Management Conference 2006

THEMES

Theme 1: Learning for the New Economy

• Reconceptualising ‘economy.’ What is knowledge? What is the role of learning? What is the ‘knowledge economy’?
• New types of organisation: what do you need to learn today?
• Transforming personal knowledge into common knowledge.
• Blurring the boundaries: informal learning, training and education.
• New economy: what is appropriate education for the new work order?
• Knowledge work: defining the competencies and capabilities.
• ‘Wisdom’ in the knowledge economy.
• Mentoring: where leadership means knowledge transfer.
• Collaboration as a personal capacity and organisational resource.
• The making of a 'knowledge worker'.
• Towards leadership: management education and training.
• Educational institutions as knowledge managers.
• The dynamics of Adult Education.
• Lifelong learning.
• Beyond knowledge management: the nature of knowledge processes.
• Globalisation: its impacts on work and education.

Theme 2: Knowledge and Technology

• The changing role of information and communications technologies in knowledge-based economies.
• Technologies and organisational change.
• Data, information and their electronic means of creation, storage, access and communication.
• eBusiness in a networked world.
• Information and communication technologies as means of production, means of knowing and means of communicating.
• More than information: knowledge as a process.
• Building intellectual capital and maintaining intellectual property.

Theme 3: Organisational Cultures

• What is organisational culture? Organic, community, complexity and other metaphors.
• Networks, clusters, alliances.
• Building collaborative organisational cultures.
• Decision-making and leadership.
• Building a culture of innovation.
• Teams and the dynamics of collaboration.
• Productive diversity: capitalising on human differences.
• Women at work and women in management: what are the different ways of working?
• Developing sustainable organisational cultures: government, community and NGOs.
• Capacity development: building knowledge locally,
• Globalisation, internationalisation and organisational change.
• Mass customisation: recognising market and customer differences.
• Navigating complexity: the dynamics of organisational change.
• Business ethics.

Theme 4: Tangible Outcomes from Managing Intangibles

• Knowledge and culture as factors of production.
• Putting a tangible value on intangibles.
• New performance indicators for new economies.
• The conditions of innovation.
• The business case for knowledge management.
• Agonies of change: working with order and chaos; regularity and complexity.
• Being close to customers: identifying trust and loyalty in customer relations.
• Vision, strategy and leadership: measuring the effects.
• Beyond competition: creating efficiencies through improved supply chain relationships.
• Addressing the divides: digital, development, social.
• Virtual enterprises in a networked world.