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Innovative thinking in Reinventing Management

Global innovation and its application in the uniquely South African organisational context.

Reinventing Management Visit www.symphonia.net to


Conference view the full list of Speakers
and Topics
This event is a collaborative effort between the
SAODN (South African Organisational Development The conference will highlight and utilise some
Network) and Symphonia Leadership Development, off-beat, yet highly impactful facilitation
and is endorsed by partners Wits Business School, techniques to truly shift the learning and
Destiny Magazine, IPM, Finweek, MLab and experience in large group events.
Human Capital Review. Julian Birkinshaw
Keynote Speaker
Management 2.0, the theme for this year’s Benefits of attending
conference is an alternative way of thinking Julian Birkinshaw is a Professor of
about management practices. It has been • Insight and understanding into the Strategic and International Management
defined by an elite group of people including the problems of modern management at The London Business School.
likes of Gary Hamel, Peter Senge, C.K. Prahalad • A diagnostic toolkit to help your company
and others, as a set of challenging goals, the He is Director and Co-founder, with Gary
figure out what it needs to do differently Hamel, of the Management Innovation
‘25 Moon Shots for Management’. These
Lab (MLab) that is operating in collabora-
management challenges can be implemented in • Practical suggestions from real SA success
tion with The London Business School.
an organisation’s quest to achieve transformation stories on how to reinvent management
from old-style management to more creative in your company MLab, one of the conference partners, is a
and innovative management practices. non-profit research organisation dedicated
• Develop understanding about the latest
to management innovation, with a
Julian Birkinshaw, Professor and Deputy Dean, innovation thinking from some of the
mission to accelerate the evolution of
London Business School and Co-founder of the global and local masters in leadership, management.
Management Innovation Lab (MLab) is the key- change and innovation
note speaker at this conference. He will discuss: His academic research is focused on strat-
• Understand both global and local
egy and management of multinational
• How and why today’s organisations need context on the subject of innovation and
firms, corporate entrepreneurship, and
to rethink and reinvent their management reinventing management management innovation.
practices
Julian is widely published in academic
• The current financial crisis and the underlying Who should attend? journals and his article “Management
causes of management failure in companies Innovation” was selected as the best
Business leaders, executives, managers,
• How management can become a source of HR, OD, Strategy, Leadership, Innovation paper in the leading journal, Academy of
Management Review, in 2008.
advantage for organisations and spark creativity specialists and directors and anyone who has
and innovation an interest in the future of their organisation.
His new book, “Reinventing Management:
• How new Web 2.0 technologies and a new Ideally management teams and groups of Smarter Choices for Getting Work Done”,
individuals from each organisation should will be published in March 2010.
generation of employees can facilitate significant
changes in the nature of managerial work consider attending together – in order to
take the learnings from the workshop back
• Practical examples of international into the organisation in order to collectively
organisations who are experimenting with co-create and mobilise real change in
new ways of working management practices.
The conference will also showcase Management
2.0 exemplars from within the South African
context. Representatives from organisations
who have reinvented their management practices
will present different case studies around
‘25 Moon Shots for Management’.
Please also diarise 21 May 2010 Corporate in-house presentations
Reinventing Management: Implications for Change & OD Practitioners Professor Birkinshaw will be available for limited
in-house sessions with organisations on the afternoon /
Delegates who are attending the Reinventing Management Conference on 20 May
early evening of 19 May 2010, and the mid-morning /
2010, will be eligible to book for the one day interactive Reinventing Management:
early afternoon of 20 May 2010, in the Johannesburg
Implications for Change and OD Practitioners Workshop on 21 May 2010, also
area. This is an extremely cost effective way of
in Johannesburg. During this workshop Change & OD practitioners will take the
reaching your entire organisation or large groups of
learnings from the previous day’s conference and interactively discuss how to
staff, through the topic of Reinventing Management
practically integrate the ‘25 Moon Shots for Management’ into their organisations.
presented exclusively by Julian Birkinshaw.
Please note: The Reinventing Management: Implications for Change and OD Please contact 021 913 3507
Practitioners Workshop is only open to delegates who attend the Conference on
20 May 2010 for a nominal additional rate of R 800.00 per person excl VAT. or email kerrie@symphonia.net if you would like to book
Julian for an in-house session.

TICKET PRICES*
Standard ticket R 3,200.00
Standard Early Bird** R 2,700.00
SAODN registered annual member / Partner member / R 2,700.00
JOHANNESBURG
Alumni / Subscriber***
Date: Thurs, 20 May 2010
SAODN registered annual member / Partner member / R 2,200.00
Alumni / Subscriber Early Bird** Registration: 08:00 for 08:30
20 May Conference PLUS 21 May Workshop: add R 800.00 to the above rates.
Time: 08:30 - 17:30
* All ticket prices are excl. VAT
* All tickets include a 3 month subscription (12 issues) to Finweek, Venue: Midrand Conference Centre,
South Africa’s best selling financial weekly magazine. Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa
** Early Bird rates are for bookings made and paid for by 31 March 2010.
*** SAODN rates are only applicable to fully paid-up SAODN members for 2010
(R 300.00 annual membership).

Book now places are limited!


Click here to download a a registration form,
or contact Johleen on 021 913 3507 or email johleen@symphonia.net

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