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Provisional Program PDF.
program highlight
One of the highlights of the conference will be a joint Industry-Academia Panel to be held on Thursday 6 December.
The Panel addresses the topic: “Friends, Foes or Freeloaders?: Building Knowledge Networks Between Business and Academia”. Panellists include our Keynote Speakers Professor Dorothy Leonard and Professor John Bessant, as well as Mr John Phillips, AO, Chancellor of the University of Western Sydney and Chairman of the Foreign Investment Review Board, Ms Lindley Edwards, CEO of The Venture Bank Group and Mr Roger Corbett, former CEO of Woolworths, Australia. This Panel will explore the management of intellectual and social capital in leading firms and the linkages between academia and business in Australia and elsewhere.
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keynote speakers Dorothy Leonard Professor John Bessant
Dorothy Leonard
Dorothy Leonard, the William J. Abernathy Professor
of Business Administration Emerita, joined the Harvard faculty in 1983 after
teaching for three years at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. She has taught MBA courses in managerial leadership,
corporate capabilities, new product and process design, technology strategy and
innovation management. At Harvard, M.I.T., and for corporations such as
Hewlett-Packard, AT&T, and 3M, Professor Leonard has conducted executive courses
on a wide range of innovation-related topics such as cross-functional
coordination during new product development, technology transfer and knowledge
management. She has initiated and served as faculty chair for executive
education programs such as Leveraging Knowledge for the 21st Century,
Leading Product Development, and Enhancing Corporate Creativity. She also
served as a Director of Research for the Harvard Business School and Director of
Research and Knowledge Programs for Harvard Business School’s non-profit
organization, HBS Interactive.
Professor Leonard’s major research interests and consulting expertise relate to
managing knowledge for innovation and stimulating creativity in group settings.
She has consulted with and taught about these topics for governments (e.g.,
Sweden, Jamaica) and major corporations (e.g., IBM, Kodak). She served on the
corporate Board of Directors for American Management Systems for twelve years
and for Guy Gannett Communications for three—in both cases until the company was
merged or acquired.
Her numerous writings appear in academic and practitioner journals as well as in
books on technology management. In addition, Professor Leonard has written
dozens of field-based cases used in business school classrooms around the world.
Her book, Wellsprings of Knowledge: Building and Sustaining the Sources of
Innovation, has been translated into numerous languages. Professor Leonard’s
book, When Sparks Fly: Igniting Group Creativity, (co-authored with
Walter Swap) was also widely translated and awarded “Best Book on Creativity” by
the European Association for Creativity and Innovation. Her latest book (with
Walter Swap) is: Deep Smarts: How to Cultivate and Transfer Enduring Business
Wisdom, was published in January 2005.
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Professor John Bessant
is Professor of Innovation and Technology Management at Tanaka Business School,
Imperial College, London where he is Research Director. He is co-Director of the EPSRC/AIM
collaborative programme with Cambridge, Cranfield,
Loughborough and Liverpool Universities: the Innovation and Productivity Grand
Challenge. He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering and obtained his PhD for
work on innovation within the chemical industry. After a spell in industry he
took up full-time research teaching in the field of technology and innovation
management working at Aston’s Technology Policy Unit, the Science Policy
Research Unit at Sussex University and at Brighton University where he directed
the Centre for Research in Innovation Management (CENTRIM).
He served on the Business and Management panel of the 2001 Research Assessment
Exercise and is also a member of the 2008 panel. In 2003 he was awarded a
Fellowship with the Advanced Institute for Management Research and was also
elected a Fellow of the British Academy of Management. He has acted as advisor
to a number of companies, various national governments and to international
bodies including the United Nations, The World Bank and the OECD.
His areas of research interest include the management of discontinuous
innovation, strategies for developing high involvement innovation and the use of
learning networks to facilitate diffusion of innovation. He is the author of 15
books and many articles on the topic and has lectured and consulted widely
around the world. His most recent books include ‘Managing innovation’ (now in
its 3rd edition and selected as one of the best innovation books at
the European Academy of Management meeting in 2005) and ‘High involvement
innovation’ (both published by John Wiley and Sons).
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In addition to the paper and poster presentations, the program features a variety of interactive workshops which will run from 60-90 minutes.
To assist the workshop presenters with forward planning, we invite all delegates to review the workshop overviews by downloading the PDF files listed below. If you would like to register your interest in one or more of the workshops - please email your preferences as soon as possible to the promaco@promaco.com.au.
Please note that the workshops run concurrently with the paper presentations and therefore a choice (papers or a workshop) is necessary.
WORKSHOP A - Pearson/ANZAM Master Class: ‘On the edge of chaos’: Engagement and Learning in the Classroom - Neil Paulsen
WORKSHOP B - A Pragmatic Approach to Choosing Market Models in Business Simulations for Management Education - Daniel Tixier
WORKSHOP D - Whatever Happened to Casual Faculty? A discussion workshop on the role of Casual Business Faculty based on a recent research project - Bruce Perrott
WORKSHOP E - Introducing Systems Thinking in Management Education - Kambiz Maani
WORKSHOP F - The PhD process and the mature professional candidate -
Doug Fraser
***if this workshop is of interest, please complete and attach this
questionnaire to your email***
WORKSHOP G - Enhancing Group Creativity: Helping Leaders Manage for Innovation - Walter Swap
WORKSHOP H - Creating Change through an Action Research Approach - Jerry Hoffman
WORKSHOP I - Management capability in Australian Industry – a Government perspective - Justin Hill
WORKSHOP J - Engaging With the Community: Business Schools, Their Cities and Regions - David Charles
WORKSHOP K - Workforce Segmentation, Engagement, Retention and Human Capital Reporting - Colin Beames
WORKSHOP L - Exposing Theory in Change Communication Research - Jennifer Frahm
WORKSHOP M - Retention of Research Students: Examples of Best Practice - Ronel Erwee
WORKSHOP N - Gendering Organisations: Where have we come from and where are we going? - Judith Pringle
WORKSHOP O - Knowledge Management Research: What is the Next Wave? - Peter Massingham
Walter Swap
is Professor of psychology emeritus and former Chairman of the Psychology
Department at Tufts University. He was also a Professor in the Gordon Institute
at Tufts, which offers a degree in engineering management to practicing
engineers and scientists, and served as Dean for nine years. He earned his
bachelor’s degree at Harvard and his Ph.D. in social psychology at the
University of Michigan.
Dr. Swap’s professional life has been divided among teaching, research, and
administration. He has received two awards for teaching excellence. He was a
founding member of the university’s innovative Center for Decision Making, where
he introduced undergraduates to the complexities of choice and group dynamics,
and conducted workshops for midlevel managers from a variety of industries. As
dean, he developed centres and programs promoting excellence in teaching,
undergraduate advising, critical thinking, and interdisciplinary education.
Dr. Swap is the author, with wife Dorothy Leonard, of When Sparks Fly: Igniting Creativity in Groups (1999). Among Dr. Swap’s other publications are Group Decision Making (1984), numerous book chapters, and articles in professional journals, including The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, on topics including group dynamics, attitude change, personality theory, altruism, and aggression.
social program
Tuesday 4 December 2007
Thursday 6 December 2007
Friday 7 December 2007
partners
Partners are ‘very important people’ and a special program of activities and tours will offer the best of Sydney and surrounds. back to top
trade exhibition and sponsorship opportunities
A trade exhibition featuring new and innovative products will be a key feature of the conference, and numerous other opportunities will be provided to organisations that wish to take advantage of the exposure to conference participants.
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