MAKE STRATEGY HAPPEN
– The MiL Model in the next decade
The 2009 MiL Days International Conference attracted almost 200 participants at MiL Campus in March 26-27.
40 speakers, moderators and MiLhosts showcased the width and depth of MiL Institute´s experience, knowledge and network of professionals.
Photos from some of the five cluster workshops (three presenters in each) and the 11 foundation seminars are shown below. The presentations are summarized on MiL
Day Seminars and for many of them there are also special papers.
Isabel Rimanoczy, LIM Partner and doctoral candidate at Columbia University, presented the ten principles of Action Reflection Learning according to the practitioners of MiL and LIM – and summarized in her newly published book “Action Reflection Learning” (co-authored with Ernie Turner). Isabel received the MiL Research Scholarship 2008.
Small talk in between the seminars: Per Hugander, MiL Faculty and Board member of MiL Institute, and Willie Anderson, Partner of LIM (Leadership in International Management, Florida).
Monica Lindstedt, the founder and principal owner of Hemfrid, talked in the Culture for Innovation – cluster about “Creating New Companies and New Business Models”.
Peter Lorange, Professor at IMD and President of IMD 1993-2008, gave a speech on “Strategy is Much More of Thinking and Execution than Planning”. Peter was also a presenter in the cluster on “Strategy that works”.
Stephen H. Rhinesmith, Founding Partner of the Executive Learning Center of Oliver Wyman, presented with head, heart and guts the main ideas of his forthcoming book on “Leading in Times of Crisis: Managing Complexity, Diversity and Uncertainty”.
Tetra Pak was one of several living cases. Mårten Hedberg, Director of Business Control in Tetra Pak Development and Engineering, made this presentation together with Lars Cederholm, MiL Faculty, who also received a scholarship for his paper on this management team development initiative.
Göran Wiklund, MiL Faculty, presented his paper “Eco Transition – Business strategies for a zero carbon economy” in the Strategy-cluster. Göran received the MiL Research Foundation Scholarship for his paper.
Lena Bergström, President of the MiL Institute, and Lennart Rohlin, Founder and former president, opening the conference.
Ernie Turner, President of LIM, and Charles J. Palus, Senior Researcher at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), in a discussion after having presented one paper each; Ernie on the Application of ARL Principles and Charles on Interdependent Leadership. Both received Scholarships from the Management Research Foundation.
Ginny Whitelaw, Ph.D., Zen priest and a trained biophysicist, presented the 4 energy patterns of personality from her newly published book “Move to Greatness”, including an application on the MiL organization. She was awarded a scholarship for her paper.
Leif Melin, Professor at JIBS and board member of the MiL Institute, spoke about “Strategizing as Daily Activities” in the Strategy-cluster.
“Working with Organizational Dilemmas”, was the title of Lars Marmgrens Foundation seminar. Lars, a MiL Faculty member, did not write a paper this time, but he will certainly be back in writing around this important issue.
The Volvo Logistics Global Program was presented by Christin Selse, the present HR Director and Kenth Berndtsson, the former HR Director. This was part of "The Volvo Cases", a cluster moderated by Anders Lindberg, senior consultant in MiL – and in the Volvo Logistics programs.
Per Hugo Skärvad, Professor at Lund university and Research Advisor to MiL Management Research Foundation, was the moderator of the cluster “Strategy that works”.
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MiL Days 2009 - The Program
Thursday, March 26
From 15.00 Welcome to register at MiL
Campus, to network and to take part in the pre-conference planning meetings with seminar leaders in different clusters (16.00 – 17.00)
21.00 Informal get together and a nightcap
Friday, March 27
9.00 – 9.45 Registration for the newly
arrived
10.00 The main MiL Days conference
YOU ARE ALSO
WELCOME TO ONLY TAKE PART IN THE FRIDAY PORTION OF THE MiL DAYS CONFERENCE
The Program for Thursday, March 26
16.00 – 17.00 Planning sessions in clusters
You are welcome to participate in one of the five cluster meetings A–E.
You are also welcome
to just network with professional friends or to arrive just before the dinner
at 18.00!
Please, tell us on the registration page your arrival time if you are joining us already on Thursday.
19.30 – 20.15 The Thursday evening foundation seminars
In the evening you are welcome
to choose one of the seminars listed below. For further information about the seminars, please see MiL
Days Seminars.
FOUNDATION SEMINARS
( 1 )
Leadership in the Global Economy – Managing complexity,
diversity and uncertainty
Stephen H. Rhinesmith
( 2 )
Move to Greatness – The foundation for integrating
high performance and humanism in the best leaders, teams and organizations
Ginny
Whitelaw
( 3 )
MiL Institute 2.0 – Pioneers with grounded values
and a new mission
Isabel Rimanoczy
( 5 )
Interdependent Leadership Cultures – What leaders
do together
Charles J. Palus
( 6 )
Working with Organizational Dilemmas
Lars Marmgren
( 8 ) On the Difference Between Knowledge and Understanding
Troed
Troedsson
20.30 - 21.30 The Thursday evening surprise
Halvard Jenssen and Lennart Rohlin
The Program for Friday, March 27 (10.00 – 16.00)
For more details about each seminar, please see MiL
Days Seminars.
10.00 – 10.15 Introduction
10.15 – 12.15 Sessions in clusters
You are welcome to take part in one of the five clusters A–E below.
A
STRATEGY THAT WORKS Moderator:
Per Hugo Skärvad
( 11 )
Strategy is much more of Thinking and Execution
than Planning
Peter Lorange
( 12 )
Strategizing as Daily Activities – Strategic practices
of continuously growing business firms
Leif Melin
( 13 )
Eco Transition – Business strategies for a zero
carbon economy
Göran Wiklund
( 14 ) Long Range Planning is an Excellent Strategy – As
long as you´re the only one doing it
Troed Troedsson
B
CULTURE FOR INNOVATION Moderator:
Lena Bergström
( 15 )
Creating New Companies and New Business Models –
On entrepreneurship and innovation
Monica Lindstedt
( 16 )
Making Strategy Happen – Innovating with customers
and partners
Lars Bengtsson
( 18 ) Creating Legitimacy for Innovative Organizations –
Personnel cooperatives in the health care sector
Lars Lindkvist
C
ACTION REFLECTION LEARNING Moderator:
Katarina Billing
( 19 )
Bring Strategy to Life – Apply ARL principles
Ernie
Turner and Isabel Rimanoczy
( 20 )
Developing an ARL-based Leadership Climate – The
case of Chalmers
Thomas Sewerin
( 21 ) Action Reflection Learning Coaching
Katarina Billing
D
MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT Moderator:
Jonas Janebrant
( 17 )
Using Action Learning to Build Innovative Corporate
Cultures
Victoria J. Marsick
( 23 )
Management Development at Tetra Pak
Lars
Cederholm and Mårten Hedberg
( 24 ) Business Driven Management Development - A model
to measure the value that is created
Hans Brundin
E
THE VOLVO CASES Moderator:
Anders Lindberg
( 26 )
Volvo in our heart
Sten Jönsson and Anders Boglind
( 27 )
Global Leadership Development at Volvo Logistics –
To become the globally leading company in automotive logistics
Åke Niklasson
and Kent Berndtsson
Reflecting team:
Christin Svan, Charles Palus and Anders
Lindberg
( 28 ) Management Team Development at Volvo Car Engine
Division in a Global Context – A prerequisite for becoming best
in class
Håkan Berntsson and Anders Lindberg
Reflecting team: Åse Hagerström,
Anders Boglind, Lars-Göran Järvung and Sten Jönsson
13.30 – 14.15 The Friday afternoon foundation seminars
Take part in one of the following seminars, some of which are
repetitions from Thursday evening.
For more details about each seminar, please see MiL
Days Seminars.
FOUNDATION SEMINARS
( 1 )
Leadership in the Global Economy – Managing complexity,
diversity and uncertainty
Stephen H. Rhinesmith
( 2 )
Move to Greatness – The foundation for integrating
high performance and humanism in the best leaders, teams and organizations
Ginny
Whitelaw
( 4 )
SIAR and MiL, Soul Mates in Action – Designing creation,
learning and growth
Halvard Jenssen
( 7 )
Culture – Container of unrevealed dreams?
Inger Dræby
( 11 )
Strategy is much more of Thinking and Execution
than Planning
Peter Lorange
( 15 ) Creating New Companies and New Business Models –
On entrepreneurship and innovation
Monica Lindstedt
14.30 – 16.00 Sessions in clusters and closing
The cluster sessions will be repeated. Here you can choose to participate in
a second one.
See "10.15 - 12.15 Sessions in clusters" above or for more details,
MiL Days Seminars.
MiL Days 2009 - Scholarships
At the 2009 MiL Days ”Make Strategy Happen – The MiL Model in the next decade”, a great number of scholarships were awarded by the MiL Management Research Foundation. In total SEK 195 000 were awarded to the following persons for papers contributing to the development of knowledge of relevance to practitioners.
Lars Bengtsson
Making Strategy Happen
– Innovating with customers and partners
This paper offers an overview of different forms of open innovation using the Internet as well as examples of successful open innovation practices. Apple, Google and Lego are some examples of companies that have opened up their innovation processes, bringing in partners and customers to enhance creativity and speed up commercialization of new products and services.
Lars Bengtsson is Professor of Business Administration at Blekinge Institute of Technology and Lund University focusing on strategic management, innovation and entrepreneurship. Lars regards the MiL model in itself as a good example of open innovation.
Lars Cederholm
Management Development at Tetra Pak
Global competitive forces call for a “faster, better and cheaper approach” to product and process development. At the same time, such catchwords have a tendency to become meaningless without being grounded in the values and culture of the corporation and without being supplemented
with strategic work around cooperation and alignment. The MiL Institute has been engaged to facilitate the work of management teams on key challenges facing Tetra Pak.
Lars Cederholm is a Program Director and coach at MiL Institute. Lars has an M.Sc. in Business Administration, Lund University, an M.A. in Organization Psychology, Columbia University and he holds a diploma in Organization and Systems Development from the Gestalt Institute in Cleveland.
Lars Lindkvist
Creating Legitimacy for Innovative Organizations
– Personnel cooperatives in the health care sector
What does it mean to operate within a cooperative? What happens to the business operations that
have been left to the personnel who previously worked in the public sector? How do innovative organizations work strategically to create legitimacy? This paper describes the typical change process and the effects of personnel takeover of the management, work organization and finance.
Lars Lindkvist is Professor in Business Administration at Växjö University and BBS Baltic Business School at the University of Kalmar. Lars is also a MiL Senior Associate and Adjunct Professor at Copenhagen Business School.
Victoria J. Marsick
Using Action Learning to Build Innovative Corporate Cultures
Strategies for establishing creative/innovative culture are identified, with an emphasis on Action Reflection Learning – a development process in which corporate talent learn by working collaboratively on real business challenges, and use their learning projects to nurture creativity and build innovation in the organization.
Victoria J. Marsick, Ph.D., is Professor of Adult and Organizational Learning at Teachers College, Columbia University. Victoria consults with both the public and private sectors on learning organizations and action learning.
Charles J. Palus
Interdependent Leadership Cultures
– What leaders do together
Leaders are bound together in distinct leadership cultures, of which there are three broad types: dependent, independent, and interdependent. In this paper, we will explore how to diagnose and understand leadership cultures and how to move toward interdependen- ce, based on case examples, including Volvo Logistics.
Charles J. Palus, Ph.D., is a senior enterprise associate in Research, Innovation & Product Development at the Center for Creative Leadership, CCL. Charles received his B.Sc. in chemical engineering and his Ph.D. in adult developmental psychplogy.
Isabel Rimanoczy
MiL Institute 2.0
– Pioneers with grounded values and a new mission?
Back in the 1970s, the way organizations developed human potential needed to change. MiL’s contribution to a change in learning has been major. But what comes next? Managers will have to develop new competencies and new mindsets. New values have to be brought to the table.
Isabel Rimanoczy is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, a Senior Partner with LIM, Leadership in International Management, and a Legacy Coach. Isabel is affiliated with the UN PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education).
Troed Troedson
On the Difference Between Knowledge and Understanding
Explore the nature of understanding as opposed to knowledge, try to get a hold of the fundamental mechanics behind understanding and make a serious attempt to apply these to your business and we soon realize that there are quite a few surprises. One is that the search for understanding is built on not knowing, and it is therefore possible to imply that one of the greatest obstacles when it comes to us trying to understand is that we know too much.
Troed Troedson runs a firm of consultants in which he has developed an approach that takes a commercial company or a public institution into new ways of doing business. He has been working with public and commercial organizations for 20 years, mostly on projects concerned with change and development.
Per Tryding
Structured Experience
– The added value of executive education
This paper is a summary of mixed method research into the value of executive education (including the economic payback) to organizations and participants. Participants in executive programs conducted by four executive management institutes and business schools, including the MiL Institute, have been interviewed and surveyed. The outcomes in terms of reactions, learning, behavior and results are presented.
Per Tryding, Ph.D., is VP/Deputy Chief Executive, Chamber of Commerce, Malmö, Sweden. Per is a former board member of the MiL Institute, with an M.Sc. in International Business and Economics, Lund University and an Exec. MBA, SIMI, Copenhagen.
Ernie Turner
Bring Strategy to Life
– Apply ARL principles
ARL principles can be applied in a variety of ways: coaching individuals, coaching teams, making mergers work, developing leaders. designing and delivering learning interventions, and bringing strategy to life. This paper describes how we applied the ARL principles with a regional leadership team in Asia Pacific to help them bring their strategy to life.
Ernie Turner is the president of LIM, a global network of experienced coaches trained in action reflection learning principles and practices. Prior to his 22 years with LIM, Ernie lived and worked on four continents as a teacher, principal and consultant.
Ginny Whitelaw
Move to Greatness
– The foundation for integrating high performance and humanism in the best leaders, teams and organizations
An interactive journey through four foundational patterns of personality that, used appropriately, create whole leaders, healthy teams, and sustainably successful organizations. How to cultivate and balance the complementary energies of being human and how to work with these same energies
in groups and organizations to create a healthy tension between high performance and humanism that propels a true move to greatness.
Ginny Whitelaw, Ph.D. is a trained biophysicist. She also worked for 10 years at NASA, where she became the Deputy Manager for integration of the International Space Station Program. She is a Zen priest and holds a 5th degree black belt in Aikido.
Göran Wiklund
Eco Transition
– Business strategies for a zero carbon economy
The climate crisis will revolutionize the way business is done in the future. Decarbonizing will be the new mantra. Climate change not only involves economic risks, but offers huge opportunities through new business models and new ways of thinking. How corporations need to go beyond environmental efficiency and develop strategies inspired by ecological systems.
Göran Wiklund is a Senior Associate at the MiL Institute. Göran has extensive experience of developing and changing organizations. He has started several companies, been MD of a venture capital company and holds various positions as board director.
