Building an innovation culture

Building an innovation culture

Webinar Abstract

Event Type: Webinar

When: 7th May 2010

Cost: FREE

This interactive webinar will focus on building an innovation culture through effective change management strategies.
Breaking down the cultural challenges within an organisation in order to foster fresh innovation

Key learnings:

Understanding how to enable people to think in a different and more innovative way

Improving individual and team performance, interpersonal communication and cooperation

Using transparency and common objectives as motivational drivers

Changing the group mindset by focusing of people development

Changing rigid organisational cultures to foster creativity

Join Dr Stephen King and industry professonals from all over the world for this webinar and live question and answer session.

Presented By

Dr Stephen King,
Portfolio Manager, Head of Product Innovation , Nestlé S.A

Stephen is responsible for Product Innovation and Portfolio Management at the Nestle R&D Centre responsible for worldwide innovation projects in Coffee, Powdered Beverages and Cereals, located just outside Lausanne, Switzerland. Following a degree and Ph.D. in Engineering he joined Procter & Gamble where he successfully managed manufacturing and supply operations in the UK and Italy (1990-2000).

He joined Nestle in 2000 and worked for the next 8 years in operations management in Indonesia, in Nestle’s global Breakfast Cereals business and leading a global Quality Improvement project. In 2008 he moved into Nestle R&D, transplanting the best practices of manufacturing (including strategic alignment, performance management, LEAN processes, transparency and organisation design) to the exciting world of Innovation.

Stephen lives in Lausanne, Switzerland, is married and has 3 boys, speaks 4 languages fluently and spends his spare time coaching an Under-17 boys football team playing in the Swiss league. When not coaching football he can be found walking or skiing in the Swiss mountains.

Testimonials

“Very interesting, clear and concise. Useful, on top!”
Director
The Nielsen Company

“Very well organized. A great use of my time. Thanks”
Senior Product Development Scientist
Birds Eye Foods

“Very helpful, thanks to the open communication of Nestlé”
Manager Product Development Benelux
FrieslandCampina

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