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Events 2005
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"Artful
Process and Business Innovation: What Managers
Can Learn from Artists about 21st Century Value
Creation"
Programme:
Presentation by
Visiting Professor Robert D. Austin from Harvard Business
School (U.S.)
Short abstract
Managers understand the need to innovate but
often struggle to support creative processes
within demanding business contexts. Artists
often face similarly demanding contexts- few
business deadlines are as insistent as opening
night for a theatre company, for example- but
support creative process more successfully and
often innovate more reliably.
In this seminar,
Professor Austin argues that managers can learn
from artists about the process of innovation and
that the need for this learning grows as
economic activity moves into the realm of
knowledge work, where materials are intangible
and innovation is the primary source of value
creation.
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Debate
Reception
Download Robert Austins presentation -
click here
(NB! Ex. the video-part)
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About
Robert D. Austin
Professor Austin has
been a professor at the Harvard Business School
since 1997, where he has taught subjects such as
economics, financial reporting, IT, and operations
management to MBAs and executives. He chairs the
school's executive program targeted at Chief
Information Officers and teaches the IT module in
the program for owner managers. Currently, he serves
on the advisory boards or boards of directors of
several IT industry firms, and he advises major
corporations worldwide. Before joining the Harvard
faculty, Dr. Austin was a technology manager at the
Ford Motor Company.
Professor Austin's research focuses on IT management
and more generally on management of
knowledge-intensive activities.
Professor Austin earned his doctorate in management
and decision sciences from Carnegie Mellon
University, where his dissertation received the
Herbert A. Simon Award. He holds a master's degree
in industrial engineering from Northwestern
University and bachelor's degrees in engineering and
English literature from Swarthmore College, where he
was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi.
Robert D. Austin is the author of four books:
- Measuring and
Managing Performance in Organizations; Creating
Business Advantage in the Information Age (coauthored
with Lynda Applegate and Warren McFarlan)
- Corporate
Information Strategy and Management (also
coauthored with Applegate and McFarlan)
- Artful Making:
What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work
(coauthored with Lee Devin).
- His next book,
about the telecoms industry, co-edited with
Professor Stephen Bradley and tentatively titled
The Broadband Explosion, will be published
by Harvard Business School Press in the spring of
2005.
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Date:
22nd of September
Time: 14.00 –
17.00
Location: Copenhagen Business School,.
Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg C, aud. Sps 05
Language: English
For more information - contact Rikke Ørtved: roe.lpf@cbs.dk
The presentation is free of charge and anyone interested
is welcome but please indicate your interest in
participating by mailing to Rikke Ørtved Email:
roe.lpf@cbs.dk
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