The Institute is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with the Chartered Institute of Marketing Management of Ontario in Canada to promote excellence and to collaborate on marketing excellence. “We are delighted to partner with the Chartered Institute of Marketing Management of Ontario,” commented John Bourke, President of The Business Excellence Institute, “the cooperation will add value for our members in Canada and will benefit both organizations”.
Tickets for the 2019 Excellence Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Gala Dinner are now on sale.
Dublin, Ireland, 5 December, 2018
The Business Excellence Institute is delighted to announce that the successful nominees, elected to the Excellence Hall of Fame for 2019 are, in alphabetical order by first name, Clara Shih, Feargal Quinn, and Henry Mintzberg.
Clara started her career aged 15 in Femilab. She later earned co-terminal Bachelors and Masters degrees in Economics & Computer Science from Stanford before earning her second Masters from Oxford while working for Google in the UK. After Google, she joined Salesforce.com prior to starting her own company, Hearsay Systems. She has since written two bestselling books, been appointed to the board of Starbucks, and has been named one of Fortune’s “Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs”. You can learn more about her here.
Feargal is one of Ireland’s most popular entrepreneurs. He founded the Superquinn supermarket chain which helped introduce supermarkets to Ireland in the 60s. An internationally respected retailer, he has served as chairman of the Irish Post Office and as a Senator in the Irish Senate. He has written 3 books and has been a Marketing Professor in NUI Galway. He shared a “Listener of the Year” award with Oprah Winfrey and has been awarded both a Papal Knighthood and the Ordre National du Mérite. You can learn more about him here.
Henry has been one of the world’s leading management thinkers for many years. After earning his PhD from MIT, he joined the faculty in McGill University in Montréal and, while there, has served as a consultant to numerous businesses and governments. He was the first management academic to be made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and has recieved many other accolades including 18 honorary doctorates. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada and an Officier de l’Ordre National du Québec. You can learn more about him here.
The Induction Ceremony is a Black Tie Gala Dinner with a “fireside chat” that will take place in the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin, on Thursday, 28 March, 2019.
The Business Excellence Institute is a membership body that promotes business excellence as a multi-disciplinary profession, excellence in management, and the use of innovative approaches to personal and organizational development. It works with individuals and organizations ranging from small family businesses to federal governments to help them deliver outstanding results for all their stakeholders. It has members on 5 continents and while predominantly practitioner focused, it also has academic members.
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Tickets for the Induction Ceremony Gala Dinner, can be purchased here
We are delighted to announce that Dianne Tyers (Canada), Jennifer McDonald (Jamaica), and Tom Butterly (Switzerland) have been elected as Fellows of the Institute.
Dianne is an educational consultant and entrepreneur with almost two decades’ experience running her own company. She has developed products and services – including teacher education – for educational bodies in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. She has also conducted numerous educational sector quality assurance projects around the globe. Dianne holds a Bachelor’s degree in Physical and Health Education (University of Toronto), an MA in Applied Linguistics (University of Queensland), an MBA (Ivey School of Business) and a PhD in Entrepreneurial Education (University of Toronto).
Jennifer is an international management consultant & corporate brand transformation specialist. She began her career as an economist with the Ministry of Labour in Jamaica. She was later instrumental in building Jamaica’s National Land Agency before taking on the role of Chief Executive of its Passport Immigration & Citizenship Agency. Jennifer holds a BA in Geography & Economics, a Diploma in Management Studies, and an MBA in Marketing (University of the West Indies). She has also studied Energy Project Management at the University of Connecticut and Organizational Development at Harvard.
Tom is a leading international trade facilitation and development expert and a consultant to organisations including the OECD, the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation, and a number of UN agencies. He has experience working in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America and previously served as Deputy Chief of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe’s Trade & Economic Development Division and as its Chief of Trade Facilitation. Tom holds both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Economics (Dalhousie University) and a Diploma in Telecommunications Technology (Technological University Dublin).
Lisbon, Portugal, 24 September 2018
Congratulations to all the competition finalists and to the games that took home awards at this year’s International Business Learning Games Competition. The competition, sponsored by Banco Santander, saw a large number of entries reduced, after multiple run-throughs by the judges, to only 12 finalists:
The Award Winners were:
| Award | Game | Entrant |
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| Game of the Year | Future of Energy Simulation | Specifique (Norway) |
| Game of the Year Runner Up | Innovate or Dinosaur | Traction Strategy (Canada) |
| Most Ambitious Game | ActeeLeadership | Actee (Denmark) |
The International Business Learning Games Competition was created to encourage the use of new, innovative approaches to professional development by promoting the use of Learning Games as an educational technology. It recognises achievements and acknowledges the best games in the field from around the globe, inspiring the development of new innovative learning games for business.
Games are judged by an international panel of judges that combines expertise in business, pedagogy and game design, using a specially developed evaluation framework with input from educational experts and serious game designers. For more information on the competition see: BusinessLearningGames.com
The Business Excellence Institute is a membership body, with members on five continents, dedicated to helping people – and the organizations they work for – deliver outstanding results for all their stakeholders. It promotes business excellence as a multi-disciplinary profession, excellence in management, and the use of innovative approaches to personal and organizational development. Through its members, it supports organisations ranging from small family run businesses to federal governments on their journeys to excellence.
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Game of the Year
Game of the Year Runner Up
Most Ambitious Game
We are delighted to announce that Dwight Mihalicz has been elected a Fellow of the Institute.
Dwight is a management consultant, thinker, and author with over 40 years’ experience working at local, national, and international levels in not-for-profit and for-profit organizations. He started his career in 1973 with the Canadian Red Cross and rose to the position of Director of Revenue Generation for the International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies in Geneva. He has served on the board of UNICEF Canada and as Director of the Dean’s Advisory Committee at the University of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management. He has also served as the Treasurer of the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes.
Dwight is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Management Consultants and holds MBA from the University of Ottawa.
We are delighted to announce the launch of the Pragmatic Manager Development Program. The highly interactive program consists of twelve 2.5 hours sessions – spaced a month apart – over the course of a year. It combines work on real-life business challenges with exposure to global good practice. Participants are required to apply learning in their workplace during the program, which brings benefit to their companies and develops management know-how along with the focus and commitment needed to achieve both rapid impact and long-term, sustainable improvement.
Neal Traynor, the Institute’s COO, says “We’re excited to launch the program, which is carefully crafted to equip practicing managers in small and medium sized businesses and family businesses with the know-how, skills, and confidence to develop their management and leadership abilities. It’s been developed by practicing managers, not by academics, and requires participants to work on challenges they face at work as part of the program.”
The program commences on 19 November 2018 for people in Dublin prior to further roll-out. Enrolment is now open and spaces are limited – for more information see The Pragmatic Manager Development Program.
The 2018 Excellence Hall of Fame induction ceremony was held in the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin, Ireland, on April 19. During the gala dinner, three more outstanding people became members of the Excellence Hall of Fame:
You can learn more about them on the Excellence Hall of Fame website ExcellenceHallofFame.org .
We are delighted to announce that Michael Sutton has been elected a Fellow of the Institute.
Michael is a multidisciplinary scholarly practitioner with experience in design thinking, information systems, knowledge management, education and games. After working in business and management as an executive and entrepreneur, he began teaching and is an award winning author of papers on educational technology and business. He is an internationally recognized thought leader on Game-Based Learning. Despite being a fan of innovative and disruptive approaches to education, he has been invited to teach as an Adjunct Professor at a number of universities in the U.S. and is a research advisor for the Harvard Business Review.
Michael holds BIS in Management Sciences (University of Waterloo) and a PhD in Knowledge Management (McGill University). He served as a judge for the Institute’s International Business Learning Games Competition in 2017.
