TRACK Workshop: Navigating Disruption: Be the Disruptor
This course is designed to provide innovation team leaders a lens to sense, detect, and to position organizations for colliding forces of disruptive innovation and digital transformation in the 21st-century.
Learning Objectives:
What is disruptive innovation in the context of the 21-century?
It has advanced beyond Clayton Christensen’s’ original theory of low-end products/services advancing up market to take market share from incumbents.
It is now a Pattern of Disruptions enabled by digital.
Disruption requires a mindset shift – away from previous panic alerts of destruction – towards value creation through customer engagement.
Key Takes:
DETECT– Real Disruption versus False Alarms
MANEUVER – Tactics for Portfolio Management
ACT – Success stories from the past to the present
The workshop is in two parts with break-out sessions for attendees to work in teams to demonstrate understanding and to build connections with the other attendees.
Who should attend:
This course is designed for leadership responsible for setting strategy at the corporate or enterprise level.
Registration Fees:
IRI Members: $295
Non Members: $395
Due to limited seating, we request that you cancel at least 48 hours before a scheduled class. This gives us the opportunity to fill the class. However, if you do not cancel prior to the 48 hours, you will lose the payment for the class.
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Marguerite Johnson
Author of Disruptive Innovation and Digital Transformation: 21st Century New Growth Engines
Author and Principal Consultant Marguerite Johnson is the author of Disruptive Innovation and Digital Transformation. She is a Principal Business Consultant with TheNextish.com, where she leads transformational growth strategies in innovation, business execution and partnerships. Her expertise includes: Innovation Strategy, Disruptive Innovation, Digital Transformation, Ideation, Customer Insights, Marketing and Business Plans, Channel and Distribution Marketing, Digital Business Models and Platforms, Open Innovation, Co-Creation, and Innovation Ecosystems. Marguerite holds multiple patents, a MSA in Business Acquisition Management, and Executive Certifications from MIT, Harvard, and Kellogg. She is a recognized Keynote Speaker and podcast guest. Marguerite’s leadership career spans 20+years in Fortune 500 companies in Innovation, Research and Development, New Product and Business Development. Connect via LinkedIn