Ferhat Demir

D. Ferhat Demir is an innovation consultant, columnist, lecturer, and international speaker. He studied Industrial Engineering. He received his Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Kennesaw State University and his Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree from Georgia State University in the United States. Mr. Demir has diverse experience with large corporations, SMEs, non-profit organizations, and governmental institutions including Fortune 500 companies. His fields of expertise include strategic management, innovation strategies, competitiveness, business process management, business model, and organizational design. The topics he provides mentorship are proposal design, user research, customer journey mapping, opportunity assessment, product-market fit, business model design, lean management, prototyping, and strategy formulation. After holding managerial positions in the corporate world for long years, he founded a corporate innovation agency and accelerator named QGroup in 2013. QGroup develops its’ own innovation models, frameworks, and tools. Mr. Demir currently teaches management courses at several universities and actively conducts researches on innovation-related issues.

His keynote speeches focus on;

• Open Innovation
• Strategic Management
• Innovation Strategies
• In House Enterpreneurship
• Unique Start up Mentality
• Strategic Thinking