Leverage Artificial Intelligence to Enable Open Innovation and Business Resilience and Agility

Home Events – Digipro Education Limited Business Vital Importance Leverage Artificial Intelligence to Enable Open Innovation and Business Resilience and Agility

Instructor

  • George Tsekouras
    George Tsekouras Dr, DPhil, Director of CENTRIM
    George Tsekouras
    George Tsekouras
    Dr, DPhil, Director of CENTRIM

    Dr. George Tsekouras is the Director of CENTRIM. He has led the research in the area of innovation and entrepreneurship in areas like peer-to-peer learning networks, innovation coaching, planning and implementing new product development strategies, fostering linkages with external research, open innovation for SMEs, public-private innovation partnerships and innovation in social enterprises.

    He is the founder of a number of peer-to-peer learning networks in UK, Ireland, South Africa and Greece, which have supported more than 2,000 SMEs around the world. He was the coordinator of the RAPPORT consortium (www.rapport-project.eu), which looked at best practices to connect SMEs to the public or private research organisations. Currently, he works for a consortium that helps the European Commission to design the SME Instrument scheme, a new scheme to support innovation by European SMEs.

    George has also worked in other innovation areas like innovation benchmarking, industry forecasting and business process re-engineering. He has a first degree in mechanical engineering and a DPhil in innovation management from SPRU at the University of Sussex. He is the author of a number of papers in academic journals, books and international conferences while he has designed and delivered many executives training and consultancy programmes on innovation-enabled entrepreneurship.

Organizer

Digipro Education Limited
Digipro Education Limited
Phone
+357 26955000
Email
info@digipro.com.cy

Recent Participants

QR Code

Date

Jun 16 – 17 2025
Expired!

Cost

Fully Subsidized

Location

Online Learning

Today’s economy is very competitive, demonstrating high rates of business failures but also several cases of astonishing business success. The trends in technology and the market are changing with breathtaking pace, forcing executives and managers to a regular review of their businesses with the mission of building strategies of resilience, adaptation and agility.
A continuous investment in human resources coupled with a wholehearted support of innovative ideas can deliver a company which is able to pivot in the right markets and flourish. Yet, this strategy depends critically on two important requirements:

i. knowledge and know-how of mature innovation activities (e.g. new product development) to deliver value from new ideas.
ii. updated and relevant information and data (e.g. on evolving customer preferences or the emerging technologies).
iii. latest strategies open innovation management with the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to source the necessary information.

 

  • After completing the training program, the trainees will be able to:
    • Identify the new trends in the technology and the market of their enterprise with the help of AI tools and services
    • Assess the business model of their enterprise and develop a range of improvement and development initiatives
    • Develop innovation priorities to enhance the competitiveness of their enterprise using the capabilities offered by AI
    • Design a portfolio of innovation projects to address the innovation priorities using the potential of AI
    • Identify market opportunities and develop relevant offering concepts using the capabilities offered by AI
    • Introduce an integrated business development roadmap supported by an integrated tool set of AI to enable the implementation of the innovation projects
    • Value the potential financial help their enterprises can receive from national EU innovation funding programs
    • Understand the critical success factors for winning a bid for national EU innovation funding programs

 

The participants should be managerial staff with key responsibilities in their company. This includes Managing Directors, CEOs, business partners, Heads of departments and/or teams, senior managers from various functions (e.g.marketing, legal, financial, research &development etc.), managers with special missions (e.g. new product development), small business owners etc.

The event is finished.