Peter Drucker Society Europe (PDSE)
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Custom logoThe Peter Drucker Society Europe (PDSE), formerly the Peter Drucker Society of Austria, an affiliate of the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University, offers the following Knowledge Management education and training opportunities:
Communities
- Vienna Center for Management Innovation (VCMI; est. 2022)
Conferences
- Global Peter Drucker Forum (GPDF)*
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The Global Peter Drucker Forum (GPDF) is an international management conference dedicated to the philosophy of Peter Ferdinand Drucker (* 1909 Vienna, Austria; † 2005 Claremont, USA), the father of modern management, who coined the term knowledge worker among other things. The Forum was launched in 2009 on the occasion of Drucker’s 100th birthday. Since then it is held annually in Vienna, Drucker’s city of birth. Since 2010 the forum is held in conjunction with the Peter Drucker Challenge (PDC), an essay contest open to young business leaders. (in 2013 and 2014 incl. a video contest). Since 2022 the forum is sponsored and organized by the Vienna Center for Management Innovation (VCMI).
Forum Themes:
2024: The Next Knowledge Work: Managing for New Levels of Value Creation and Innovation
2023: Creating Resilience: Leading in an Age of Discontinuity
2022: Performance that Matters: Sparking the Entrepreneuial Spirit
2021: The Human Imperative: Digital Humanism as a Framework for Progress
2020: Leadership Everywhere: A Fresh Perspective on Management
2019: The Power of Ecosystems: Managing in a Networked World
2018: management. the human dimension
2017: Growth & Inclusive Prosperity
2016: The Entrepreneurial Society
2015: Claiming Our Humanity – Managing in the Digital Age
2014: The Gerat Transformation: Managing Our Way to Prosperity
2013: Managing Complexity
2012: Capitalism 2.0: New Horizons for Managers
2011: A Quest for Legitimacy – How Managers Can Shape the Future
2010: Conference Theme: Managing in the Next Society
2009: Reaching out – Coming Home (A Forum On the Occasion of Drucker’s 100th Birthday)
Awards
- Peter Drucker Challenge (PDC) – Essay Contest for young business leaders (2013-14: + Video Contest)
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Contest Themes:
2024: The Next Education – How a New Generation Must be Equipped to Lead in a Crazy World
2023: Bouncing Back: Emerging Stronger After Setbacks
2022: Towards a Passion Economy: Creating Value with Your Unique Skills
2021: What Crisis Demands of the Manager
2020: Leadership and Critical Thinking: How to foster critical thinking skills in critical times?
2019: The Value of the “Renaissance Manager”: How Great Organizations and their People Combine Both Art and Science
2018: How to Stay Human in a Robot Society
2017: Human Prosperity in a Changing World
2016: The New Entrepreneurs – Movers and Shakers in Economy and Society?
2015: Managing Oneself in the Digital Age
2014: Lost in Digital Wonderland – Finding a Path in the Global Knowledge Society
2013: Innovation – Inspiration: Lessons from Innovators from the Arts & Sciences
2012: Reinventing Work, Reinventing Organization
2011: Management, what is it good for? (Plenty, we think! But what do YOU think?)
2010: Continuity and Change – Balancing Innovation and Time-Tested Practices
Events
Vienna Center for Management Innovation (VCMI)
- Mar 2023: The Next Management: Reframing Management for the 21st Century, online
- Sep 2022: Inauguration of the Vienna Center for Management Innovation (VCMI), online