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Oracle Innovating through crisis and beyond

Live Webinar
04-Nov-2020
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CET
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Think-out-of-the-box with innovation professor Alf Rehn!

During this webinar we will discuss the importance of accelerating innovation, what is currently being done with our customers, what are the trends and how can you also start thinking out-of-the-box.

Who better to do that with than with innovation professor Alf Rehn. Professor Rehn has spent his whole career researching innovation and written several groundbreaking books like “Dangerous Ideas” and “Innovation for the fatigued”.

Out-of the-box-thinking happens when mental barriers are erased, that is where impossible things become possible. Companies on the forefront has taken the opportunity to accelerate innovation instead, and use the current time to get ahead with out-of-the-box thinking ideas.

Innovation is needed everywhere, from new ground breaking services and products to new ways of doing old task.

Every company needs to renew themselves to stand the evolution of change.

But what happens when innovation is halted due to cost reductions or just the inability to meet?

Challenging economic times usually slows down the urge to innovate.

The effect of this will be seen in the forthcoming period when we will see a lot less innovation.

Many companies has also experienced a situation that they never believed could ever happen.

But fear not, there are some positive sides too. Join the webinar and get inspired.

Featured Speakers

Alf Rehn

Alf Rehn

Professor of innovation and management at the University of Southern Denmark
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Alf Rehn

Professor of innovation and management at the University of Southern Denmark
Alf Rehn is a globally noted thought leader in innovation, trends, and creativity; a sought- after speaker, an author and a columnist, as well as a well-regarded commentator on leadership and organizational culture. He has held the Chair of Management and Organization at Åbo Akademi University in Finland, a professorship of innovation and entrepreneurship at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, and is currently a professor of innovation, design, and management at the University of Southern Denmark. His research has spanned numerous fields and has been published in top academic journals as well as in a series of bestselling books, challenging preconceived notions and provoking thought across the world. His new book, Innovation for the Fatigued: How To Build a Culture of Deep Creativity, published by Kogan Page, is an antidote to fads and incrementalism – a much needed guide for any company that seeks to truly make new ideas take root.
Anna Puustell

Anna Puustell

Head of Innovation at Accenture
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Anna Puustell

Head of Innovation at Accenture
Anna is acting as the Nordic Innovation lead for Accenture. In her role she is in the intersection of emerging technologies, shifts in human behavior, new growth and business model changes. She likes to help organizations from public sector to private become future fit, which is easier said than done. Anna believes in multidisciplinary teams and spending enough time understanding the real key problem before jumping into a solution. Anna is part of Accenture Nordic Strategy & Consulting service leadership team and she has a global innovation lead role in one of the key accounts.
Stephan Geyer

Stephan Geyer

Head of Business Innovation at Oracle
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Stephan Geyer

Head of Business Innovation at Oracle
Stephan is Innovation and Digital strategist with 16 years of experience in designing concepts, go-to-markets, services, use-cases, methodologies and ecosystems for a wide range of clients across Europe, Middle East, Africa, Japan and Asia Pacific. Motivated by a profound interest for uncovering latent and unmet business opportunities across a variety of industries, but with a deep expertise in the technology space.

Armed with an extensive international working experience across 4 continents and fluent in 5 languages, Stephan has a track-record of navigating complex corporate environments to uncover ‘intrapeneurs’ within and help customers reach simple actionable solutions across language and cultural divides.

Stephan started his career in the Middle East with Sun Microsystems where he developed his technical background as an Enterprise Architect working with customers across various industries, including being part of the team architecting the Middle East’s most powerful supercomputer at the time, in Oman.

Once in Oracle, Stephan has held a variety of roles closer to the business side of things, where he introduced new concepts to the Middle East and Africa in the form of Oracle’s Engineered Systems and later became a Telco Global Client Advisor, helping customers shape their IT strategy.

More recently, Stephan has been involved in driving tangible innovation within Oracle’s customers leveraging his Industry, Technical and Design Thinking knowledge to not only help customers frame, ideate and test their ideas, but to bring them to reality.

As part of his innovation career within Oracle, Stephan has been instrumental in leading innovation teams in projects in the Middle East, Europe and Japan.

Currently, Stephan leads a team of Business Innovators that are obsessed with delivering tangible innovation in their respective engagements.

Agenda

11:00
Welcome
11:05
We begin the panel discussion
12:00 
Q&A and wrapping up

Innovation video with Professor Kjell Nordström

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Watch here the video with Professor Kjell Nordström talking about Innovation

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