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Prof. Hermann Simon, Chairman Emeritus, SIMON – KUCHER & PARTNERS, Strategy & Marketing Consultants, Germany
We kindly invite you to the IEDC’s traditional Annual Presidents’ Forum with the title Role Models of Leadership Beyond the Crisis that will take place at IEDC–Bled School of Management on Friday, October 16, 2009, from 9.00 to 14.00.
The main guest speaker is one of the leading European management experts Prof. Hermann Simon, the author of bestsellers The Hidden Champions of the 21st Century, Success Strategies of Unknown World Market leaders (published in 2009), and Beat the Crisis – 33 Quick Solutions for Your Company.
The Forum will be opened by the President of the Republic of Slovenia dr. Danilo Türk.
In the frame of the Presidents’ Forum you will have the opportunity to listen also to the panel of business leaders from Italy, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Russia. Prof. Vladimir Mau, President of the Commission for Administrative Reform in the office of Prime Minister Putin will present their views on the crisis.
As the title Role Models of Leadership Beyond the Crisis indicates, we shall talk at the Forum primarily about what the organisations should do to become competitive and learn from some excellent examples.
The Forum will be held in English language.
PROGRAM SPEAKER
 Prof. Dr. Hermann Simon was till May 2009 chairman and CEO of Simon-Kucher & Partners Strategy & Marketing Consultants with offices in Europe, USA and Japan. He is an expert in strategy, marketing and pricing. In the German language area Prof. Simon was voted the most influential management thinker after Peter Drucker.
Before committing himself to management consulting, Prof. Simon was a professor of marketing at the Universities of Mainz and Bielefeld. He was also a visiting professor at Harvard Business School, Stanford, London Business School, INSEAD, Keio in Tokyo and the MIT.
Professor Simon has published over 30 books in 22 languages, including the worldwide bestseller Hidden Champions (1996) and Power Pricing (1997), as well as Strategy for Competition (2003) and Think! (2004), Manage for Profit, Not for Market Share (2006). His book Hidden Champions of the 21st Century, Success Strategies of Unknown World Market Leaders was published this year, and it investigates the strategies of little known world and European market leaders in German-speaking countries. His most recent book Beat the Crisis – 33 Quick Solutions for Your Company is published in the USA, China, Korea, Italy, Brazil, Russia, Spain and Slovenia.
A native of Germany, he studied economics and business administration at the universities of Bonn and Cologne. He received his diploma and his doctorate from the University of Bonn.
PROGRAM DETAILS
Date: 16 October, 2009
Where: IEDC-Bled School of Management
Program Fee: 700 € + 20% VAT |
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