GLOBAL AWARENESS AS A CORE BUSINESS SKILL

RYERSON GLOBAL MANAGEMENT STUDENTSJanuary 31, 2012Ted Rogers School of ManagementToronto, CANADA

Jim de Wilde www.jimdewilde.net

BGIE (HBS) and LEGATUM MIT

http://www.hbs.edu/units/bgie/ http://actionlearning.mit.edu/g-lab/ http:

//www.fastcompany.com/magazine/148/how-ted-became-the-new-harvard.html

BEST PRACTICES and DEMONSTRATION EFFECTS (ideas go viral)

THE CANADIAN COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

Tamil-Somali management teams Understanding the global

environment A collective knowledge of world

politics The cultural DNA of diverse

perspectives WINNIPEG in the early 20th century EUROPE, MALAYSIA, BRAZIL, CANADA

today

Canadian management expertise

Global knowledge of extractive industries (mining and oil and gas)

The creative mix of global talent Quebec’s global strategies for

business (Bombardier, SNC-Lavalin, Cirque).

IAMGOLD in Suriname

IAMGOLD in SURINAME KHAN RESOURCES in Mongolia

Canadian mining finance gives global knowledge .

SURINAME - case study

http://www.iamgold.com/english/operations/operating-mines/rosebel-gold-mine-suriname/overview/default.aspx

KHAN RESOURCES case study

http://www.khanresources.com/

DIGITAL MEDIA

In Tunisia In Kochi In Jamaica

Digital Tunisia

www.wamda.com

http://www.wamda.com/2011/11/tunisian-entrepreneurs-get-a-boost-from-the-diaspora-and-u-s-

Smart City KOCHI

http://smartcitykochi.blogspot.com/search/label/Smartcity%20Malta

Digital Jamaica

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20110615/business/business8.html

CORE SKILLS

Knowledge of global history Case studies of A BILLION NEW

ENTREPRENEURS (best practices) Case studies of SECOND WORLD

businesses (understanding the global economy)

Tarun Khanna

http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=bio&facEmId=tkhanna%40hbs.edu

Parag Khanna

Is Ghemawat right about B-Schools

http://www.economist.com/blogs/whichmba%3F/2011/09/pankaj-ghemawat

Personal globalization skills test for Toronto B-School students

Can you express a Tamil and Somali interpretation of world events, i.e. think globally?

What ideas have gone viral globally (e.g. mobile banking, microfinance)?

What are the geopolitics of Burmese democratization (why is it happening now)?

How do SECOND WORLD businesses (PETRONAS, CEMEX) differ from Europeans MNCs?

What next?

Digital Arabia Iran and the geopolitics of CENTRAL

ASIA and the INDIAN OCEAN - how the world economy is reshaped