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Innovation is seen as key to sustained competitiveness, but innovation without capturing knowledge about the process of innovation and change may not improve an organisation's ability to innovate in future!

This workshop brings researchers and practitioners together to review the potential impact that the tools and techniques emerging from the EPSRC's Systems Engineering for Business Process Change and the ESRC's Innovation Programme might have on the sustainable competitiveness of organisations. Issues that are common to many of the research projects will be reviewed as the presentations proceed and include:

- Competitiveness and Sustainability

- Communicating knowledge across "experience" boundaries and organisational contexts

- Levering knowledge through learning: Monolithic vs. Light initiatives

- ICT versus Social Networks

Plenary sessions will be used to review the contributions and help identify future research questions.
 
 

Agenda

Thursday 23rd March 2000

10.00 Registration & coffee  
10.30 Welcome   Prof. David Hatherly, Director,
 University of Edinburgh 
 Management School
10.40 Introduction to the Workshop - Slides  Dr Ashley Lloyd
10.55 Engineering in the Business Domain  Professor Peter Henderson
11.10 Competitive Systems and Competitive Systems Engineering Processes
Abstract - Talk
 Professor Rob Pooley
11.30 Getting Benefits from the Networked form of organisation 

Abstract  - Talk

 Professor Anne Anderson
12.00 The ESRC Innovation Programme – Retrospective and Prospective  Dr Fiona Steele
12.45 Themes Review  Dr Ashley Lloyd
13.00 Lunch  
14.00 Querying the boundaries of the scope and validity of BPR processes in times of major change

Abstract - Paper (PDF) - THES Article - Institution Link

 Professor Graham Winch
14.30 The Use of Hoshin Kanri as a Planning Tool  Dr Barry Witcher
15.00 Knowledge Management and Innovation  Professor Harry Scarbrough
15.30 Coffee  
16.00 Panel Discussion & Themes Review  Dr Simon Collinson (Chair)
 Professor Harry Scarbrough
 Professor Anne Anderson
 Dr Fiona Steele
 Professor Peter Henderson
 Professor Andrew McCosh
17.30 Review of Friday's Programme  & Close   
20.00 Workshop Dinner - Bar Rioja  

 

Friday 24th March 2000

09.00 Conclusions & Questions from the first Panel Dr Simon Collinson
09.15 Innovation, Business Processes and Technology Investment Professor Andrew McCosh
09.45 Process Mapping and Benchmarking Professor Peter Barrar
10.15 Issues of Trust in Innovation and Knowledge
Management
Professor Elisabeth Davenport
10.45 Coffee
11.00 Legacy Systems and Organisational Change Mark Rouncefield
11.30 Intellectual capital for innovation: individuals and organizations Professor Paul Quintas
12.00 Using ICT Systems to Improve Innovation Dr Simon Collinson 
12.30 An Analysis of Knowledge Management Activities in the Provision of Customised Goods Dr Chris Hicks & 
Professor Paul Braiden
13.00 Lunch
14.00 People at the Centre of Communication and Information Technologies Professor Anne Anderson
14.15 Panel Discussion & Themes Review  Professor Paul Quintas (Chair)
 Professor Graham Winch
 Professor Elisabeth Davenport
 Professor Anne Anderson
 Professor Peter Barrar
 Dr Barry Witcher
16.00 Tea & Depart

Note that a summary of both panel discussions and a collected proceedings of the workshop will be edited and sent to all registered participants.

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