Drossia Kardasi, Head of Human Resources, Interamerican, and Professor Evangelia Demerouti, Eindhoven University of Technology

The event, organized by SEV’s Center of Excellence in Creative Leadership, will be held in Greek, on Thursday May 19th, between 16:00 and 18:00 at the Events Hall of the American College in Greece (6 Gravias Street, Agia Paraskevi). It will also be livestreamed.

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Interamerican recently implemented agile ways of working in Greece, end-to-end across the organization. Drossia Kardasi, Head of HR, will present their case study and Professor Evangelia Demerouti will discuss the foundations of redesigning work for agility and the implications for leaders and employees.  

In the digital economy, the limited resource is the capacity of the organization to engage with the constant stream of evolving technologies and creatively re-imagine its future. This is the essence of agility: more than sensing and reacting to changes in the environment, agility involves the capacity to sustain the creative vitality of the organization for continuous innovation that keeps the company abreast of changes in the environment.

But therein lies a paradox. On the one hand, the purpose of organizing is to bring some stability, consistency and predictability by means of discipline and routine around certain competencies that produce competitive differentiation. On the other hand, the competencies that brought success in the past may become a trap preventing the organization from evolving and adapting in a changing environment.

The agile way of organizing work seeks to resolve this paradox by bringing focus and direction to experimentation, discovery, and the constant improvement of methods and practices. However, whereas many companies adopt agile ways of working in selected, often isolated parts of the business, such as new product development, progressing to end-to-end agile is a tremendous challenge attempted by very few companies.

Based on both academic research and the first-hand experience of Interamerican, our speakers will discuss values, behaviors, leadership, structure, performance management, the experience of change for individuals and the organization, the conditions for sustaining agility over time, as well as how to address the consequences of such changes on occupational health and well-being.

SEV Center of Excellence in Creative Leadership invites you to its second online “Lead Creatively: Discussion Series” event , to take place on March 31st , 2022 at 15:30.

The topic at hand is “Seeding and scaling a culture of innovation and will be explored by Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Associate Provost for Digital Learning & Innovation Shipley Professor in Management, Boston University. A thought-provoking conversation will follow between the speaker and the Center’s Director, Associate Professor Dr. Nikos Mylonopoulos.

Participants will be able to address their comments & questions to the panelists.

Description:

Chris Dellarocas is an accomplished academic with a distinguished record of published research in information systems and management. However, over the past 8 years he has been leading the innovation and digital learning efforts at Boston University, a 183-years-old organization, with more than 4,000 academics, 10,000 administrative staff, and 35,000 students. By any measure, transforming such an organization to a digital innovator is a mean feat. Chris will speak both as a reflective leader and as an academic.

Everybody hails innovation and change as vital, yet most people would rather avoid the risks and stay in their comfort zone until others prove the feasibility and viability of a new idea in practice. This stereotype also conceals the notion of innovation as an object: a product, a process, a patent. However, in contrast to sporadic initiatives, organizations that are successful at producing innovations in a broader sense tend to embrace innovation as a mindset, an element of their culture, ingrained in their organization and way of working,

Furthermore, the phases of seeding and scaling innovation, each poses distinct challenges for leadership, depending on the broader organizational context and shared history. For example, innovation leaders tend to have limited formal authority in large conservative organizations and may find it difficult to roll out innovations at scale.

How do leaders confront the challenges of sustaining the capacity of their organizations to continuously pursue innovations in today’s volatile environment?

The event will be held in the Greek language with simultaneous translation into English.

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SEV and 8 Regional Business Organizations submitted on Friday 10 of May 2019 a Joint Memorandum to the Greek parliament on the draft bill of Ministries of Labour, Internal affairs and Finance.

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