HOW CAN I INNOVATE BETTER?

You may think that being innovative is an inherent quality for some people and unrealistically ambitious or inaccessible to others who seem less creative.  However, research findings based on managers across many global organisations have shown that certain behaviours which are conducive to innovative thinking, can be identified, practised and improved over time.  Hal Gregersen, Affiliate Professor of Leadership at INSEAD helps managers to explore the Innovator's DNA, which is so crucial to the sustainable success of corporations today.

Through a series of surveys, exercises and frameworks, managers on the INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship programme had the opportunity to discover their own potential for innovation and how to leverage their strengths.  A key element of this session is a workshop called Dialogue in the Dark, where participants are plunged into a completely dark room to carry out a number of team-based exercises, facilitated by blind guides.   Deprived of all the usual reference points, participants find themselves having to adapt to new ways of communicating and working together to achieve results.

SNAPSHOTS OF SOME INSEAD VIRTUAL EVENTS:

Tired of flying?  Travel in style by

taking a tour of our virtual campus aboard our new campus shuttle!

  Go directly to our Second Life campus or create your avatar (identity).

For detailed instructions about how to attend a virtual event, see our virtual campus webpage.

ARTICLES & BLOGS:

Capitalism thrives in virtual world: Second Life give commerce a second chance

Interview with Miklos Sarvary, Dean of Executive Education, Professor of Marketing and Director of the Learning Innovation Centre at INSEAD

Second Life Blog: INSEAD's MBA without Borders

See how INSEAD's virtual campus - which featured as some of the world's best architecture in Second Life - is being used for learning, research and networking activities.

INSEAD is one of the first management schools to dip a toe into the online economy, instead of merely studying it
INSEAD has created spaces for virtual classes, group meetings, lounge areas for students to meet with professors, potential employers, and one another and has also commissioned laboratories for research.  "The purpose is to do everything we do, but better" explains Miklos Sarvary, Professor of Marketing and Faculty Director of the Learning Innovation Centre.  (Business Week)

The World's Best Architecture in Second Life

INSEAD's virtual campus, designed by Pixelbreeze architects, has been selected as an example of the world's best architecture in Second Life, in a book called Space Between People, which published the results of the first architecture and design competition in Second Life.

Participants will have the opportunity to develop a business plan and test it on the virtual campus
"Our presence there is a natural extension of our dedication to provide participants with the most current, real-time technological advancements and deliver top leadership development programmes, whether it takes place on a physical campus or online digital world.” says Miklos Sarvary. (FT.com)

You really do have the impression of being there with other students
Second Life is now fully voice-enabled so you can have real time discussions as if you were in the same room!   “You get the same sense of community that you do in a lecture theatre, because you can see each other, you are all there in the same place. At the end of the course, I made my way over to the avatar of a student who was actually in Paris, and we had a discussion, the relationship was very direct,” said Alain Desvigne, an MBA Student on the Singapore campus. (Le Monde Campus)

          MBA INFORMATION SESSIONS:

See Snapshots of the session on  2nd June, 2010.

See Snapshots of the session on 23rd February, 2010.

See Snapshots of the session on 3rd December, 2009.

MBA Information Session & Master Class - Friday 22 May, 2010

Click here to see some snapshots.

Master Class and MBA / Exec MBA Information Session - 13 January, 2009

Here are some snapshots of our master class and virtual information session in Second Life!

          ALUMNI EVENTS:

22nd Alumni Sustainability Round Table - Smart and Sustainable Super-Grids

Nicholas Dunlop, Secretary General, e-Parliament

The Pan-European Clean Energy Super-grid

See Snapshots of the event on 17 Nov, 2009

21st Alumni Sustainability Round Table: When Does it Pay to Be Green? 5 June, 2009:   Click here to see some snapshots.

Alumni Reunion - Plenary Session - Sat. 23 May, 2009

Click here to see some snapshots.

Panel Discussion on Virtual Worlds - Wed. 3 December, 2008

The session was organized by SRIC-BI’s Virtual Worlds @ Work, in cooperation with SDForum SIG on Virtual Worlds, the Serious Game Institute, the Gronstedt Group and INSEAD.   Click here to see some snapshots of the event.

 The Metaverse: TV of the Future?