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Techno-Venture Forum
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NUS Entrepreneurship Centre
Supported by
NUS Business School & MBA Alumni Association
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Developing Entrepreneurial Resilience In a Globalised Business Environment
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Speaker :
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Dr. Ahmad Mohamed Magad
Group Managing Director,
II-VI Singapore, China and Vietnam
Member of Parliament, Pasir-Ris
Punggol GRC |
Date :
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07 September 2006 (Thursday)
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Time :
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6.00pm - 7.30pm
(Registration starts at 5.45pm)
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Venue :
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LT 18, NUS Business School
Pls click on "NUS Business School" on the campus map to locate the LT.
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Driving & Parking :
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Enter Kent Ridge Drive by Pasir Panjang Road or Kent Ridge Crescent. The nearest car park is just next to Hon Sui Sen Auditorium. The next nearest car parks are next to Institute of Materials Research & Engineering and NUSS Guild House. |
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Abstract:
Developing Entrepreneurial Resilience In a Globalised Business Environment. Gobalisation is rapidly changing the world's economic landscape in a staggering fashion, far beyond what computerisation has done in the past two decades. It is creating and forcing profound changes in start-ups, business organizations - large and small, both in terms of processes and in the nature of their final products. In Singapore, a successful transition to an increasingly knowledge and technology-based economy will help it break away from its limited factor inputs, thus, enabling it to concentrate on accomplishing more with existing resources. Additionally, it will help in beefing up Singapore's competitiveness through capability enhancement of enterprises, particularly SMEs, that are capable of spotting trends and winning customers through creative products and services and those that can offer customer value through quality and innovative work practices.
This presentation will take the audience briefly through the past, where turbulence was indeed 'a familiar feature' of the world's economic landscape, focuses on the present globalisation issues and how entrepreneurial ventures could co-exist an thrive in the current and future competitive and increasingly globalised environment and remain resilient.
About the Speaker:
Dr Ahmad Mohamed Magad is Group Managing Director of II-VI Singapore Pte Ltd, II-VI Optics Suzhou Co. Pte Ltd and II-VI Optics Suzhou Co. Ltd and II-VI Vietnam Co. Ltd., all of which are subsidiaries of Nasdaq-Listed II-VI Incorporated, specialised in the manufacture of infrared materials and optical components and systems for applications in the industrial, military and medical fields. As Group Managing Director, his responsibilities cover the full spectrum of business activities, including international marketing, manufacturing operations in Singapore, China and Vietnam, product quality assurance and R&D. His unrelenting commitment to business excellence has earned II-VI the admission into the Singapore Quality Class in 2000, the Ministry of Manpower's EHS awards for several years in a row and the ISO 9000:2000 certification.
In 1997 he was elected as a Member of Parliament for the Pasir-Ris GRC and in 2001 and 2006, was re-elected as an MP for the constituted Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC. He has also served as the Chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) for Finance and Trade & Industry. He is also currently the Chairman of Government Parlimentary Committee (GPC) for Manpower. He is also serving as a Board member in two Government Statutory Boards - as Deputy Chairman of the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) with 27,000 studentship enrolment and the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA). He is also the President of Singapore Productivity Association, an affiliate Body of SPRING Singapore.
As alumni of the Asian Institute of Management, he was awarded the prestigious Alumni Achievement Award (Triple A Award) in 2002 for distinguished achievement in management education and recognition of his contribution to society. He was also accorded the coveted Achiever of the Year award by the Singapore Malay Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 2004.
Ahmad Magad holds a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA)* from Brunel University (UK), an MBA from Henley Management College/Brunel University (UK), an Advanced Post Graduate Diploma in Management Consultancy (UK) and a degree in Optical Engineering from Fach Hochschule Aalen in Germany. Ahmad Magad is also a Fellow Member of CPA (Australia) and the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK.
Registration
We are pleased to invite you and your colleagues to attend the talk.
As there is limited number of seats available, please register for the talk by
07 September 2006 (noon).
Please forward this invitation to your friends and colleagues who may be interested.
Thank You!
Admission is FREE & we look forward to seeing you at the seminar
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