Speakers
- Professor Eric Tsui, The Hong Kong Knowledge Management Society
- Yossi Pasher Yossi Pasher & Associates, Israel
- Dr. Edna Pasher Chief Editor of ‘Status — the Management Thinking Journal’
Innovation has become the most strategic core competence of organisations. In turbulent times competitive advantages do not last very long and in order to survive, organisations need to embark on a new journey of on-going strategic renewal. This is an extremely difficult goal and can be achieved only through focused and systematic innovation management.
Organisations find it difficult to cope with this goal and often confuse creativity and innovation, knowledge management and innovation management; wonder if and how to empower their people to become entrepreneurs – though they are hired employees; worry about the need to open up the organisation in order to innovate and hesitate how to manage risk in this threatening new business environment.
Edna and Yossi Pasher have helped organisations with these demanding issues for many years and have led the Knowledge Management and Innovation Management movement in Israel since its very beginning and they shared their knowledge with the participants in this workshop (and Israel is considered ‘‘The Second Silicon Valley”!) In addition – they actually practice what they preach – and since they believe that knowledge and innovation are created mostly in conversations – their workshop was highly interactive and engaged the
participants in understanding the problems they cope with, identified opportunities to cope with them and innovated for renewal and sustainability. Some of the subjects covered were:
- Innovation as a strategic core competence
- Creativity and Innovation
- Knowledge and Innovation
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Risk taking and Innovation
- Customer-driven innovation
- Technology-driven innovation
- Innovation for sustainability