RGM

Leading Strategic Growth and Change

Creating Strategy Tokyo

Date: June 24, 2010
Time: 1 p.m. Eastern, duration 1 hour
Publication: Harvard Business Review

The game has changed. Conventional, business-as-usual methods simply won’t produce the sustainable growth that companies desire. New methods are needed. Columbia Professor Rita McGrath will share insights about those few firms that are able to consistently grow, and will describe a breakthrough method for achieving consistent, sustainable growth. She will focus on capitalizing on the uncertain environment, reducing risk, and seizing opportunity.
Panelist: Rita McGrath, Associate Professor at Columbia Business School in New York, author of Discovery-Driven Growth and Market Busters.
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Event Dates: June 29, 2010

Curious what CFO's have on their minds? Interested in finding out solutions to pressing business issues from a financial point of view? You might want to consider attending the CFO Core concerns conference, which takes place in Baltimore at the end of this month. Rita McGrath will be a keynote speaker at this conference.

Event Dates: June 24, 2010 1pm to 2pm

To register for this free webinar, click on this link at the Harvard site.

Event Dates: October 31-November 6, 2010

Event Location: Located at the beautiful Dolce conference center in Norwalk, CT

Leading Strategic Growth and Change is a six-day program focused on the process of finding opportunities, launching new ventures and leading necessary organizational changes to revitalize an organization.

Participants learn how to thrive in rapidly changing and highly uncertain environments, gain insight into a current pressing change initiative within their own organization, and immediately begin to apply the learning to make rapid progress on the issue.

If you have ever worried about how to drive new growth or how to make a change initiative successful, you will enjoy the insights developed in this course.

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Event Dates: April 9, 2009

Event Location: Orlando, Florida

Rita McGrath will be giving a keynote presentation at DigitalNow. DigitalNow is an annual conference, which brings together CEOs and volunteer leaders from some of the most influential professional, non-profit, and trade associations in America. Fusion Productions and Disney Institute, two of the foremost authorities in adult educational design, produce the conference, with input from registered attendees and conference advisory board.

For more information click here.

Event Dates: December 7, 2009

Rita McGrath will be giving the keynote speech at The International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) conference in New York City, in a talk entitled "Growth in Turbulent Times."

The full program can be accessed at this link.

Rita McGrath will be a keynote speaker Monday, December 7th, 9 - 10 a.m., addressing Growth in Uncertain Times at ISPIM's 2nd Innovation Symposium. For more information, click here.

Event Dates: October 28, 2009

Event Location: Virtual Webinar

Rita McGrath will be a speaker at the Management Roundtable's webinar-based Innovation Gurus series.

Beginning this September, six leading innovation experts will lead six live audiosessions with interactive Q&A on how to effectively innovate in the face of economic turmoil. McGrath's session will be on Wednesday, October 28 at 1pm ET/11am PT, and she will be discussing how to use Discovery Driven Growth to reframe strategic direction and test assumptions about futures at the lowest possible cost.

As a speaker, Rita is pleased to pass along a $500 VIP discount (just enter code S0RM online, use this link: or call 800-338-2223 or 781-891-8080 and mention Rita's name)

The other speakers are:

o Scott Anthony, President, Innosight, author of The Silver Lining, September 16, 2009

o Jay Paap, President, Paap Associates, author of Anticipating Disruptive Innovation, September 30, 2009

o Marc Meyer, Professor, Northeastern University; author The Fast Path to Corporate Growth: Leveraging Knowledge and Technologies to New Market Applications, October 14, 2009

o Gene Slowinski, Managing Partner, Alliance Management Group and Director, Strategic Alliance Research, Rutgers University Graduate School of Management; author, Reinventing Corporate Growth. November 18, 2009

o Robert Shelton, Director, PRTM, co-author of Making Innovation Work, December 2, 2009

Topics include how to choose the best opportunities, move into new markets, add (or end) partnerships, make smarter deals, forecast ROI, increase profit margins, and more. Sessions are roughly two weeks apart. Each session is 90 minutes with 45 minutes live Q&A; attendance is limited to ensure ample time for discussion.

Note that registration closes September 15.

Event Dates: August 20, 2009

Event Location: Casapiedra, Santiago

Rita McGrath will be speaking at a prestigious event for leaders of South American organizations, coordinated by Seminarium. You can find a link to information about the event here.

Her talk is entitled Sustainable Growth in Uncertain Times and will cover key concepts relevant to companies that wish to emerge from the current global recession prepared for growth.

Seminar session abstract:

With the potential for recovery from the devastating global recession on the horizon, executives will be seeking to position their companies in order to take advantage of new growth opportunities. But to do so effectively, leaders need different approaches than those that have served them well - either in stable markets, or in the more recent downturn. Learning to take intelligent risks, to engage in business model experimentation and to manage a portfolio of opportunities are entrepreneurial skills, skills which will differentiate those who can capitalize on new opportunities from those who would like to seize the moment, but just don't know how. In this powerful session, Rita McGrath will show you why thinking in conventional strategic terms can be a trap, and offer alternatives which you can put to use immediately to help your organization prepare for the growth to come.