Susanna Bill - “Getting Innovation Done: Moving Beyond the
Great Idea”
After more than 15 years in strategies, business development and innovation within Swedish Telecom, Susanna switched paths in 2009 when she left her position as Head of Innovation at Sony Ericsson. She founded Sustenance, a firm specializing in strengthening the innovations capabilities in organizations and combines consultancy work with PhD Studies at Innovation Engineering at the Department of Design sciences, Lund University. Susanna is a sought after speaker and panelist and will present MOVE - a framework for how to design innovation workshops beyond ideation. MOVE is co-developed with Stanford Institute for Foresight and Innovation and can be downloaded here: www.moveworkshop.com.
During her presentation at the conference, Susanna will talk about a workshop method focusing on understanding the innovation capability of your team and how not to get stuck in ideas without execution. Based on the concept of design thinking from Stanford School, she will guide us through the core mechanisms and processes of innovation, and through concrete tools for how to get beyond ideation and start the work of turning an idea into an innovation.
During her presentation at the conference, Susanna will talk about a workshop method focusing on understanding the innovation capability of your team and how not to get stuck in ideas without execution. Based on the concept of design thinking from Stanford School, she will guide us through the core mechanisms and processes of innovation, and through concrete tools for how to get beyond ideation and start the work of turning an idea into an innovation.
Peter Kvistgaard - "Innovation and Creativity in Tourism Strategy Processes"
Peter is an expert within the fields of tourism, destination development and the experience economy. His company, KvistgaardConsulting, specializes in strategies, trends, consumer value and research within these fields. Furthermore, Peter is a guest lecturer at Aalborg University. At the InnoVal Conference he will talk about innovation and creativity in tourism strategy processes.
What Peter writes about his presentation:
"According to amongst others Hjalager and Hall & Williams, there has been an increasing focus on innovation and creativity in tourism over the last two decades. Hall & Williams go so far as to state that innovation is central to the whole tourism system. However, exactly there - in tourism as a system itself and in the connecting systems - lies a key challenge. More often than not, or so it seems in practice, bureaucracy, path dependency and project thinking seem to dampen innovative and creative processes in such a way that true innovation and creativity become issues that everyone talks about but no-one really carries out. Innovation and creativity become well-intended phrases that fit nicely into project applications where the newest buzz words are routinely scanned for during the project evaluation processes so that applications can be approved and moneys distributed. Based on innovation and creativity theory from teaching and research and years of practical experience as a tourism consultant, this lecture will focus on the apparent gap between theory and practice - between buzz words and practical everyday politics in a number of destinations. It will zoom in on destination strategy processes and look at how innovation and creativity slowly but surely can disappear in the day-to-day routines of a destination. If we are not careful."
What Peter writes about his presentation:
"According to amongst others Hjalager and Hall & Williams, there has been an increasing focus on innovation and creativity in tourism over the last two decades. Hall & Williams go so far as to state that innovation is central to the whole tourism system. However, exactly there - in tourism as a system itself and in the connecting systems - lies a key challenge. More often than not, or so it seems in practice, bureaucracy, path dependency and project thinking seem to dampen innovative and creative processes in such a way that true innovation and creativity become issues that everyone talks about but no-one really carries out. Innovation and creativity become well-intended phrases that fit nicely into project applications where the newest buzz words are routinely scanned for during the project evaluation processes so that applications can be approved and moneys distributed. Based on innovation and creativity theory from teaching and research and years of practical experience as a tourism consultant, this lecture will focus on the apparent gap between theory and practice - between buzz words and practical everyday politics in a number of destinations. It will zoom in on destination strategy processes and look at how innovation and creativity slowly but surely can disappear in the day-to-day routines of a destination. If we are not careful."