Keynote Speech – Unlocking the Chinese Innovation Power
Surabaya (Indonesia), November 13th 2010
Dr. Tjitra was invited to give keynote speech at the 4th International Conference of the Association of Industrial & Organizational Psychology Indonesia (APIO). In his speech he share the recent researches, best practices and his personal observation on the Innovation in China and among the Chinese enterprises.
In the recent years China moves gradually from the factory of the world – famous for its very low-cost manufacturing ability -, into making more and more high-tech available for every consumer at a very low cost. How did Chinese firms managed the transformation from low-cost manufacturing into high-tech at low-cost production? Prof. Tjitra will present recent studies, analysis the innovation of Chinese firms in the IT industry, high-tech manufacturing as well as the Chinese small- and mid-sized Enterprises: how do they learn from imitating to innovating? what could be the factors behind the success of Chinese firms? what are the unique Chinese ways and strategies in these innovation process? what are the learning points from the Chinese cost-innovation approaches?
Invited Keynote Speech at the Zukunft Personal in Germany
Cologne, Germany. On October 14th 2010, Dr. Hora Tjitra was invited to give the keynote speech at the largest European HR Conference and Exhibition Zukunft Personal in Cologne. In the past ten years, the exhibition has established itself as Europe’s leading exhibition for human resource management. There are a number of good reasons for its proven success: The HRM Expo offers visitors a broad spectrum of possibilities that could not be more comprehensive. With 532 exhibitioners and 11,837 visitors in 2010 the HRM Expo experienced its best result in its history.
With more than 200 lectures, which offer the opportunity to meet with well-known experts personally, the HRM Expo is more comprehensive than all other congresses. Next to internationally recognized keynote speakers leading plenty of best practice examples are the action zone areas – where training seminars will be held live. Along with other world-renowened keynote speakers incl. Dr. Frank Schirrmacher, Dr. Tony Humphreys, Mr. Werner Wiki Küstenmacher, Mr. Charles Jennings, and Ms. Aviva Witterberg-Cox; Dr. Hora Tjitra presented recent studies and best practice examples from Asia (China) on the challenges and potentials in building high-performance teams at the top management level in an International Joint-Venture. Subsequently the culture-specific intercultural sensitivity will be discussed, highlighting examples from Germany, China and Indonesia.
Along with it, he was also invited to give his speech on the Global Learning Track at the parallel conference Professional Learning Europe, where he shared his experiences and insights on how to develop intercultural competence and sensitivity for the (current and future) global leaders.
Invited speech at Professional Learning Europe
Cologne. On Oct 14th, 2010 Dr. Hora Tjitra was invited to give speech on the Global Learning Track Global Talent Development and Performance Management at the International Conference Professional Learning Europe. The Professional Learning Europe supports organizations in keeping up with training and education, offering a showcase of practical approaches and best practice examples and demonstrating how learning contents can be constructed and communicated in a way that guarantees an optimum learning-on the job.
Dr. Tjitra delivered a speech about how to develop the intercultural competence of (current and future) global leader using an action learning approach. He introduced the recent studies and best practice examples on building intercultural competence and sensitivity for different target groups, incl. senior leaders and young professionals. Subsequently different learning and development approaches to enhance those competence will be discussed, highlighting on the examples from Germany, China and other Asian region.
Other speeches on the global learning track were delivered by Dr. Charlotte Haimerl and Philip Hölzle of Kienbaum Management Consultants, Armin Hopp of Digital Publishing, Fadi A. Khalik of McGrawHill, as well as Petra Gajewski and Karl-Heinz Reits of SAP, and John Barnes of CocaßCola . The session was moderated by Armin Hopp of Digital Publishing and Thomas Jenewein of SAP.
HRM EXPO 2010: Europe’s largest Exhibition for Human Resource Management
With more than 500 exhibitioners and more than 11,000 trade visitors, the HRM Expo 2010 is the largest HR exhibition in Europe. In the past ten years, the exhibition has established itself as Europe’s leading exhibition for human resource manage- ment. There are a number of good reasons for its proven success: The HRM Expo offers visitors a broad spectrum of possibilities that could not be more comprehensive.
With more than 200 lectures, which offer the opportunity to meet with well-known experts personally, the HRM Expo is more comprehensive than all other congresses. Next to internationally recognized keynote spea- kers leading plenty of best practice examples are the action zone areas – where training seminars will be held live. These offer unique opportunities for visitors to profit through participation.
International Seminar on Global Social Network
Early Feb 2010, Dr. Tjitra was invited to join an expert panel discussion in Bandung, Indonesia by one of the leading Indonesian university -Padjajaran University. He gave a key note speech about “Challenges and Opportunities in Global Social Network in the era of Web 2.0″. The international seminar was attended by more than hundred participants from the academic and professionals from the west Java areas as well as world-known international experts from IKF, Switzerland.
Perspectives of Intercultural Competence
Regensburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany – organized an international symposium on “Perspectives of Intercultural Competence” to honor the seventieth birthday of Prof. Dr. Alexander Thomas in late November 2009.
Dr. Tjitra was invited to present his research on “Chinese Intercultural Competence and Sensitivity”, and he took the chance to congratulate and meet again with his “Doktorvater” (German word for PhD supervisor) and old colleagues. The two days international symposium was a great success, with an open and constructive discussion on the current issues and trends on the theory of “cultural standard” and “intercultural competence”.
