support organisations which seek to realise the full value of their ideas in practice.

Ross Pearce

Ross Pearce is a passionate innovation leader with 25+ years of innovation leadership and product development experience focused on identifying, creating, and delivering compelling value.

Ross defines innovation as “the discipline of creating value". Throughout his career he has helped many New Zealand businesses to achieve successful commercial outcomes through clear focused actions, practical execution and robust innovation discipline.
He has led innovation and design efforts across a wide range of technologies and HVMS sectors that include medical, scientific, automotive, consumer, computer, electronic, security, refrigeration, marine, heating, juvenile, gaming, communication, furniture, retail, logistics and vending.

Prior to moving into executive innovation leadership roles, Ross ran his own full-service product development consultancy in Australia for 10 years. Konstrukt was an early champion of diverse collaboration and the use of emerging digital design technologies that included advanced parametric CAD, digital visualisation and 3D printing.

A creative strategic thinker, Ross has a passion for understanding new thinking around innovation practice and effectively adapting and applying that to help New Zealand business leaders deliver profitable growth.

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