Background

Innovation is the key to long-term, sustained growth. This really is the new imperative. The Society of Management Accountants calls 'Innovation', fundamental to the quest for profitable, sustainable growth. Peter Drucker, probably the most insightful management guru ever, deems it one business competence needed for the future. Fortune magazine’s advice to companies who want to be named to its Most Admired List: "Innovate, Innovate, Innovate".     

Logical/linear thinking and rule-based analysis will remain important, but are no longer sufficient to succeed in the global economy. As the global playing field becomes increasingly level, creativity and innovation will be the most important factors in establishing and maintaining a competitive advantage. Organizations must place greater emphasis on right-brain functions: artistic, big-picture thinking and focusing on out-of-the-box solutions.               

An Innovation-driven approach would help Indian IT and ITES companies to not only improve their market share but also combat competition effectively. This two-day conference focuses mainly on how IT and IT Enabled Services companies can use the power of Innovation and the right brain approach to accelerate their growth engines for achieving greater business results.

Primary Objectives

Everyone realizes that Innovation is the need of the hour. However, there is no forum wherein a company or its people can learn the actual innovative practices of most successful companies, excepting some research seminars where only future directions of innovation are discussed. This conference plays a very vital role in demystifying the various concepts of innovation for IT and ITES companies, with hands on implementation details on how successful companies have achieved the results by disciplined implementation of such concepts.

The conference is aimed at promoting awareness and interest in the area of innovative IT practices among the Senior Managers, Project Managers, Quality Managers, Functional Managers and the practitioners of IT and ITES organizations.

The main objectives of this conference are:

• Understanding a need for Innovation in IT and ITES organizations.
• Demystifying Innovations applicable to IT and ITES organizations.
• Sharing the experiences of best Innovative practices by the experts in the field.
• Paper presentations on the actual implementation of Innovative practices in live projects with achieved benefits.

Experts in the field of Innovative IT practices will be sharing their knowledge, expertise and best practices with the delegates at this conference.

Topics

The conference will have a range of topics from understanding basics of Innovation to Innovation framework and measurements.

Some key topics are as follows:

• What is Innovation and why should we care?
• TRIZ Theory of inventive problem solving
• Distinguishing Innovation from improvement
• Innovation Framework
• Measuring and Managing Innovation
• IT – an enabler for Innovations in enterprises
• Implementation case studies
• Identifying opportunities for Innovation
• Implementation challenges and solutions
• Innovative IT outsourcing models
• Innovative IT project management
• Innovative Software Testing practices

Who Should Attend

• CEOs, Vice Presidents, Senior Management responsible for Operations, Software Development, Quality, Product Development, Process Improvement and Support Functions.
• Leaders responsible for Organizational change, team productivity and group dynamics.
• Project Managers, Project Leaders, Software Engineers, Executives and Developers.
• Members of Engineering Process Group. 

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