Trend & Technology Foresight | Trend-based Business Model Innovation & Business Model Design | Strategy and Process Application and Realization of Growing Technologies | Integration of Disruptive Technologies | Effective Innovation-Management

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2014
TOP SPEAKERS
2014 BUSINESS
PARTNERS
Berlin / Germany
2014 POST EVENT REPORT
February 24 – 25, 2014 150+
Attendees
18+
Case Studies
& Speakers
Trend & Technology Foresight | Trend-based Business Model
Innovation & Business Model Design | Strategy and Process
Application and Realization of Growing Technologies |
Integration of Disruptive Technologies | Effective Innovation-
Management
 Technology foresight & anticipation of technological leaps:
From trends to markets
 Absorptive capacity and ambidexterity: Key-factors for the
improvement of adaptation and innovation capacity
 Factors of success for the implementation of disruptive
technologies
 The establishment of viable future innovation and technology
management
 Trend based business model innovation & business model design
The DTIM 2014 conference offered a platform where 18 leading companies gave insights and
examples on technology trends and future-research, strategies, processes and effective
innovation-management. All based on the early identification of disruptive technologies and
integration of radical developments.
Over 150 attendees have used the conference actively and discussed contemporary challenges,
ideas and progresses. Our World Café and Challenge Your Peers roundtable sessions offered an
interactive platform for network-growth and for getting questions on industry-related subjects
answered.
DTIM 2014
MAIN TOPICS OF THE

2. World Café themes-overview:
 Front End Innovation – Shaping processes and structures for market
conditions
 Global Product Development Management Benchmark Study 2013
 Business Model Innovation – Open Innovation 2.0
 Future scenarios for strategies, business-models and innovation
 Absorptive capacity- Key competences for maintaining innovation-
capacity and overcoming disruptive changes
 Instructions for avoiding innovation
 Ambidexterity in practice – How an innovative climate, utilizing
explorative and exploitative settings can be managed and what levers
can be used
The Challenge Your Peers Session offered 6 different themes, which invited our
delegates for discussion. The Disruptive Intelligence and Innovation Foresight
Minds evolved around six main topics:
 Organizing development between incremental improvement and
disruptive innovation
 Strategic options when handling disruptive technologies
 Effective organization and integration of technology-management
 Factors of success for the implementation of disruptive technologies
 Conditions and strategies for the marketing of novel technologies
 New methods for technology and trend-scouting
http://innovation-minds2014.we-conect.com
INNOVATIVE-INTERACTIVE SESSIONS
The Icebreaker Session invited to take part in an information rich get to know
each other and relaxed networking at the evening prior to the first conference
day.
Each of the 4 tables featured a short presentation on different topics, which
allowed the attendees to partake in informative discussions.
Attendees of the DTIM 2014
INSIGHTS & IMPRESSIONS 2014

3. ► ACCESS TO OUR MEDIACENTER
PROMINENT SPEAKERS & PRESENTATIONS
WORLD CAFÈ · Thomas Andrae, 3M
Thomas Andrae discussed at his World Café
Session, Open Innovation 2.0 & the targeted
development of new business-models. From
coincidence to strategic routine, corporate
venturing as a key to strategic company-
cooperation and the definition of new business
areas based on innovative start-up ideas.
CASE STUDY · Dr. Kai Grassie, Giesecke &
Devrient GmbH
Dr. Kai Grassie spoke to the audience about
innovation in the field of disruptive technologies, by
referring to examples from the field of mobile
security, and gave insights on complex
ecosystems, technology innovation, business-
model innovation and Smartcards to mobile
security.
CASE STUDY · Dr. Georg Oenbrink, Evonik Industries
AG
Dr. Georg Oenbrink presented future-compatible
innovation-management and the approaches, methods and
experiences at Evonik Industries. Hereby he focused on the
themes: open innovation, technology scouting and industry
development-cooperation, as well as crowd-sourcing and
social media based innovation of the Evonik Call for
research proposal. All of the topics reflected experiences
and results from the company based knowledge-pool.
2014
PREMIERE DTIM EUROPE
October 13 – 14, 2014 in Berlin
Disruptive Technologies & Innovation Foresight Minds 2014
► INTERNATIONAL
CASE STUDY · Dr. Paolo Bavaj, Henkel AG & Co.
KGaA
Dr. Paolo Bavaj analyzed the topic ‘Trend-based
Innovation through Foresight Management and Scouting’
and gave insights on the creation of a “New Business
Development Group for Breakthrough Innovation and
Foresight Management on the basis of relevant mega-
trends.
CHALLENGE YOUR PEERS · Dr. Arndt
Schlosser, Wacker Chemie AG
Dr. Arndt Schlosser engaged the delegates at his
Challenge Your Peers Roundtable in discussion
about success factors for the implementation of
disruptive technologies, in order to inspire new
ideas and solutions.

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June 16 – 17, 2014, Berlin
From Competitive & Market Intelligence to
CI & MI 3.0
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June 23 – 24, 2014, Berlin
Efficient handling of variant-management and
product-complexity through continuous product
development and engineering-process
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September 29 – 30, 2014, Berlin
Global service structures & platform
management, predictive maintenance & sensor,
data & IT-Security, Network production &
industry 4.0
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November 20 – 21, 2014, Berlin
Variant & Complexity Management, Development &
Growth, Engineering & Construction,
Smart Automotive Variant Planning
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UPCOMING EVENTS 2014
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