Following demand, we have developed a set of new short programs that we want to discuss with you. Please send us an email or comment, if you are interested in joining one of the programs (they will be 1.5 days, Thursday/Friday or Friday/Saturday in Berlin, Munich, Salzburg, and Vienna). We can also easily custom-tailor...
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Takeway: ability to develop social media strategy and social media policy for employees. Approach: Cases and project-laboratory. Faculty: Philipp Mueller, Bernie Krieger (Cambridge) Who should participate: anybody who wants to use social media more effectively.
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Takeway: ability to develop social media strategy and social media policy for employees. Approach: Cases and project-laboratory. Faculty: Philipp Mueller, Bernie Krieger (Cambridge) Who should participate: HR executives, public affairs executives, senior decision makers.
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Takeaway: Ability to set up and lead open value chains. Frameworks: Anti-Leadership Approach: Cases and reflection workshop. Faculty: Philipp Müller Who should participate: Senior executives from private, public, and civil society organizations.
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Takeaway: Applying the logic of open value chain to your governmental organization. How to manage open value chains. Frameworks: Post-Coasian Economics, Open Value Chain Analysis Faculty: Philipp Müller Who should participate: Senior executives from public, and civil society organizations.
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Takeaway: How to structure relationships between private sector corporations, civil society organizations, and the public sector. Frameworks: Project Finance, Risk Allocation, Interest/Knowledge Analysis Approach: Case Based Who should participate: Senior executives from private, public, and civil society organizations. Faculty: Akash Deep (Harvard Kennedy School), Philipp Müller
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Takeaway: How collaboration allows us to rapidly build up clusters by developing cross-sectoral ecosystems for economic growth. Frameworks: Porter’s Diamond, Performance Ecosystems, Learning Networks. Approach: Case Based. Who should participate: Senior executives from private, public, and civil society organizations tasked with setting up industry clusters. Faculty: Edgar Aragon (Harvard Business School), Philipp Müller (SMBS)
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I am back from Berlin, where we were discussing at the google collaboratory how to evaluate the impact of open government. While the excitement about enterprise 2.0, government 2.0, and open government has been building, critical voices in organizations have questioned the return on investment (ROI) of such projects. 2.0 projects are often still...
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Open government is the doctrine and governance approach which holds that the business of government and state administration should be opened at all levels to effective public scrutiny and oversight to improve capacity and legitimacy of collective action. It outlines a “brave new world” of doing governance. The discourse on the topic has focused...
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John Maynard Keynes once famously quipped that “Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”There are four authors of the 20th Century that have become background knowledge shared across most global cultures that are keeping us from fully seeing the opportunities...
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