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William Duggan is the author of three recent books on strategic intuition as the key to innovation. His keynotes, based on his groundbreaking research and teaching, help audiences capture the benefits of strategic intuition and apply it to real world business situations. In today's economy, it's clear that business leaders needs creative thinking, entrepreneurial thinking, innovative thinking or strategic thinking to succeed: all of these kinds of thinking happen though strategic intuition. Help your audience learn about innovation and how to do it better with this idea-rich and highly relevant keynote presentation.

Professor Duggan's books, Napoleon's Glance: The Secret of Strategy (2002); The Art of What Works: How Success Really Happens (2003); and Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement (2007) are at the core of William Duggan's keynote talk on strategic innovation.

In 2007 the journal Business + Strategy named Strategic Intuition “Best Strategy Book of the Year.”

Professor Duggan is the author of three previous books as well, and has twenty years of experience as a strategy advisor and consultant.  He has BA, MA and PhD degrees from Columbia University.

Currently, Professor Duggan teaches strategic intuition in three venues at Columbia Business School: MBA and Executive MBA courses, and Executive Education sessions.  He sometimes teaches the MBA and Executive MBA core courses in Strategy as well.

In William Duggan's keynote presentation, your audience will learn how innovation really happens and how to do it better, in three ways:  

• An idea: strategic intuition, based on the science of how creative ideas actually happen in practice.
• A method: the four key steps that make strategic intuition occur, and how to do it better yourself.
• A tool: the Insight Matrix, for individuals and teams to apply strategic intuition to any strategic or creative problem.

Professor Duggan's keynote presentation is ideally suited to groups of professionals who participates in strategic planning, innovation or creative design at any level of any organization, especially those supervise or train staff in how to plan, innovate or create.

“In times like these, it's likely that what you're doing now won't work in the future. You need to innovate. But how? You need a creative idea that's also strategic, that you can take action on right away. Strategic Intuition offers a powerful set of ideas, methods and tools for innovation based on the latest breakthroughs in modern neuroscience, principles from classical military strategy, and surprising truths about how great achievements in business and other fields actually happened.”

–William Duggan

Read about Professor Duggan in The Financial Times, "Professors to Watch"

Read The Wall Street Journal review of Progessor Duggan's Strategic Intuition

Read The Irish Times review of Professor Duggan's Strategic Intuition

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