Effective Strategies for Continuous Corporate Innovation
Martin Grieve, MD, Unilever Corporate Ventures
Martin Grieve (now Finance Director, Financial Planning & Analysis Reckitt Benckiser) explains that experimenting with new models is what’s required for innovation to be successful. He describes Unilever’s focus on bigger, faster and better innovation and how that has led to success in corporate ventures.
Questions
Select from the links below to watch our panel respond to questions posed by the floor
- How do you judge which ideas are the right ones to invest in?
- How can corporates use innovation to gain influence at the macro level?
- How important is it to create separate units for innovation?
- Who takes responsibility for driving innovation within a business?
- When is it appropriate to stop a bad idea in its tracks?
- How can corporates use innovation to gain influence at the macro level?
- Do investors understand the time it takes for innovation to generate ROI?
- How can good ideas cut through the inertia that often exits in corporates?
