E. Peng, MBA
Asia Consulting Associate
E, Peng, also known as "Roc" in international community, is a seasoned consultant, practitioner and scholar on innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship, with over 10 years of work experience in pursuit of innovation excellence.
Roc is the Chief Representative, Greater China of rInnovation Group. Roc also teaches graduate students at Sun Yat-sen University on entrepreneurship and Enterprise Innovation Management. Before his current position, he worked for Accenture in the U.S. and China, GE Corporate U.S., Oracle China and Beijing Beida Jade Bird on various roles related to innovation team and project management. Roc has provided professional innovation management and technology training and consulting services to Fortunate 500 companies and large NGOs as well as small firms across multiple industries on strategic planning, system integration and innovation management projects. The clients he has serviced are, among others, China Mobile, Best Buy U.S., China Construction Bank, Bureau of Shanghai Worldexpo Coordination, Shanghai Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone Group, Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce. He is a senior member of the China Creative Studies Institute, Birds of a Feather Innovation Leaders Group and Toastmasters International, among many other professional organizations.
Roc earned his M.B.A. in radical innovation and corporate entrepreneurship from the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York and a B.E. in fluid mechanics from University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. He has co-authored two books, numerous papers and delivered presentations at seven premiere conferences internationally on topics covering business, IT, innovation, creativity and corporate entrepreneurship. Roc has travelled to nine countries and currently he is based in Shanghai, China.
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The Learning Plan Compass™
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Want to change your innovation game? Learn to navigate uncertainty? Differentiate your leadership and strategy skills from others?
In our new series, Pivot Reinvented – Navigating Uncertainty™, we will share how innovative, global organizations navigate through industry disruption, business complexity and organizational transformation.
The Learning Plan Compass™, is the first in our series, which you can now download for free on our webpage. Try it out. Let us know what you think and how we might be able to help!
Why it matters?
When companies explore new, strategic innovation opportunities, they need to apply the right methodology and tools to be able to cope with a high degree of uncertainty. The Learning Plan Compass™ is a tool that is designed for developing significantly new products, services and/or business models.
What is the source code?
The Learning Plan Compass™ is a visual redesign of our extensively tried and tested Learning Plan™ approach used by companies in diverse industries to systematically progress opportunities. It helps teams to identify what they know, don’t know and the assumptions they are making. Teams can then zero in on what is most critical to learn first to reduce uncertainty.
How is it different?
It addresses four types of opportunity or project uncertainty, rather than the more typical Technical and Market ones. In fact, we know that the other two, Resource and Organization uncertainties, are the ones that do get in the way of success.
Key uncertainty questions are how do we:
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Learn about Technical drivers, benefits and economic feasibility, when the solution is not known yet?
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Learn about Market drivers, value creation and business viability in the absence of a clear value proposition or even knowing who the future customers will be?
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Access the right Resource streams – people, funding and new capabilities – when there are different innovation roles and gaps in capability to fill as well as new funding models required?
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How do we build Organization support in the absence of a clear strategic fit, organizational home and a credible business case?
How do you start?
If you are struggling with any of these questions, the Learning Plan Compass™ can point you in the right direction, and even change mindsets about the criticality of navigating uncertainty.
Download The Learning Plan Compass™ for free to get started! Should you want to learn more, we would be delighted to guide you.
