John C. Canevari

Associate Director, Digital Transformation & Innovation @Novo Nordisk

Direct innovation operations to align with company vision. Develop long-term strategies to drive disruptive innovation for future revenue growth, define specific innovation objectives, and guide progress to guarantee efficient operations for all innovation-centric activities. Enforce and adhere to Agile principles to streamline workstreams and realize efficiencies. Manage external vendor teams, supervise and train internal team members. Contributed to the creation of a newly designed corporate innovation process, developed process efficiencies through a 1-year trial & error refinement process. Increased prototype testing and handoff for market development resulting in increased concept throughput from a small percentage of opportunities to a broad range of disruptive opportunities. Enhanced velocity and volume through a “fail quickly & pivot” framework which improved concept throughput by 400%. Oversaw innovation concept research and development, resulting in a 5 to 10-year vision driving the company’s disruptive and alternative revenue pathways. Created a Patient Empathy Program focused on fostering a thorough corporate-wide deep patient knowledge base.