Creativity & Innovation: CRF International Conference
Date:
3rd and 4th October 2012
Venue:
Athens Hilton
Speakers:
Charles Landy, George Day, Adrian Furnham, William Isaacs
PARC membership includes two places at the CRF conference excluding travel and accommodation.
The Issue:
This year's CRF conference will provide members with a deeper understanding of the factors that encourage creativity and enable innovation to flourish within organisations and society.
We are all coming to terms with the fact that the world has become vastly different over recent years. Political, social, economic and competitive change has had significant effects on organisations, work, education, opportunity and prosperity. Clearly difficult challenges lie ahead and these demand that organisations do things differently.
Being able to create, adapt, and initiate and implement new ideas and solutions will be critical for improving society, organisations and what individuals can contribute. A better capacity for innovation will help organisations differentiate themselves from their competitors.
How can HR people help their organisations develop a climate that fosters creativity and innovation? A follow-up session may be arranged for members to consider how reward programmes may support or hinder creativity and innovation.
Content:
- Creative and innovative environments (led by Charles Landry): how do we ensure our societies stimulate creativity and innovation? What must we do better?
- Creative and innovative organisations (led by Professor George Day): what must we do to enable organisations to get the most out of people? What must we stop doing?
- Creative and innovative people (led by Professor Adrian Furnham): how do we find, manage and motivate them - and prevent the "maverick" syndrome?
- Building collaborative organisations (led by Dr William Isaacs): increasingly, organisations will not have all the answers - and sharing resource, research and people will lead to all-round benefit.
Conference leaders:
Charles Landry is an international authority on the use of imagination and creativity in urban change. His aim is to help cities become more resilient and to 'future proof' themselves.
George Day is known for his research on aligning organisations with their markets, competitive strategies in global markets, strategy development, and managing innovation processes.
Adrian Furnham is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at University College London where has a broad portfolio of interests in research, executive education and collaboration with business.
William Isaacs is the founder and president of Dialogos, a consulting and leadership education firm based in Cambridge, Masssachusetts. He is also Chairman of the Board of the Dialogos Institute, a not-for-profit action research organisation.
Other contributors will include: Professor Michael Phillips, Honorary Fellow, Centre for 18th Century Studies, University of York; Glen O'Hara, senior lecturer in modern history at Oxford Brookes University, Stu Winby, founder and executive managing partner, the Sapient Group; Skip Griffin and Michael Jones, senior associates at Dialogos.
An invitation will be forwarded to members in due course. In the meantime, please contact Eva John-Lewis on eva@parcentre.co.uk with any questions or queries.