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ACS Qld SME Community - Enabling High Growth: The Role of Proactive ICT in Small to Medium Enterprises

The invasion of cloud and disruptive innovations offer a great potential for high growth by reaching out to the global customers. However leveraging this phenomenon has proven to be a difficult challenge for many firms. In this seminar, Professor Marek Kowalkiewicz will share few insights on this quest by answering the two specific questions. 1. What is the role of digital technologies for enabling high growth? 2. How to be PROACTIVE within your business model? STUDENT MEMBER TICKET ALLOCATION EXHAUSTED, THIS EVENT WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY FURTHER ACS STUDENT MEMBER REGISTRATIONS!

Event Start: Thu 19 Oct 05:30 PM AEST
Event Finish: Thu 19 Oct 07:30 PM AEST

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Registration End Date: Wed 18 Oct 12:09 PM


<span style="font-family: helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Astute academic and highly influential Professor of business and PWC Chair - Digital Economy Prof Mark Kowalkiewicz</span></span> <span style="font-family: helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">will present:</span></span><br>  <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>What is the role of digital technologies for enabling HIGH GROWTH?</b></span></span></div> <br><span><span style="font-family: helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">The invasion of cloud and disruptive innovations offer a great potential for high growth by reaching out to the global customers. However leveraging this phenomenon has proven to be a difficult challenge for many firms.  In this seminar,</span></span></span> <span><span style="font-family: helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Professor Marek Kowalkiewicz will share few insights on this quest by answering the two specific questions.</span></span></span> <ol><li><span><span style="font-family: helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">What is the role of digital technologies for enabling high growth?</span></span></span></li><li><span><span style="font-family: helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">How to be PROACTIVE within your business model? </span></span></span></li></ol> <span><span style="font-family: helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">It is well established fact that high growth firms are one of the key contributors of jobs in any economy.  The one factor that was identified by Marek and his team was the role played by the technology for enabling high growth. Marek will share specific findings on how digital technologies can be a significant contributor to growth in all industries.</span></span></span><br><br><span><span style="font-family: helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">How to be PROACTIVE with your business model?</span></span></span><br><span><span style="font-family: helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">In the digitally disrupted world, the quest for how firms can leverage this for growth is continuing. Marek will share his insights about the need to continuously EXPLORE the customer, business model and signals that our customers produce. Marek will also explain the core dimensions of the “Proactive Service Canvas” that can help the ICT SME firms to be proactive and enable high growth for their customers.</span></span></span><br><br><span style="font-family: helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>If you are an SME who wants to take advantage of what the digtial economy can offer your business, this is a must attend.</b><br><br>​This event is proudly sponsors by HopgoodGanim Lawyers<br><br><img alt="User-added image" src="https://acsau.file.force.com/servlet/rtaImage?eid=701900000016j6T&amp;feoid=00N9000000EVCh7&amp;refid=0EM90000000gQgp"></img></span></span>

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Prof Marek Kowalkiewicz

Prof Marek Kowalkiewicz

Marek helps organisations to avoid strategic surprises. Nothing excites him more than exploring bleeding edge technologies and using them to create opportunities and solve problems that businesses or individuals face.

Marek loves to learn, teach others, and work with small and larger teams to build jaw-dropping solutions.
With his high innovation implementation experience, he is passionate about helping others innovate. He believes that everyone, given the right support, can be innovative. Marek has delivered multiple innovative solutions to customers, solving their problems.

Marek led the setting up of a brand new SAP Research centre in Singapore and was the global content and strategy lead for SAP's flagship series of developer events, d-kom. He is also a co-founder of Business Information Systems Institute (I2G), a successful spin-off delivering high-quality R&D services in statistical NLP, information extraction, data mining and data integration. He is always evangelising technology and has an established track record on this front.  

 

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Level 8, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St,Brisbane,QLD,Australia

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    Level 8, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St
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    Thu 19 Oct 05:30 PM AEST

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    Thu 19 Oct 07:30 PM AEST
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