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Dr. Marc Sniukas    

Global expert on strategic innovation and corporate entrepreneurship. Author of The Art of Opportunity (Wiley 2016).

Dr. Marc Sniukas is an author and global expert on strategic innovation and corporate entrepreneurship.

Marc merges a unique expertise on strategy, innovation and business models, with insights on execution and organizational transformation.

Marc partners with leadership teams and their organizations to discover opportunities for new growth, develop breakthrough strategies and innovative business models to seize those opportunities and transform their organization to execute the new strategy.

He has worked with major corporations across a wide range of industries in the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Russia, Turkey, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Singapore, and China.

Besides his corporate work, Marc is engaged in executive education. He was an adjunct professor at CEDIM, where he thought Business Model Innovation within the Master of Business Innovation program for 4 years. He has also run courses and given guest lectures at leading business schools including Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, the Boston University School of Management, and the European Business School London among others.

As an entrepreneur, Marc has worked in the music industry and was the founder and managing director of a training organization developing and delivering executive programs on strategy, leadership, general management and business administration for companies worldwide. The company was successfully sold.

Marc is currently a co-founder of www.businessmodelgallery.com, the world’s largest business model database.

He holds a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) from Alliance Manchester Business School, a master’s degree in business, economics, and social sciences from the Vienna University of Economics and Business, and he studied training and organizational development at Salzburg University Business School. Marc is also a certified Blue Ocean Strategy Practitioner and has extensive training in group dynamics and process facilitation.

Born and raised in the Ardennes of northern Luxembourg, he is fluent in English, German, French, and Luxembourgish. Having lived abroad for more than 15 years, he currently lives with his wife close to Luxembourg city.

Some companies Marc had the pleasure working with:

ABB, Abbott Laboratories, ADEG Handelsgruppe, AGIP, Ascom, ArvinMeritor, Audi AG, BankAustria-Creditanstalt, BarryCallebaut, BMW Group, BMW Financial Services, BMW Brilliance Automotive China, Commercial Bank of Dubai, Corning Life Sciences, Contrast Management Consulting, DLA Piper, Erste Bank, Etisalat, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Fraunhofer Venture Gruppe, GAF, Hewlett-Packard, Institute for International Research (IIR) Management Education, Mondi AG, Industriewerke Basel, Kraft Foods Europe, Lufthansa, Mayr-Melnhof, McDonald’s Deutschland Inc., Mercedes-Benz, Mondi Packaging, National Bank of Dubai, Nokia, Nycomed, OMV, Österreichsiche Post, REWE Group, Rosenbauer, SAP, Saudi Electricity Company, Schindler Group, Sika, Telekom Austria, T-Systems, Wienerberger AG, WWK Versicherungen,…

Speech Topics


This is Business Model Innovation

How can established companies design and implement business model innovations?

A lot has been said and written on business models and how to innovate them. Yet, the concept is still poorly understood.

This speech focuses on outlining: - Why business model innovation is important; - What a business model actually is; - How to design and implement innovative business models.

The Corporate Entrepreneur: Driving Innovation and New Ventures from within your Organization

How do you create an entrepreneurial mindset in your organization?

Leaders often ask their associates to be more entrepreneurial. Yet, many don't know what it means to be an entrepreneur.

This speech outlines:

  • What it means to think like a corporate entrepreneur;
  • How to act like a corporate entrepreneur; and
  • How to design and launch new ventures from within established organization; and
  • How to make corporate entrepreneurship and innovation happen.

Practical examples from successful corporate entrepreneurs illustrate the points in action.

The Art of Opportunity: How to Build Growth through Strategic Innovation

All successful companies must eventually answer the same basic question: How do you create new growth strategies?

The Art of Opportunity outlines how successful growth companies apply:

  • A new strategy framework focusing on the discovery of new opportunities and how they seize those opportunities by designing offerings, business models and revenues models;
  • A cutting edge strategy process for designing and implementing those strategies;
  • A fresh mindset facilitating this new approach; to create new growth and launch new ventures from within their established organizations.

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