Pleased to take the well-designed Oxford Executive Strategy Programme organized by the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, in the last two months.
https://lnkd.in/gi6sfztr
It was not easy for me as lots of trips, meetings, trainings, talks, etc., after the pandemic. Also, the programme was quite demanding as well in terms of assignments, group discussions with fellow students around the globe and time required. Grateful that I could hang in there to complete it successfully, gained the passing grade and received the certificate.
I have been practicing and teaching business strategy and digital strategy for decades. Why did I take this programme? Well, besides refreshing and updating with the latest strategies, I was just curious how the University of Oxford was different from what I used to learn from the leading universities in the US like #MIT, #Harvard and Asia like #CUHK, #CEIBS.
I am glad that I took it as this programme gave me another perspective in a very structured way around their 4 Ps framework: Purposes, Players, Partnerships and Processes. Learned a lot from Professor Richard Whittington, Professor Trudi Lang and the renowned guest speakers.
My key takeaways are
1. While we are all overwhelmed by digital innovation like #AI e.g. #ChatGPT, every leader including digital leader, in #corporates or #startups, needs to be a great strategist no matter how advanced technology is and will go.
2. #GoodStrategy will empower the leaders to leverage on #innovation and #technology to optimize the performance of their businesses or ventures. #BadStrategy will kill a business even they got rocket science.
3. People worry these days that AI will replace human soon. While it might be true one day, if we can be strategic, innovative and creative, customer-centric amd empathetic, data literate and entrepreneurial enough, I believe we will be the last to be replaced. Keep our fingers crossed🤞😄.
4. If digital leaders can make use of those 4Ps, they can acheive enough more in their career and make better impact to their companies and societies.
Will share more about my insights in my upcoming CUHK EMBA Strategy course starting next week. See you soon, my fellow students.
#Strategy #Strategist #StrategicThinking
#CorporateStrategy #BusinessStrategy #DigitalStrategy
#Oxford #Saïd
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
英國牛津大學
#CUHKEMBA CUHK EMBA
#CUHK CUHK Business School
I had a joyful and meaningful evening with my City University of Hong Kong (CityU) Doctor of Business Adminstration (DBA) alumni and learning partners from cohort 2006 to 2021. I shared my experience to prepare, write and publish a business case on a global basis.
I am so grateful that I have successfully published my case for #HSBC in the world’s largest business case publisher – Ivey Publishing. The case is now globally accessible by all major business schools worldwide through #Ivey Publishing and #Harvard Business Publishing networks.
The topic of my case is – HSBC: Embracing Open Innovation for SMEs. Please find out more here https://lnkd.in/eYUHfTFp. Thank you so much for HSBC teams, my mentor Professor Hubert Pun and many others to fully support this case and make this dream of mine realized.
My drive to share my experience with my fellow DBA friends was that I would like to encourage them to write more cases so that our valuable experience from Hong Kong can be shared with our new generations as well as all executives worldwide.
We do not have enough local cases for our next generation to learn from. Also, not too many leaders in other countries know our Hong Kong best practices and stories. If every DBA, not just DBA from CityU but also PolyU, HKUST, etc. writes a case, we will have hundreds of cases known to the world in a few years. Let’s action, learning partners.
Appreciate all my learning partners joined my sharing session on site and online tonight. We should do more and I will be the audiences of yours next. Thanks Queenie from CityU and Candi from my team to make all arrangements.
#Ivey #IveyPublishing
#HarvardBusinessPublishing
#Case #BusinessCase
#CityuDBA #CityU #DBA
#Innovation #Entrepreneurship #DigitalTransformation
Muammer Ozer Michael C S Wong, PhD DAVID Chung Tai-Wai Fareeda Cassumbhoy Hedy Sat Dr. TANG Monica CK Chan, DBA Dr. Lawrence WONG Venus Tang (鄧麗華) Lynne Sprugel Kuan Thye Sean Dr. Matt Chau Ean Kiam Ng, CFA, CAIA, CFP, FRM, FCCA,CMT, FDP Dr. Rajeev Chib Joyce Lau Leo Yeung Dr. Louis Poon 潘樂鳴博士 (DBA, Chartered Marketer, FinTech) Julia WANG Anna Chan Titania Kwan Dr. Lana Lo Mike Tsui Alvin Leung Dr. Kelvin Wan Gladys Lam and many others.