BizTalesOTT Presents: Corporate Failure – Leadership Lessons Learned from Failure
A South Africa Event on 2016-04-19 18:00:00
Event Schedule: 6PM – 7PM – networking 7PM – 8PM – presentation 8PM – 9:30PM – Q & A Light refreshments to be offered. Event Details: Corporate failure is an end-point in the business world. By example, Nortel Networks, a global Canadian telecommunications equipment manufacturer was one of the most valued company in the world in 2000 and ceased operations in 2009. Other significant Canadian publicly traded enterprises are currently sliding down a slippery slope with Blackberry and Valeant Pharmaceuticals International being prime examples of firms in recent and current turmoil. Why is this? Over the past five years the authors have been part of a team of researchers at uOttawa undertaking a multi-facetted investigation into the demise of Nortel with the specific purpose of learning lessons from corporate failure. This talk will focus on key generalisations regarding corporate failure as uncovered in the Nortel investigation and our supplementary research. This discussion may be of particular interest to business executives, management advisors, product line managers and government policy analysts. SPEAKERS PROFILES Peter MacKinnon, Managing Director, Synergy Technology Management Peter MacKinnon has a professional background built on a wide range of experiences derived from holding positions as a scientist, business manager, entrepreneur, bureaucrat, executive, diplomat, management advisor and academic. His experience spans the globe and includes working for a wide range of public and private organisations in many countries (e.g., Australia, Belgium, Brazil, China, France, ‘Hong Kong’, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Senegal, Spain, Switzerland, The Bahamas, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, South Africa and the United States, among others). He also represented Canada at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris for five years, were he served on the Information, Computer, and Communications Policy Committee. He has written many successful business plans, product strategies and business and academic proposals, resulting in the raising of hundreds of millions of dollars. He works with diverse groups of stakeholders in a wide range of economic sectors and across many cultural environments. In addition, he works with and serves on Boards, including currently serving on several Boards of Directors. Peter has been involved in creating a number of start-ups and in assisting a variety of small to medium size enterprises (SMEs) across a number of industry sectors. Assistance covers all aspects of start-up and addresses many business issues in SMEs: such as business plans, product plans, alliances, fund raising, executive mentoring, and recruitment of key staff, among other activities. Mr. MacKinnon has been involved in public and private sector policy development for many years. During this period he has had a number of engagements that broadened his career experiences. For example, Peter has been seconded to the Government of Canada on two occasions through the Executive Interchange Program. The first secondment was to the Ministry of State for Science and Technology, a central agency, as the Special Advisor for Advanced Information Technologies and the second secondment was to Foreign Affairs and International Trade as Counsellor and Special Advisor Investment at the Canadian High Commission in London, United Kingdom. Both these two year appointments afforded a wide range of high-level government and government/industry experience. Peter is frequently engaged in planning and strategy development in both the public and private sectors. Related to this practice, he has been a long-time member of the Bacon and Eggheads Breakfast Club within the Parliament of Canada and the Foresight Synergy Network at uOttawa, both dealing with strategic issues facing society. He lectures widely and publishes in several business and technical fields, in addition to carrying on scholarly reviews of academic papers for journals and proposal reviews for academics, businesses and not-for-profits. Peter Chapman, Founder and CEO, Haven Hardware Antivirus Systems Inc. Peter Chapman is an engineer with broad experience in management of high technology business. Mr. Chapman has held positions in engineering management, technical marketing and sales in a range of technology based industries covering aerospace, digital television, semiconductors, telecommunications, software management and wireless systems. He is the author of a number of patents in wireless and network security. He has been a member of the Innovation Forum and the Patent Review Board at Nortel Networks. As an engineer Mr. Chapman has carried out pioneering work in digital control systems for the aerospace industry and in digital television. At Nortel he developed a conceptual next generation Internet which has the potential to overcome many of the security issues currently affecting Internet communications. He also has worked in Europe and held positions in sales and marketing that resulted in developing sales in many countries throughout the world. He has written business plans for a number of start-up businesses and for new ventures within established businesses. He is currently developing original technologies for dealing with the problem of malware intrusions across telecommunication networks and in computer systems. Mr. Chapman is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the IET (UK). He studied Electrical Engineering at Imperial College, University of London under an industrial scholarship from the UK Atomic Energy Authority. Sponser:
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