Posted Friday, 29 July 2011 19:50 Written by Marco van Walstijn in Publications

The 11^th New WOW Symposium wil be held at YNNO’s Creative Meeting Center in Utrecht, The Netherlands on Sept 25^th-28^th.

Dr. Bettina von Stamm will present a paper on INNOVATION THROUGH NEW WAYS OF WORKING and the group will discuss the following innovation challenges:

• What is the impact of the increasing global distribution of groups on the ability of companies to innovate?
• Do groups have to be collocated to innovate?
• How does trying to innovate using information technologies change the company and its culture?
• What's the impact on trust and the transfer of informal knowledge, which are so important for innovation, of increasingly virtual and distributed groups?
• How does serendipity happen in a distributed company?

A special fieldtrip/workshop at the NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences (http://www.nhtv.nl/ENG/about-nhtv.html) has also been planned.  Breda professors Bernard Drion and Geoff Maree will host a half-day workshop on Monday, September 26 to share information about their Workin' Wonderland project (http://www.workinwonderland.com/index.html ). Bernard and Geoff wrote the book, Workin' Wonderland: Where People Gravitate and Managers Navigate. They are crafting a highly entertaining and interactive workshop on new ways of working, hospitality in the workplace, and imagineering in relation to innovation.

Online registration form. http://www.newwow.net/members/registration/symposium/11