Seats are limited!

Join us for a day of engaging practical dialogue and fun!

Date: Tuesday May 29th, 2007
Venue: Singapore Polytechnic Graduates' Guild Map
Time: 9:15 am to 4:00 pm
Price: SGD $400 per partipant ($70 discounts per perticipant available for IKMS and HK KM Society Members and Corporate Groups of 3 or more registrants)

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create the conditions for breakthrough innovation at your organisation!

Today’s business leaders push their organizations to become more innovative and to “think outside the box”. The increased demand drives optimism and enthusiasm, but in many organizations levels of stress and frustration amongst employees is rising. The problems seem to be that you can not simply ask someone to become more innovative; but instead have to address the problem indirectly by ensuring that the right conditions are in place for people to come up with innovative solutions.

Through partnership with the Celemi network and supported by the Information and Knowledge Mangement Society of Singapore and the Hong Kong KM Society, kneXco offers ajourney to explore the most important conditions for enabling innovation in organisations. The workshop participants will benefit from the knowledge shared from two well known Innovation Experts: Dr. Wong Poh Kam from NUS and Paul Hobcraft from HOCA and engage in practical exploration by playing the Medici Game.

Based on the best selling book “The Medici Effect” (described as one of "the best books on innovation" by Business Week), The Medici Game, developed in co-operation with its author Frans Johansson, engages participants in discussions that lead them to challenge their beliefs and assumptions around the good – or not so good – management practises for fostering innovation. The game’s ability to facilitate and foster dialogue among employees leads to increased alignment and trust within the organization; trust being one of the most important conditions for enabling break through innovation.

special opening address on Innovation from Dr. Wong Poh Kam

The day will being with a special opening address Dr. Wong Poh Kam, Professor and Director of the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre.
Dr Wong is an scholar of innovation; he has published in numerous international journals on innovation strategy/policy. He is the lead researcher for Singapore in a number of major international collaborative research projects, including the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) study, the European Science Foundation-sponsored 10-country international comparative study on National Innovation System of small countries and others. He has played a leadership role in technology management and entrepreneurship education in NUS including pioneering the teaching of innovation management and technology entrepreneurship courses and co-directing/teaching various senior executive education programs related to innovation management, including the NUS-U.C. Berkeley Managing E-Commerce in Asia Executive Program and the NUS-WIPO Program on IP Management . More

Special Presentation from innovation expert, Paul Hobcraft:
Moving from existing to the preferred: Making Innovation Real in your enterprise.

During this interactive session, Paul will take the key concepts of the "Medici Effect" further to help participants understand the different choices in innovation activity and some approaches for innovation. Participants will take away an understanding of different frameworks, concepts and differentiators for innovation and a practical understanding of how they can be applied.

Paul is an experienced innovation coach and has worked with several companies to help them achieve their strategic innovation goals. He does works with a number of larger consulting companies on specific innovation challenges as a outsource specialist that have covered “adaptive enterprises”, “game plan delivery platforms” & “problem solving” around innovation activities He contributed to a study conducted on innovation in association with the Singapore Civil Service and the Prime Ministers office (PS21). This was as their “Innovation Subject Matter Expert” working with the team undertaking a thorough review of innovation in Singapore’s Public Service for extracting and evaluating best practice and proposing ways forward.He is a ongoing judge for the Thunderbird Global MBA challenge on Sustainable Innovation and has recently been invited onto the judging panel for the Darden School of Business' Innovation Challenge Process.
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agenda

9:15 am: Arrival and Networking

9:00 am: Welcome and Introductions

9:15 am : Opening Address:Dr Wong Poh Kam:Innovation Imperative

9:45 am: Morning Break

10:15 am: The Medici Game

1:00 pm: Lunch

2:00 am: Reflections on the Medici Game

2:30 pm: Presentation - Paul Hobcraft

3:30 pm: Networking Tea Break

4:00 pm: Wrap Up

4:30 pm: Adjourn

who should attend:

The game is effective in any organization or individual that wants to foster creativity and improve the conditions for breakthrough innovation. It is a critical tool for sales and marketing, human resources, R+D and product development.

To maximize the organisational benefit derived from this workshop we strongly suggest you send a team of particpants from your organisation. We will combine team members to focus on practical ways to foster innovations and embed a culture of innovation to specific initiatives you are working on.

Discounts are available for teams of three or more from any one corporation! Contact us for more details

the faciliators:

Waltraut Ritter
Research Director
Knowledge Enterprises

Waltraut Ritter has been involved in Knowledge Management assignments since 1989, and led projects in a wide range of industry and business sectors, with a focus on R&D and innovation management and intellectual property/capital. Besides her work, she is researching and teaching Knowledge Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prior to that she was Assist. Professor of Knowledge Management at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She holds an M.A. in Information Science and an M.B.A. in International Management.Ms Ritter is the founding president of the HK Knowledge Management Society (www.hkkms.org).

Raksha Sukhia, CKM, CKEE, CIARP
Director, Knowledge and Innovation Management
kneXco Pte. Ltd.


Ms Sukhia is a seasoned KM practitioner and consultant. She has served as a Regional Head of Innovation for a large Fortune 500 blue-chip company and has worked with a variety of public and private sector clients. Ms. Sukhia is a Certified in KM and holds a Master of Science in OD & KM from George Mason University School of Public Policy. Ms. Sukhia is passionate about innovation and KM and has dedicated this passion to the community. She currently sits on the Executive Committee of the Information and Knowledge Management Society of Singapore, (www.ikms.org.sg). More