Session 18
Capability Co-Specialization in Company Ecosystem
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Track S |
Date: Thursday, March 18, 2010 |
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Time: 17:00 – 18:30 |
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Parallel Panel |
Room: Kabinetti |
Moderator:
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Ville Kuusela, Synocus
Ville Kuusela is a Senior Consultant at Synocus. He is responsible for Glocal Metals initiative at Synocus, is experienced professional specialized in management accounting, customer management, segmentation and b-to-b service concept development. VilleKuusela has worked primarily with the clients from contract manufacturing, mechanical engineering, machine manufacturing, metals and mining, banking and the Finnish public sector.
Panelists:
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Hanna Lehtimaki, University of Eastern Finland
Hanna Lehtimaki (Ph.D. School of Management, University of Tampere) is a Professor of Innovation Management at the University of Eastern Finland Business School and a docent at the University of Tampere. Her research interests include business and management innovation, stakeholder and other relational approaches in strategic management and leadership, and qualitative research with a focus on social constructionist methodology. She was the Chair of Strategy Practice interest group in 2013-2014. Her articles have appeared in such journals as Business Communication Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Higher Education, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, International Journal of Human Resource Development and Management, Scandinavian Journal of Management and South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases.
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Vesa Mäkelä, Oy Grundfos Pumput Ab
For the past half a year Vesa Mäkelä has been working for a global water solutions and equipment manufacturer Grundfos as Managing Director for the Grundfos Groups Finnish Subsidiary. Prior to the current position, for nearly two decades,Vesa Mäkelä held a number of Senior VP positions in the field of international industrial project sales and execution, industrial maintenance services, industrial wholesale management, industrial technology and subcontracting services. Besides the intensive international travel, during his career Vesa Mäkelä has lived half of his working career abroad in USA, in China and in Malaysia getting acquainted with numerous different national and corporate cultures thus having experienced variety of different styles of management.
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Aki Saarinen, Metso Corporation
Aki Saarinen works for a publicly listed company Metso Corporation as Vice President in corporation business development. Aki Saarinen has almost 20 years of experience in the areas of papermaking and paper machinery industry. Before the present position Aki Saarinen worked as Vice President in paper and board technology (Metso Paper), SVP in process technology (Metso Paper) and VP in project management (Metso Paper). Before Metso carrier he worked 7 years in Finnish paper industry (UPM-Kymmene).
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Vesa Vihavainen, Teknikum Group
Vesa Vihavainen, CEO of Teknikum Group, has been serving Teknikum since 2006. Teknikum is a leading manufacturer of rubber and polymer products in the Nordic countries. Today Vesa Vihavainen is in charge of the whole group and its operations. Additionally Vesa Vihavainen has 18 years working experience as an expatriate. He has international experience from start-up over down sizing and turnaround to fast growth companies in Germany, Finland, Czech Republic and the USA.
The panel will raise the question of competitiveness of clusters and company ecosystems and especially highlight the role of capability co-specialization in successful ecosystems. This topic will be discussed in the context of the mechanical engineering sector. Active participation from the conference attendees will be encouraged. All panelists were involved in Glocal Metals program, one-and-a-half-year action learning program from June 2007 to December 2009. Its' goal was to strengthen the competitiveness of local mechanical engineering companies and build new co-specialized capabilities in the ecosystem, in order to respond to challenges and opportunities in China. The goal was reached through a piloting initiative in China involving Tsinghua University. Synocus, a Helsinki based management consulting company, was facilitating the process. Each panelist will bring his own perspective, the leading OEM, two suppliers, the university, the public sector sponsor, and the facilitating consultant. This will be a reversal to the old ABC (Academia, Business, Consulting) tradition of SMS, applied in a highly relevant field for both research and practitioners.
All Sessions in Track S...
- Thu: 08:30 – 09:45
- Session 17: Intersections of Strategy Processes and Strategy Practices
- Thu: 10:15 – 11:15
- Session 19: Strategy Process and Practices for Innovation and Renewal
- Thu: 15:15 – 16:45
- Session 23: Pitfalls and Biases in Strategic Analysis: How to Produce Superior Results with Strategy Work
- Thu: 17:00 – 18:30
- Session 18: Capability Co-Specialization in Company Ecosystem
- Fri: 08:30 – 09:45
- Session 20: Strategy Process and Practice Development Needs Seen by Top Executives
- Fri: 10:15 – 11:45
- Session 16: Acquisition Strategy Processes and Practice
- Session 21: Business Models for the (Both-and) World
- Fri: 13:15 – 14:45
- Session 46: Strategy Practices in Russian Firms
- Session 49: Strategic Management as a Profession? Possible Roles for the SMS and Business Schools
- Fri: 15:15 – 16:30
- Session 22: Striving Towards Competitive Advantage and Renewal Through Strategy
- Sat: 09:00 – 10:00
- Session 47: Future Directions of Strategy Process and Practice Research