You're a busy manager facing the challenges and opportunities posed by emerging technologies. Your industry is being transformed, and might even be replaced, as the result of technological innovations that are reshaping the competitive landscape. Your organization is being forced to contend with increasing risk, uncertainty and change. Your competitors are applying technology in ways you haven't seen before. Their strategies are non-traditional but effective, and include powerful new best practices, new forms of organizations, and new types of alliances.
How do you compete? How do you survive? And how do you succeed?
The Mack Center offers answers these
and other pressing questions of interest and concern to senior
decision makers in many industries. As a learning
network, we provide a valuable forum where critical issues can be discussed by academic experts and industry managers.
We sponsor 4 to 5 insight-building events specifically
designed to address topics of interest and concern to our
partner firms. These events include both academic
presentations based on management research by some of
Wharton's leading faculty experts, as well as presentations
by best practice firms who explain strategies and frameworks
for dealing with these issues. If you would like to
"test drive" our program to help determine if your
corporation should join our partner group, you may want to
attend one of our upcoming events
(click here to see calendar of events)
Through our ongoing program of sponsored faculty research,
insight-building events and corporate networking, we provide a
continuing stream of fresh ideas that you can use to compete,
survive and succeed in technology-driven industries. We
invite you to treat this as an "insight site" and
periodically stop by to review our latest research and
hopefully discover some new ideas that will benefit your
organization.
Cutting-Edge Insights in Books and Articles Many of these insights are captured in
working papers, articles and books that are catalogued on
this site, and in conference reports that capture key
insights from our events in a format that offers quick
reading for busy executives.
Our senior faculty and staff are constantly researching and
developing fresh ideas and insights for company decision
makers. This year for example, George Day and Paul
Schoemaker published an insightful article entitled,
Are You a 'Vigilant Leader'? in the MITSloan
Management Review (Spring 2008). Terry Fadem, Paul
Schoemaker and Jim Austin published an article based on our
research entitled,
A Look Into the Future of the U.S. Medical Device Market
(Jan. 2009, Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry).
Terry Fadem published a new book entitled,
The Art of Asking: Ask Better Questions, Get Better Answers
(Financial Times Press, 2009).
Note: Our industry partners see these ideas up to 2 years
before they are published, in our conferences and workshops,
and in research reports and working papers.A few of
our most recent conference reports include:
● Winners and Losers in Green Technologies
● Creating and Managing Networks of Innovation
● Innovation and Organic Growth: Balancing Risk and
Reward
● Managing Systems of Innovation: Improving the
Capacity to Innovate
● Setting an Agenda for the Social Studies of
Nanotechnology
These reports contain presentations by industry decision
makers as well as academic experts from Wharton and other
leading business schools.
Note: Our next conference will be our annual
Emerging Technologies Update Day (click here to see agenda)
- this year's theme will be "the future of biomedicine."
This is the one day each year when we focus on technologies per
se, as well as strategic and operational issues. |
