What is innovation? Is innovation something that can be measured? Why is innovation so essential? And more importantly, why is innovation so vital within a business environment?
These are a few of the issues and questions that will be debated at the "Innovation within Partnerships" event being hosted by First Tuesday in conjunction with Dimension Data on 30 March. The breakfast event will take place at The Campus in Bryanston.
Wolfgang Grulke is scheduled to present the opening keynote address where he will discuss radical innovation, concentrating on innovation within partnerships. Grulke is the best-selling author of a series of books titled "The Lessons of Radical Innovation". He is also the chairman of FutureWorld, a global business and technology think tank.
According to Peter Dixon, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of TeamSource at Dimension Data, the event aims to identify new ways for companies to be more competitive by outperforming their peers.
"Innovation enables companies to stay ahead of the competition and, in fact, allows them to identify and challenge a different set of competitors in new markets. The biggest question is: who is responsible for providing the ideas that will generate innovation action and what roles do partners and technology play?"
The discussion panel includes expert speakers from companies such as arivia.kom, CSIR, Cell C, Deloittes, GIBS, Standard Bank, The Innovation Hub and Tiger Brands.
For more information on the First Tuesday "Innovation within Partnerships" event, please contact Clare Renney of Dimension Data on (011) 575 1798 or via e-mail clare.renney@za.didata.com.
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Dimension Data Holdings plc (LSE: DDT) is a leading global technology company. The group provides solutions and services that optimise and manage the performance of IT infrastructures to enable business to build competitive advantage. To achieve this, the group delivers solutions using its proprietary `Application Network` architectural framework and its expertise in networking, application integration and managed services.
Dimension Data, founded in 1983, had revenues of $2.1 billion in 2003 and operates in 30+ countries with over 7 500 employees.
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