MLab’s inaugural conference on management innovation will bring together a group of radical thinkers and doers to define the “Grand Challenges” for 21st century management, and imagine possible solutions to them.
What would happen if you asked 30 of the world’s most progressive business thinkers to reinvent management for the 21st century?
What would happen if you encouraged them to throw out one hundred years’ worth of assumptions about how to organize human effort and start with a clean sheet of paper?
What would happen if you dared them to radically re-imagine the ways in which companies create strategies, make key decisions, allocate resources, mobilize talent, and coordinate activities?
What would happen if you challenged them to turn the conventional management model upside down with the goal of creating organizations that are as adaptable and innovative as the people who work there?
The attendees are individuals who have demonstrated a capacity to imagine bold alternatives to the management status quo, an eclectic mix of visionary executives, provocative authors, renowned business school professors, and bleeding-edge technologists.
The goal of the conference is to catalyze the development of a series of specific proposals for reinventing management for the 21st century, by focusing on two primary questions:
First: What is management’s “Moonshot”? What are fundamental challenges in the ways large companies are typically structured, managed, or led that do most to impair their capacity to adapt, innovate, and/or inspire?
Second: What new approaches can we imagine to overcome these challenges, and what will it take to make substantial progress towards “Management 2.0”?
The outputs of the Conference will be published here in June – please return to add your thoughts on management challenges and solutions, or to get involved in creating the future of management!