Innovation Horizons - Top-down and Bottom-up strategies for creating breakthrough opportunities

Truly Innovative products create value for customers, extend a category, generate higher margins and even strengthen brands. Moreover, in an age of increasingly challenging markets (driven by powerful retailers) breakthrough innovations can help boost your company’s bargaining power when it comes to distribution deals and the fight for shelf space / retail display. By attending, this event participants will with be provided with: - Real world examples of how to see, and work, across industry boundaries to create breakthrough opportunities at minimum risk. - Insights into defining what amount of breakthrough innovation planning your firm should undertake. - Real examples of how different types of organisation go about successfully ‘future-proofing’ their business strategy - Deep insights into the value of foresighting, scenario planning, trend analysis techniques - Lessons on how to make the tools work for your type of innovation - Experience based advice on how to strengthen your project initiation planning and align to your organizational strategy at the same time.