Book Presentation: Light Footprint Management, by Charles-Edouard Bouée Go back »
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Time2013-12-04 | 16:00 - 17:30
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Venue:European Chamber of Commerce in China
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Address:Shui On Plaza, Unit 2204, 333 Huai Hai Zhong Road
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Fee:Members: 200 |
Non Members: 400
Today's business environment is inscribed within a new and increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world. To succeed, companies need to adapt their conventional management methodologies, techniques, and tools to the fast-paced, highly challenging VUCA environment.
The European Chamber is delighted to invite you to a book presentation on "Light Footprint Management", by Charles-Edouard Bouée. Light Footprint Management examines the game-changing firms, leaders, and ideas that are riding these volatile dynamics into a new era of prosperity using methodologies derived from American military doctrine and Chinese management techniques.
- What exactly makes conventional management theories unfit for today's world?
- What insights can business leaders gain from contemporary military discussions about special forces, drone strikes, and cyber warfare? What can they learn from China's successful light footprint entrepreneurs such as Alibaba's Jack Ma and Feng Jun of Huaqi Information Digital Technology (Aigo)?
- What does it take to build and manage a light footprint organization?
A consensus is emerging that, at some time in the relatively recent past, the business environment underwent what amounted to a phase transition, and became too volatile, complex and unpredictable for conventional management approaches to handle. In Charles-Edouard Bouée's forthcoming book "Light Footprint Management: Leadership in times of change", he suggests that companies can learn how to survive and thrive in the new world from recent developments in military doctrine and a new approach to business management emerging in China. The military precedent is illuminating because mainstream military thinking acknowledged, and began adapting to, the new world in the mid-1990s, when students at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania were told they were preparing for leadership roles in a "Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous" (VUCA) world.
Agenda
16.00-16:30 Registration
16.30 -16.35 Welcome remarks, Ioana Kraft, General Manager, European Chamber Shanghai
16.35 -17.05 Presentation
17.05 – 17.30 Q&A
Registration
Please register on this website (above) or contact Ms. Zhao Yang at yangzhao@europeanchamber.com.cn / (21) 6385 2023, stating your name and company, by Monday, 2 December COB.
This event will also be held in Beijing, Please click here for further information.
Speakers
Mr. Charles-Edouard Bouée
Charles-Edouard Bouée is Global COO of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and President of Roland Berger Asia. He earned his engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris and holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School as well as a law degree from Paris University. He has lived in the UK, US, France, and China, and worked on global strategy, organization, and management projects. Mr. Bouée is also a frequent speaker at international conferences and makes regular media appearances. He is the author of China's Management Revolution: Spirit, Land, Energy (2010) and Comment la Chine change le monde (2013).