From “Next” Management to “Beyond” Management
By Winfried Felser

As every year, the international management community will meet in Vienna at the Drucker Forum in November to debate the urgent issues of our time. This time, however, the event feels more like a bracket round Drucker Forum topics of recent years – “ecosystems”, “leadership” and “the human dimension”, for example.
All of them can be grouped under the common label of the “Next Management”. A management “next” has long been a necessity, if not a “beyond” that may be more appropriate for multi-disruption – more on that later. In any case, whether continuing linearly or disruptively shaken, management as we know it is creaking under pressure from drivers including technology (AI), new business logics (platform economy, ecosystems) or from a VUCA world that is becoming brittle, anxious, non-linear, and incomprehensible – BANI. This is the “why?” of change.[
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To capitalize on new technology, you have to go beyond it
by Dr Winfried Felser

Parallel plenary #4, 21 November 2019: Capitalizing on new technology and connectivity ‘How can we capitalize on new technology and connectivity?’. When the writer read the announcement of the panel chaired by Mehran Gul, he expected the discussions to center on technology and the buzzwords of the day – ‘Artificial Intelligence (AI)’, the ‘internet of everything’ or at the very least ‘Collaboration Platforms’ 
 Fortunately this was not the case. The paradox of ‘capitalizing on new technology’ is that technology shows every sign of being the wrong focus. The miracle occurs beyond technology, with a clear focus on innovation and people. Panelists Adam Cheyer, Karenann Terrell, Carsten Linz, Claudia Crummenerl and Amit Bajaj provided a broad range of [
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