Theme 1: Organizational Intangibles and Tangible Value
What are the intangible drivers which determine the livability of organizations for insiders and their credibility and attraction to outsiders?
Living Tensions:
Vision, strategy, and leadership: the top-down and bottom-up
Balancing internal and external intangible drivers
Creating the conditions of innovation
Managing intangibles for tangible outcomes
Building intellectual capital and maintaining intellectual property
Networks, clusters, alliances: building collaborative organizational cultures
Developing sustainable organizational cultures: government, community, and NGOs
Theme 2: Knowledge Economies as the Constant
Ours is the era of the knowledge economy, but when has this not been the truth?
Living Tensions:
Reconceptualizing ‘economy’ in knowledge societies
Blurring the boundaries: formal vs. informal learning, training, and education
An appropriate education for the new work orders: managing vs. preempting change
New types of organizations: what do you need to learn today, how to prepare for tomorrow
Technologies and organizational change: removing heritage systems and moving forward with new tech
Making the most of intellectual and human capital: understanding small data, aggregating big data
Addressing the divides: digital, development, social
Agonies of change: working with order and chaos; regularity and complexity
Theme 3: Organizations as Knowledge Makers
What is this nebulous thing ‘knowledge’ and how do organizations create, innovate, and manage it?
Living Tensions:
What is knowledge and what is the role of learning?
Who makes a knowledge worker: workplace vs lifelong learning?
The balance of personal capacity and organizational resources
Mentoring: where leadership means knowledge transfer
Restructuring: revamping, rethinking and reevaluation
Knowledge as a factor of production or an underlying expense?
Transforming personal knowledge into common knowledge
Theme 4: The Value of Culture and the Demand of Change
How do we guide change to social, stakeholder and market dynamics grounded in principles of ethics, equality and care for those in our organizations and the societies we live in?
Living Tensions:
What is organizational culture? ‘Organic’, ‘community’, ‘complexity’ and other metaphors
What makes a culture of success: negotiating past, present future
The balance of markets, clients, stakeholders and community expectations
Agonies of change: working with order and chaos; regularity and complexity
Productive diversity: capitalizing on human differences
The inclusive and supportive workplace: ethics, equality, care
Different ways of working?
Globalization, internationalization and organizational change
Legal and regulatory challenges in a constantly changing environment