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  2002 Designing For Sustainability

If your organization is...

  • "surviving" instead of growing,
  • shifting strategy to meet a growing competition
  • hampered by older technology thinking,
  • dependant on strategic partnerships,
  • finding it lacks the new skill sets required

...then this conference will prove immensely valuable to you.

Conference knowledge sessions include:

  • Designing for Growth & Sustainability
  • Adapting To The Boom-Bust Cycle
  • Competetive Advantage Thru Strategic Partnerships
  • Technology-based Sustainability
  • Measurement Approaches that Support Sustainability
  • People-Focused Designs for High Commitment and High Performance

Featuring these thought leaders and cutting-edge practitioners:

Jay Galbraith
Author of several books including Designing Organizations and Designing the Global Corporation. He is also a Professor with the International Institute for Management Development in Switzerland.

Gary Frank and Paul Tolchinsky of Performance Development Associates
The Strategy/Structure Connection: Designing to Operationalize Structure

Dr. Julie M. Smith, Cofounder, CLG Consulting
Metrics: The Key to Behavioral Results That Last

For more information about The Forum, contact us at info@organizationdesignforum.org

 
Sunday April 28
8:00 - 4:00 Pre-Conference Workshop:Designing High Performance Organizations: A 7-Step Approach, Craig McGee and Kathy Molloy
Monday April 29
7:00 - 8:00 Opening Reception and Continental Breakfast - Meet new friends and introduce yourself.
8:00- 8:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks, Kathy Molloy, President of The Organization Design Forum.
8:15- 10:00 Jay Galbraith: Join Jay Galbraith as he focuses on designing organizations for flexibility - "reconfigurable" - resulting in sustainability. Jay has found that designs used by many service companies, particularly consulting firms, are highly sustainable. He will talk about their applications to manufacturing and distribution companies. Jay will also describe what components of a business lend themselves most easily to -reconfiguration. Case studies on Nabisco and Sun Microsystems will be provided so join us for this stimulating entry into the ODF Conference.
10:30-12:00 E. Craig McGee, Ph.D., Principal, Solutions, Designing Collaborative Organizations ... 10 Principles for Sustainability
12:00- 1:00 Lunch
1:00- 3:00 Daniel L. Smith, Ph.D., Director - Center for Business Development and Entrepreneurship, College of Business, University of Idaho, Why Organizations Fizzle Out and What To Do About It Daniel F. Flynn, President & CEO, Resources Management Corporation, Resources Management Corporation: Sustainable Design in a Boutique Investment Firm
3:30- 5:00 Brad Hams, President, Ownership Thinking, LLC, Create a Business of Business People with The Great Game of Business®. Organizations that practice The Great Game of Business outperform their competitors by 30% or more. They accomplish this by fully utilizing their most important asset - their employees. Learn how GGOB companies train and engage their employees to actively participate in their organization's success.
5:00 - On Reception to Follow
Tuesday April 30
7:00- 8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:00- 8:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks, Kathy Molloy, President of The Organization Design Forum.
8:15- 10:00 Gary Frank and Paul Tolchinsky, Performance Development Associates, The Strategy/Structure Connection: Designing to Operationalize Structure
10:30 - 12:00 Deborah Bethea Berkley and Gail Goodrich Harwood, Internal Consultants, United Airlines, The Tougher the Lesson, the More Profound the Learning - The Challenge of Designing Lateral Organizations. Richard McDermott, President, McDermott Consulting, Designing and Sustaining Distributed Organizations
12:00- 1:15 Lunch and Members Annual Meeting
1:15- 3:00 Tracy C. Gibbons, Ph.D., President, CoastWise Consulting, Inc., Designing Organizations for Competitive Advantage in The Supply Chain Lisa Kimball, Executive Producer, Group Jazz, Collaboration as a Performing Art - How the secrets of the world's most creative arts groups can help organizations design environments and processes that support creative collaboration in the room or across the globe.
3:30- 5:00 Karen Glendinning and David Pettit, Managing Directors, The Center for Context, Redesign of The Procurement Organization at a Major Pharmaceutical - Reinventing The Procurement Function Julie Beedon and Joanna Yates, VISTA Consulting Team, Ltd., BBC News, a very old established brand facing competition from new entrants, new technology, new customer demands, etc and how it reorganized to sustain its world position.
5:00 - On Reception to Follow
Wednesday, May 1
7:00- 8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:00- 8:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks, Kathy Molloy, President of The Organization Design Forum.
8:15- 11:30 Dr. Julie M. Smith, Cofounder, CLG Consulting, Metrics: The Key to Behavioral Results That Last
11:30- 12:00 Conference Closeout
To register or for more information contact us at (603) 942-5994.


Pre-Conference Workshops
Sunday, April 28

Pre Con: Designing High Performance Organizations: The Organization Design Forum 7-Step Approach

Craig McGee and Kathy Molloy

The workshop provides an overview of the theories and concepts of designing high performance organizations. The workshop further takes the basic concepts and provides pragmatic instruction in the tools and methodology for organization design. A key premise of the workshop is that organizations can be consciously designed to achieve their strategic capability.

Participants will:

  • understand of the basic concepts and design models for designing organizations
  • receive a step-by-step process for a systems approach to designing organizations
  • see applications of design concepts through case examples
  • receive specific tools useful in designing organizations

E. Craig McGee, Ph.D, has over twenty years experience in organization design, having led organization design efforts in a wide variety of organizations including Exxon, Xerox, Sybase and the Canadian Air Command. He is Past-President of AMOD now the Organization Design Forum.

Kathy Molloy, M.A., M.B.A., has over twenty years experience consulting on various aspects of organization design. She has consulted with organizations including Aetna, HSBC Equator plc, Towers Perrin, The Stanley Works and Habitat for Humanity. She is the current President of the Organization Design Forum



 
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