Tuesday February 6, 2007, Sydney

With

Dr Goran Carstedt President, Volvo Svenka Bll Former Head IKEA Europe Steward, the Society for Organizational Learning (SOL); Dean Harris, Group Managing Director, Synnovate, Asia Pacific; Ralph Kerle, Creative Strategist and CEO, The Creative Leadership Forum, Asia Pacific

Master Class Overview

In two recent global surveys on innovation completed in 2006, IBM's CEO Global Survey entitled "Expanding the Innovation Horizon" and Accenture's "innovation Growth Strategies", the key findings were very similar.

• Business model change is emerging as a vital part of innovation
• Implementation of new business models and the accompany strategies for growth and innovation are often impeded by the lack of collaboration within organizations
• The key strategy for the implementation of innovation is the need to collaborate on as broad a scale as possible and to make this collaboration, systemic and then part of the culture of an organization.

This international master class, led by Dr Goran Carstedt, recognized as a world leader in leadership and innovation, immersed participants in these vital concerns and explored the following questions

• How can you create real change and great results in your organization through innovation
• How can you work creatively individually and collaboratively to do this
• How can you work with your customers creatively to add value and sustainability to the wor
• How can you create a working environment in which you and your associates can have something meaningful and purposeful and become continual learners in the process.

Topics and methodologies explored and discussed

• What is Creative Leadership and How Do We Recognize It?
• Shifting Realities - Creating Energies to Revitalize Organization.
• A Conversation Around Shifting Realities - What Are Your Thoughts.
• The Behaviourial Workings of Personal Decision Making
• Ideas to Innovation to Implementation