Northumbrian Water is a UK based utility company delivering services in the highly regulated water industry. Join us to learn about how they have been working with Strategyzer to assess their levels of innovation readiness. We will also discuss how they are taking lessons and practices from startups and corporate innovation; and applying these within the highly regulated constraints of their business.
Building an innovation ecosystem with Northumbrian Water’s innovation team
There are very few companies that don’t have at least one or two innovation projects going on. Post Covid-19, the leadership challenge is to build an ecosystem in which innovation becomes a repeatable process.
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About the speakers
Dr. Alex Osterwalder
Entrepreneur, speaker, and business thinker
Alex is the inventor of the Business Model Canvas, used by more than 200,000 companies across 178 countries. He is co-author of Business Model Generation, named one of the Financial Times' top 10 most-cited business books. He ranks number four on the Thinkers50 list of global management thinkers and has won the Thinkers50 Strategy Award. He has spent two decades coaching senior leaders at organisations including Bayer, Bosch, WL Gore, Honeywell, and Mastercard.
Dr. Tendayi Viki
Author, speaker and advisor
Senior Partner at Strategyzer and author of multiple books on innovation and strategy. Tendayi regularly leads strategy workshops for Fortune 500 companies, helping leadership teams navigate disruption and make bold decisions with confidence.
Nigel Watson
Group Information Services Director at Northumbrian Water
Nigel has worked in business and IT roles across a range of competitive industries for more than 30 years. His work experience includes leadership of transformation programmes for leading organisations including GE Capital, Microsoft, Travelport and Vodafone, often across the globe. He has been with Northumbrian Water Group since 2015, joining as Transformation Programme Director. In this role he led the market opening programmes for both Retail and Wholesale.
Angela MacOscar
Head of Innovation at Northumbrian Water
Angela has a passion for innovation and helps businesses embed an innovation culture within the workforce, creates processes and strategies that will result in purpose driven and tangible innovation output. Leveraging her cross sector expertise, she has a proven track record of creating product and commercial innovations across multiple fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) categories that have successfully built the business.
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