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Past events of 2005
Events
27 Feb-2 March: IMLF Manufacturing Leaders' Conference
The IMLF manufacturing leaders' conference was held in Adelaide from 27 February to 2 March 2005. The main themes were Intelligent Design & Rapid Product Development; Adaptable and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems; Intelligent Materials; Supply Chain and Logistics; Innovation; and the Intelligent Workforce. The 16 major speakers included Jay Lee, a former Smartlink Fellow. Almost at the same time, the first Lean Enterprise Australia summit took in Melbourne. Dan Jones (co-author of “Lean Thinking”) and John Shook (co-author of the book on Value Stream Mapping) were in Australia for the two-day “Lean Transformation in Service and Manufacturing Sector.”
March 9: Workshop on Strategy for Manufacturing in South Australia
DTED invites you or a representative of your organisation to an industry consultation regarding this strategy, on 9 March 2005, at Adelaide Pavilion, corner of South Terrace and Peacock Road, Adelaide South Australia, from 8:00am until 10:30am. Details.
March 10: Future thinking for leaders in science and technology
A free public forum was held on the 10th March 2005 at the Adelaide Convention Centre. This open forum on "Future Thinking for Leaders in Science and Technology" is primarily aimed at the biotechnology and ICT sectors. A presentation by USA-based Dr Caroline Kovac was followed by a panel session and discussion. For more information, please visit intra.sa.gov.au/FutureThinking.
April 4-15: David Cray (Canada)
Professor David Cray, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. (Return visit by requests.)
His topic: Growth Strategies for SMEs
How SMEs can expand their business through innovation in partnerships, electronic means, international contacts or internal growth, and the consequences of such growth for managers
May 18-25: Frank Wagner
Frank Wagner is Head of Innovation and R&D Fraunhofer IAO (Stuttgart, Germany). He was Adelaide in May for a series of seminars and discussions on Innovation Management, sponsored by the Business Innovation Centre of SA. All three were held in Adelaide, as follows.
May 18, 1.30-5pm
Automotive Industry - Future Trends - Opportunity or
Threat?
Half-day seminar directed at managers and professionals in the automotive
industry. Flier and
registration form (both
PDF files). Technology Park Conference Centre, Mawson Lakes, Adelaide.
May 19
The Innovation Scoreboard, Markets, Money, Products, and People (Frank Wagner and Professor Noel Lindsay, from the University of South Australia). A one-day workshop in Adelaide, hosted by the Business Innovation Centre (SA) and the University of South Australia. This seminar is aimed at technology-based SME's of high growth potential. Participants will apply the Innovation Capability Model to understand how to grow their organisation's capability to create new products, markets, services, and processes. A flier with more information and a Registration form (PDF). Location: Technology Park Conference Centre, Mawson Lakes, Adelaide. documents).
May 25
Innovation management - integrating business and technology strategies. One day seminar, aimed at executives, managers, an professionals who are involved in planning new produces and developing enterprise strategy. Further information is available on this flier, and registration form (PDF). Technology Park Conference Centre, Mawson Lakes, Adelaide.
June 21-30: Linda Duxbury, Canada
Professor Linda Duxbury, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Canada
Innovation in people management
How to achieve balance in the workplace, motivating knowledge workers, recruitment and retention, generational differences in the workplace and how to manage them. Linda has some new material on recruiting and retaining and managing generational differences that clients in Canada are finding really timely.
August 1-12: Hans-Henrik Hvolby (Denmark)
Hans-Henrik Hvolby, Ph.D, is Professor in Manufacturing Systems, and the Director of Industry and Global Business Studies at the Department of Production, University of Aalborg, Denmark. Return visit by requests.
Innovation in Lean Supply Chain Management
How three key characteristics of supply chains - boundaries, contradictions and trust - impact on the effective operation of your business and those of your customers and suppliers and how they are managed to meet the requirements for ‘lean operations’.