The mission of the Advanced business approaches under the »Always a step ahead!« slogan is to show the most advanced business approaches and business solutions as answers for current and future needs of organization to improve the success, efficiency and competitiveness.

Changing Change

Change is so happening often and so differently today that even John Kotter¹, the top guru of change management, had to change his famous principles of managing change (R8) in his book called Accelerate (XL R8, 2014) and additionally supplement them in his e-book called “SUCCESS Notes: Leading Change, Accelerate, Our Iceberg Is Melting, And The Heart of Change” (1st April 2015).

Peter Drucker², another such guru, said: “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

Jack Welch³, a third business practices guru, said that we first need to change the project culture if we want to efficiently turn the organization around

»Changing Change« is one of the slogans and the logo of IIBA - International Institute of Business Analysis. The other slogan is “Helping Business do BUSINESS BETTER”.

All of this together brings us to the main topic of this year's Advanced business approaches conference:

Even though the main lecturers in our conference will not be John Kotter nor Jack Welch, and off course neither the late Peter Drucker, we will be hosting great foreign lecturers, such as Curtis Michelson from Florida and Adrian Reed from the UK, as well as a great Slovenian one, Rok Pongrac from Zavarovalnica Triglav who will be presenting the ADKAR change concept. IIBA Chapter Slovenia will be presenting the BACCM concept. You will co-create new realizations about change with them in the morning conference part as well as in the afternoon workshops.

Come and we can begin changing change together!

Aleš Štempihar,
6^th Advanced Business Approaches conference organizer

1 - Harvard Business School Professor John Kotter is widely regarded as the world's foremost authority on leadership and change. His is the premier voice on how the best organizations actually "do" change. Kotter's international bestseller 'Leading Change' - which outlined an actionable, eight-step process for implementing successful transformations - has become the change bible for managers around the world.
2- Peter Drucker was the original big thinker. His ideas on management, innovation, leadership, effectiveness, and adapting to change formed the foundations of modern business wisdom. Drucker was also a mentor to many notable leaders in business, government, and nonprofits, a role he valued tremendously.
3- Jack Welch knows how to win. During his forty-year career at General Electric, he led the company to year-after-year success around the globe, in multiple markets, against brutal competition. His honest, be-the-best style of management became the gold standard in business, with his relentless focus on people, teamwork, and profits.