Bettina von Stamm
Director & Catalyst | Innovation Leadership Forum
North Wootton, Norfolk, UNITED KINGDOM
Inspiring, engaging and thought provoking insights on and around innovation
Biography
For the past 20 years Bettina has been a visionary and original thinker at the boundary between business and academia, working in the field of her passion: innovation. During her independent career she has always taken great pleasure and pride in combining and balancing a number of different activities such as research, teaching, writing, running networking initiatives and engaging in public speaking. Having worked independently in the field of innovation since 1992, she set up the Innovation Leadership Forum (ILF) in 2004. Through the ILF she offers a Networking Group (ILF NG), a series of 6 Innovation MasterClasses, a facilitated tool for the assessment of conditions for innovation, Innovation Wave®, as well as bespoke workshops, seminars, and innovation interventions. Her teaching and work with (primarily large) companies takes her around the world. She has also written 3 books on innovation (The Innovation Wave, Managing Innovation Design & Creativity, The Future of Innovation).
Industry Expertise (3)
Corporate Leadership
Education/Learning
Think Tanks
Areas of Expertise (7)
Leadership
Innovation
Design Thinking
Future of Work
Future of Innovation
Innovation
Complexity
Education (3)
London Business School: MBA 1992
Fachhochschule Kiel, Germany: Dipl. Ing. Architektur & Stadtplanung 1986
London Business School: PhD 1998
The effects of context and complexity in new product development
Affiliations (4)
- CEDIM, Monterrey, Mexico
- Middlesex University, UK
- UnternehmerTUM, Technische Universität München, Germany
- DEUSTO Business School, Bilbao, Spain
Links (3)
Event Appearances (18)
Discontinuous Innovation in European Companies: Thoughts and Challenges
Finding the Future, BIZLab conference Dublin, Ireland
2009-01-29
The future of innovation - beware of the dark side
International Conference of Engineering Design Copenhagen, Denmark
2011-08-15
Breakthrough innovation: making it happen
McKinsey’s Technology & Innovation Forum Dubai
2008-12-03
Where do good ideas come from?
PRODUCT DESIGN + INNOVATION 2011 London, UK
2011-05-17
How To Use Creativity for Disruptive Innovation
Pure Insight’s Innovation Leaders Summit London, UK
2008-11-03
The Role of Innovation: Redesigning business value through leadership and innovation
Green Strategies London, UK
2010-11-10
Innovation & Design, The ideal bed fellows?
DesignThinkers 08, the annual Conference of the Registered Graphic Designers Ontario Toronto, Canada
2008-10-27
Laying down the foundations for long-term growth
FT Innovate Executive Breakfast Meeting London, UK
2010-11-10
Why creativity is not enough to succeed with innovation
CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accounting) World Conference Igniting Passion, Blazing Trails Colombo, Sri Lanka
2008-05-27
Ohne Komplexität geht es einfach nicht
WMF Symposium Geislingen, Germany
2010-09-09
Cooperation and knowledge exchange in transnational networks – Mission Impossible?
Sustainable Bioenergy Use in Central Europe Final Conference of the project COACH BioEnergy Berlin, Germany
2011-12-01
Innovation for Consumers: How Can We Revitalize European Markets?
SAPPHIRE NOW Frankfurt, Germany
2010-05-16
The Future of Innovation
10th Conference Anpei Curitiba, Brazil
2010-04-25
Logistics: opportunity for supply chain innovation
Eurofruit Congress Southern Hemisphere Cape Town, South Africa
2009-10-14
Innovation’s Nirvana - Collaborating across communities
20th ISPIM Conference Vienna, Austria
2009-06-10
Cooperation and knowledge exchange in transnational networks – Mission Impossible?
Sustainable Bioenergy Use in Central Europe Final Conference of the project COACH BioEnergy Berlin, Germany
2011-12-01
Business success without innovation?
Innovation for Business Success Dunfermline, Scotland
2009-02-03
Innovation through New Ways of Working
Symposium on New Ways of Working Utrecht, Netherlands
2011-09-25
Sample Talks (4)
The Dark Side of Innovation
Innovation is on the agenda. It does not matter whether your organisation is small or large, whether you work in industry academia or government, or whether you work in the third sector: innovation is today's mantra. It seems to have become the holy grail everyone pursues (with varying degrees of success). We all get excited by the potential and possibilities innovation seems to offer. The presentation will ask whether there might be a dark side of innovation. We certainly need to think about innovation, a lot. But perhaps not quite as we know it, and the way we are used to. The presentation will challenge whether we join the quest for innovation too lemming-like, whether innovation has indeed become an end in itself rather than being a means to an end. It will close with proposing some armory and companions that might help keep the question for the innovation grail on the right tracks.
Simplicity without complexity?
In increasing complex times the call for simplicity resonates deeply with most. Are things becoming more complex, or more complicated? What if simplicity isn't quite that simple? And how to achieve simplicity after all.
Innovation's Glass Ceiling
Over the past decade or two the call for innovation, for radical and breakthrough innovation in particular, has grown louder and louder, in private and public sectors alike. Yet surveys continue to indicate disappointment with the results. While much blame is being laid at the door of short-term driving stock markets, I believe that there are more fundamental obstacles to radical innovation than that: a lack of systems thinking, and and a lack of understanding the implications of human nature.
Collaboration across boundaries – Mission Impossible?
Collaboration and knowledge sharing across boundaries is very important, today more so than ever before - many of today's challenges are such that they cannot be solved by any one individual, company or even country alone. Collaboration across boundaries means working across mindsets as well as departments and nations. Will essential and potentially hugely beneficial, such collaboration is often fraud with conflict and suboptimal results. What are the causes, and what can be done about them?
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