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Meeting Announcement

January 2006: Discussion with John Hagel

From Push to Pull – Emerging Models for Mobilizing Resources
A Forum Discussion with John Hagel

Increasingly, in this more globalized, flat, and distributed economy, institutions confront a profound shift in how they mobilize resources. In more stable times, push approaches have worked well to produce increasing efficiency - anticipate where and when resources will be required and organize to make sure that these resources are available at the appropriate place and time. These approaches are now challenged by a fundamentally different approach - pull platforms designed to help distributed participants access resources where and when they need them.

Renowned business thinkers, John Hagel and John Seely Brown, have defined the next frontier of innovation in their ongoing ground-breaking research, recent McKinsey Quarterly white paper, and highly acclaimed book, "The Only Sustainable Edge: Why Business Strategy Depends on Productive Friction and Dynamic Specialization"  (Harvard Business School Press, 2005). Visit www.edgeperspectives.com.
John will present their compelling case for managers to discard their myopic focus on existing resources and fundamentally rethink strategy development and the nature of the firm. He will describe the migration path companies will pursue to build this sustainable edge by: deepening distinctive internal capabilities; mobilizing the resources of other specialized companies; and accelerating learning across broad networks of enterprises.

The eLearning Forum is honored to have John Hagel join us for an intense, interactive discussion of these major shifts that will affect your organizational and learning priorities over the next decade. John’s presentation will include a discussion of:

  • the business and economic drivers
  • how pull systems work
  • evolving business models
  • global process networks
  • extended product innovation
  • the application and utilization of tangible and intangible assets or resources
  • utilizing new generations of technology to support capability building
  • how learning and education needs to fundamentally change to anticipate and succeed in the midst of these profound changes
  • what organizations need to do now – the call to action

The meeting format will be highly interactive. John Hagel will discuss these issues, concepts, and specific instances or cases that illustrate how organizations are changing or need to change to meet these challenges. Audience participation throughout the session will be encouraged and managed so as to provide deeper understanding and collaborative idea generation around the learning implications and impacts.

John Hagel is a business strategist, author of six highly acclaimed books and a large body of business articles and white papers for publications such as Harvard and McKinsey, and former McKinsey & Company consultant and global practice leader who has advised senior executives around the world for twenty-five years. He is a Forum Fellow of the World Economic Forum, an advisory board member of a number of high technology companies, and a member of the Steering Committee for the Harvard Business School Research Center. He has graduate degrees from Harvard (MBA and JD) and undergraduate degrees from Oxford and Wesleyan Universities.

Agenda
Friday, January 20, 2006
8:30 a.m. - Registration, Coffee, and Seating
9:00 a.m. - Introductions, Forum News, and Plans
9:30 a.m. - John Hagel Program and Group Interaction
Noon - Box Lunch and Networking

Speakers

  • John Hagel: Consultant and Author
  • Eilif Trondsen: Founder and Chairman, eLearning Forum, Director, SRIC-BI Learning on Demand Program
  • Del Langdon: CEO, eLearning Forum, Moderator

Who Should Attend
Learning executives, managers, practitioners who want to learn from and share with colleagues who face similar business and learning issues.
Business managers who are interested in the intersection of business and learning.
Solutions providers interested in business drivers for decisions on learning technology and solutions.

Location
SRI International 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, CA .  (SRI is on Ravenswood Drive between Middlefield and El Camino Real).
Please use the parking lot at the corner of Ravenswood and Middlefield (next to the church) and walk the half block to the meeting. SRI has very limited parking in front of Building A; those spaces are reserved for SRI's use.

Remote Participation
Due to temporary problems with Breeze, we will not be able to support remote participation for tis meeting.  But the entire meeting will be recorded and will be available one week after the meeting for on demand viewing on the eLearning Forum achives.

Registration
Click here to Save $10 with on-line registration
Registration at the door $30

Further Information
Eilif Trondsen, etrondsen@sric-bi.com , 650-859-2665.
Check back for further updates as they are made available.




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