2008 archive - Sustainable Communities Multi-disciplinary Perspectives
Sustainable Communities Research and Innovation Cluster
One of UniSA's first research and innovation clusters, this collaborative, multi-disciplinary team is identifying community problems and creating innovations to make a difference.
Climate change: will it push your business to extinction?
Dr Geoff Wells and Mr Nick Palousis
Monday 17 November
5.45 - 7.45 pm
Allan Scott Auditorium,
Level 3 Hawke Building
City West campus
Please note change of date and venue*
Evolution depends on adaptation. The fittest to survive recognise the signs of change and evolve their practices early. Today, there is a massive and unprecedented challenge to our business environment and physical environment: climate change. Not only is it forcing us to change the way we do business but how we fundamentally think about a business enterprise. Analytic management frameworks, like strategy development, are buckling under this radical uncertainty. This joint presentation from a multi-disciplinary perspective, explores the situation, maps how business is being reconfigured from the ground up, and suggests where global enterprise may evolve to as we negotiate the hurdles ahead.
Part 1
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Part 2
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Watch this vodcast (WMV) 77MB (or right click and select 'save target as' to download) |
Dr Geoff Wells
Academic Director in Sustainable Business at UniSA's
International
Graduate School of Business, Geoff is an internationally experienced
researcher, lecturer, corporate founder and consultant on strategy
development, strategic financial modelling, organisational development,
leadership and governance. He pioneered the valuation of sustainability for
companies and governments.
Dr
Geoff Wells' homepage
Mr Nick Palousis
Nick is a PhD candidate in Sustainability Risk Assessment at UniSA,
our inaugural Southcott Scholar and Lead Consultant for Sustainable Business
Practices. In 2005, he was named one of Engineers Australia's 30 Most
Inspiring Young Engineers; he was the 2006 Young South Australian of the
Year; and in 2007, received the
British Council Eureka Prize for Young Leaders in Environmental Issues and
Climate Change.
* The date of this lecture has been changed because Nick has just been invited to present his PhD research to an international conference on management science and engineering management in China in early November, which conflicts with this lecture date. As this conference is crucial to the completion of his thesis, we have had to alter the lecture date. The good news is that Nick will deliver both the Gift of Knowledge lecture as well as his presentation in China. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.