SMI ARTICLE: Westpac Refuses to be Jilted: Please Refer to me by my First Name; B
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SMI ARTICLE: The Seven Inconvienient Truths of Strategy...
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Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education
Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education — the best teachers and schools don’t exist where they’re needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.
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Visions Of The Future (3 of 3) The Quantum Revolution
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Paul Bulcke of Nestlé
Worlds biggest food producer on developed market growth, cocoa shortage and strategy
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Honda Racing
Failure: The Secret to Success
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Shell Scenario analysis: Insight from the Masters
A good example of the use of scenario analysis, Shell was a pioneer in the application of this strategic tool when its application saved the company from huge losses during the Oil Crisis of the mid 1970s’.
“Shell still uses scenarios to explore the future. Shell scenarios are not mechanical forecasts. They recognise that people hold beliefs and make choices that can lead down different paths. They reveal different possible futures that are plausible and challenge people’s assumptions. Shell’s latest publication, Signals and Signposts, considers how events have unfolded since the 2008 publication of Shell Energy Scenarios to 2050 and offers our understanding of the changes brought about by the global economic crisis, from their perspective”.
Signals and Signposts - Shell's Jeremy Bentham explains latest energy predictions - View Video Here
Shell Energy Scenarios to 2050 - View Video Here
Join the Taxi Ride to a Sustainable Future - View Video Here
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Centre for Strategy & Leadership (C4SL)
An interesting perspective of strategy and leadership represented by an exploration of the dichotomies of strategy and leadership theories
STRATEGY SYNTHESIS - Resolving strategy paradoxes to create competitive advantage- view here
SOVEREIGN OR SERVANT - Cross fertilizing 20 approaches to develop a robust leadership style - view here
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Need insight into the future?
2025-2030 - The threat of bioterrorism is peaking
2026 - New treatments for Alzheimer’s disease available; Wireless electricity is ubiquitous; Rising sea levels are wreaking havoc on the Maldives
2027 - BRICs overtake the G7 nations; Carbon sequestration is underway in many nations
2028 - Printed electronics are ubiquitous; UK population reaches 70m; Amputees can regrow lost limbs
2029 - Human-like AI is becoming a reality; Heavy automation of supermarkets and retail environments | Intelligent advertising has appeared
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Strategic Management Society (SMS)
The SMS is unique in bringing together the worlds of reflective practice and thoughtful scholarship in the field of strategy and strategic management. The Society consists of 2,600 members representing a kaleidoscope of backgrounds and perspectives from more than 50 different countries. Membership, composed of academics, business practitioners, and consultants, focuses on the development and dissemination of insights on the strategic management process, as well as on fostering contacts and interchange around the world.
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The World Economic Forum
An independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.
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SRI International
SRI International is an independent, nonprofit research institute conducting client-sponsored research and development for government agencies, commercial businesses, foundations, and other organizations. SRI also brings its innovations to the marketplace by licensing its intellectual property and creating new ventures.
SRI was established 65 years ago as Stanford Research Institute and is now well known for its legacy of innovations in communications and networks, computing, economic development and science and technology policy, education, energy and the environment, engineering systems, pharmaceuticals and health sciences, homeland security and national defence, materials and structures, and robotics.
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Strategy+Business
The thought leadership and management magazine published by Booz & Company. An extensive coverage of business strategy, organisational leadership and the trends that lie beneath everyday business news headlines. Topics addressed include corporate strategy, marketing, operations, human capital, public presence, governance, and other domains — and the impact of their decisions. Articles from well-known thought leaders, business journalists, and seasoned executives are published on the web site including latest issues, theories, and ideas that can help decision makers in businesses and organizations lead and act more effectively in an increasingly turbulent and competitive world.
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Asian Development Bank (ADB):
an international development finance institution whose mission is to help its developing member countries reduce poverty and improve the quality of life of their people. Headquartered in Manila, and established in 1966, ADB is owned and financed by its 67 members, of which 48 are from the region and 19 are from other parts of the globe.
ADB's main partners are governments, the private sector, nongovernment organizations, development agencies, community-based organizations, and foundations. Under Strategy 2020, a long-term strategic framework adopted in 2008, ADB will follow three complementary strategic agendas: inclusive growth, environmentally sustainable growth, and regional integration.
In pursuing its vision, ADB's main instruments comprise loans, technical assistance, grants, advice, and knowledge. Although most lending is in the public sector - and to governments - ADB also provides direct assistance to private enterprises of developing countries through equity investments, guarantees, and loans. In addition, its triple-A credit rating helps mobilize funds for development.
ADB
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Gary Hamel
The Wall Street Journal recently ranked Gary Hamel as the world's most influential business thinker, and Fortune magazine has called him "the world's leading expert on business strategy." For the last three years, Hamel has also topped Executive Excellence magazine's annual ranking of the most sought after management speakers.
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Rita McGrath
A Professor at Columbia Business School in New York, she is one of the world’s leading experts on strategy in highly uncertain and volatile environments. Rita is a popular speaker and consults to senior leadership teams. In 2009, she was inducted as a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society, an honor accorded to those who have had a significant impact on the field:
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Strategy Academy
An international executive training company, research-driven, and dedicated to make company strategies work through enhancing executives’ capabilities in the areas of strategy, leadership, and innovation.
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Imagination Lab Foundation
Founded in 2000 Imagination Lab Foundation is a Swiss-based, independent and non-profit research foundation. Its purpose is to support scholarship that complements traditional management and organization theories with ideas grounded in the arts and sciences, especially those of imagination and play.
Under the leadership of Professor Johan Roos, until 2006 the Foundation was actively contributing cross-disciplinary and innovative management ideas of the highest scientific quality by means of theoretical and empirical research with a team of scholars in residence.
From 2007 the Foundation acts as a virtual fund that supports research elsewhere through the annual Imagination Lab Award for Innovative Scholarship in collaboration with European Academy of Management (EURAM):
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Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (CIFS)
CIFS is an independent, non-profit research institution earning its income exclusively from sponsored research and dissemination of knowledge. CIFS has clients in a number of OECD countries, primarily in the Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and British markets. Outside of OECD-Europe CIFS is engaged in speech activities and in book publication.
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Strategy as Practice International Network (SAP-IN)
A community of 8 Institutional Members and more than 2000 affiliated scholars and practitioners interested in the practice of strategy. As scholars we are interested in a broad spectrum of issues concerned with the making and doing of strategy and strategic change in organisations.
What we are agreed on is the importance of a focus on the processes and practices constituting the everyday activities of organizational life and relating to strategic outcomes, if we are to move our field forward. If you would like to learn more about SAP-IN research please visit our Research Agenda. The website of this community is designed to further disseminate SAP-IN research and to provide up-to-date information about practice related research and events. It also offers a platform for affiliates to raise questions, share ideas, and solve problems through interacting with the SAP-IN research community.
We would like to invite you to join this Forum and explore SAP-IN in a journey through our platform or by browsing up to date Working Papers contributing to the growing field of SAP-IN. You can contribute to discussions by posting your own questions or ideas to the Forum or by submitting a working paper for publication. In addition, you may want to look for one, or all five special issues focusing on Strategy as Practice research and many journal articles within SAP-IN in the Bibliography. This site also provides general News and information about Workshops and symposia alongside standard Conference tracks at the Academy of Management (AOM), British Academy of Management (BAM), European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS) and Strategic Management Society (SMS) where cutting edge practice related research is discussed.
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Creative International
Creative Universe makes the extraordinary possible by helping to create sustainable, meaningful and high performance organisations.
"Our goal is to restore purpose and meaning to work and life and deliver extraordinary performance and productivity"
By investing in the creative transformation process you are releasing the full potential of the people who are your organisation’s future. We will provide the catalyst to deliver wellbeing, meaningful leadership, sustainable creative growth and innovation.
We generate a creative
universe where your people can fulfil their untapped potential. Then, the innovative wealth of your organisation can be truly realised.
We deliver programs to bring about new thinking, systems, strategies, products, services and much more.
Creative Universe is working with business, creative, community and thought leaders and universities to develop new thinking, outstanding programs and evidence-based research in this area. By engaging a Creative Universe you will realise the performance and creative potential of your people and organisation.
"Creative Universe is about inspiring more productive individuals, organisations and communities."
Tania de Jong AM, Managing Director, Creative Universe
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AD Supply Chain
AD Supply Chain Group Pty Ltd and our associates are committed to helping organisations make measurable improvements in their Supply Chain and Procurement operations. We do this via consulting projects, education and training programs, as well as ongoing mentoring and support.
We take pride in applying the latest thinking in Supply Chain and Procurement to provide workable solutions to client’s improvement opportunities. Our aim is to leave clients with the tools, skills and knowledge to continue the process of improvement long after we have left.
Our training and education programs are based on the most up to date research in the areas we specialise in. Programs can be tailored to individual organisations' needs and language. If desired, most programs with the addition of suitable assessment can qualify participants for nationally recognised award qualifications from our associated University and Registered Training Organisation partners.
You can be certain if you engage AD Supply Chain Group to assist you that you will have gained valuable benefits and enhanced your knowledge of your Supply Chain and Procurement operations and how to improve them.
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