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2012 IN Conference

Innovation Games

Speakers

Jonathan Clark
Jonathan Clark is an independent advisor on strategy and innovation, helping forward thinking executives re-invent their business. His company, Jonathan Clark & Partners helps clients get into the habit of continually thinking and doing things differently. Jonathan Clark has a deep understanding of running customer-centric businesses having worked for 20 years in international publishing and ebusiness with Elsevier. He brings energy and enthusiasm into everything he does. Jonathan’s particular skill is to help people see things from new perspectives and to inspire them to make things happen.

Examples of projects undertaken by Jonathan Clark & Partners:

  • Running Innovation Games® with customers of a legal publisher as part of their strategic review of future trends over the next 10 years
  • Working with a B2B publisher to design an innovation framework for them to use across all their market segments, including delivering innovation leadership training
  • Designing and running an annual kick-off event for 170 staff of a leading STM publisher
  • Designing and facilitating lightning innovation sessions on a booth at Medical Library Association Exhibition for a leading database vendor. More sales leads were generated during these sessions for the client than in all previous MLA exhibits they have attended.
  • Facilitating a strategic review day for the Board of a not-forprofit organization
  • Helping the operations division of a large publisher transform itself into a more flexible, responsive and nimble unit.
  • Designing and running 3-day innovation workshop for 40 participants including customers
  • Organizing a Customer User Experience event for a legal publisher
  • Running an Innovation Games® day with users of a leading financial website to help the redesign their homepage to increase the frequency of visits, click-thrus and page views.
  • Designing a structure for internal feedback at a large information services company
  • Running a strategy workshop for the Editorial Board of a major international STM journal
  • Training and coaching in innovation and creative brainstorming for a leading international proprietary trading company
  • Innovation Games® for Customer Understanding training course given in-company and as public courses
  • Future-based competitor analysis for a large scientific society, looking at where their competitors may be in 5 years time
  • A series of retrospective review workshops for the customer support centre of a hard disk manufacturer to identify opportunities for innovation in their operations
  • Designing and running a 1-day event in Chennai, India for
  • 200 participants in support of a culture change program for the operations division of a major STM publisher. This included training for facilitators of the parallel workshops.