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"Chris Trimble is a "must have" if your organization needs clear thinking and a real, practical path for innovation....Chris is beyond easy to work with: so friendly, so easy in terms of making the engagement work, and a true pleasure on a purely human level. Recommended!"

-Craig Ashwood, director, site services, CMGdigital

CHRIS TRIMBLE - Speaking

Drawing on more than a decade of research, Chris gives presentations that are at once enjoyable, compelling, and imminently practical. By sharing stories of success and struggle at well known organizations from IBM to Dow Jones to Deere & Company, Chris motivates audiences to set high aspirations, and offers clear principles for turning aspirations into action.


Reverse Innovation

Today's high-growth hot spots are all in the developing economies, which will account for a jaw-dropping two-thirds of global economic growth over the next generation. Such facts and figures are now a preoccupation in many boardrooms. What is less well understood is what it will take to win.

For decades, most global corporations have followed a simple strategy: Create great products and services for home markets, and then export them. It has worked well enough in the past, but it is goo enough no longer. The needs and opportunities in the developing world are just too distinct.

As a result, corporations must learn a new trick: Reverse Innovation. They must learn to innovate in the emerging economies, and then bring the innovations home.


The Other Side of Innovation

“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”

Thomas Edison said it over a century ago. Nobody listened.

When companies launch innovation initiatives, they focus almost all of their time and energy on that initial one percent — the thrilling hunt for the breakthrough idea. They draw guidance from countless books and articles that treat innovation as though it is synonymous with creativity.

It is not. The reality is that an idea is only a beginning. Innovation is not just the much-anticipated light-bulb moment. It is also a long, hard journey — from imagination to impact.


Leading Innovation in Healthcare Delivery

We can’t wait for policy makers on Capitol Hill to save our troubled health care system. Instead, we need a new generation of health care leaders -- physicians and executives alike -- that are ready to remake the system from the grass roots, through innovation and entrepreneurship. While health care may seem impossibly complex, the reality is that it is hard to walk more than ten yards without tripping over an idea or an innovative pilot project with tremendous potential. This presentation will show why these pilots so rarely achieve full potential, and what to do about it.

 

 

         

 
Video: Keynote Chat with Jeff Immelt

 

Video: What Is The Other Side Of Innovation?

 

Video: Highlights from 2008 Speaking Appearances

 

 

Additional Video

Chris talks about his book, The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge.

  1. What is The Other Side of Innovation?
  2. Why is The Other Side of Innovation So Hard?
  3. The Great Innovation Myth
  4. First Principles for The Other Side of Innovation
  5. What is Innovation All About?

See the story of IBM Websphere and how it has become an "icon of progress."

See Chris in action in the Microsoft Visiting Speakers Series, Redmond, WA,
December 2005 (must be run through Microsoft Internet Explorer)

See Chris in action on KCTS TV - Smart Money - QuickTime / Windows Media
(PBS affiliate in Seattle), December 2005

See a TV advertisement for Chris's appearance with HBR Latin America in Santiago, Chile.
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