AEMC Set To Discuss Changes
By Achong Tanjong

Bandar Seri Begawan - Asean-EC Management will be organising its first seminar for 2004 from January 20-21.

The seminar, entitled "Managing Organisational Change-Leveraging the E-Initiatives", will be conducted with the knowledge that change management is the key subject to consider during the implementation of any e-initiative strategy.

It also acts as a response to the feedback provided by participants of the conference on K-economy, organised by the centre in October last year.

According to a press release, the programme will leverage the current e-government initiatives as discussion points to facilitate application to `real world' change initiatives.

The objectives of the programme are: to understand the nature and theories of change; to change management process of e-business implementations; to understand obstacles to change; to learn how to communicate the change and deal with resistors to change; and to transform change to opportunity.

The seminar is expected to be participated by heads of departments as well as senior executives and officials from public and private sectors.

The press release also stated that AEMC had invited P. Palaniappan to conduct the course. Palaniappan is an experienced consultant in training, consulting project management, leadership, strategic management and change management for companies with regional operations in Asia Pacific and Indonesian State Government.

The key topics that will be delivered by Palaniappan include: nature of change; business changes; and triggers of business change.

Registration fee for the course is $330, including seminar materials and refreshments.

There will be a 10 per cent discount for those who register before January 15, while AEMC Survey respondents will receive a 25 per cent discount. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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