HKKMS event : Managing uncertainty

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Sep 202012
 

The society is very happy that Tony Quinlan, an expert on narrative techniques is in Hong Kong and is available to give a talk to the Society on Monday 24th September on the subject of managing uncertainty.

Event details

Date and time : Monday 24th September 2012 (6.30pm – 8.00 pm)
Venue: Conference Room 2, 22/F, United Centre 95 Queensway (Admiralty MTR
Station)

The event is free for HKKMS members and $200 for non-members..

Registration for this event has completed

Synopsis

Many business problems do not respond well to standard business practices –
surveys, business process re-engineering, total quality management etc.
It’s time to consider using new techniques and technology derived from the
latest business thinking – an exciting fusion of complexity science,
cognitive neuroscience and anthropology. Complexity science provides a new
way of understanding strategic issues for organisations. Switching from a
fail-safe design mindset to one based on safe-fail experimentation creates a
more resilient approach to managing uncertainty.

SPEAKER BIO

Tony Quinlan, is a highly-experienced speaker, practitioner and consultant
using narrative techniques. He has brought them to bear on sales
improvement for Pfizer, leadership in government departments, innovation and
teamworking in Unilever and on understanding cultural issues in
international diplomacy. His 25-year record includes work with IBM, UNICEF,
PA Consulting, Hewlett Packard, UK government, Aviva and the World Health
Organisation.

Innovation Capability Maturity Model

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Aug 302012
 
Darrell mannWe are delighted to welcome back to Hong Kong , Darrell Mann , a global thought leader on the topic of innovation . Many of you attended his workshop in January of this year when he shared several of his models and techniques derived from many years hands on involvement in systematic innovation. His latest book takes a look at one of the factors that is a barrier or enabler of innovation ; the organizational culture.

He will introduce an Innovation Capability Maturity Model which provides a means of assessing the likelihood of successful innovation in your firm’s culture.

The event is free for HKKMS members and $200 for non-members.

Event details
Date and time : Tuesday 11th September 2012 (6.30pm – 8.00 pm)
Venue: Conference Room 2, 22/F, United Centre 95 Queensway (Admiralty MTR Station)

Registration for this event has closed

We look look forward to seeing you at the meeting.

Abstract and speaker bio, can be found below:

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Perspectives on July event “Unlocking intellectual capital”

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Jul 222012
 

Dr John Dumay, unlocking ICDr John Dumay, presented a pragmatic and useful presentation, that was targeted to Intellectual Capital (IC) practitioners.

Some of the more useful and standout points (at least for me) were:

  1. Entering into IC, is often done from the accounting perspective, which results in locking into an paradigm that can limit the effectiveness of IC in an organisation.  It can get “lost”.
  2. Strategic introduction of IC into an organisation allows “unlocking of IC” for real change and to enable individual managers and teams achieve individual goals.
  3. Dr Dumay’s study of IC within an Italian Utilities company, initially focused towards assessing whether measuring and report IC could aid in assessing whether the company is better fulfilling customer needs, during potential merger discussion that IC report was invaluable to assess fit and improve integration with a new partner.
  4. Conclusion reached is that sometime a formal “accounting” approach to IC is needed, especially for new comers.
  5. Undertaking a full company wide IC reporting project needs full management support.  If this level of support is not present it is possible and pragmatic to undertake smaller business unit or departmental approach to introduce IC practices.

I do believe that implementation of IC is company specific and you need to take stock of what is the reality within the company that you work, personally speaking I think you do need some measures and indicators, and these need to be carefully designed,  but this has to be balanced, overly complicated measurement approaches will inhibit real benefits.

Further perspectives from anyone is welcome.

The full PDF of the presentation can be found here (Dr John Dumay – Unlocking IC)

Photo’s from the event can be seen Photo Gallery page.

Unlocking intellectual capital

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Jul 142012
 
Dr John Dumay The HKKMS is pleased to have Dr. John Dumay from the University of Sydney, to be presenting to the society on “unlocking intellectual capital” This event is jointly organised by the HKKMS & the KMIRC.

Dr. Dumay worked for over 15 years as an independent business consultant across a wide variety of industries before joining academia after completing his PhD in 2008.   This seminar brings together Dr John Dumay’s unique blend of consulting, change management and academic research experience to help “un-lock” IC so that academics and practitioners can take the lessons he has learnt, adapt them into their own context and “un-lock” the IC in their own organisations.

Event schedule
Date: 17th JULY 2012, 6:30 -8:00 PM
Venue: Conference Room 1, 22/F,
United Centre, 95 Queensway
(Admiralty MTR Station)

Further details of “unlock intellectual capital and Dr John Dumay

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