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Gerald Bradley author of Gower’s Benefit Realisation Management recently conducted a webinar for The International Institute of Business Analysis titled – Benefit Realisation Management: A Practical Guide to Achieving Benefits Through Change. You can take a look at this webinar and other expert offerings from the IIBA at their website.
Thought-provoking if somewhat alarming piece on Gordon Pearson’s blog: Anglo-American Post-Industrial Waste. He is not describing waste in terms that might immediately occur to you or I, but rather waste in human terms; the loss of employment associated with the economic decline of the West. Sobering stuff! Gordon is author of The Road to Cooperation: Escaping the Bottom Line and The Rise and Fall of Management: A Brief History of Practice, Theory and Context.
Karen E. Klein is a Los Angeles-based writer who covers entrepreneurship and small-business issues. She features advice from experts in her twice-weekly ’Smart Answers’ columns in Businessweek. In December she featured Gower author Daphne Halkias on her book Father-Daughter Succession in Family Business: A Cross-Cultural Perspective.
In the Column, Klein points out that family-owned companies account for 80 percent of all businesses worldwide, and about one-third of them are owned by women. Although recent research and census data shows that daughters and wives are increasingly taking over family businesses, few studies have been done on the process.Daphne Halkias is a social science researcher at Cornell University and senior research fellow at the Center for Young & Family Enterprise at the University of Bergamo in Italy, and is seeking to address this in her new book.
With more women taking over family-owned companies, the handover isn’t always smooth, Halkias seeks to illuminate the process of father-daughter succession around the globe and find ways to encourage it. Edited excerpts of their conversation are featured in Klein’s Column.
Daphne Halkias is also editor of Female Immigrant Entrepreneurs, and has a number of forthcoming titles at Gower.
“Innovation is not a process, but an outcome.”
The Forbes Leadership Forum brings renowned speakers and thought leaders who discuss their leadership strategies. As a speaker at the Forum, Gower Author Alexander Manu was interviewed by Shaku Selvakumar for the IBM Impact 2011 Blog. In this interview Manu discusses in-depth the concepts of Imagination and Innovation in business Extract:
The redefinition of innovation as a human behaviour outcome, a dynamic in constant change, requires the shaping of new responses in business and the economy.
The past understanding of what innovation “is”, was generally connected with a breakthrough in technology – some new tool being employed in some new way. This understanding limits the potential of innovation as bound by the tools employed, instead of the imagination employing them. The latent imagination triggered by an innovation outcome is the true goal of innovation. It is not what “I can do with this now”? but “what can I become doing this in the future”? The tool is not a response, but a question. Every innovation is a question. The truly important innovations are a series of questions.
A few definitions: Innovation is an outcome, a new behaviour, a new way of doing things. Disruption is a behavior – an outcome involving a media and a user – changed by invention. Invention is a moment of discovery or creation of something new. Disruptive Business means the sum of new behaviours and their support models. Innovation is a moment of use, a manifest behaviour that engages an innovation object into new uses, and modifies the habitual conditions of the present.
This position challenges the current understanding of innovation, and some of the labels applied to innovation typologies, such as the label “disruptive innovation”. In general, the current discourse around innovation addresses competently the technology side of an invention, at the expense of the motivational side of the user, the human motivation which leads in the behaviour of use.
Alexander Manu is Chief Imaginator and Senior Partner at InnoSpa. He is the author of Distruptive Business: Desire, Innovation and the Re-design of Business published by Gower.
The Supply Chain Asia Forum 2011 is taking place on the 6-9 September 2011 at Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore. On Day 3 (8th September) Gower author, Catherine Truel, will be speaking at the event on the subject of Global Trade Compliance and Risk Management Challenges. More information about this event can be found here.
Catherine is author of Gower’s A Short Guide to Customs Risk, which is part of the Short Guides to Business Risk Series.
Ronnie Lessem, from the UK, and Alexander Schieffer from Switzerland discuss “Integral Economics: a new transcultural approach towards social and economic transformation” during “Trust and integrity in the global economy” conference. Caux 2011
The recording can be heard here: http://www.caux.iofc.org/en/node/56948
Ronnie and Alexander are editors of Gower’s Transformation and Innovation Series.
Catherine Truel, author of Gower’s A Short Guide to Customs Risk, discusses this topic in her latest blog entry for Supply Chain Asia.
“We have been pleased to select Kensei Hiwaki’s book Culture and Economics in the Global Community for a prestigious 2011 Book of the Year Award, because we feel that his book provides many new insights into the complexity of important socio-economic issues, significantly enhances our understanding of the relationship between diverse cultures and sustainable development, and shows how new innovative strategies can be 
used to help us successfully solve a variety of many, seemingly intractable/unsolvable economic problems.”
Prof. Dr. George Lasker, President, International Institute for Advanced Studies
p.s. Kensei Hiwaki discusses discusses sustainability and the future. in this you tube clip mentioned in a previous blog. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCkGo5ojRa4
