PREPARATION AND PERCEPTION IN THE ARTFUL EVENT
Processes of Innovation in Theatre and Business
The Centre for Art & Leadership at Copenhagen Business School is pleased to announce a seminar on Preparation and Perception in the Artful Event.
Introduction
In certain business situations, preparing for an unexpected outcome is at least as important as planning for expected outcomes. Preparation for the unexpected requires an ability to perceive the actual in an unfolding process, which is sometimes different from the intended. Theatre makers are skilled at this kind of preparation and perception.
In this series of talks and discussions with theatre professionals and business leaders, we will explore questions such as:
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How is preparation different than planning?
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In what situations is preparation more appropriate than planning?
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How do we perceive actions in a prepared event differently from a planned event?
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What happens when what we intend to do is different from what we do in actuality?
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How do we manage the gap between what we think we are doing and what is actually being done?
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How can we, as managers, perceive what is really happening apart from our expectations of the event or outcome?
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How can we create a process in which goals are set that are non-prescriptive?
This one-day seminar brings together Danish and American theatre professionals, philosophers and business leaders who are expert innovators.
Guests and speakers will include:
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Professor Ole Fogh Kirkeby, Director of the Centre for Art & Leadership, DK.
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Professor Robert D. Austin, Harvard Business School, U.S.A. (Visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School)
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Professor Lee Devin, Swarthmore College, U.S.A.
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Artistic Director Abigail Adams, People’s Light & Theatre, U.S.A.
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Director Rasmus Ibfelt, e-Types A/S, DK.
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Theatre Manager Henrik Hartmann, Betty Nansen Teatret, D.K.
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Manager of Audience Development and Dramaturg Mette Wolf Iversen, Betty Nansen Teatret, D.K.
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More to be announced
Programme
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Introduction Associate Professor Robert D. Austin, Harvard Business School U.S.A.
Preparing for the Event Professor Ole Fogh Kirkeby, The Centre for Art & Leadership D.K.
The difference between Preparation and Planning Professor Lee Devin, Swarthmore College, U.S.A
Creating a Process with Non-prescriptive Goals Artistic Director Abigail Adams, People’s Light & Theatre, U.S.A.
Coffee Break
Panel Discussions Participants:
Wrap-up
Reception
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Recommended Reading
"Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater" ; Article by Robert D. Austin and Lee Devin
Arranged by
The Centre for Art & Leadership with Visiting Professor Robert D. Austin and Research Associate Shannon O’Donnell
Time
April 19, 2006, 13:00 to 17:30
Language
English
Registration
The Seminar is open for everybody, who finds the theme and perspectives of interest.
But Registration is necessary for planning purpose.
Register here
Read more about the Guests and Speakers
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Professor Ole Fogh Kirkeby, Copenhagen Business School, D.K. Read about Ole Fogh Kirkeby – Click here
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Associate Professor Robert D. Austin, Harvard Business School, U.S.A. Robert D. Austin joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 1997. He teaches MBA courses in Technology and Operations Management, the information technology (IT) module of an executive program for owner/ managers, and chairs the school's program for information technology executives He is developing a new MBA course called “Managing in the Creative Economy” which will debut in the spring of 2007. Professor Austin's research focuses on management of knowledge intensive activities. He has written on these subjects in five books, The Broadband Explosion: Leading Thinkers on the Promise of a Truly Interactive World, (co-edited with Stephen P. Bradley, Harvard Business School Press, 2005), Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work (co-authored with Lee Devin), Corporate Information Strategy and Management, Creating Business Advantage in the Information Age (both co-authored with Lynda M. Applegate and F. Warren McFarlan), and Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations. He is the author of more than 60 business articles and cases published in both academic and practice oriented journals such as Harvard Business School Review, Management Science, and Information Systems Research. He is a consultant to many international companies, and a frequent speaker on subjects of business innovation, arts and business, and information technology management. In 2005-2006, he is a guest professor at the Center for Arts and Leadership, Copenhagen Business School. Read more about Robert D. Austin – Click here
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Professor Lee Devin, Swarthmore College, U.S.A. Lee Devin graduated from San Jose State College in 1958 and took his PhD (1967) at Indiana University. He taught at the University of Virginia (1962-66), Vassar College (1966-70), and Swarthmore College (1970-2002). In 1970, he founded The Theatre at Swarthmore. An acting class in ensemble techniques, the first practical arts course offered for academic credit at the College, led eventually to an independent Department of Theatre Studies housed in a state of the art building. He retired from teaching in 2002. In 1975 he became a member of the artistic staff of the People's Light and Theatre, acting, teaching acting, and doing dramaturgy. Along the way, he wrote articles, plays, opera librettos, and translations; worked as a technical director, master electrician, production stage manager, and dramaturg; acted and directed in the academy, the regional theatre, and for movies and TV. With Rob Austin of the Harvard Business School he wrote Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know about How Artists Work, published in 2003 by Financial Times Prentice Hall. It's about using theatre techniques to do creative work in business, replacing restraint with release, compromise with collaboration, and industrial teams with knowledge work ensembles. He's currently a Dramaturg at People's Light & Theatre, and a Senior Research Scholar at Swarthmore College. He's at work on several writing and consulting projects which interfere with, and cause him to neglect, his trout fishing.
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Artistic Director Abigail Adams, People’s Light & Theatre, U.S.A. Abigail Adams is Artistic Director of the People’s Light & Theatre Company. During her 28-year association with the Theatre, she has directed more than 50 plays. Recent productions include Fabulation, The Member of the Wedding, The Miser, String of Pearls, Arthur’s Stone, Merlin’s Fire, In the Blood, and The Little Foxes. Ms. Adams served for ten years on the faculty at Swarthmore College and has also taught at New York University, Bryn Mawr College, Carnegie Mellon University and the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario. Other directing assignments include readings and workshops of plays by Russell Davis for the Public Theatre in New York, Playwright’s Theatre of New Jersey, Circle Rep, and New York Stage and Film. She has served as a panelist and site reporter for the National Endowment for the Arts, is currently on the board of the Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation, and holds an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Ursinus College.
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Director Rasmus Ibfelt, e-Types A/S, D.K. Rasmus Ibfelt is partner, director and co-founder of e-Types A/S. Rasmus is graduated from the Danish School of Design in Fashion Design and Branding. Rasmus is as well a designer and strategist and project manager on the identity processes. Rasmus has been responsible for projects such as Georg Jensen, Levi's, The Danish Film Institute, Aarhus School of Business, The Daily Broadsheet Dagen, Mads Nørgaard Copenhagen and Aquascutum London. Furthermore, Rasmus has been lecturing at the Danish School of Design in Fashion and the School of Design in Kolding. Rasmus is a member of the Educational Council under the Danish Cultural Ministry.
e-Types' expertise is to find the basic values and driving idea of a brand or company and communicate it visually. Established in 1997, e-Types has developed from a pure design studio into an agency that integrates strategy and design in creating brand positioning and corporate identity.
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Theatre Manager Henrik Hartman, Betty Nansen Teatret, D.K.
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Manager of Audience Development and Dramaturg Mette Wolf Iversen, Betty Nansen Teatret, D.K. Mette Wolf Iversen graduated from the University of Århus and the University of Copenhagen in 2001. She holds a master in Dramaturgy, Culture, Media and Communication. Before she joined the Betty Nansen Theatre, she was employed as publicity manager at The New Danish Dance Theatre. Mette Iversen has also been occupied as chief editor at the danish theatre magazine Teater 1, reviewer at the Danish newspaper Information, and she is co-founder of the consultancy firm KulturDoktor.
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