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:
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.
Tectonic Geopolitical movements are happening right on front of our eyes. I cornered senior editor at Forbes, Robyn Meredith, from Hong Kong and peeped into her new amazing book:
The Elephant and the Dragon: The rise of India and China and what it means for All of us.
In the 14th century China became the cornerstone of most international trade by moving goods along the silk road, across the Arab world and on to Europe. Today the silk road is renewed and the power nations of China and India is moving forward at a pace that is almost not understandable and only compares to the rise of the USA, 100 years ago.
With the brisk growth that the global economy has enjoyed since 2002, this should be the best of all times. There are many BUTs though. One of the greater ones is the battle on energy ressources that is tightening up and is an element in turning the 21st century into one of instability. New power landscapes are arising with China as the factory of the world and India as the Knowledge Center.We see the outlines of a power landscape where the US, China and India are the players.
DO NOT MISS THIS BOOK – it is about the present status of geopolitics and tells us a lot about the globalized future we have to prepare ourselves for.
I believe the book must soon be available on Amazon. And here is your chance to meet Robyn Meredith, who is an enourmous source of knowledge on Asia…..robyn.mp3
I had a cup of coffee with Mads at the Royal Theatre to talk about how companies act responsible in the global perspective. This is a true top executive issue for companies acting even within a country and across borders. Mads is the former CEO and chairman of Novo and acting chairman of LEGO and the Danish Royal Theatre and now personally invited by Kofi Annan to participate as member in this important Board in the UN.
Do not miss this interview and message delivered with the wisdom and experience of Mads Ovlisen.
www.unglobalcompact.org is the site that will tell you that these requirements are already required by either national or international laws. By following the UNs Global Compact you are part of the worlds largest voluntary program on social responsibility - on your side you inform the UN on what you actually do. Please have a look….
Much has been written about Innovation lately - almost everything is about what and why. It seems that attention is on creative processes, fuzzy frontend or even stage gate optimization. Some how very instrumental.
The idea of diversity in group formation, social networks and relation building is in contrast not very offen represented in that discussion. Why is that?
I think some of the answers is to be found in the misunderstood and misinterpreted necessity for costcutting and overall optimization of production. And, what maybe is more important, because Human Resources in many organizations still is “compared” with other production facillities.
In recent years there has been an evolving movement towards explaining the obvious link between the number of and types of relations in personal networks to overall company innovation capabillity - and a new understanding of the importance of technology is definitly part of that picture.
How do your organization cope with “Knowledge Management” and Innovation capabillity? And do you see the same picture?
Great changes are happening in the field of employer organisations in Denmark. The competition is consolidating and merging to gain power and influence as well as supplying better services to members. I made this interview with CEO Søren B Henriksen right after the merger was announced.
We talk about the merger and why we need this new entity called Dansk Erhverv. This lead us to a discussion on how Denmark is positioned globally and the challenges and potentials that we have.
Next week will follow an interview on the personal experience of going through a merger, seen from the top executive perspective of Søren B Henriksen. And I promise - next one will be in English - this one is in Danish for starter…
IN LinKS we collaborate with brilliant people around the globe on subjects within leadership, strategy and innovation. We worked together with Paul Schoemaker for many years and I always wanted to know what Paul’s view of the future is, so I cornered him! Well, listen and enjoy Paul Schoemaker….
…and when you are ready - please feedback your view on the most important uncertaincies that you see from your perspective. Looking forward to hearing from you.
This is a continued interview with Soren B Henriksen on the perspectives of Denmark as a country and the behaviour needed to bring this country, with one on the strongest economies in Europe, into the global sphere. Soeren B Henriksen, CEO Danish Enterprises
Six years ago I could have made the M&A exercise of my life. I sold my company in a spectacular transaction who made me a millionaire, at least on paper :-) Unfortunately my stocks where stocked in a “lock-up-period” and as you al know, the rest is history.
If I’ve had the knowledge then that I have today – especially after the presentation at Wharton by Habir Singh – the world would have been different. At least in my perspective. Some of the insights presented was “right on” – the idea on looking on the opponents upside instead of you own win, would have made a huge difference in the negotiations we had at the time.
Do you have any experiences your self? Please share.
Please listen to Mr. Singhs insights at tell what you think. (The file is 4,3 MB)
In the book “Idealized Design” by Russ Ackoff a. o. they offers practical and common sense methods, based on proven results to allow organizations to not only learn from mistkaes but to develop processes to remove the possibility of mistakes in the future, not just “reengineering”, but a revolution in the way your organization is run.
In this little Podcast on idealized design Mette is interviewing Russ about the concept his the book. (The file is 1,29 MB)
Have you read the book? What do you think about it? What does the concept og systemic thinking mean to you in your context? Please share :-)
