‘In the Studio With Zao: Innovation Connect’ is a series of invite-only roundtable events. We bring together our intrapreneur and entrepreneur community and broader client networks to collaboratively discuss pressing topics in the innovation space.
Current & Previous Participants
Innovation Connect Sessions
22nd May 2024
For our fourth Innovation Connect event, this time in partnership with PA Consulting, we brought together professionals from across education, local authorities, the NHS, and the Civil Service to focus on the topic of Intrapreneurship. In the session, we discussed:
What are the perceived main blockers of intrapreneurship?
How might we make Intrapreneurship more accessible?
Intrapreneurship: Democratising Innovation.
15th February 2024
Innovation Collaboration: How to leverage partners, clients and ecosystems to boost innovation
This event was co-hosted by Places for London, TfL’s property division. We discussed the importance of collaboration in maximising innovation performance, how to overcome the key challenges that restrict the success of innovation collaboration and the strategies that can be leveraged to optimise their benefit.
Why, how and where to find the right partners to elevate innovation
What does successful collaboration look like? How can you make that happen, practically
24th October 2023
Innovator Experience: Unblocking Pathways for Innovators to Make Innovation Happen
In our recent roundtable of change makers, innovators and enablers, we discussed how to create innovation pathways with a human-centred focus, off the back of our Innovator Experience (IX) webinar. We explored the following questions:
How might we overcome the ‘capacity’ blocker for innovation in organisations?
How might we create more human-centred innovation pathways?
13th December 2023
In this session, we discussed how to embed customer centricity earlier on in the innovation pipeline, moving away from viewing customer centricity as purely
process-based. We explored the following questions:
How might we create working innovation relationships with customers?
How might we help decision makers in our organisations to be more open to genuine customer feedback?
A Collaborative Approach: How to Embed Customer Centricity in Innovation
17th July 2024
This session of "In The Studio With Zao: Innovation Connect", held in collaboration with Pearson, tackled the critical question: "How can AI Co-pilot enhance the way organisations approach innovation?”. The main discussion points explored:
Skills and Behaviours for Future Innovators
Risks, Concerns, and Limitations of AI tools
Impact of AI Tools on Innovation Activities
Could AI Copilot Join Your Innovation Team?
Roundtable Sessions
30th January 2024
In this session with Healthcare Innovators, we discussed the diverse opportunities for Generative AI in Commercial operations and Medical Affairs. The discussion focused on two critical aspects:
Identifying the highest value use cases of Generative AI in commercial/medical affairs
Understanding the blockers to making these use cases a reality
Opportunities for Generative AI in Commercial/Medical Affairs
21st September 2022
In this session we discussed how HR leaders are able to garner a sense of best practices and opportunities for improvement in innovation . HR is often challenged in helping build innovation capabilities across the workforce but the question is:
What is really the role of HR in innovation?
How can HR leaders best enable people, and therefore the organisation, to innovate?
What is the role of HR in Innovation?
11th May 2022
In this session we discussed some of Innovation Leaders’ most pressing challenges in innovation within large organisation. We focused on two main theme areas, in the context of the people factor of innovation,
Senior Leaders: the sponsors and senior stakeholders who are backing innovation
Innovation Talent: the people who are actually doing and delivering innovation propositions
How Can Leaders Drive Higher Return On Innovation By Mastering The People Factor?
9th February 2022
How Can Intrapreneurship Programmes Go Beyond Canvases, Post-its, Interviews and Pitches?
In this session we explored some of the most pressing challenges Innovation Leaders encounter when developing and deploying Intrapreneurship programmes. We discussed three main areas:
Alignment on problem briefs and opportunity areas
Return on Innovation (ROI)
Identifying, developing and retaining the right talent
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