Excellence and innovation are generally regarded as positive but they can mean different things to different people and both need to be relevant and affordable. This theme paper explores a variety of factors, issues and questions relating to excellence, innovation, leadership for excellence and innovation. It considers boardroom leadership and difficult choices, visionary boardroom leadership and factors to balance for responsible innovation, business excellence and the boardroom, driving excellence and innovation through the boardroom and innovation governance and related governance challenges, disruptive innovation in the digital economy, whether corporate governance should be compliance or principled driven, excellence innovation and creating world class organisations, excellence innovation and the family business, excellence innovation and economic growth, some wider implications of excellence and innovation and the relationship between them and challenges and opportunities for directors and boards. The theme paper is designed to encourage thought and challenge some established corporate practices ahead of the Dubai Global Convention 2017 and 27th World Congress on Leadership for Business Excellence and Innovation.
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