Frost & Sullivan's Growth Innovation and Leadership Event Takes Africa on a 'Journey to Visionary Innovation'

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Frost & Sullivan's Growth Innovation and

Leadership Event Takes Africa on a 'Journey to

Visionary Innovation'

PR Newswire

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, June 20, 2012

- Visionaries, Innovators and Leaders to unite on 22nd August in

Cape

Town

for the 2nd annual GIL 2012:

Africa

CAPE TOWN, South Africa

,

June 20, 2012

/PRNewswire/ -- Frost & Sullivan's

premier executive community GIL Global returns to

Cape Town

on 22nd August

at the Table Bay for GIL 2012:

Africa

. Over 200 visionaries, innovators and

leaders will gather to embark on this year's "Journey to Visionary Innovation."

In its second year, GIL 2012:

Africa

promises to challenge the creative mind,

and explore and benchmark winning tools and strategies that will empower

senior executives to accelerate growth and inspire innovation.

"It is essential, now more than ever, that companies adopt well considered

strategies and business models to maintain, or improve, market position," says

Phil Howarth, Partner for

Africa

at Growth Partnership Company, Frost &

Sullivan. "Companies need to think very creatively to inspire their management

teams through clear and challenging visions."

Frost & Sullivan's unique Growth, Innovation and Leadership (GIL) event is

focussed on providing CEOs and their management teams with tools, tactics

and best practices that they can leverage in order to shape a better future for

their companies and careers.

In the keynote speech Mr Dorman Followwill, Partner & Director for EIA Frost &

Sullivan, will discuss why innovation has become an essential ingredient to

survive and thrive in the future business environment, as well as "where

innovation comes from" and "how to become an innovative thinker."

"Innovation has now become an essential ingredient to survive and thrive in the

business environment," explains Brian Denker, Frost & Sullivan's Vice President

& Global Head for GIL. "Strategic business models and innovative thinking will

effectively aid companies in mitigating current challenges experienced in

business today, such as increasing competitive intensity, declining trends in

margin performance and increasing price performance ratios."

Other highlights will include: the "

Top 10 Global Mega Trends

" and their

impact and implications in transforming society, markets and cultures. These

will assist companies in analysing future market opportunities and generating

powerful ideas for design, development and technology planning. In the

presentation on "

Techvisions 2020: The Top 50 Technologies and

Innovations that are Re-shaping the World

", research on the top

emerging and innovative technologies will give business leaders insight into how

industries, strategies and businesses will be affected by technological

developments in the near future.

Additional highlights include interactive think tanks on the "

Growth

Diagnostic: Measuring your company's future growth potential

"

workshop, where CEOs will learn how to benchmark their companies and gain