Innovation - PIMS
- PIMS EXECUTIVE FORUM
Program in Innovation Management and Innovation Strategy
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ABOUT THE EXECUTIVE FORUM: Twice a year, we bring together a small group of executives from each of the participating companies with leading thinkers and scholars in the fields of innovation and strategy to discuss central issues in innovation management and strategy, and a small group of doctoral and master students at that work in this area. The Executive Forums includes a mix of lectures, group and plenary discussions and Q&A with international thought leaders.
21-22 SEP 2026
Removing Friction and Scaling Up Excellence
Robert Sutton is a Professor of Management Science and Engineering Emeritus at Stanford University. He is a best-selling author and a recognized expert on growing organizations by spreading good things, scaling excellence, and removing bad things to facilitate progress in teams and organizations, thereby enhancing performance, innovation, and well-being in large organizations.
8 SEP 2025
Strategy in Uncertain Times
Rita McGrath, best-selling author and longtime faculty member at Columbia Business School will delve into strategic inflection points and strategic moves, as we discuss portfolio thinking, making small bets, and learning when to scale or stop initiatives.
17 OCT 2023
Strategic Management of Innovation: Delivering Profitable Growth through Innovation
Jackson Nickerson is a globally recognized authority on organizational design, process improvement, and the anatomy of high-performing teams, His workshop reverse-engineered the innovation process, starting with the question: How can managers capture value from innovation?
5 MAY 2023
Scaling up Innovation with Crowds and AI
Hila Lifshitz-Assaf is a Professor of Management at Warwick Business School and a visiting faculty at Harvard University, at the Lab for Innovation Science (LISH). She is heading the Artificial Intelligence innovation Network at WBS. Her workshop walked us through the research frontier on AI augmentation and automation in multiple industries from lone inventors to industrial laboratories, collaborative networks, and distributed systems.
27-28 SEP 2022
Fostering Belonging & Leading Change from the Middle
Jackson Nickerson is the Frahm Family Professor of Organization and Strategy (Emeritus) at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St.Louis. This seminar focused on two topics: first, how you, as a leader, foster a sense of belonging in organizations.
22 JUNE 2022
Open and simple: The secrets to digital innovation
Georg von Krogh is a Professor at ETH Zurich and holds the Chair of Strategic Management and Innovation and specializes in competitive strategy, digital innovation, and organizational knowledge. His workshop focused on core principles of organizing for digital innovation, namely organizational openness to external knowledge and process simplification.
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Corporate Innovation In Focus
PIMS workshops were originally orchestrated to bring together the best scholars of innovation for PhD candidate workshops. Today PIMS continues to engage members of the PIMS industry research network, gathering leaders from institutions in Scandinavia, Europe and the United States for intensive seminars in the sphere of corporate innovation.
Key Contact for PIMS Executive Forum
- Alf Steinar Sætre, PhD, PIMS Director
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- (+47) 73 55 10 13
- alf.steinar@ntnu.no