Agility and resilience: Superpowers to handle complexity
In cooperation with Global Peter Drucker Forum
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Elisabeth-Herz-Kremenak-Saal
Plenary
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in englischer SpracheOrganisations are vivid organisms in complex and agile playing fields. Management, however, is often stuck in yesterday’s linear patterns of thought and behaviour. Celebrating the 10-year jubilee of the Peter Drucker Forum, we look at how management can build capacity for resilience in organisations of the 21st century.
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Dr. Richard STRAUB
Founder and President, Global Peter Drucker Forum, Vienna
| 1984-1987 | Director, PC Sales IBM Austria |
| 1987-1992 | Director, PC Unit, IBM Austria |
| 1993-1994 | Assistant General Manager, PC Marketing, IBM EMEA |
| 1994-1995 | Regional Director, PC IBM Central Europe and Russia |
| 1996-1997 | Director, IBM Global Marketing and Sales Institute, Belgium |
| 1997-2001 | Chief Learning Officer, IBM Global Sales and Distribution Group |
| 2001-2005 | Director, Learning Solutions, IBM EMEA |
| since 2006 | Associate Director, Corporate Services EFMD |
| Senior Adviser, IBM Global Education Industry | |
| Senior Adviser to the Chairman, IBM EMEA | |
| since 2008 | President, Peter Drucker Society Europe |
Steve DENNING
Author; Columnist for Forbes.com, Washington D.C.
| Steve Denning is the author of nine books, including his new book, The Age of Agile (AMACOM, 2018). Steve is the former Program Director, Knowledge Management at the World Bank. He writes a column for Forbes.com on leadership, innovation and Agile management. He works with organizations in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia. He also leads the SD Learning Consortium, a group of major private sector firms that are sharing knowledge about the Agile transformation journey. |
Dr. Andreas J. LUDWIG
Executive Chairman, Umdasch Group AG, Amstetten
| Master and Doctorate Law Degree, University of Vienna | |
| Business Management and Economics, WU -. Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna | |
| Professional Management Degree, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA | |
| 1984-1985 | Assistant, Wiener Treuhand- und WirtschaftsberatungsgmbH, Vienna |
| 1986 | Assistant to the Chief Financial Officer, Swarovski America Ltd, Rhode Island, NE |
| 1987-1990 | Vice President Finance, Daniel Swarovski Corp., Männedorf |
| 1991-1993 | Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Zale Corporation, Swarovski Group, Dallas, TX |
| 1994-2001 | Chief Executive Officer, Tyrolit Group, Swarovsky Group, Schwaz |
| 2001-2003 | Managing Director, UBS Warburg, London |
| 2003-2010 | Chief Executive Officer, Zumtobel Group, Dornbirn |
| 2010-2015 | Chief Executive Officer, Umdasch AG, Amstetten |
| 2016 | Executive Chairman, Umdasch Group AG, Amstetten |
Prof. Liisa VÄLIKANGAS
Professor, Innovation Management, Aalto University and Hanken School of Economics Helsinki
| Professor Liisa Välikangas teaches innovation management at Aalto University and Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland. Previously she has been affiliated with Stanford University, London Business School and Keio University in Japan. She has also worked for Strategos, a strategic management consulting firm, and SRI International in California's Silicon Valley. She is known for her publications in strategic renewal and resilience (including The Resilient Organization, McGraw-Hill, 2010 and The Quest for Resilience, Harvard Business Review, 2003) and innovation management (Strategic Innovation, Pearson/Financial Times Press, 2015). She is Senior Editor of Management and Organization Review, a journal focused on China and emerging markets, published by Cambridge University Press. Her current research projects focus on the business and societal implications of digital technologies including blockchain and how to tackle very large problems, i.e., world challenges. Prof. Välikangas has consulted and worked with many small and large companies around the world and served in the board of the Finnish National Innovation Agency, Tekes. |
Dagmar WOYDE-KOEHLER
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, new&able Management- und Organisationsberatung GmbH, Karlsruhe
| Dagmar Woyde-Koehler is founder and managing partner of the new&able management consultancy. Improvement of decision-making and cooperation through intelligent networking and agile use of organisational intelligence "in business and society" has been one of the key concerns of her work for over twenty years. | |
| As a long-time top manager she has gained an insider’s intimate knowledge of what makes major corporations tick. For her pioneering work in the introduction of intellectual capital reporting in the EnBW AG, a leading German electricity utility, in 2008 she was made Germany´s "Chief Learning Officer of the Year". | |
| In collaboration with Gebhard Borck she published the book "Wetten statt Planen" (Make Bets - not Plans), a provocative reassessment of the meaning and purpose of traditional corporate planning. | |
| Dagmar Woyde-Koehler is a member of the New Club of Paris, the Wertekommission (Initiative for Values-Conscious Leadership), the Forum Gute Führung (Forum for Good Leadership) and the European Leonardo Advisory Board. | |
| In 2004 she founded the MINDKISS Project, an international and interdisciplinary networking venture, which she has curated and managed ever since. |
