Global Peter Drucker Forum 2014

Launch Event Vienna, March 10, 2014

Hosted by Unicredit Centre Vienna

Richard Straub, President Peter Drucker Society Europe

Flash-Back 2013

Breakthroughs in 2013

• Step-Change in Global Visiblity– Strategic Media Partnerships with HBR and FT

– Editorial Support by The Economist, Forbes, Les Echos, Time Magazing

– Austrian National Publications such as Die Presse, Der Standard, Die Furche, Format

• Outstanding references by Thought Leaders– Roger Martin, Lynda Gratton, Charles Handy, Andrew Hill etc.

• Forum Sold out in September

• Drucker Challenge Essay and Video Contest

• Post Forum Coverage – Forum Quoted as– New Centre of Gravity for Management

– World Management Forum

Drucker Challenge Contest 2013

150 Essays submitted

54 Videos uploaded

30 Young Winners & Finalists

participated in the 2013 Forum

Overall Satisfaction 2013

Pre-Conference Documentation

Complexity Series 2013 – HBR Blog Network

Global Peter Drucker Forum 2014

Reaching a Turning Point?

• Drucker: I never predict – seeing the future that has already arrived

• Confluence of Factors– Slow Growth - Stagnation

– Unemployment – Youth Unemployment

– Debt Levels in Western States & Bloated Bureaucracies

– Overblown Emphasis on Short Term at the expense of Long Term

– Corporate Cash Hoarding, Lack of Risk Taking and Innovation

– Inequality: Germs of Social Conflict

• Ways towards Prosperity?– Technology, Sustainability, Shared Value/Public Value, Incremental

Reforms of current System

Where does the Salvation come from?

• Digital Technology?– Exponential Curve – no Precedent in History

– Offestting job Losses with Gains in High Value Segements?

• Social Technology – Management?– Society of Organizations – globally connected

– Management in the Druckerian Sense (Business Adminstration, Leadership, Entrepreneurship)

– Business and Non-Business (Govt., Educ., Health, NPOs etc)

– Achieving Performance – for what Purpose?

– It is all about People and their Lives!

– It is not about Management Techniques – it is about how Management improves the Living Conditions for Human Beings!

Building Blocks for the Forum 2014

• TheTurning Point – Stagnation or Transition towards Prosperity

• The Future of Work and Jobs & the Impact of Technology

• Recreating Mangement as a Human Centric Practice & Discipline

• Getting closer to the 21st Century Organization• The Death of Strategy – Long Live Strategy• Tied together in the 21st Century – Business &

Government

Drucker Challenge 2014

5th Global Drucker Challenge ContestParticipants up to 35 Yeas of Age

Theme 2014 - Preannouncement

Lost in Digital Wonderland?Finding a Path in the Global Knowledge Society

• How envision your Life as a Knowledge Worker in 10 Years

from now`?

• How can the Capabilities of this „Digital Wonderland“ be

leveraged?

• How to tame the dark Side of Technology?

• Creating a New Industrial Revollution?

A Marvellous Setting

Hall of Science

17th Century

Gala Dinner

City Hall of Vienna

An Outstanding Group of Speakers (partial List)

Conference Description

www.druckerforum.org/abstract-drucker-forum-2014/Full Document:

Drucker Forum on Social Media

Drucker‘s Words of Wisdom

For full Quote see next ´Slide

From Society to Management

The Ecological Vision: Reflections on the American Condition (1993):

“Management and managers are the central resource, the generic,

distinctive, the constitutive organ of society…and the very survival of

society is dependent on the performance, the competence, the earnestness

and the values of their managers…What managers are doing is therefore a

public concern”.

Engage & st@y in Cont@ct

How to engage?

• Individual Members

• Institutional members (for Profit, NPOs and Academic)

• Sponsor of the Forum

• Drucker Challenge Partner

• Media Partnerships

• Promotion Partnerships

More Info: contact@druckersociety.eu

THANK YOU