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Learn from the In todays economy, innovation is
experiences of best the new currency.
practice leaders. In a recent GE survey, nine out of ten Canadian executives identified innovation
as a strategic priority. How can your HR team improve its own ability to innovate,
Youll hear from companies that are and drive the innovation of others throughout the organization?
breaking new ground in their pursuit of
innovation, including: This high level event is for human resource, organizational development, and
OpenTextInnovate, Differentiate, and change management leaders and practitioners, and strategy leaders who play a
Faster Please! role in innovation.
HR at OpenText is playing a key role in
As Canadas most respected independent research and conference development
shaping the global strategy and building
organization, The Conference Board of Canada is uniquely positioned to present
the infrastructure to support innovation
the latest independent research, and attract the thought leaders with experience
across its operations. HR is also re-
leading innovation within HR and across their organizations.
inventing itself and its own processes to
be more credible business partners.
Rogers CommunicationsHow a
Find out how your peers challenged conventional thinking
Focused Employee Value Offering to achieve extraordinary results.
Drives Innovation and Success
Building a culture that drives innovation: How does your culture have to change
In the increasingly competitive telecom-
to support innovation? What have the pioneers learned, and how you can benefit?
munications industry, the right people
and culture are more important than Designing innovation processes: Learn how to hard-wire an innovation mindset
ever, and HRs role is critical to set the into your organization, including the required structures and processes.
right tone to attract and retain the talent
needed to win. Performance management: Replace the unpopular annual performance review
with a dynamic process that inspires performance and builds innovation-driving
Eli LillyWhere Innovation is a collaboration.
Natural State of Mind
HR has played a lead role in building Leadership selection, development and diversity: Challenge conventional
a culture of innovation and creating leadership selection techniques, and make diversity a foundation of performance
Innovation Champions at Eli Lilly. Find and innovation.
out how Eli Lilly became top innovators
in product development and in their own Talent management: Accelerate the selection and retention of key talent, and
HR processes and programs. re-think the value proposition for prospects and team members.
AdobeDisruptive innovation Total rewards: Where are total rewards headed, and how can you prepare for the
Adobe completely dismantled its perfor- changes ahead? What about the changing nature of retirement?
mance appraisal and compensation grid Collaboration: Designing the future organization, and collaboration platforms that
system, and questioned all the traditional cross silos, disciplines, and geographies to enable innovation to flourish.
processes. Learn about overhauling a
performance review system, from an Health care and productivity: The latest trends and practices in health care,
international company that did just that. back to work, and absenteeism management, and how to tackle these traditional
challenges with new thinking.
Participate in this interactive learning experience with the experts and your peers, and
youll receive a certificate of completion for this enlightening workshop.
PROGRAM
DAY 1MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2013 Bruce Good will discuss the research findings,
including two primary drivers of success:
8:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast building a culture of innovation
ensuring incentives truly encourage innovation
8:15 a.m. Opening Remarks from the Chair
Barbara E. Quinn, Program Developer, The Conference 9:30 a.m. Plenary Session 2
Board of Canada
Round Table Discussion/Q&A
8:30 a.m. Plenary Session 1 Breaking Down the Barriers to an Innovation
Culture
Introduction and Welcome: Innovation Within
and Beyond HR Ian Cullwick and Bruce Good will discuss the
Ian R. Cullwick, Vice-President, Leadership and Human Conference Boards research, and the key barriers
Resources Research, The Conference Board of Canada to creating and sustaining an innovation culture, fol-
lowed by Q&A with the audience.
The Conference Board is a leader in innovation
research and practices review and assessment. Ian
9:45 a.m. Plenary Session 3
Cullwick will explain why the Conference Board
believes innovation is a critical strategic challenge Innovation as a Natural State of Doing Business
over the next decade, and why HR has a leading role Karen McKay, Vice-President, Human Resources and
to play. Learning and Development, Eli Lilly Canada Inc.
High performance and innovative cultures are the Eli Lilly is known for its innovation culture and
result of very conscious and deliberate leadership tradition of collaborating for great ideas. Karen
choices, enabling strategies that may take years McKay will describe InnoCentive, one of the
to produce results and that require great effort to worlds longest-standing crowdsourcing initiatives,
protect and sustain. conceived by scientists at Eli Lilly in 1998 and
launched in 2001. Its purpose was to encourage
Ian will provide an overview of the core characteris- outside-the-box thinking, and to structure outside-
tics of a high performance, innovative culture, based the-department collaboration for solving business
on his more than twenty years of management con- and R&D challenges.
sulting, research, and teaching experience. He will
also offer a perspective on different organizational Karen will share Eli Lillys innovative approaches to
design and human resource strategies and programs. employee engagement, culture, and values, and how
debateable moments are used to increase confi-
dence that management really does listen. Karen
How Leaders Turn the Innovation Vision will also explain how catalyst teams and trailblazer
into a Reality projects help break down silos and create innovation
Bruce Good, Executive Director, Centre for Business
leadership.
Innovation, The Conference Board of Canada
10:30 a.m. Tri Fit Energizer and Refreshment Break
Most senior leaders recognize that innovation is
a primary engine of growth. However, many are 10:45 a.m. Plenary Session 4
unsure how to manage innovation effectively in their HR as the Driver for Innovation
own firms. Dr. David S. Weiss, President and Chief Executive Officer,
Weiss International Ltd.
The Conference Boards Centre for Business
Innovation (CBI) recently conducted a major survey A decades worth of executive surveys on innova-
of Canadian businesses innovation practices and tion highlight a significant gap between what leaders
performance, how they manage their innovation say they want and what their organizations deliver.
strategies, and the cultural and other factors that
impact innovation performance.
So why, despite all the talk, have business and HR Louise Taylor Green is one of the few HR execu-
leaders not given innovation more attention? The tives with functional accountability for designing
short answer is that they havent had sustainable, and leading the overall organizational strategy.
practical, and reliable program options that deliver Louise will describe what HR leaders must do to
long-term, predictable results. Instead, there has earn credibility and take on that important strategic
been an endless array of partial answers, with the role, whether its for the organization or its HR
result being an alarming innovation gap. strategy.
David Weiss will examine how HR can take a Louise will offer real life examples from Hamilton
leadership role in closing the innovation gap, so Health Services, including improvements to lost-
innovation happens systematically and sustain- time injury rates, and an enterprise approach to
ably. This insightful and entertaining presentation workforce engagement as a key enabler for strategy
is based on the book David co-authored, Innovative implementation.
Intelligence: The Art and Practice of Leading
Sustainable Innovation in Your Organization. 12:15 p.m. Tri Fit Energizer and Networking Luncheon
HR is now expected to make evidence-based Have we become so enamored with our traditional
decisions that positively affect organizational per- HR processes that were afraid to break what weve
formance. To support these decisions, HR requires built? Adobe, like many companies, struggled with
accurate and appropriate metrics to measure and its dreaded performance review process for years,
analyze its workforce, and the effectiveness of its until Senior Vice-President, Donna Morris boldly
talent management strategies. abolished it in 2012.
HR must also look within, to measure the efficiency Consistent with Adobes move to simplified and
and effectiveness of the HR function itself. But what agile software development, Adobe transformed its
metrics are Canadian organizations collecting and review process into a back-to-basics approach of
analyzing, and how are they using this data? continuous feedback, expectations, and growth and
development discussions.
Heidi Martin and Ruth Wright will share their
research findings, including a review of talent man- Elizabeth Gates led the team that created the new
agement processes and outcomes, HR functional strategy, with Donna Morris and other key stake-
metrics, and human capital metrics reflecting the holders across the organization. Ellie is also respon-
value of people to organizations. sible for the frameworks and tools used to build
capacity in employees and managers to execute the
9:15 a.m. Plenary Session 12 new approach.
Compete to Win: How a Focused Employee
Value Offering (EVO) Drives Innovation and Elizabeth will discuss the bold leadership required
Success of the chief HR officer role, and the change man-
Sandra Pasquini, Director, Talent Acquisition, Rogers agement and development strategies Adobe used to
Communications Inc. change their program. She will also offer lessons
Jim Reid, Senior Vice-President, Human Chief Human learned and practical steps for transforming your
Resources Officer, Rogers Communications Inc. process into a leaner and more agile talent manage-
ment mechanism.
Rogers Communications is a diversified communi-
cations and media company with approximately Round Table Discussion and Live
28,000 employees. Founded by Ted Rogers in 1960, Action Research
the company has grown to become an industry-lead-
ing converged media and communications company. Should we maintain performance reviews, or is it
time to start over? This session will feature inter-
Four years after Ted Rogers passing, the company active dialogue and immediate feedback from
is still committed to Teds the best is yet to come delegates.
philosophy, and continues to invest heavily in
innovation.
PROGRAM
11:00 a.m. Plenary Session 14 effective for your needs.
Innovation: An Act of Leadership
Avi will explain the difference between disrupt-
Brent Bolling, Managing Director, Development
Dimensions International (DDI) Canada
ive teams, who work outside the organizations
constraints and rules, and teams who are more
Creating a culture of innovation; where ideas flour- integrated into the organization. He will also offer
ish and become sources of sustainable business lessons and advice on the skills and competencies
advantage is a deliberate act of leadership at all needed to succeed in an innovation leadership role.
levels. While specific organizations may take differ-
ent paths, their success comes down to one com- 12:00 p.m. Closing Remarks from the Chair
mon denominator: leadership effectiveness in the Barbara E. Quinn, Program Developer, The Conference
fundamental interaction skills. Join Brent Bolling Board of Canada
from DDI to:
12:15 p.m. Luncheon for Post-Conference Optional
identify the underlying behaviours critical to
Workshop Participants
driving innovation
hear insights from objective data that show the 1:00 p.m. Post-Conference Optional Workshop
shocking truth about the deficiencies of critical Innovation Master Class: How to Design and
interaction skills Implement Innovation
understand how to create a behaviour in your Blair Miller, Partner, The Niagara Institute
leaders that will drive a culture of innovation at
all levels. The Niagara Institute is recognized as a leader in
executive development, and Blair Miller is a leading
In this session, you will have the opportunity to hear expert in creativity and innovation.
insights across a wide range of organizations and
sectors related to what has worked most effectively Blair will provide an overview of leading practices
and what continues to be challenging in building the in the business of creativity and innovation, includ-
key leadership behaviours for innovation. ing how to build a culture and set of skills that will
create the right mindset to embrace change and lead
11:30 a.m. Firestarter Discussion innovation.
Re-Thinking the Role of HR
What kind of teams work best for your organiza-
Debbie Cohen, Vice-President and Chief of People,
tion? What lessons have been learned, and how
Mozilla Corporation
can you help people develop the capacity to think
In this pre-taped interview exclusive to The beyond the tried and true to find new solutions to
Conference Board of Canada, Debbie Cohen will old problems, or develop new thinking to help the
offer her unique and provocative views on the busi- organization grow?
ness of human resources, and how we must re-think
This in-depth and interactive session will feature
our role, beliefs, and values to contribute fully to
an overview of leading creativity and innovation
workforce and organizational success.
business practices. It will also explore how to
build a culture and set of skills that will foster the
11:45 a.m. Plenary Session 15
right mindset to better manage change and lead
How to Successfully Design and Implement innovation.
Innovation
Avi Pollock, Vice-President, Innovation and Strategic Delegates will work in smaller groups as they learn
Planning, RBC Financial Group how to design and implement innovation. The work-
shop will help build skills and introduce practical
Avi Pollock has extensive first-hand experience
tips and tools to help delegates apply their learning
designing innovation for success, in both large
in their organization.
organizations and start-ups. Avi will discuss the
options and alternatives for strategy development,
4:00 p.m. Post-Conference Optional Workshop Adjourns
building a culture that nurtures innovation, and
choosing the organizational design thats most
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