Innovation – How to Grow Your Business Why You Should Attend This Course: Innovation is how brands grow and remain relevant in light of ever faster moving and changing times. The effort it takes you to just keep up is enormous, how do you even move the needle on your brand? Innovation is certainly one of the key tools and this course focuses on how you can harness this power to the advantage of your brand! Where do you start? Who should be involved? Just marketing? R&D? When is the right time? How do you go about that? Do you have an innovation funnel? How do you feed it? How do you manage your innovation process? How do you generate ideas? How do you go about testing innovations which consumers don’t know they need? These and many questions are answered as the focus of this course. Learning Outcome: This is a very rich field, which has dramatic impact on a company’s top and bottom line. Here we will examine examples from different product categories, provide insights as to how they came to life, give you tools to drive and manage innovation and challenge the participants to start their own innovation plans during our course. This two-day course is based on MNC best practice, which can be applied as easily to an SME as it can to a big MNC, because the principles are identical, even if the execution will differ based on your brand and market circumstances. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to keep your brand alive in the long term. Course Outline: Why the Need to Innovate? Innovation in context. The impact of innovation or lack of it. Before you Start Understanding what your market really is The importance of your Brand’s POV Innovation: How To The Innovation Brief and The Team Consumer Insights and Consumer Insight Generation Ideation process and concept writing Innovation testing, Measuring potential Managing Innovation Managing your Innovation Funnel, Prioritising Brand centric Innovation vs. Consumer centric Innovation Avoiding the Pitfalls of Innovation Company myopia Real innovation vs. perceived innovation vs. me too These sessions will work in a combination of high energy presentation, discussions, role-play, case study discussions and hands-on work so participants are capable of applying their learning back on the job. This will be an unconventional, intense and demanding course – come prepared to be challenged! Trainer’s Profile: Mário Braz de Matos is a seasoned Marketer in FMCG with Unilever and durable goods with Nokia, who has recently transitioned into consultancy and entrepreneurship. He has extensive experience in Brand Management, Brand Activation and Brand Development. As part of his local and European roles he was responsible for multiple innovation projects, brand identity exercises, strategic brand repositionings including extensive graphical and structural design work, across a number of different brands (Blue Brand, Rama, Flora, Calvé, Hellmann’s, Knorr, etc) which led to multiple success stories including turning around declining brands and achieving category leadership. His experience across both Innovation Centers and local companies, developed markets (like UK or Germany) and developing markets (like Nigeria or Pakistan), small countries (Portugal) and large countries (Brazil) provide him with a unique breadth of marketing experience across multiple product categories. th Speaking five languages and now living in his 10 country (Singapore), his international exposure and regional work across Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America provide for a very strong understanding of the challenges of the marketing function and the uniqueness of consumers across landscapes, as well as their deep commonalities. Having worked extensively in regional roles, he also understands better than many, the intricate difficulties in managing multicountry matrix organisations. He remains involved in FMCG through his Consultancy and is developing an entrepreneurial project in the US. REGISTRATION FORM EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES Register for 3 or more participants and enjoy 5% discount! Register online at www.mis.org.sg/seminars or fax form to 6327 9741 Innovation – How to Grow Your Business 18–19 Aug 2011 27–28 Oct 2011 S$780 (subject to 7% GST) Participant(s) Name (9.00am to 5.00pm) Includes lunch & refreshments *Approved for SDF funding Please indicate if you wish to apply Designation Yes E-mail No Contact No. 1) 2) 3) 4) Company: Member (MIS Membership No): Non-Member Billing Address: Contact Person: Designation: Tel: E-mail: e-Newsletter (pls specify sender): ______________ How did you know about this course? 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