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MIM-Kyiv Hosted CEEMAN ExEd Forum “Managing Innovations”
International Management Institute (MIM-Kyiv), Kyiv, Ukraine, April 1, 2013
On April 18–19 2013 MIM-Kyiv hosted 60 participantsfrom 15 countries for the CEEMAN ExED Forum “Managing Innovations”. Within the fruitful discussion representatives of corporate and business schools leaders exchanged their experiences and views on the promotion of innovation processes and on the role that executive education.
Danica Purg, CEEMAN’s president welcomed the Forum participants. She said: “I am sure that this Forum will prepare us for leadership positions and we will be able to face challenges and create conditions for our organizations and people, in order to make them successful. Innovation has always been an important phenomenon in the history and it is specific for our time. Innovation is a renewable information resource and influence upon the creativity.”
She also expressed her personal thanks to Prof. Iryna Tykhomyrova. She said: “MIM-Kyiv is one of the first educational institutions that supported CEEMAN in 1997 by joining the organization. It is the School which first in ex-USSR implemented up-to-date management concepts and launched MBA degree.”
Prof. Iryna Tykhomyrova, MIM-Kyiv’s President also welcomed participants: “For the first time we are hosting such an event. For the first time we welcome participants of the unique event that will contribute shaping the future of management development and managerial practices. It is a unique chance to discuss the latest trends in management development and business education. It is a unique chance for us to speak about innovations. Earlier innovations were crucial for success. Nowadays only innovations secure survival.”
Following the welcome words of the presidents of the event co-organizers, Danica Purg (CEEMAN) and Iryna Tykhomyrova (MIM-Kyiv), Liliya Hrynevych, Chairperson of the Committee on Science and Education of the Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) of Ukraine proved a keynote address on Innovation to Support Company and Country Competitiveness.
The morning of the main conference day included keynote presentation on Open Innovation, Cross-border Strategy, Large and Small Company Innovation Interaction. Chris Hare, Founder&CEO, The nTeTe Group, USA, stressed: “Future Leadership needs to draw from not only many disciplines, but from many industries and cultures.”
His lecture was followed by the international CEO panel on Breaking the Frameworks in Innovation Management, and The Learning Cycle of Innovation provided by Hein Schreuder, Former Executive Vice President Corporate Strategy & Acquisitions at Royal DSM N.V., the Netherlands (until 2012), Vlerick Business School, Belgium. Hein Schreuder lectured about contrasting principles of open and closed innovation, stressing: “The open innovation ‘motto’ is The World is our Lab!”
The afternoon sessions included two panels. The first panel on Value Innovation: Concept and Instruments included representatives of the Ukrainian businesses, while the second panel on Implications for executive Education: Creating Synergy among Business Schools, Businesses and State in Managing Innovation included the respective stakeholders from Ukraine and international community. The event was chaired by Peter McKiernan, Dean of the School of Management and Governance, Murdoch University, Australia, who provided an inspirational summary of the Forum discussions and main recommendations on the main Does and Don’ Does related to managing innovation and the respective role that executive education could and should play. In addition to a special gala dinner at the House of Metropolitan, the host institution, which demonstrated high organizational excellence and warm hospitality, organized a formidable sightseeing tour which included a number of outstanding historically and culturally important places and monuments in Kiev.
