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The INSEAD Centre for Executive Education and Research in Abu Dhabi,

and The Centre for Advanced Learning Technologies (CALT)

invite you to participate in

“A one-day expert workshop:

ChangeMastersMiddle East”

With Professor Albert A. ANGEHRN

Sunday, 24 August 2008 – 09AM—05:00PM

INSEAD Abu Dhabi Centre

We are pleased to invite you to join our one-day expert workshop on the theme of change and innovation management which will be held on Sunday, August 24^th, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., at the Centre for Executive Education and Research of INSEAD in Abu Dhabi.

What are the key challenges for change and innovation management in Middle Eastern companies and organizations in 2008?  What are the key competencies that enable people to manage change and innovation projects successfully? How can these key competencies be developed by using innovative learning solutions and specifically adapted to the specificities of Middle Eastern companies and organizations today?

In order to provide answers to these questions, Professor Albert A. Angehrn, Director of the Centre for Advanced Learning Technologies (CALT), located on the INSEAD campus in Fontainebleau, France, presents:

                                  ChangeMasters Middle East

— a new INSEAD research and development project aimed at creating an innovative learning simulation that perfectly meets the requirements of Middle Eastern organizations in today’s world. 

Abu Dhabi Project launch

Our workshop in Abu Dhabi marks the launch of the project. 

Participants will learn about the latest research on change and innovation management and exchange experiences and best practices, as they help us to validate our knowledge on change and innovation management that will serve as a solid basis for the development of new, customized management simulations for Middle Eastern organizations.

Workshop facilitator:  Albert A. Angehrn

Professor Angehrn will be assisted by Dr. Florian Schloderer, who now resides in the UAE and is the ChangeMasters Middle East project researcher (email:  florian@schloderer.com )

EIS:  a unique learning experience for participants

The workshop will be divided into two parts. 

Ø       In part one the participants will play the EIS simulation, one of INSEAD’s most advanced management learning experiences, now widely used by corporations and academic institutions across the world.

In part two, through discussions led by Professor Angehrn, we will discuss the challenges and best practices of change and innovation projects in Middle Eastern organizations, thus offering the opportunity for the participants to share their personal experiences

Key benefits of the expert workshop

As participants of the expert workshop, here is what you will do:

• play the EIS simulation
• participate in a creative learning experience that simulates the reflection of your existing knowledge about change and innovation management
• learn about the latest research on change and innovation management in Middle Eastern organizations
• exchange personal experiences and best practices of change and innovation management of the other participants
• enhance your personal network with other leading experts on change and innovation management in the region

In advance, welcome to our workshop!

As the number of participants is limited, we kindly ask you to confirm your participation as soon as possible.

If you have any questions regarding this workshop please do not hesitate to contact our INSEAD Abu Dhabi Centre:  Zeina Sleiman

A map of access to the INSEAD Abu Dhabi centre is attached for your reference.

The closing date for registration is  21 August  2008. As seats are limited, please register early for this free event. To do so, you can send the below details by email to Zeina.sleiman@insead.edu, or by fax to 02 446 0303.  Thank you for your kind cooperation.  

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Zeina SLEIMAN
Office Manager of The Abu Dhabi Centre
INSEAD
The Business School for the World

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 The paper :

  Albert A. Angehrn, Katrina Maxwell (2008); TENTube: A Video-based Connection Tool Supporting Competence Development; (iJET), Vol 3 (2008)

has now been published

Abstract—The vast majority of knowledge management initiatives fail because they do not take sufficiently into account the emotional, psychological and social needs of individuals. Only if users see real value for themselves will they actively use and contribute their own knowledge to the system, and engage with other users. Connection dynamics can make this easier, and even enjoyable, by connecting people and bringing them closer through shared experiences such as playing a game together. A higher connectedness of people to other people, and to relevant knowledge assets, will motivate them to participate more actively and increase system usage. In this paper, we describe the design of TENTube, a video-based connection tool we are developing to support competence development. TENTube integrates rich profiling and network visualization and navigation with agent-enhanced game-like connection dynamics.

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Special Issue on Social Web and Identity
Identity in the Information Society, a Journal published by Springer
Guest Editor: Thierry Nabeth, INSEAD, France

Important Dates:

• Submission of full papers – 31 October 2008
• Review returned – 7 February 2009
• Submission of revised papers – 17 April 2009
• Final decision by editors – May 2009

The social web refers to an important constituent of the latest Internet revolution (also termed Web 2.0), which is the result of the transformation of the Internet from an information space into a social space. … Key to this social process is the development the online identity of the participants that consists of a patchwork of information of diverse origins and quality and which includes both the information explicitly provided by the users (in their home pages, social networking profile), information that can be inferred from their actions (people can express their opinion, and leave traces that are easily available), or generated by others explicitly (for instance when they provide an opinion) or implicitly (when people “vote with their feet” in favour of something or someone).

… Given the growing importance of this online identity, we would like in this special issue of JIDIS to investigate the identity aspects related to this social web.

See more details at:  Call for Paper: Special Issue on Social Web and Identity; Identity in the Information Society

Making Sense 2007 - Stockholm

The following presentation was done by Nicolas Maisonneuve in the context of the AtGentive Project, (a research project investigating the use of Agents to support people attention) and in this case social attention in virtual community platforms.

A New York Times article re. a Wi-Fi network that is not top-down but rather ground-level, peer-to-peer, this low-cost network model offers the prospect of broadband service reaching inside many more households.

• the article

An additional vector for Rural Wings?

_ José

IBM Wants Many Eyes on Visualization
By Tim O’Reilly on January 23, 2007

IBM today announced Many Eyes, a site for sharing and commenting on visualizations. Martin Wattenberg, who developed the original version of the treemap we use for our book market visualizations as well as the awesome baby name voyager, and Fernanda Viegas, who worked with him on the equally awesome history flow visualizations of Wikipedia, are the geniuses behind this project.

I found this interesting new on O’Reilly Radar, that I read from time to time.

I remember several years ago we did at CALT some project jointly with IBM (Surf and Buy), related to data-mining for electronic commerce.

— thierry

Country flag images for use in any variety of our work (project platforms, reports, etc.) are at: http://europa.eu/abc/governments/index_en.htm
Note: a “Fleck” annotated version is available at:
http://extension.fleck.com/?sh=8ad065892d194359ed1fa81c54b63902b04ae6ea

I am more interested in your feedback on the use of Fleck (1) for our collaborative work. Please let me know here. Thanks!

José

(1) Fleck = “Add a note to any page, then send it to your friends or use it in your blog.” http://fleck.com/

1999 all over again? VCs setting funding records

 A short posting in the Silicon Valley Watcher commenting the return of VC capital in the Valley.

– thierry

Scott suggested me this interesting tool for finding people by skill profile.

Check out AROUNDMe; the ONLY free social networking and group collaboration platform available today and play if you like.

enjoy the week!

eleni