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About: Rowan Gibson | #1 Innovation Futurist Expert
According to Forbes, Rowan Gibson is “one of the most recognized thought leaders in business” and “the maestro of business innovation”.He is the internationally bestselling author of 3 major books, published in 25 languages, a top keynote speaker in 64 countries, and a trusted strategic adviser to both the private and public sector all over the […]
According to Forbes, Rowan Gibson is “one of the most recognized thought leaders in business” and “the maestro of business innovation”.
He is the internationally bestselling author of 3 major books, published in 25 languages, a top keynote speaker in 64 countries, and a trusted strategic adviser to both the private and public sector all over the world. In 2015, Rowan received the prestigious “Global Leader of Innovation” award for his significant contribution to the field of innovation strategy.
Rowan Gibson is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost thought leaders on business innovation. The media have labeled him “Mr. Innovation”, “the Innovation Grandmaster”, “the W. Edwards Deming of innovation” and “a guru among the gurus”. He is the internationally bestselling author of two major books on innovation and strategy — Rethinking The Future (1996) and Innovation to the Core (2008) — which have been published to date in 25 languages. His latest book, Innovation to the Core (Harvard Business School Press), explains — for the first time — how to build and sustain a deep, company-wide innovation capability that drives continual growth and strategic renewal.
Over the last two decades, Rowan’s international clients have included some of the world’s largest and most successful organizations. He teaches them how to seize new growth opportunities, create new markets and even transform entire industries by recalibrating their whole organizational system around the paradigm of innovation.
Rowan Gibson is one of the world’s most in-demand public speakers. In just the last three years alone, he has delivered his keynote speeches, innovation masterclasses and public seminars in nearly 54 countries around the world. He has addressed a long list of major organizations, including Accenture, ADP, Ahold, Bayer, Carlson-Wagonlit, Coca-Cola, Heineken, Henkel, IBM, Mars, Microsoft, Motorola, NCR, NOKIA, Philips, Roche, Siemens, Steelcase, and Volkswagen.
Rowan’s big-picture insights, compelling observations, fresh business thinking and upbeat presentation style have impressed a wide range of audiences all over the world. He mixes insight, inspiration and information in a way that always leaves an audience feeling energized.
Rowan Gibson’s keynote speeches, executive sessions and innovation master-classes are always tailor-made to fit each audience, industry sector and event format. He endeavors wherever possible, to use business cases and examples that are relevant to the specific audience. Gibson uses very graphic Powerpoint slides – each typically features just one powerful image and a single statement – which makes his presentations extremely dynamic. He is constantly updating his slides with cutting-edge material and up-to-the-minute business news.
In his years on the public speaking circuit, Rowan has shared the stage with well-known celebrities like Neil Armstrong, Ken Blanchard, Deepak Chopra, Bill Clinton, Jim Collins, Newt Gingrich, Guy Kawasaki, Chan Kim, John Naisbitt, Bertrand Piccard, Jonas Ridderstråle, Alvin Toffler and Fons Trompenaars.
Rowan is also a prolific writer. In addition to his bestselling books, he has authored dozens of business articles, columns and blogs, which have been read all around the globe. He has been interviewed frequently on television and radio, as well as online and in the international press. His media appearances include Forbes, CNN, BusinessWeek, Harvard Business Review, and BBC World Service. He has also appeared in several business documentaries.
Rowan Gibson is co-founder of Innovation Excellence — the world’s most popular innovation website. The portal, which builds on an international group of over 18,500 members from 175 countries, offers an arsenal of resources from today’s innovation thought leaders and practitioners aimed at helping every company achieve innovation excellence. The site currently serves up more than 1 million pages every month.
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Every single industry has a ‘digital destiny’ – an inevitable and unavoidable future that will be shaped by the forces of digital technology.
Business success and survival will depend on the ability to understand, embrace, and even shape that destiny. We work with our clients to drive digital innovation and transformation across the entire organisation, from the front-end customer experience to all of the back-end operations.
Having worked with some of the world’s leading digital natives and fastest-growing tech startups, we’re skilled at bringing the power of digital innovation to even the most traditional organisations and industries, helping them master the challenge of radical business transformation in a new technological era.
The digital clock is ticking for your own company. Don’t wait till you hear the alarm!
The essence of competitive strategy is differentiation. We like to say that innovation is about creating new value by doing things differently.
That means different from the past and different from the competition. Your corporate innovation strategy cannot simply tick the same boxes as everyone else in your industry. It must set you apart from the rest in some meaningful and sustainable way.
In our strategy work with clients, we focus not on how they can keep up with the competition but on how they can get ahead – and then stay ahead! We identify the three or four mains ways in which they can radically innovate to drive industry revolution.
And we use our proven tools to build a coherent strategic architecture that can guide their innovation activities and resource allocation into the future.
For over 15 years, we have been delivering multi-day executive masterclasses and training programmes for both the private and public sector that deliver lasting results.
Our world-class content is designed to teach you and your company how to truly achieve innovation excellence and how to shape your digital destiny.
Thousands of people have been through our courses in every corner of the world, and they have used this unique opportunity to drive real innovation and cultural change inside their organisations.
From open-enrollment public events programmes, we have something to meet every need at every level of the organization – senior leadership, middle to bespoke in-company events, and from live, in-person delivery to video conferencing, virtual reality or pre-recorded management, innovation managers, mentors and champions, and general employees across the enterprise.
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