Hitendra Patel
Change maker Hitendra Patel has helped over 50 global corporations foster innovative cultures that produce tangible results. The internationally regarded thought leader is a co-founder and managing director of the IXL Center, a global consulting center that develops organizations' capabilities to create breakthrough products, businesses, and solutions.
Patel is a professor of growth and innovation at Hult International Business School, where he also serves as the board director of the Hult Prize, a foundation that provides promising young entrepreneurs with $1 million of seed funding. Since 2010, he has been a partner and member of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), collaborating with other scientists, businessmen, and government representatives to solve the world's most pressing problems.
During the 1990s, Patel was a driving force at Motorola, mapping the way for their new technology and products. He holds six patents and is currently working on his fifth book, DOTS!, which examines why some people have greater capacities for innovation than others. In recent years, he has sparked imaginations and guided initiatives at Johnson Controls, Hewlett Packard, LG, Alibaba.com, CEMEX, Cadbury, Verizon, and P&G.
Change maker Hitendra Patel has helped over 50 global corporations foster innovative cultures that produce tangible results. The internationally regarded thought leader is a co-founder and managing director of the IXL Center, a global consulting center that develops organizations' capabilities to create breakthrough products, businesses, and solutions.
Patel is a professor of growth and innovation at Hult International Business School, where he also serves as the board director of the Hult Prize, a foundation that provides promising young entrepreneurs with $1 million of seed funding. Since 2010, he has been a partner and member of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), collaborating with other scientists, businessmen, and government representatives to solve the world's most pressing problems.
During the 1990s, Patel was a driving force at Motorola, mapping the way for their new technology and products. He holds six patents and is currently working on his fifth book, DOTS!, which examines why some people have greater capacities for innovation than others. In recent years, he has sparked imaginations and guided initiatives at Johnson Controls, Hewlett Packard, LG, Alibaba.com, CEMEX, Cadbury, Verizon, and P&G.
Demystifying Innovation
Learn about how companies are leveraging mega-business-opportunity trends, nuances in basic human needs and winning business models to develop innovation breakthroughs. In addition, find out how you can kickstart innovation in your own organization. This is a popular, entertaining and easy-to-understand presentation with takeaways that could be applied on Monday morning.
Thinking and Acting Differently
Managing the core business is different from creating a new business.
Rarely is a manager punished for missing an opportunity but many an innovator has been fired for taking on risk. Most managers are short-term focused, risk-averse, and have a command-control style while innovators need to think long-term, be comfortable with ambiguity, be willing to take risk and leverage other people's knowledge and competence. To be a great leader, you have to do both - utilize the power of AND....
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