Future of Work and Agility
Zoom Interactive Event: Thriving After a Crisis – Diverting Danger and Creating Future-Proof Organisations
The biggest danger of a crisis is distraction. Clarity matters. The best way to predict the future is to create it. Mark and Howard will show you how highly successful leaders seize opportunities during crises, how they manage to increase autonomy without sinking the organisation into chaos, how they pursue new business opportunities when resources have to be preserved, and how they rapidly pivot and recover when everyone else falls on the side-lines.
We will explore several of such organisations in manufacturing, retail, financial services and other industries. We discover that organisational culture and mindset changes must be accompanied by adjustments in organisational structure, management systems and processes, enabled by virtual work tools. Such is the new role of the HR community: to be the glue that enables organisations to be light on their feet to thrive in any of the possible futures.
Who is it for?
This interactive event is aimed at HR Directors with a focus on developing leaders, organisation agility and culture. In addition, senior specialists in L&D, Leadership Development and Talent will also derive value.
Speakers
Prof. Mark Greeven
Professor of Innovation and Strategy, Institute for Management and Development, IMD Business School
Mark is Professor of Innovation and Strategy at IMD. Drawing on a decade of experience in research, teaching and consulting in China, Mark explores how to organise innovation in a turbulent world. He has been collaborating with innovative Chinese companies and entrepreneurial multinationals to explore novel ways of organising, accelerating corporate innovation, designing business ecosystems to thrive on uncertainty. He is a fluent Chinese speaker. Mark received a PhD degree from the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Before joining IMD he held faculty positions at Zhejiang University in China and the Rotterdam School of Management in The Netherlands.
Prof. Howard Yu
LEGO Professor of Management and Innovation, Institute for Management and Development (IMD)
Professor Howard Yu is the author of LEAP: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied, and LEGO Professor of Management and Innovation at the IMD Business School in Switzerland. In 2015, Howard was featured in Poets & Quants as one of the Best 40 Under 40 Professors. He was shortlisted for the 2017 Thinkers50 Innovation Award, and in 2018 appeared on the Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 management thinkers “most likely to shape the future of how organisations are managed and led.” Howard received his doctoral degree in management from Harvard Business School.
