Leaders Presents, the team behind Leaders in Dubai, kicked off their second Management Innovation Forum at the Jumeirah Beach Hotel in Dubai today. Carrying the theme ‘Driving Incomparable Profitable Growth through Innovation’ the forum will focus on innovation strategy and cover a number of topics ranging from how to manage and drive business innovation to how to 'think' innovatively and achieve an organization’s highest possible innovation potential. It will also analyze innovation’s hottest concepts and their relevance to this region including disruptive innovation, sustainable innovation, collaboration and co-creation.
“Innovation is the lifeblood of any business,” said Purva Hassomal, the Conference Director. “In today’s challenging economic environment, it may be tempting to scale back but it is actually more important than ever to innovate. This year, the Management Innovation Forum will focus on deconstructing the issues and challenges facing companies in the Middle East on the path to innovation. The forum will help attendees identify ways to turn innovation from theory to a business reality.”
The forum will feature a variety of world famous business leaders including Tom Kelley, Kjell A. Nordström, Matt Kingdon, Mehmood Khan, Clive Grinyer, Adrian Hayes, Rowan Gibson and Stefan Jenzowsky. The forum will also feature regional leaders including Malek Inja from Dubai Holdings, Simon Ford from Blue Banana and James Piecowye from Zayed University and Dubai Eye, who will discuss key opportunities and challenges in the Middle East that drive or hamper innovation and power profitable business growth.
“Many studies have shown that businesses that actively pursue innovation generate more growth and profits than those that do not,” said Simon Ford, the Managing Director of Blue Banana. “Often, companies have more than enough new ideas, but they struggle with transforming those ideas into profits. This forum will help companies identify criteria and adopt decision-making strategies to determine which projects or ideas to pursue. What companies must recognize though is that innovation is more than creativity. While creativity involves the production of new and valuable ideas, innovation is turning those ideas into profits.”
The Management Innovation Forum, which is sponsored by Etisalat and AIS>BrandLab, will be held from June 22nd to 25th 2008. Media partners include BBC World and CNBC Arabia.
About Leaders Presents – part of IIR
Leaders Presents is a new division designed to provide the IIR delegate a new level of conference experience. Born from the success of the Annual Leaders in Dubai Business Forum, Leaders events stand out from the rest with superior levels of speakers, up to date topics and an all round level of excellence within the execution of the events. The flagship event- Leaders in Dubai is a meeting of over 1,500 of the regions most eminent business leaders from across all industries who come together to network, learn and debate on the future of business and share experiences from some of the most popular business, economic and political leaders across the globe. Leaders Presents have launched a number of other highly successful events recently including the acclaimed Management Innovation Forum, which launched in 2007 and was met with rave reviews, and the Middle East Business Achievement Awards; honoring regional business leaders for their excellence and contribution to business. 2008 now sees the launch of a variety of new Leaders Presents event- all of which promise to evoke thought and creativity and give real value to the delegates who attend. Speakers- current and past at Leaders Presents events include Colin Powell, Jack Welch, Bill Clinton, Richard Branson, Kofi Annan, Michael Porter, Her Majesty Queen Noor, Tom Peters, Malcolm Gladwell and Thomas Friedman.
