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Customer Focus and Innovation

Dr Patrick Dixon Chairman Global Change Ltd

Patrick Dixon is Chairman of Global Change Ltd, Author of 15 books and has been ranked one of the 20 most

influential business thinkers alive today (Thinkers 50)

Customer Focus and Innovation keynote for EEN (2011)

500 videos of Keynotes www.youtube.com/pjvdixon

Over 4 million viewswww.globalchange.com

14 million unique visitors

1  billion  children  

               Just  Noise  

The Future is about

EMOTION

not enough to succeedINNOVATION

All Real Innovation

IsDIVERGENT

InformationRevelation

1  trillionpages  a  month

Social  Enterprise

86% say TV ads greatest impact

Deloitte 2011

• 40% mobile phone users in Spain = SMARTPHONES• 41% Spanish smartphone users go online on phones • Facebook etc is commonest reason

Instant  Ra:ngs

From  Invasive  to  Insight  

Ecosystem

Be subtle !

PrivacyPrivilege

Protection

• Home• Work• Online• Offline• Sales• Entertain• Phone• Mobile• Chat

• Social networks• Mobile• TV / video

ONECUSTOMER

• March 2011

We only need one big idea

each year

Where do you get your best ideas ?

•70% staff time on core business•20% on new ideas to improve•10% on wild thinking - innovate

• Can be demoralising

• Show people why it matters• Convince people of urgency• Take all ideas seriously• Reward people prepared to risk failure• Celebrate successful innovations

WHY CHANGE

•“The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”

•Marcel Proust

"Creativity is just having enough dots to connect…."-- Steve Jobs

“Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought.”

Edward de Bono

•"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."-- Albert Einstein

•"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction."-- Picasso

Play + Water

Robot + Cell

$40 TrillionGreen Tech

Boom

Power + Food

Profit fromPower cuts

Russia from Sahara

Gas + Rubber

–Wikipedia model – fast and low cost–Crowd-sourcing – used by GSK, IBM,

Hewlett Packard etc

–First step is to include wider staff teams to solve problems

•Broadcast challenge to be tackled

•Mechanism for discussion / feedback

Open Innovation

•Individuals•Family•Staff•Community•Whole earth

Making Life Better

Patrick Dixon is Chairman of Global Change Ltd, Author of 15 books and has been ranked one of the 20 most

influential business thinkers alive today (Thinkers 50)

Customer Focus and Innovation keynote for EEN (2011)

500 videos of Keynotes www.youtube.com/pjvdixon

Over 4 million viewswww.globalchange.com

14 million unique visitors

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