Bettina von Stamm

Director & Catalyst Innovation Leadership Forum

  • North Wootton Norfolk

Inspiring, engaging and thought provoking insights on and around innovation

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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

Corporate Leadership
Education/Learning
Think Tanks

Areas of Expertise

Innovation
Design Thinking
Future of Work
Future of Innovation
Innovation
Complexity
Leadership

Education

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

  • Middlesex University, UK
  • UnternehmerTUM, Technische Universität München, Germany
  • DEUSTO Business School, Bilbao, Spain
  • CEDIM, Monterrey, Mexico

Event Appearances

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

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Sample Talks

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.

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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Style

Availability

  • Keynote
  • Moderator
  • Panelist
  • Workshop Leader
  • Host/MC

Fees

$5000 to $15000
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