Schedule
Pre-Conference Workshop: Wednesday March 16, 2005
“Strategic Management for Family Firms in Crisis: Improving Performance with Systems Thinking”
The program focuses on “Transgenerational entrepreneurship: building strategy-focused families and organizations for continued growth and learning.”
Entrerpreneurship has been embraced worldwide by individuals, families and organizations as the engine of socio-economic prosperity, growth and change. Entrepreneurial thinking and leadership is at the forefront of the creation of new enterprises, the succession and conitnuity of family and privately controlled corporations. Creating and fostering an entrepreneurial mindset across generations is central to the effective strategic execution, innovation, growth and business continuity.
This interactive seminar will include an overview and presentation by the workshop leader Dr. David Pitsrui, as well as an active exchange and discussion by session participants.
The workshop will focus on:
- Defining and operationalizing entrepreneurship and exploring the
impact it has on family and business dynamics across generations.
- Encourage the identification of family and non-family entrepreneurial
opportunities in the participants’ organizations through the presentation
of the Acumen Scorecard Framework for balanced growth and learning.
- Empower action through the exchange of ideas, concepts and
reasoning which can be employed to foster entrepreneurial thinking,
family well-being, and sustained competitive advantage.
Attendees can expect to learn practical and conceptual expertise in order to:
- Define — entrepreneurship and family and closely held businesses in
different cultural and organizational contexts
- Gain — insights into the role and forms of entrepreneurship prevalent in successful family and closely held businesses and non-family businesses around the world
- Promote — the understanding of how entrepreneurship can foster family unity and business growth
- Identify — and define the central attributes, characteristics and dimensions of an Entrepreneurial Mindset
- Apply — processes, systems, and frameworks to build a balanced approach to family and closely held business development and profitability
- Pinpoint — entrepreneurial opportunities for growth and learning in your business, family, organization, and community
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