How can executives and managers of Swedish subsidiaries in China adopt some of the cornerstones of Swedish managerial best practices? How can you develop your abilities to better manage problem ownership, your ability to find new creative solutions and drive change to implement them?

This Webinar will be conducted on our platform KUDO*! KUDO makes it possible for our audiences to switch languages between English and Chinese with a simple click in the meeting room.

This modular online training programme offered in collaboration between theUniversity of Gothenburg​, a leading Swedish university, and the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in China​ aims at rapidly providing executives and managers with new insights and new tools within three well-defined domains:

1. Leadership for sustainable strategy and supply chains

2. Creativity & innovation management

3. Change management

The programme comprises three separate two-hour synchronous online modules, one for each of the domains above. Each module will be delivered by a leading researcher and lecturer from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. For each module, there will be pre-study materials (articles, video clips) to be read and viewed in the week leading up to the module.

All the lectures and online interaction will take place in English. Through its KUDO​ meeting platform, the Swedish Chamber of Commerce will offer the possibility for the audience to switch to simultaneous translation into Chinese when listening to presentations.

As an introduction and a teaser, you are invited to a one-hour online webinar on Feb 23, at 16:00-17:00. In the webinar, you will listen to each of our professors outlining their fields of expertise, the content of their programme modules and what you will learn from attending. There will also be time for Q&A interactions with the professors.

Event info

Date: February 23, 2022

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 PM, Beijing Time

Fee: 80 RMB/Member ticket; 120 RMB/Non-member ticket

Venue: A KUDO meeting link will be sent out once the registration is successfully done.

Agenda

4:00 - 4:05 Welcome Introduction

4:05 - 4:20 Senior Lecturer Leif Denti, PhD: Creativity & innovation management

4:20 - 4:35 Assistant Professor Jonas Fasth, PhD: Change management (Prerecorded video)

4:35 - 4:50 Professor Niclas Egels Zandén, PhD: Leadership for sustainable strategy and supply chains

4:50 - 5:00 Q&A session

Below you will find a brief written presentation of each of the modules. We hope you will feel encouraged to first participate to the Feb 23 webinar, and then to sign up for the full programme, which will start with the first module on March 30.

Fee for the whole three modules

3900 RMB/ Member ticket; 5900 RMB / Non-member ticket; RMB 3600 / Group ticket if signing up for 3 or more than 3 persons.

Please note that the training program will open if we reach a Minimum of 20 attendants.

About the Professors and three Modules

Professor Niklas Egels Zandén, PhD: Leadership for sustainable strategy and supply chains

Managers and scholars agree that integrating sustainability into the business strategy of the firm is central in solving global social and environmental challenges. However, does integrating sustainability make sense from a corporate perspective? During this module, we will discuss the notion of sustainability in relation to business reality. We will illustrate with corporate examples and leading international research how firms can work to integrate sustainability into strategy and supply chains.

Professor Niklas Egels Zandén is Head of the Management & Organisation section and Director of Centre for Business in Society at the School of Business, Economics and Law at University of Gothenburg. His research is on the integration of sustainability into business strategy and supply chains. He has published 25+ academic articles on these topics in international journals and regularly leads executive education sessions for managers on these topics.

Senior Lecturer Leif Denti, PhD: Creativity & innovation management

This module will explore the roots of creative thinking and how creativity can be managed in organizations in order to increase individuals' and teams' solution quality and problem solving abilities. The building blocks of creativity, as well as the individual, team and organizational processes involved will be investigated.

Leif Denti, PhD, is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Psychology at the University of Gothenburg. His field is the psychology of innovation, and he has since 2009 devoted his research to examining organizational conditions and the role of leadership in enhancing creativity and innovation. He is one of Sweden's most sought after lecturers on creativity and innovation and as an expert advisor involved in innovation capability project both in the public and private sectors.

Assistant Professor Jonas Fasth, PhD: Change management

This module addresses the most challenging issues of change management; what balance between control and learning is desirable, and how can leaders act depending on the choice of that balance? Based on research on change management and the my own extensive experiences of change management, different perspectives and models on change are presented and compared. Common challenges in the Swedish context are described and concrete advice is given on how a change process can be prepared and managed.

Jonas Fasth, PhD, works as a researcher and teacher in business administration at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg and as a consultant with a focus on growth and strategic processes in companies. He also has experience from working with management teams and boards of directors to develop their working methods and competences in strategy and change management. With experience from both business and academia, he possesses a competence that is both theoretical and hands-on, and he is able to explain complicated theories and research in a concrete way that is easy to understand.

*"KUDO is a multilingual meeting SaaS company built around a B2B managed marketplace powered by the largest network of on-demand conference interpreters. Accessible from anywhere, on any device, KUDO redefines possibilities in global communication."

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