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CEN FALL CONFERENCE: 2006
Please see below for information on our 2006 Fall Conference on Innovation.
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AGENDA |
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2006 |
Optional Executive Session
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
1:00 - 5:30 p.m.
“Understanding Culture in Driving Business Results”
by Todd Cook, Co-Director of CEN Innovation
Does your company have the right culture for sustaining innovation? In this fast paced half-day session, find out what it takes, where your company stands and how you can fast track to get where you need to be.
Significant take homes from this executive summary session include:
- How you and your team can readily diagnose your company’s culture and its impact on your company’s results.
- What are the key drivers of culture? And how are they utilized to improve your company’s success rate?
- What strategies, interventions, and initiatives are essential in getting and keeping your company moving in the right direction?
These questions and more will be answered in a fast paced session specially designed for CEOs and Senior Executive Teams.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2006 |
| 8:00-8:15 a.m. |
Opening Remarks/Conference Overview
Bob Grabill, President & CEO - CEN |
| 8:15-9:45 a.m. |
Keynote Address: Innovation in Customer Intimacy
Fred Wiersema, Co-Author of The Discipline of Market Leaders
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Dr. Wiersema will keynote the conference with an engaging presentation based on his research on how winning firms build and leverage deep, productive relations with their most strategic customers. He has written several best-selling books emphasizing the value on learning from market leaders. In the NY Times best-seller and #1 Business Week book, The Discipline of Market Leaders, Fred urges companies to create a distinctive advantage by sharply focusing their business models and corporate cultures on either operational excellence, customer intimacy or product leadership. |
| 10:15-11:30 a.m. |
Looking Forward
Joe Flower, Futurist, Author, CEO & Founder of Imagine What If, Inc.
Is your organization prepared for the massive forces re-shaping healthcare right now - radically new pharmaceuticals and therapies; digitization and automation; extreme cost pressures; shifts in payment structures; the rising power of the consumer, the aging of the Baby Boomers? Joe shares his unique grasp of these transformative forces and helps your organization reshape itself to be more nimble, knowledgeable, and change-competent in the face of them. |
| 12:00-1:00 p.m. |
Networking Lunch |
| 1:15-2:30 p.m. |
Roundtable Discussion Session
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Each attendee will participate in professionally facilitated CEN sessions with the top management of other non-competing companies of similar revenue size. |
| 2:45-3:30 p.m. |
CEN Innovation Awards
Bob Grabill, President & CEO - CEN
Bob will award the annual CEN Innovation Awards to members who are recognized as innovators that have significantly impacted their marketplace. Grabill, President & CEO - CEN.
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| 3:45-5:30 p.m. |
Navigating New Frontiers
Gary Hoover, Author of Hoover’s Vision, Founder & Former CEO of Hoover Inc.
Gary will speak from his own success and failures, and from the lessons of the thousands of companies studied by Hoovers. He draws real-life examples that help audiences navigate into the 21st century. He maps out the unknown territories of your business by using lessons from the past as reference points.
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| 6:30-7:00 p.m. |
Reception |
| 7:00 p.m. |
Dinner |
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2006 |
| 8:00-9:15 a.m. |
Member Presentations by Innovation Award Winners
CEN will feature innovation presentations from two of the 2006 Innovation Award Winners.
Please Choose One:
One Part Passion, Two Parts Science
Jeff Schneider, Structural Concepts Corporation
Best Sustaining Product Innovation
Ya Gotta Wanna
William Ten Eyck, Skinner Nurseries
Best Disruptive Business Model Innovation
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| 9:30-11:00 a.m. |
The Art of Leadership
Bill Strickland, President of Manchester Craftsmen's Guild and the Bidwell Training Center
Bill Strickland’s simple message – give people the tools they need, treat them with respect, and they will perform miraculous deeds – is as simple as it is profound. From a sleeping bag on the second floor of a dilapidated building he built one of the most extraordinary organizations in America, employing and training thousands. His work has brought him a MacArthur Genius grant, a Grammy award, an invitation to lecture at Harvard University, and a seat on the board of the National Endowment for the Arts. |
| 11:00 a.m. |
Adjourn |
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