Diary

Article Type: Diary From: Strategic Direction, Volume 25, Issue 11

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Association for Strategic Planning 2010 Conference

22-24 February 2010, Pasadena, CA, USA

ASP’s Annual Conference is the nation’s premier forum for professional discussion and exchange of information and experiences among strategic planning practitioners. Once each year our conference brings together thought leaders and practitioners dedicated to advancing all aspects of strategic thinking, planning and action.

The conference offers a unique time to come together with strategic planning colleagues. Share your best practices and strengthen your skills for the challenges and unique opportunities that lay ahead. A new business reality is in the air. One that balances the need for corporate social responsibility with profitability in an interwoven world. Find out what planning, preparation and new methodologies are needed to effectively manage the risks and unknowns of change in your organization.

Contact: SMS Executive Office. E-mail: sms@strategicmanagement.net; Web site: http://finland.strategicmanagement.net/

 Strategic Management Society Finland Special Conference 2010

17-20 March 2010, Lapland, Finland

In a fast changing global economy there is an increasing need to understand how strategic decisions are made, how strategy emerges in an organization in practice, who gets involved in strategy processes and how strategy changes over time. It is more and more important to bring together varying perspectives of strategy processes and strategy practices to advance the practice of strategy. The emerging interest in the practice perspective to strategic management during the past decade makes it particularly interesting for us to reflect on the intersections between the process and practice perspectives of strategic management. By doing this our further aim is to link these two research streams to the recent developments in the fields of managerial and organization cognition, organizational and management innovations, and dynamic capabilities and strategic agility.

The Strategic Management Society brings together scholars, executives, and innovation policymakers in advancing the state of the art research and practice in a unique mini-conference organized for the first time in Finland.