Announcing a Seminar by Pamela Mazoyer:
The Disciplines of the Learning Organisation;
And Why it’s Hard to Change
Abstract
Operational Research is all about change – making decisions, making changes, new technologies, new processes, new ways of doing things. Pamela Mazoyer will talk about Peter Senge's Disciplines of the Learning Organisation - Ways organisations can work past different mental models to find common direction.
How can a business turn rigid hierarchies into communities of practice? What are the skills needed? And what are the rewards? Internationally it is becoming clear that the most successful organisations do not see themselves as machines, but as living organisms that need to be cultivated.
How do these new attitudes affect the way organisations go about their business? How does management and operational research have to adapt to cope with the new attitudes? Pamela Mazoyer’s presentation will highlight some of the inevitable changes that organisations will have to make if they are to remain successful in the twenty first century, and how management and the discipline of operational research will have to adapt if it is to continue to be relevant.
Date
Thursday 15 March 2001
Place
Board Room, 12th floor, Rutherford House
23 Lambton Quay (opposite the Railway Station)
Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington
Time
5:30 – 7.00 pm
Refreshments from 5.30 pm
RSVP to David Boland by e-mail if you can: [email protected], or phone 04 902 3889 by Friday 9 March 2001
Pamela Mazoyer set up NZ's national R&D surveys in 1990, and has been instrumental in the development of S&T Indicators. She has been closely involved in new surveys being developed to measure innovation and the impact of biotechnology. Her interest in the ‘learning organisation’ and the ‘learning economy’ comes from a conviction that new ways of organising ourselves at work are needed to cope with increasing complexity and change. Pamela practices facilitation and coaching from the perspective of the whole person.
Open meeting – All welcome