Please join us in New York City along with Andrew Haarsager, head of Cartier’s Retail Innovation Lab. We’ll have a focus in this session on the future of retail, the growth of cities, and how the re-shaping of work relates to both. To request a seat, please email peter@iloinstitute.net directly.

This week we'll focus our conversation on innovation practices and lessons from Amazon, from the perspective of an outsider with strong relationships to key executives in development, operations, HR, and Amazon's Digital Innovation Group. Amazon does a lot right in its approach to innovation, and is still learning lessons from challenges and changing circumstances internally and externally. Consider our observations to be those of an appreciative but skeptical perspective. We'll touch on innovation as a culture, innovation as a strategy, and innovation as a stance toward experimentation. We'll pay special attention to HR issues, including accountability, incentives, unionization issues, and self-management platforms and strat

This week, we'll be looking at the major shifts in how work is organized and executed in large organizations, with special attention to the rise of self-management, and what firms can do to accelerate and benefit from it. We'll look at case studies from Valve, Uber, Amazon, Netflix, DARPA, and other organizations, and we'll explore the ways that open measurement of success at the individual and group levels can help create a positive culture of matching individuals to tasks, and to teams.

Please join us in New York City over lunch with Murli Buluswar, Head of Analytics for Citi’s consumer bank. ILO had the privilege to work with Murli when he was Chief Science Officer at AIG beginning in 2012, and pioneered the serious application of data analytics in financial services.

Please join us in Austin along with Admiral William McRaven, who served as commander of the United States Special Operations Command, Chancellor of the University of Texas system, and has been floated as a potential Secretary of Defense by the Biden administration. To request a seat, please email peter@iloinstitute.net directly.

Please join us in Los Angeles along with Olga Patel, principal leader of emerging technology at the Walt Disney Company. To request a seat, please email peter@iloinstitute.net directly.

Joti Balani, Founder and Managing Director of Freshriver.ai, and member lead of the ILO Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence + Innovation will report out on the group's activities and insights.

Please join us in Columbus, OH along with Dave Berson, Chief Economist for Nationwide Insurance, to look ahead at emerging macro trends and how they will impact the structure of work, the practice of innovation in large organizations, and opportunities for growth. Please send an email to peter@iloinstitute.net to RSVP.

This week we'll have the founders of U+ present on growing new ventures inside large firms. U+ is in the business of exactly that, and works with dozens of Global 2000 firms -- beyond ideation and strategy, and beyond proof-of-concept -- to build and operate new businesses.

We're very fortunate this week to have Roger Chaufournier a leading healthcare strategist and ILO member, sharing the perspectives of our healthcare + innovation special-interest group. This will launch a larger conversation about post-COVID (or late-COVID) issues ranging from workplace dynamics to travel to hiring and retention.

We'll meet in Detroit, with D V Rao, Chief Strategy Officer of CMS Energy and Consumers Energy, serving ten million residents of Michigan as their public utility. Please send an email to peter@iloinstitute.net to RSVP.

Joel Barbier, head of Cisco’s Customer Zero innovation program, and Ursula Llabres, Global Head of Executive Engagement and Customer Experience programs at Facebook, will both be with us, and both lead brief presentations and follow-on conversations over lunch. to rsvp, please contact peter@iloinstitute.net