2012 International Conference on System Engineering and Modeling - ICSEM 2012

Vist the official website of the 2012 International Conference on System Engineering and Modeling, ICSEM 2012, will be held during 7-8 April 2012, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ICSEM 2012, aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of System Engineering and Modeling, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.

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Leonardo 3.4.5 Meeting – 05.11.2011

Leonardo 3.4.5 has become a very effective tool for mapping teams, organisations and strategies. The group of developers has driven the Eureka project of the European Union into a userfriendly tool, appreciated by a growing community of users from organizational development, human resources, coaching, general management, education, etc.

Who should attend?

If you are familiar with Leonardo 3.4.5 basic resources and the underlying concepts, you will benefit both from the contributions of the developers, from the workshops with the community of practice and from the sharing of knowledge.

Where and when?

This event takes place at the School of Business and Engineering Vaud (HEIG-VD) on Saturday 5^th November 2011, 14:00 – 14:00 h. The building is located 5 min. walking from the railway station of Yverdon-les-Bains. If you come by car, sufficient parking lots are available around the building.

Community of practice - Building a knowledge base:

The intention of this meeting is building a knowledgebase in collaboration with the users of Leonardo 3.4.5. Hence the contributions will be recorded as videoclips and published on the Internet site. To do so we collaborate with the department Comem+ (Communications Engineering and Management) of HEIG-VD, which was the leading project partner for the Eureka project Leonardo 3.4.5 stems from. With your attendance, you agree that you may appear on a video clip published on Internet.

Contribution:

CHF 50.- per participant will be collected at the beginning of the meeting. For holders of an account for the generation of profiles the attendance is free for 2 participants.

Registration:

Please register your attendance until 26^th October 2011 with a mail to alain.butticaz@leonardo345.ch

Program:

When	What	How
14.00 – 14.10	Welcome
14.10 – 14.45	Organizational strategies and risk taking, Dr Christa Muth, prof. HES   Blabla spécifique	Presentation (recording clip)
14.45 – 14.55	Q&A	Discussion
14.55 – 15.10	Break
15.10 – 15.30	The monitoring of the Leonardo 3.4.5 questionnaire – fundamental and statistical aspects: Prof. Dr Heiko Hansjosten Blabla spécifique	Presentation (recording clip)
15.30 – 15.40	Q&A	Discussion
15.40 – 15.55	Break
15.55 – 16.05	Briefing for workshops
16.05 – 16.50	Community of practice: Success stories, perspectives and questions in field work with Leonardo 3.4.5 – 4 propositions for parallel workshops:    1.      Creative applications of Leonardo 3.4.5 2.      Acquisition of consultancy assignments with Leonardo 3.4.5 3.      How to use Leonardo 3.4.5 3rd dimension: the organizational strategies 4.      Open topic(s)	4 parallel workshops
16.50 – 17.10	Presentations of ideas and propositions resulting from the workshops	5 min. per group (recording clips)
17.10 – 17.30	Open discussion
17.30 – 18.00	Conclusion

Concluding dinner :

We will share a dinner at our own expense at Restaurant du Château (Place Pestalozzi 13, Yverdon-les-Bains). Please indicate with your registration if you stay for dinner.

		Leonardo 3.4.5 Meeting – 05.11.2011 HEIG-VD Av. Des Sports 20 Yverdon-les-Bains Room : S204

Henry Mintzberg on Decision Making

Michael Porter on Competitiveness

New Nature of Innovation

“This report to the OECD on the New Nature of Innovation is an important milestone. It represents four significant philosophical departures. From a traditional “firm centric view” of innovation, this study moves us to a “personalized, cocreated view” of innovation, from the centrality of the firm to the centrality of the individual. Secondly, it demonstrates the institutional interdependencies in innovation process where specialized skills are sourced from around the world. Thirdly, innovation is seen not as episodic but interactive, iterative and continuous. Finally, this is a call for democratizing innovation.Consumers not just institutions will have their share of voice in the innovation process. The entire ecosystem of suppliers, nodal firms and consumers will be involved in the creation of value. Collaborative capacity will be critical for innovation. This is a bold and timely departure from the traditional view. I recommend it for policy makers, managers and students of management”


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Global Virtual University (GVU)

Under the auspices of the United Nations University (UNU) the Global Virtual University (GVU) is a consortium of universities that work together to enhance learning for environmental sustainability. Through a range of online study programmes and courses offered by partner universities, the mission of GVU is to increase people's sensitivity to and involvement in finding solutions for environment and development issues. 

The consortium acknowledges the importance of education for development and is particularly designed to meet the educational needs of the developing world.

Online learning (e-learning) forms the basic educational method for all our study programmes and courses. This implies that a substantial part of teaching, collaboration, and supervision take place on the Internet. The pedagogy has a social constructivist approach, which means that group work, online discussions and joint assignments are important. It further implies that an active and regular participation among the students is essential. Students meet their classmates in virtual classrooms, in some cases supported by a face to face session in the beginning of the course. 

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Activation and optimization of organizational potentials

Your organization and teams potentials and talents might be much more than you think. You just need to activate them.

LEONARDO 3.4.5 is a research based expert tool that identifies potentials and talents of individuals inside a working environment. It provides a platform for consultants to facilitate the development of organizational performance.

LEONARDO 3.4.5 facilitators run development workshops for their participant's projects in order to enhance people's understanding of team effectiveness and its relevance in meeting business challenges.

LEONARDO 3.4.5 has been operating since 1998.

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