Interesting people

Kent Hansen works as a collaborative artist and has as well functioned as an international pioneer in the interplay in-between art and organisations. He is the founder (1998) and organiser of the ongoing project ‘democratic innovation’. The activities of this project focus on participatory production, and 'organising' as an artistic medium. Kent Hansen was recently affiliated with ‘Centre for Art and Leadership’, Copenhagen Business School on The Danish Art Council's grant program ‘Artists as Visiting Professors’. Lives and works in Copenhagen.

Kent Hansen has told about effective collaboration between business and artistic spheres in the exclusive interview for innovations.com.ua.

Professor Jonathan Gosling is Director of Exeter University’s Centre for Leadership Studies, where he heads a team of people who work closely with companies on their leadership development.

Jonathan's current and recent research projects include research into how leaders learn from each other, feeding in to non-formal but highly focused opportunities for senior directors to learn from their peers in other companies.

Oded Cohen is a founding partner of AGI. He has worked with Dr. Eli Goldratt (author of Theory of Constrains (TOC)) for more than twenty years and has successfully implemented TOC ideas and systems in many companies, industries, and cultures.

Oded has taken a role of assisting and building the necessary infrastructure to support TOC in various European and Asian countries.

Dr. Alejandro Toledo was democratically elected President of Peru, serving from July 2001-July 2006. The fight against poverty through health and educational investment was the central aim of Toledo's presidency. As a result of sustained economic growth and deliberate social policies directed to the most poor, extreme poverty was reduced by 25 percent in five years. Employment grew at an average rate of 6 percent from 2004-2006. During the five years of Toledo’s presidency, the Peruvian economy grew at an average rate of 6 percent, registering as one of the fastest growing economies in Latin America.

Karl Zaininger is the Chairman and the CEO of Global Technology Management Consultants, which specializes in business process optimization and global technology management.

At a different point in time, he was a Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, the President and the CEO, an Executive Vice President, and a Research Director at Siemens Corporate Research and Support, Inc. Dr. Zaininger has also worked in a number of United States government projects.

Karl Zaininger manages course "Global Technology Management" in Kyiv-Mohyla Business-School [kmbs].

Why innovation keeps executive awake, what is the difference of 21st century about innovation, and why the process of road mapping is more important than the picture of the road map, you will know from Michael Radnor, the senior professor at the Kellogg School of Management, who answered the questions of the dean of kmbs Pavlo Sheremeta.

Ukraine has a strange position in the world. It is not a large country but it is not a small one. It has great scientific traditions and almost has not the contemporary science-based manufacture. Ukrainian managers have inherited much from the Soviet Union traditions but they want to collaborate with world multinationals. What is Ukrainian scenario to have a success and to become innovative the Associate Professor of International Business at Southern New Hampshire University Yusaf Akbar tells to Innovations.

Is all gold that glitters? Is everything fashionable really useful for manager? The guru of marketing teaching at 44 countries, Joe Pons, tells how fashionable things burst like a soap-bubbles. Also you will have a story how his grandmother taught him the basic principles of marketing.