2022 President's AcademyATHENS, GREECE MAY 17 – 25, 2022
Nathan Furr is a strategy and innovation professor at INSEAD in Paris and a recognized expert in the fields of innovation and technology strategy. Professor Furr earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University where he studied how innovators commercialize their ideas. His bestselling books include The Innovator’s Method (Harvard Business School Press, 2014); Leading Transformation (Harvard Business School Press, 2018); Innovation Capital (Harvard Business School Press, 2019); and Nail It then Scale It (NISI Press, 2011). He has published broadly in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Forbes, Inc, and academic journals. He is an Innosight Fellow, has been nominated for the Thinkers 50 Innovation Award, and works with leading companies such as Google, Microsoft, Citi, ING, Philips, Solvay and others.
Re-Imaging Opportunities for Growth
Based on in-depth case studies of the world’s most innovative companies and organizations, interviews with their entrepreneur founders or current CEOs, and a survey of over 16,000 executives, entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs, we will discuss a core set of “discovery skills” that distinguish “innovative entrepreneurs and executives” from non-innovators.
Collectively, these discovery skills - associating, questioning, observing, experimenting, and networking - constitute the Innovator’s DNA, or the code for generating innovative — and often industry disrupting or world changing — ideas. We will explore these behaviors in the context of your business and how to apply them to see new ways to grow. We will complement the development of these discovery-driven leadership skills through a variety of experiential learning activities. These activities will focus on building creative solutions to existing work challenges.
We will wrap up our session by exploring how we can develop these skills more actively in both our work and personal lives. Nathan will bring in stories of creative business leadership using powerful examples from some of IG’s most successful advisors and demonstrate how the actions of these leaders model innovation behaviors.
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