* Chair: Young-Chul Chang, Professor, Kyung Hee University,Korea
* Speaker:
- Gary Mathews, Director, Investors in People, UK
- Harnek Singh, Vice President & Director, Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd., Singapore
- Liu Zheng Rong, Senior Vice President, HR of LANXESS AG, Germany
- Duck-Jin Lee, Vice President, Yuhan-Kimberly, Korea
- Young-Hyun Lee, Senior Research Fellow, Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training, Korea
* Description :
The skills, knowledge and expertise of workers determine organizations’ competitive advantage. Every organization is challenged by the pace of change, technological advances, shortening product life-cycles, and changing customer expectations. Human resources can make the difference among organizations with the same access to equipment, technology and facilities.
The HRD certification system is a straightforward, proven framework for delivering business improvement through people. It offers organizations a systematic process to review their human resources practices, develop staff and improve training effectiveness.
Investors in People Standard (Investors in people UK) is the scheme of the UK and the People Developer is Singapore’s quality standard for human resource development. Best HRD (Best Human Resources Developers) is a new attempt being made by Korea to advance its people’s knowledge, skills, attitude, and creativity toward the enhancement of organizations’ capability.
Duration : 1:20:1
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Session B.5: Going Global – The People Dimension of Organizational Transformation
*Speaker:
-Dick Kleinert, Principal, Deloitte
-Kent Lockhart, Director, Executive Development, The Walt Disney Company
-Young-Soon Kim, CEO, Credu
*Description:
New business and work force challenges are making HR and people issues more visible and important than ever. People-related challenges not technology, processes or strategy are often the most significant barriers to effective organizational transformation. This session will discuss global trends in structural transformation, related people and organizational challenges and some practical, proactive solutions to enhance organizational performance. Specific topics will include: Current global marketplace pressures (e.g., globalization, talent trends, increasing consumer power, and changing regulatory pressures), Related organizational transformation strategies (e.g., outsourcing, M&A, shared services), Associated human capital challenges and Pragmatic approaches to solving select challenges.
Duration : 1:33:21
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Michael Ben-Eli \Ph.D is an international consultant on management and organization. His work has focused on strategy development, organizational design, sustainability, and change management. He graduated from the Architectural Association in London, received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Cybernetics at Brunel University, where he studied with Gordon Pask. He was a close associate of R. Buckminster Fuller, with whom he collaborated on a number of projects involving research on advanced structural systems and exploration of issues related to the management of technology and world resources for a sustainable future. Dr. Ben-Eli pioneered applications of Systems Thinking and Cybernetics in management and organization. Over the years he worked on synthesizing strategy issues in many parts of the world and in diverse institutional settings, ranging from small high technology firms to multinational enterprises, manufacturing companies, financial institutions, health care organizations, government agencies, NGOs, and international multilateral organizations. In recent years, he has been working primarily on issues related to sustainability and sustainable development. With a strong commitment to Fuller’s legacy, Michael refocused his mission to help inspire leaders in business, government, community, and youth accelerate a peaceful, world embracing transition to a sustainable future. He is founder of Sustainability Initiatives, a network of activities established recently in order to facilitate transition to sustainability practices, in both the public and private sectors. (less)
Michael Ben-Eli is an international consultant on management and organization.
Duration : 0:58:29
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THE WORLD CAFE
Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter
by Juanita Brown and David Isaacs
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The World Cafe is a flexible, easy-to-use process for fostering collaborative dialogue, sharing mutual knowledge, and discovering new opportunities for action. Based on living systems thinking, this innovative approach creates dynamic networks of conversation that can catalyze an organization or community’s own collective intelligence around its most important questions.
Filled with stories of actual Cafe dialogues in business, education, government, and community organizations across the globe, this uniquely crafted book demonstrates how the World Cafe can be adapted to any setting or culture.
Duration : 0:3:13
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International Business Development: Applying Managerial Skills to Social, Environmental, and Health Care Problems
Sebastian Teunissen [Executive Director, Clausen Center for International Business and Policy, UC Berkeley]
Abstract:
Technological advances are helping to create new solutions for some of the gravest problems facing developing countries. Whether the objective is to improve living conditions, eradicate disease or fight poverty, technologies have shown gratifying results. The individual s involved are incredibly talented and dedicated engineers, scientists, doctors or educators. But, rarely, are they equally prepared to be managers of the organizations whose creation their innovations so frequently spark. All too often, the challenges of managing the organizations themselves diminish the effectiveness of the underlying solution. Our program has helped many such managers by developing business plans, marketing strategies or related projects that help to guide the organization towards its goals in a more efficient and cost effective manner. This presentation will describe a number of these projects, the challenges they faced and suggested solutions.
Biography:
Sebastian Teunissen is Adjunct professor at the Haas School of Business and Executive Director of the Clausen Center for International Business and Policy. He manages the International Business Development (IBD) Program and the Seminars in International Business Program at Haas. IBD sends teams of consultants to work on projects, for clients, throughout the world. Teams have worked in more than 67 countries to date.
Duration : 0:50:35
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It cuts off near the end of the second section and I make a number of mistakes because I needed more time to rehearse.
Duration : 0:3:51
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