Peter Drucker Forum 2013: “What Would Drucker Say Now?; What Have We Learned?” The concluding discussion

In the concluding session discussion “What Would Drucker Say Now?” at the 5th Global Peter Drucker Forum, Rick Watzman, the executive director at the Drucker Institute and Steve Denning a Member of the Board of Directors at Scrum Alliance and a Forbes contributor lead the debate. The discussion is then continued by Lukas Michel, Founder & Managing Director at Sphere Advisors and AgilityINsights, before Pierre Hessler the chairman’s delegate at Capgemini gives an overall synthesis and brings the conference to a close.

Peter Drucker Forum 2013: “How Should Leaders Embrace Complexity?” panel contribution by Harvey Wheaton

During the last session of the 5th Global Peter Drucker Forum, Harvey Wheaton, chairman at the board of Scrum Alliance, the largest, most established, influential professional membership organization in the Agile world.  As a nonprofit, membership organization with a growing community of more than 250,000 members worldwide, Scrum allows teams to deliver products in short cycles, enabling fast feedback, continual improvement, and rapid adaptation to change in particular in the area of software development.

Peter Drucker Forum 2013: “The Two Faces of Complexity” by Julian Birkinshaw

During the last session of the 5th Global Peter Drucker Forum, Julian Birkinshaw looked at the two faces of complexity.

Peter Drucker Forum 2013: “Rising Above Inter-Domain Complexity” by Roger L. Martin

During the last session of the 5th Global Peter Drucker Forum, Roger Martin, Academic Director at the Martin Prosperity Institute of the Rotman School of Management, began his talk with a Scientific American of 1868 showing the telegraph and railroads, which says that in no other period had there been so much transformation and change.

Peter Drucker Forum 2013: “Project Management, Systems Thinking & Complexity” by Terry Cooke-Davies

On the second day of the 5th Global Peter Drucker Forum, Terry Cooke-Davies took a look at the area of project management, systems thinking & complexity.  He stated that the world of work is increasingly moving towards the world of change and projects, and it is the management of these that are the keys to success.

Peter Drucker Forum 2013: “Policy Improvements” panel contribution by Ben Ramalingam

On the second day of the 5th Global Peter Drucker Forum, Ben Ramalingam stated that policy and practice have come to be like bikes, in the sense that they have been created through incremental changes and improvements.

Peter Drucker Forum 2013: “Cyber Security” panel contribution by Mikko Kosonen

Mikko Kosonen, the President for the Finnish Innovation Fund (Sitra) since 2008, with experience in companies such as Nokia, TeliaSonera Finland Oyj, The Foundation for Economic Education, Kuntien Tiera Oy, Technology Academy Finland, Fifth Element Oy, Kesko, Itella Corporation and Hewlett-Packard Corp, concentrated in a short talk, on one main problem, that of cyber security.

Peter Drucker Forum 2013: “Scotland since 2007 – one approach to the challenge of public sector agility” by John Elvidge

John Elvidge shared some of his experiences of change based on the example of the governmental changes  in Scotland in 2007. He began with the warning that this was an outlier and might not always be applicable. Reassuring the audience, he said that he would not pronounce the word airport.

Peter Drucker Forum 2013: “Addressing complexity: the next challenge for governments” by Yves Doz

On the second day of the 2013 Peter Drucker Forum, Yves Doz, Solvay Chaired Professor of Technological Innovation at INSEAD, looked at the existing challenges that governments face in an increasingly complex world.

Peter Drucker Forum 2013: “The Top Mangement Perspective: Is Complexity on the Agenda?”

 

Lynda Gratton, Professor, London Business School; Founder of the Hot Spots Movement, a research and consulting team melding both business and academia; and a well known organizational theorist, led a Q&A session outlining whether complexity is really in the minds of top business leaders when managing their companies.  Two top business leaders, Rick Goings, CEO of Tupperware Brands, and Natarajan Chandrasekaran (Chandra), CEO and Managing Director of Tata Consultancy, gave her their take on complexity in organizations.