At the Danish Social-Liberal Party’s New Year meeting in Nyborg on January 9 and 10, party delegates along with three leaders of major Danish political parties, set the stage for a discussion of future opportunities and challenges of the Danish economy and welfare state.
Mette Laursen was invited to give a presentation of LinKS’ angle on the challenges of a people that has until recently primarily operated in a culturally homogeneous sphere. This is now rapidly changing - due to immigration, globalization and technological change.
Mette’s input to the participants focused on the improving opportunities for co-creation that lie in growing connectedness. She also challenged the participants’ mental models to prove that the ability to change mental model greatly improves the possibility of effective change on a personal and a national level.
Mette then explained how the way to success can be paved by formulating a truly shared vision while focusing on improving peripheral vision, networking skills, innovative thinking and motivation.
Web-links to the videos that were shown at the presentation:
Maybe some of you have wondered what is the strange reference in the LinKS holiday greetings about Teslas.
Has to do with our executive coach Ulrik Schiøtz who happened to run into 2 of these racing cars during COP15. With his usual first energy Ulrik persuaded the 2 drivers to pick up LinKS Alumni from Børsen where we gathered that day.
What a feeling! Hurrah for green technology but also a smart business model of presenting cool racingcars to the luxury market and then in 2012 selling stationcars to the rest of the families. Well done - I am happy to remember that we gaev the Tesla the INDEX design award.
Preparing the COP15 took some years and in just a few days it was over. In LinKS we hope that The Copenhagen Accord will be remembered as a starting point where the most poluting countries participated (75% of emmissions)… but didnt make it to the finish line.
We rest on the foundation of C.K. Prahalad who visitied us during COP 15: Sustainable business is good business so why wait for politicians? Thank you Chambers of Commerce for hosting the event of 1 Commitment - 1000 Opportunities and inviting the LinKS alumni.
If you scroll this blog we have selected several C.K.Prahalad links from earlier visits with LinKS.
It was an outstanding pleasure to visit CEO Stine Bosse and the Innovation Team at TrygVesta Business Lab on May 19, 2008! Thanks for inviting us and for sharing insights and perspectives on leadership and TrygVesta’s innovation strategy.
The participants created workshops with Arkitema, MindLab, TrygVesta and Morten Kjærum
Thanks all Olympic Athletes for raising the bar on strategic Board Governance with us on October 3, 2008, in MindLab - Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs.
It was a tremendous pleasure pushing the ambitious agenda for Strategic Board work with you. We do look forward to seeing how you will bring it forward within the next coupple of months.
We send out the LinKS Learning Report last week indcluding the survey results and learning points from the Olympic Disciplines: Global Outlook, Crisis Governance, Board Work in Politically Governed Organizations, Board Dynamics and Personal Capacity. Please let me know if you did not receive it.
Thanks Kim Rahbek, Sticks’n'Sushi, for the energizing lunch, christian Bason, MindLab, for housing, Kai Holm, former IOC, for sharing your insights and perspectives in truly global board work. And thanks Annette Juhler Kjær for your sharp interference and enlightening video documentary.
On May 27, 2008, General Director Kenneth Plummer invited LinKS to visit DR - the Danish Broadcasting Corporation for LinKS Prelude. With the world’s number ONE guru in corporate strategy - Professor C.K. Prahalad - as our special guest, 90 LinKS Alumni and top executive guests gathered under the title The New Age of Strategy and Innovation - Global Networks to Unlock Co-Created Value. DR News Director Ulrik Haagerup conducted a classic LinKS Fireside Interview with Prof. Prahalad about Prahalad´s new book and insights on the new age of strategy and innovation.
The New Age of Strategy and Innovation The new age of innovation implies a shift from products to experience platforms. We are moving to a world in which the customer is actively participating in the creation of value. Value is determined by one co-created experience at the time: N=1.
Prahalad argued that it is vital to realize that the global context is changing. Resources are global, R=G, and the real challenge is how globalization can benefit all. Co-creation is THE CORE VALUE in the new age of innovation. Co-creation 1) reduces risk, 2) reduces time, and 3) reduces investment. Who can wish for more? The challenge is to create open architecture based on co-creation.
Prahalad on Leadership Understanding opportunities requires that performance and opportunity management are always done simultaneously.
A lot of what we do is administration. Management is about “re-configuring” the present. About squeezing the juice out of people. Leadership is about the future: innovation and hope!
“Any industry is relevant for change - no industry is better suited for innovative thinking than others…” Prof. C.K. Prahalad at LinKS Prelude on May 27, 2008
Did you miss the evening news with Prahalad on May 27, 2008?
Did you read the article “Det nødvendige netværk” (The Indespensable Network) about LinKS in Berlingske Nyhedsmagasin and Erhvervsbladet, april 7, 2008?
Prof. C.K. Prahalad is known as the world’s leading guru in corporate strategy and mr. Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid.
“The New Age of Innovation - Driving Co-Created Value through Global Networks” is the title of the professors’ new book which has just been released.
We strongly recommend the book which is at the heart of this year’s theme at LinKS of orchestrating networks and driving value through open alliances.
Mette Laursen met prof. Prahalad for the first time at an SEI Conference at the Wharton School in 2007, hosted by SEI and Prof. Yoram (Jerry) Wind. It is a special honor for us to welcome him for LinKS Prelude at The Danish Broadcasting Collaboration (DR-Byen) on May 27. LinKS Prelude is the top executive kick off for the OECD Seminar on Innovation Strategy and Entrepreneurship, designed by FORA at the Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs in collaboration with LinKS.
C.K. Prahalad, Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.
Once upon a time in Philadelphia - late autumn of 2006 - a group of Danish executives were lounging in broad sofas – sipping cocktails and chatting. ”Why don’t we have anything like a genuine business club in Copenhagen?“ one of them said. That question was the starting point of Copenhagen LinKS Club.
On January 17th, 2008, we are prototyping the Club Concept for the second time. In company of 70 specially invited executives, entrepreneurs, expats, politicians and societal opinion makers, we will experience an afternoon at the club to be. The prototype participants reflect the future member segment of club.
The concept is the outcome of one year of fantastic co-creation in the Ideation Team and outstanding inputs from the first prototype in October 2007, where 40 executives assembled discussing tendencies, value proposition and strategic goals.
Concept
The club is to be “the third Place for Business”, enriching global business life. The club will create a window towards the global market, reflecting Copenhagen as a metro pole, offering topicality, innovation, sustainability and eventful networking as mainstay. This is reflected in the daily life of the Club.
Simultaneously , the club will offer a confidential, relaxed environment for high performance people who need to loosen the tie for a while and be themselves in the company of equals.
The Copenhagen LinKS Club will provide state of the art service and facilities. All members of the club will be selected and approved. And this gives a special atmosphere. At the club no one is a stranger, and everybody is a potential for interesting conversation. You think networking in terms of ”how might I be able to help this person?” not in terms of ”what can I get from this person?”.
Members are Owners
The Copenhagen LinKS Club will be a fund - not a business. Members are owners and the Club concept evolves in open collaboration with the board.
Welcome to LinKS Global Reunion - a global arena where we meet with a purpose. This time we explore business opportunities and challenges 7000 Miles and a Heartbeat Away.
What does that mean? It means that the global business and personal opportunities are just a link a click or a heartbeat away. You can choose to think 7000 Miles is a very long way or you can think: It’s just a heartbeat away. Your mental model decides that rather than the actual miles. LinKS has invited 3 global guests so you have the world at your fingertips. Now its up to you to link your company’s vision to the global opportunities our guests will present. Where in your strategic reflections is there an opening for global influence that you must be clear of. The themes that we will inspire and challenge you with are:
(See interviews from the LinKS Global Reunion at Momentum in September).
In LinKS sometimes you may be in the students seat and sometimes directing. The participation mixes with the orchestration. Therefore you will meet LinKS@Wharton alumni as interviewers: 1) Mads Kjær, Founder C4-world, 2) Margrethe Vestager, leader of the Social-liberal Party and 3) Tim Frank Andersen, serial entrepreneur.
The VALUE of the FUTURE lies in the LINKS rather than within the single individual. That is to be proven as we will work with our collaborative intelligence. Innovating your strategy takes new ways of leadership, new ways of preparation and new speeds of action and linking to the world. Let’s dive into some strategic business developments on a global scale. Be prepared that the true unique insights always come from a peripheral angle, hard to see through the ordinary glasses we all wear in our daily life.
