As a successful entrepreneur, author, consultant and CEO, Kaihan Krippendorff has worked with and studied thousands of companies and the different approaches they take to drive growth, foster innovation, and set themselves apart from the competition. How is it that some companies are able to continually pivot their strategy, transform, and pursue new growth ideas?
The answer is they have a repeatable process and common language that can be learned and taught. Based on his book, Outthink the Competition, Kaihan delivers a systematic process and set of proven business strategy tools he has used with more than 300 clients in almost every industry to create innovative strategies and growth ideas that have generated more than $2.5B in revenue. Blending together first-hand stories of inspiring business and social innovators, from Elon Musk to Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, the audience will be entertained and learn as Kaihan breaks down a tested method for developing actionable growth ideas that unlock growth, increase competitiveness of their business and arm them with the tools needed to excel in today’s digital, agile, and purpose-driven world.
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated business trends that would have taken a decade or more to be fully realized, to a matter of months. Pivoting a business, exploring new business models and revenue streams, and driving transformation is a daunting task for any company in good times, let alone during a crisis. Times of rapid change separate the disrupted from the disruptors, the winners from the losers and the thinkers from the “Outthinkers.”
In response to COVID, Kaihan Krippendorff has taken The Outthinker Process and created a modified version specifically designed to help organizations and individuals quickly orient themselves to the changes under-way and adapt their business models for the with/post-COVID world. The Outthinker Process is a strategic process that helps business leaders step outside of conventional thinking to redesign their business models and strategies. It has created more than $2.5B in new revenue for some of the world’s most well-known organizations across industries (Microsoft, CVS Health, Disney, L’Oreal).
A masterful storyteller and performer (both live and virtually), Kaihan customizes every talk he gives, uses entertaining, colorful stories and shares distilled insights and advice from his own experience and from his network of corporate strategists and thought-leaders. Listen to Kaihan to learn a succinct process to make sense of the future and design a strategy to help your business thrive through the crisis. The audience will leave with actionable ideas for new business models, revenue streams, and growth ideas. They will be armed with the tools and know-how to start driving change as soon as his talk is over.
“Innovation” brings to our mind the maverick entrepreneur who quits their job, at unimaginable odds, to build a business on their own. But this entrepreneurial story is a myth. As a successful entrepreneur, author, consultant and CEO, Kaihan Krippendorff shows that intrapreneurs – employees who incubate new businesses within corporations – have had a far greater impact on the world (e-mail, internet, DNA sequencing, MRI scans, were all conceived and driven by employees).
Drawing on five years of in-depth research of hundreds of successful corporate innovators Kaihan will share insights from his Edison-Award nominated book, Driving Innovation From Within: A Guide for Internal Entrepreneurs (Columbia University Press, 2019). Recognized by one of the top innovation experts in 2019 by Thinkers50, Kaihan will unveil the critical areas a company must focus on to make innovation an everyday activity – a part of the company’s DNA. Learn how successful companies manage and unlock the value of employees’ ideas to drive growth, create value, and deliver bottom-line results. The audience will leave feeling inspired and empowered, ready to take on the future.
When we say “innovation” we almost always mean “product innovation.” We talk about research & development and possible new solutions to meet unmet needs. This is a one-dimensional and incomplete approach to innovation. Dissect the most innovative companies of the last decade and you will see that great innovators disrupt their markets by reaching beyond the product. Oftentimes their success rests on choices that have little to do with new products.
In this presentation, learn how companies that outperform their competition seek disruptive innovation across eight dimensions– The 8Ps – Price, Product, Promotion, Place, Position, Process, Physical Experience, People. Kaihan Krippendorff, one of the top 8 innovation thinkers in the world (Thinkers50) and author of Outthink the Competition and Driving Innovation from Within will take you through engaging examples of the 8 dimensions to search for an innovative strategy. Cross-industry examples such as Urban Outfitters in apparel, IKEA in furniture, VMware in technology, SpaceX in space launch vehicles, Mastercard in payments, and Vistaprint in printing services, show how the “8Ps” framework is a powerful structure to engage strategists, HR, operators, marketers and/or sales staff in an exploration of where competitive advantages lie, where to strengthen them, and where they are being underutilized.
In a world marked by accelerated change and innovation, mental agility has proven to be a critical driver of success in sports, warfare, business, career, and life. Yet few agree on what exactly “mental agility” is or know how to develop it. Companies that fail to move on quickly enough from their linear organization will not succeed. In this presentation, successful entrepreneur, author, consultant and CEO Kaihan Krippendorff shares insights from his work with top-level corporate entrepreneurs and the study of more than 200 successful innovators into what sets them apart from the rest of the competitive pack. Kaihan will share the key practices that distinguish those with high mental agility and arm the audience with tools and frameworks they can immediately apply to their own work.
We are experiencing a historic acceleration in the pace of change in our world. Artificial intelligence, digitization, robotics, millennials and gen Z, 3D printing, social shifts, and the rise of purpose-driven enterprises are reconfiguring how every conceivable industry operates.
These changes divide us into two camps: the “Disruptors” and the “Disrupted”.
Successful entrepreneur, author, consultant and CEO Kaihan Krippendorff has spent over a decade studying the patterns of disruption. What makes some companies thrive and what makes others fall behind? What gives some the power to shape the future and makes others struggle to keep up? Kaihan has applied his cutting-edge findings to create more than $2.5B in new value and help hundreds of businesses lean into change and thrive in tomorrow’s fast-paced, digital, purpose-driven world. In this talk, Kaihan breaks down the underlying patterns of disruption and with compelling stories of successes, failures, and yet-unknown innovations, teaches practical tools to help you take action and become a Disruptor.
Historically, we were taught corporations existed for one purpose: to maximize shareholder value. But companies are waking up to the realization that such a focus destroys shareholder value over the long term because it creates resistance to your growth.
If you design a strategy that benefits shareholders by also benefiting employees, the community, the country, and the environment, you have designed the ultimate strategy. When everyone wants you to win, you remove all competition. This idea goes beyond social responsibility. It points us toward removing the idea that doing good and making profit are inconsistent. You do not have to choose.
By pulling together inspiring stories from organizations ranging from lesser-known jewels like Best Doctors, BrightFarms, and Holstee to leading socially directed corporations like IKEA, Mastercard, and Target, Kaihan will inspire and motivate the audience to rethink their role and how they interact with stakeholders, not just shareholders.
The financial services industry – from banking to payments to insurance – is undergoing a rapid and historic transformation. The shifting regulatory landscape, changing consumer/investor behavior, Millennials and Gen Z, an endless stream of agile newcomers armed with disruptive fintech tools, and platforms powered by Blockchain and AI are mounting an attack on incumbent institutions and business models.
Kaihan Krippendorff works with many of the world’s leading financial institutions, helping them make sense of this uncertain future – understanding key future trends and technologies, designing fresh strategies and agile teams ready to face disruption head on so their organization can be ready to transform, compete, and win the future of finance. A successful entrepreneur, author, consultant and CEO that has created more than $2.5B in revenue for clients, Kaihan uses first-hand experience and actionable insights to present a compelling vision of the future world of financial services, arming the audience with a framework and tools that they can use to succeed in the tech-driven digital economy of the 21st century.
The retail and apparel industries today are undergoing a rapid, historic transformation. A successful entrepreneur, author, consultant and CEO that has created more than $2.5B in revenue for his clients, Kaihan Krippendorff works at the cutting edge of the disruption, helping many of the world’s leading retail and apparel brands navigate the accelerating landscape and new future. Contextualize where you stand by going through current trends and industry changes like shorter times to market, AI, robotics, augmented reality, hyper-personalization, data-driven decision making, and broad shifts in consumer behavior (environmentally friendly lifestyles, focus on health, nutrition, etc.), direct to consumer, and the COVID accelerated rise of ecommerce. Drawing from the latest industry developments from Amazon to QVC and stories of yet-under-appreciated new attackers, Kaihan uses in this keynote first-hand experience and actionable insights to present a compelling vision of the future world of retail and leaves the audience with tools and an approach to develop a strategy to succeed in the shifting retail landscape of the 21st century tech-driven and digital economy.
