Peer Exchange - Driving Innovation and Growth Roundtable
Innovation is not often thought of as a boardroom preoccupation. But conduct even a cursory review of companies where innovation success is sustained and what you find is a veritable culture of innovation that is integrally bound to the boardroom. So how can directors assure that the companies on whose boards they serve are innovative? Is there a way to quantify innovation? How can a director motivate management to be innovative? And how then does management spur innovation through its ranks?
Leading the Directorship Roundtable titled “Driving Enterprise Innovation & Growth” at New York’s Lotos Club in December was Gap International Vice President Dr. Eric Jackson. On a personal level, Jackson is the quintessential innovator. Prior to joining Gap International as a consultant specializing in enterprise performance management, he worked as both a psychologist and a dentist, and at one time was an international award-winning choral director.
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