ROBERT TUCKER
Innovation Expert, Business Futurist and Author of Driving Growth Through Innovation.
MEET ROBERT TUCKER
Robert B. Tucker is a renowned global futurist and innovation keynote speaker with a client list that includes over 200 of the Fortune 500 companies. President and founder of The Innovation Resource, Tucker is an internationally recognized pioneer in the field of innovation, Tucker’s highly interactive presentations lead audiences on a guided tour inside the world’s most creative companies. Through stories and examples, Tucker shows leaders how to tap the mindset, skillset and toolset of innovation to embrace change, discover opportunity and avoid obsolescence. Known for his in-depth customization, Tucker provides today’s leaders with practical strategies, cutting edge insights, and inspiration to take action once back at the office.
During the course of his 28 year career, Tucker has worked with groups ranging from the economic development ministries of Singapore, Dubai, and Taiwan, to multi-national companies like IBM, American Express, and Nestle, as well as numerous trade and customer-user groups in a wide variety of industries. A former adjunct professor at UCLA, Tucker’s pioneering research in identifying the critical attributes of innovators became the acclaimed book, Winning the Innovation Game.
His international bestseller, Managing the Future: 10 Driving Forces of Change, was described by Intel Chairman Andrew Grove as a “lucid, practical guide to total quality in business,” and was translated into over 17 languages. In Driving Growth Through Innovation, Tucker identified the emergent best practices of global Innovation Vanguard companies who were pioneering radically more effective approaches to the practice of innovation. In his latest book, Innovation Is Everybody’s Business: Making Yourself Indispensable in Today’s Hypercompetitive World, Tucker takes up the issue of leadership development, and reveals the “Innovation Skills” essential to success in today’s hyper-change era.
Considered one of the top thought leaders in the burgeoning Innovation Movement, Tucker is a frequent contributor to publications such as The Futurist, Strategy & Leadership, BusinessWeek, Los Angeles Times and many others. Tucker has appeared on Bloomberg, Channel News Asia, Network 18 India, the PBS series Taking the Lead, CBS News, and was a featured guest on the CNBC series The Business of Innovation. A multi-year winner of the Top Five Speaker hall of fame, Tucker was recently awarded the prestigious Brand Personality Award, by the Asia Pacific Brands Foundation for outstanding contributions to the field of innovation.
During the course of his 28 year career, Tucker has worked with groups ranging from the economic development ministries of Singapore, Dubai, and Taiwan, to multi-national companies like IBM, American Express, and Nestle, as well as numerous trade and customer-user groups in a wide variety of industries. A former adjunct professor at UCLA, Tucker’s pioneering research in identifying the critical attributes of innovators became the acclaimed book, Winning the Innovation Game.
His international bestseller, Managing the Future: 10 Driving Forces of Change, was described by Intel Chairman Andrew Grove as a “lucid, practical guide to total quality in business,” and was translated into over 17 languages. In Driving Growth Through Innovation, Tucker identified the emergent best practices of global Innovation Vanguard companies who were pioneering radically more effective approaches to the practice of innovation. In his latest book, Innovation Is Everybody’s Business: Making Yourself Indispensable in Today’s Hypercompetitive World, Tucker takes up the issue of leadership development, and reveals the “Innovation Skills” essential to success in today’s hyper-change era.
Considered one of the top thought leaders in the burgeoning Innovation Movement, Tucker is a frequent contributor to publications such as The Futurist, Strategy & Leadership, BusinessWeek, Los Angeles Times and many others. Tucker has appeared on Bloomberg, Channel News Asia, Network 18 India, the PBS series Taking the Lead, CBS News, and was a featured guest on the CNBC series The Business of Innovation. A multi-year winner of the Top Five Speaker hall of fame, Tucker was recently awarded the prestigious Brand Personality Award, by the Asia Pacific Brands Foundation for outstanding contributions to the field of innovation.
SUGGESTED SPEAKING TOPICS
Driving Growth Through Innovation
When was the last time you focused on upgrading your ability to conceive and introduce new product, service, process and strategy ideas? Could it be that you are using yesterday’s methods to manage today’s complex marketplace challenges? This dynamic, example-filled presentation, will give you an overview of the important findings reported in Robert B. Tucker’s book, Driving Growth Through Innovation. Tucker will take you and your colleagues on a guided tour inside 23 “innovation vanguard” companies. You’ll discover cutting-edge methods for building innovation into a powerful source of growth, profits, and competitive advantage. You’ll learn unconventional approaches for turning innovation into a systematic, imbedded process, and be motivated to take action in your firm. This presentation is perfect as a keynote for annual conventions, or as a stimulating kickoff for your company’s upcoming management meeting. As a result of attending this session, you will: • Know how to capitalize on innovation to rev up growth • Know how to map out and implement a superior approach to inventing the future – one that will enable you and your firm to exploit new markets, win new customers, and grow revenue from new sources • Be energized and inspired by real world examples of companies that revved up growth in moribund markets • Know how to motivate your people with proven, powerful methods that spark “out of the box” thinking • Be able to create a company-wide system to ensure that good ideas don’t get lost – or show up in the hands of competitors!
Innovation is Everybody's Business
In this dynamic, interactive presentation, veteran keynoter Robert B. Tucker reveals how the seven essential I-Skills needed to think ahead of the curve, delight and challenge customers and colleagues, slash costs, and achieve unconventional results. Based on interviews with 43 innovation-adept managers and contributors, Innovation is Everybody’s Business guides you and your team in:
The Intelligent Talk Show
Have you ever wished there was a way to spice up those important – but often boring – panel discussions at your association or company meeting? Now there is. Retire that drab, draped table with the squeaky microphones and the hunched over panelists. Instead, have an exciting new format, produced and hosted by Robert B. Tucker, billed as “The Intelligent Talk Show.” Panelists become “guests” on a “live” show and are more animated, lively and better prepared to get their message across. Guests are more willing to tackle the tough issues that create industry buzz, and keep members coming back next year. The “Talk Show” often shows up in meeting evaluations as the “highlight of the entire convention.”
Thinking Ahead of the Curve
Based on Robert Tucker’s bestselling book, Managing the Future: 10 Driving Forces of Change, this keynote or longer session provides an example filled, fascinating, and practical model for leaders who want to avoid disruption, and profit from today’s rapid changes. All too often, we are too busy running today’s business to seize the emerging technological, economic and social trends, and use them as stepping stones to revenue growth, profit and competitive advantage. This power-packed keynote is based on Tucker’s customization research into the megatrends impacting your organization and industry, and the program is both inspiring and empowering for one and all.
Innovation Master Classes: Building Innovation Capability for Breakthrough Results
In these practical, highly customized two and three-day workshops, Robert Tucker guides you and your team through a step-by-step process of developing innovation capability in your company to drive growth, differentiation and competitive advantage. Using Tucker's Five Best Practices of the Global Innovation Vanguard Companies he has studied, Tucker helps you identify what you and your organization must do to create and implement a systematic, sustainable process of innovation to out-think and out-perform the competition. He argues that in the Vanguard Firms, "innovation" is a core strategic imperative and is driven from the top. He works with you to establish criteria and define innovation uniquely to your organization's needs. He shows how to adapt the Tucker Innovation Model to create your firm's innovation process, including a robust Front End of Innovation, and an idea selection process that winnows and sorts ideas entering your funnel on their way to implementation. The Vanguard Firms all Collaborate Deeply with Customers, and in this module, participants learn how to meet and anticipate the unmet and unarticulated needs of their customers, and how to enter new markets with new business models and value propositions that disrupt existing players. Using a comprehensive and proprietary Innovation Climate Survey adapted to your firm, Tucker delves deeply into the issue of your present culture and helps you master the essential elements necessary to Cultivate a Culture of Risk-taking, and how to Make Innovation Everybody's Business.
At each step of the way, you and your teammates will work alone and together on exercises that help build Innovation Skills. Specific focus is placed on:
Each Master Class Robert Tucker conducts is heavily customized to the needs and goals of your CEO and organization. Master Classes may be condensed into a half day format, but two to three days is the desirable format, at an offsite location free of distraction from the day to day business of running the company.
Webinars
Looking for an alternative way to bring Robert Tucker’s powerful ideas to your group or organization? An ever increasing number of our corporate and association clients are using online webinars to extend the impact of a live presentation, or deliver innovation training online for employees. For example, one association used Tucker webinars to increase attendance at its annual meeting. Others use webinars on a monthly basis to extend the learning and reach deeper into their organizations.
On the corporate side, software powerhouse SAP invited Tucker to contribute to its SAP Innovation Day to bring thousands of employees throughout the world up to speed on the latest tools and techniques of innovation. please contact us if you’re interested in exploring this option.
When was the last time you focused on upgrading your ability to conceive and introduce new product, service, process and strategy ideas? Could it be that you are using yesterday’s methods to manage today’s complex marketplace challenges? This dynamic, example-filled presentation, will give you an overview of the important findings reported in Robert B. Tucker’s book, Driving Growth Through Innovation. Tucker will take you and your colleagues on a guided tour inside 23 “innovation vanguard” companies. You’ll discover cutting-edge methods for building innovation into a powerful source of growth, profits, and competitive advantage. You’ll learn unconventional approaches for turning innovation into a systematic, imbedded process, and be motivated to take action in your firm. This presentation is perfect as a keynote for annual conventions, or as a stimulating kickoff for your company’s upcoming management meeting. As a result of attending this session, you will: • Know how to capitalize on innovation to rev up growth • Know how to map out and implement a superior approach to inventing the future – one that will enable you and your firm to exploit new markets, win new customers, and grow revenue from new sources • Be energized and inspired by real world examples of companies that revved up growth in moribund markets • Know how to motivate your people with proven, powerful methods that spark “out of the box” thinking • Be able to create a company-wide system to ensure that good ideas don’t get lost – or show up in the hands of competitors!
Innovation is Everybody's Business
In this dynamic, interactive presentation, veteran keynoter Robert B. Tucker reveals how the seven essential I-Skills needed to think ahead of the curve, delight and challenge customers and colleagues, slash costs, and achieve unconventional results. Based on interviews with 43 innovation-adept managers and contributors, Innovation is Everybody’s Business guides you and your team in:
- Mastering the 7 essential I-Skills needed to become indispensable.
- Unleashing the “mindset, skill-set, and toolset of the innovator” that enable you to anticipate and rise to the challenges your organization faces in a hyper-competitive era.
- Building tools for work-life balance and creating your own job satisfaction.
The Intelligent Talk Show
Have you ever wished there was a way to spice up those important – but often boring – panel discussions at your association or company meeting? Now there is. Retire that drab, draped table with the squeaky microphones and the hunched over panelists. Instead, have an exciting new format, produced and hosted by Robert B. Tucker, billed as “The Intelligent Talk Show.” Panelists become “guests” on a “live” show and are more animated, lively and better prepared to get their message across. Guests are more willing to tackle the tough issues that create industry buzz, and keep members coming back next year. The “Talk Show” often shows up in meeting evaluations as the “highlight of the entire convention.”
Thinking Ahead of the Curve
Based on Robert Tucker’s bestselling book, Managing the Future: 10 Driving Forces of Change, this keynote or longer session provides an example filled, fascinating, and practical model for leaders who want to avoid disruption, and profit from today’s rapid changes. All too often, we are too busy running today’s business to seize the emerging technological, economic and social trends, and use them as stepping stones to revenue growth, profit and competitive advantage. This power-packed keynote is based on Tucker’s customization research into the megatrends impacting your organization and industry, and the program is both inspiring and empowering for one and all.
Innovation Master Classes: Building Innovation Capability for Breakthrough Results
In these practical, highly customized two and three-day workshops, Robert Tucker guides you and your team through a step-by-step process of developing innovation capability in your company to drive growth, differentiation and competitive advantage. Using Tucker's Five Best Practices of the Global Innovation Vanguard Companies he has studied, Tucker helps you identify what you and your organization must do to create and implement a systematic, sustainable process of innovation to out-think and out-perform the competition. He argues that in the Vanguard Firms, "innovation" is a core strategic imperative and is driven from the top. He works with you to establish criteria and define innovation uniquely to your organization's needs. He shows how to adapt the Tucker Innovation Model to create your firm's innovation process, including a robust Front End of Innovation, and an idea selection process that winnows and sorts ideas entering your funnel on their way to implementation. The Vanguard Firms all Collaborate Deeply with Customers, and in this module, participants learn how to meet and anticipate the unmet and unarticulated needs of their customers, and how to enter new markets with new business models and value propositions that disrupt existing players. Using a comprehensive and proprietary Innovation Climate Survey adapted to your firm, Tucker delves deeply into the issue of your present culture and helps you master the essential elements necessary to Cultivate a Culture of Risk-taking, and how to Make Innovation Everybody's Business.
At each step of the way, you and your teammates will work alone and together on exercises that help build Innovation Skills. Specific focus is placed on:
- Identifying the Innovation Styles of each participant and demonstrating how to manage the mix of personalities on dedicated teams
- Identifying new and emerging customer needs and marketplace opportunities
- How to set up an Idea Management System that is right for your company and gains maximum participation and throughput of winning ideas.
- Learning ideation techniques and methods that transform team output and raise the quality of thinking to a whole new level
- Measuring new ideas to determine their efficacy and value.
- How to reward risk-takers to encourage continuous, ongoing breakthroughs.
- How to sell ideas to the senior team, and build the buy-in for the Innovation Initiative
- How to identify the barriers to innovation in your company's culture, and "bust" those barriers.
Each Master Class Robert Tucker conducts is heavily customized to the needs and goals of your CEO and organization. Master Classes may be condensed into a half day format, but two to three days is the desirable format, at an offsite location free of distraction from the day to day business of running the company.
Webinars
Looking for an alternative way to bring Robert Tucker’s powerful ideas to your group or organization? An ever increasing number of our corporate and association clients are using online webinars to extend the impact of a live presentation, or deliver innovation training online for employees. For example, one association used Tucker webinars to increase attendance at its annual meeting. Others use webinars on a monthly basis to extend the learning and reach deeper into their organizations.
On the corporate side, software powerhouse SAP invited Tucker to contribute to its SAP Innovation Day to bring thousands of employees throughout the world up to speed on the latest tools and techniques of innovation. please contact us if you’re interested in exploring this option.
Managing the Future is a lucid, practical guide to total quality in business. There is no enterprise that would not benefit by responding to [Tucker’s] driving forces of change.” ANDY S. GROVE Chairman, Intel Corporation 1 2 3 4 5
“You were definitely the speaker we were looking for our Leadership Forum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. You were extremely well received by our CEO guests who were completely engaged the entire time you were speaking. We know from the performance feedback that your presentation was the most dynamic and interesting among the others.” EDGARDO TETTAMANTI SVP, Marketing Latin America, MasterCard Worldwide
“Excellent presentation. You provided helpful insights for all of us to take back to our work away world and use.” J.D. BOROWSKI Divisional Vice President, 3M