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The DNA Team (over 25 people there yesterday from academia and industry) yesterday successfully achieved the impossible. An MSc in Complexity & Leadership aimed at high-level managers, CEO's, Directors. The MSc Complexity and Leadership Programme will comprise of the following awards;

o    MSc Complexity and Leadership
o    MSc Complexity and Leadership (Manufacturing)
o    MSc Complexity and Leadership (Public Service)
o    MSc Complexity and Leadership (Retail/Service)

This MSc Complexity and Leadership will introduce current practitioners to concepts and thinking concerned with the sustainable leadership of organisations in both public services, retail and manufacturing.

The speed of change and the associated complexity facing organisations in the 21st Century has meant that leaders are increasingly having to develop thinking and solutions which would have been considered unthinkable a few years before. This MSC deals with that change and indeed may even lead it....

For the challenge is to develop methods, thinking, structures, systems and cultures/climates which enable organisations to succeed in achieving (their) interpretation of organisational ‘effectiveness’ and ‘competitive advantage’.  This MSc based in the sponsoring organisation and will address current problems and use theory in practice.

Do you want to have 30 senior managers in your organisation, accompanied by world leading academics who are helping you achieve success, solve issues and suggest ways forward? Interested then contact us now....

Paul

We are looking to provide a new Masters award "The MSc Complexity and Leadership Programme" which will comprise of the following awards;

o    MSc Complexity and Leadership
o    MSc Complexity and Leadership (Manufacturing)
o    MSc Complexity and Leadership (Public Service)
o    MSc Complexity and Leadership (Service)

This MSc Complexity and Leadership Programme aims to introduce current practitioners to concepts and thinking concerned with the sustainable leadership of organisations in both public services and manaufacturing. The speed of change and the associated complexity facing organisations in the late 20th and early 21st Centuries has meant that leaders are increasingly having to develop thinking and solutions which would have been considered unthinkable a few years before. In other words leaders have more than ever before to come up with creative ideas that can be developed into successful innovations provided by advanced organisations. While clearly this imperative can be related to new products and services, a crucial dimension is the harnessing of the creative abilities of employees such that the tacit knowledge they possess can be utilized to best affect. The challenge is then to develop strategies, structures, systems and cultures/climates which enable organisations to succeed in achieving (their) interpretation of organisational ‘effectiveness’ and ‘competitive advantage’.

We want to take ideas, your ideas about this programme. Do you agree? Should it be in-company or at Glamorgan?

Let us know...
Paul

It's interesting that having just spent 3 weeks in various organisations (mainly Public Services…shhh!) there is such an unhealthy obsession with order, neatness and structure. It's just not human or real! Creativity is as a direct result of dis-order, and messiness, so how do we think we can be adaptive, creative and innovative each day when the organisation constrains this very fundamental element.

I know there will be people out there shouting at this, but when you really look at how we live, operate and think, then you will see that the organisations obsession is counter-intuitive. If everything is neat, ordered and safe then we cannot change, there is no need.

There are so many examples of how, mistakes, chaos, disorder and disruption creates a new way of doing things or new ideas or products, but yet we still feel this should happen in the environment of linear, cause and effect world of mechanics.... How can we change?