The SVP of Innovation Strategy at renown E2.0 Innovation Software company, Spigit (http://www.spigit.com) – Boris is an acknowledged leader and evangelist of corporate Innovation Management, Knowledge Management, Social Media/Technology and Collaboration.
Based on a core belief that companies can harness the untapped potential of the collective social intelligence (from customers, suppliers, employees and more) available to them to drive significant new sources of organic growth and value – Boris has spent the last 15+ years working with senior level executives at predominately large companies to teach them how to take that potential to create a sustainable repeatable value-creating engine process that drives the creation of new products and business models, novel cost reductions, and step-change process improvements.
At Spigit he now leads an elite team of former Innovation practitioners who are dedicated to the task of working with Spigit’s leading clients to enable their journey to becoming “Innovation Superheroes”. The world’s top companies – including companies like Citi, MetLife, Bridgepoint, Coca-Cola, Dupont, Estee Lauder and more – use Spigit’s Innovation Services team’s expertise to turbocharge their innovation program and leapfrog their competition in the Innovation “arms race”.
Prior to Spigit, Boris was a founding member of Imaginatik, an early innovation software platform where he was both Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Professional Services. In that role he drove the emerging industry’s thought leadership – pioneering the development of many of the Idea & Innovation Management world’s current best practices including the “Challenge” methodology.
Prior to Imaginatik, Boris was was part of PricewaterhouseCooper’s (PwC) Strategic Management Consulting practice based in London where he was was an instrumental part of the firm’s post-merger Global Knowledge Management (KM) team tasked with devising and implementing a world-class KM system for one of the world’s most knowledge intensive companies. On moving to the USA, he then took on a client facing role in the company’s IT & Strategy practice working with numerous world class companies to help them harness, measure, and exploit the intellectual capital available to them using the latest technological tools.
Boris has a BSc from Imperial College, London, and an MBA from the Cass School of Business in London. He is the author of numerous articles and research reports on innovation, collaboration and social media practices, and is a co-author of the book ” A Guide to Open Innovation & Crowd-Sourcing” (published by Kogan Page in 2011).
Born a British citizen in Portugal and educated both in the US and in the UK, Boris is a consummate team player both at work and at play, and still plays his main sporting love, rugby (although only at ‘Veteran’s” level nowadays). He is a consummate global traveller fascinated with the world’s cultures, and a self-confessed experience junkie looking for new things to try out.
You can reach Boris here.
