Rowan Gibson
Biography of Rowan Gibson
Winning in the innovation economy
Rowan Gibson is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on business innovation. The media have labeled him “Mr. Innovation”, “the Innovation Grandmaster”, “the W. Edwards Deming of innovation” and “a guru among the gurus”. He is the internationally bestselling author of two major books on strategy and enterprise innovation – Rethinking The Future (1996) and Innovation to the Core (2008) – which have been published to date in over 20 languages. His latest book, Innovation to the Core (Harvard Business School Press), explains – for the first time – how to build and sustain a deep, company-wide innovation capability that drives continual growth and strategic renewal.
Over the last two decades, Gibson’s international clients have included some of the world’s largest and most successful organizations. He teaches them how to seize new growth opportunities, create new markets and even transform entire industries by recalibrating their whole organizational system around the paradigm of innovation.
Rowan Gibson is one of the world’s most in-demand public speakers. In just the last three years alone, he has delivered his keynote speeches, innovation masterclasses and public seminars in nearly 50 countries around the world. He has addressed a long list of major organizations, including Accenture, ADP, Ahold, Bayer, Carlson-Wagonlit, Heineken, Henkel, IBM, Mars, Microsoft, Motorola, NCR, NOKIA, Philips, Roche, Siemens, Steelcase, and Volkswagen.
Rowan Gibson is a prolific writer. He has authored dozens of business articles, columns and blogs which have been read all around the globe. He has been interviewed frequently on television and radio, as well as in the international press. His media appearances include Forbes, BusinessWeek, Harvard Business Review, CNN and BBC World Service. He has also appeared in several business documentaries.
Rowan Gibson was born and educated in London, where he began his career as an advertising executive in the early 1980s and moved on to become an international creative director with Euro RSCG, one of the world’s largest advertising agency networks. After a successful career in the advertising, branding and marketing business, he became a strategy and innovation consultant to Fortune 500 companies all over the world, with a focus on how to make innovation a deep, sustainable capability across a large enterprise.
Gibson has lived and worked in various countries over the last twenty years and speaks three languages fluently. Today, he divides his time between writing, public speaking and consulting. He is currently based near Düsseldorf in Germany with his wife and two sons, and he travels extensively.
Topics
- Innovation to the Core
- Making Innovation Happen
- The Four Lenses of Innovation
- Mastering Business Model Innovation
- The Innovation War-Room
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If you're like most business leaders, innovation now tops your corporate agenda. But despite all the talk and excitement about the importance of innovation, managers have so far found scant help for innovating in a systematic way that fuels consistent growth and sustained success. In Innovation to the Core , Strategos CEO Peter Skarzynski and business strategist Rowan Gibson change all that. They share the accumulated wisdom from Strategos - the consulting firm Skarzynski co-founded with Gary Hamel that helps clients instill innovation into their very core. Drawing on a wealth of stories and examples, the book shows how companies of every stripe have overcome the barriers to successful, profitable innovation. You'll find parts devoted to crucial topics - such as how to organize the discovery process, generate strategic insights, enlarge your innovation pipeline, and maximize your return on innovation. Frequent hands-on tools - frameworks, checklists, probing questions - help you put the book's ideas into action. Crafted in close coordination with Gary Hamel - the man who Fortune magazine has called the world's leading expert on business strategy - Innovation to the Core is the definitive fieldbook for making innovation a core competence in your organization.
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This volume provides insights from business thinkers on their visions of tomorrow. Powerful new forces are reshaping the world today. Traditional boundaries between industries and disciplines are rapidly blurring, and the old rules of management no longer make sense in a post-industrial world. This book looks at how organizations can be redesigned to survive and thrive in tomorrow's hyper-competitive global environment; how they can learn to adapt to change and improve their performance; and how they should be managed , if at all. It examines the changing role of the leader and the powerful influence of corporate culture. It probes the universal principles and values that ultimately govern the success of any leader or organization. It also looks at strategies for creating tomorrow's competitive advantage and tomorrow's markets. It offers a glipse of the future of marketing, which will be driven by new demographics, new global markets and new technology. Most importantly of all, the book gives readers a framework for understanding the big picture. It provides a panoramic perspective that puts all the pieces together in a coherent and easily understandable context. Tomorrow's executives will need to understand business at a far more global and synergistic level than ever before, and to feel comfortable leading people who have learned to manage themselves. Contributors include Stephen Covey, Charles Handy, Michael Porter, Gary Hamel, C.K. Prahalad, Al Ries and Jack Trout, Philip Kotler, Regis McKenna, Michael Hammer, Eli Goldratt, Peter Senge, John Kotter, Warren Bennis, John Naisbitt, Lester Thurow and Kevin Kelly.
References of Rowan Gibson
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Per Erlansson, Director Corporate Communications
"We would like to thank you sincerely for your participation at the Rexam Forum. There has been universal praise for your input, which contributed so much to the success. It is also appreciated that you made a real effort to tailor your presentation to our needs. We have been asked by many delegates for your contact details."
Rexam
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Marcel Bolli, Head of Corporate Communications
"We enjoyed very much having you speak at our group conference. It was a pleasure to hear and see your presentation. We also got very good feedback from our colleagues – especially about rethinking what we are doing and creating new ideas."
Mövenpick
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Alice Labbe
“We were really honoured to welcome you as a speaker at ‘Futuract’ in Paris. Thank you for your contribution to the great success of this event. Delegates were pleased with your presentation. We hope to work with you again:”
ICAD World Business Forum
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Kevin Maney
"Rowan Gibson’s views on technology and change are thoughtful, intriguing and global. He has a great perspective on what’s coming next."
USA Today
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Mariette de Bruin
"We were delighted with your presence as a key speaker at our Acceleration Event. Thanks again for your inspiring speech. We had many positive reactions from the participants! Indeed, we had a very successful event."
CAP Gemini Ernst & Young
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Helen Williamson
"Thank you so much for your presentation in Dublin – the feedback that we got from the delegates was very positive. They really enjoyed your talk and your concepts. Well done! Thanks again for participating in our meeting."
IBC Global Conferences
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Astrid Marré
"It was amazing how well your presentation fitted into our programme. You certainly pushed the right buttons for the discussions of the next day."
Imtech N.V. Gouda
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Dave Ulrich
“Want to experience the future today? Listen to Rowan Gibson. He is one of those rare people who sees around the bend and brings tomorrow close.”
Ranked by BusinessWeek as the #1 management educator
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Al Ries, Author
“In a world gone crazy, there’s no sounder thinker than Rowan Gibson. He’s a genius when it comes to rethinking the future.”
Focus! The future of your company depends on it
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Kevin Maney
“Rowan Gibson’s views on technology and change are thoughtful, intriguing and global. He has a great perspective on what’s coming next.”
USA Today
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