The Story and Model of Haier Group

April 29, 2020
3-5 pm Central European Time

Understanding Haier's evolution in the last 30 years.An introductory discussion on the world-leading pioneer Haier's Group organizational approach Rendanheyi. Rendanheyi has been widely praised internationally as one of the most revolutionary Management ideas of the 21^st Century and HBR in 2018 characterized it as “The End of Bureaucracy”. Join us during this 1-hour introduction to Haier with a Q&A session featuring: 

Joost Minnaar, Co-founder of Corporate Rebels, author of the book "Corporate Rebels Make Work More Fun".

Stuart Crainer Co-founder of Thinkers 50

Prof. ​Bill Fischer from IMD and MIT SLOAN, author of the book “Rethinking giants” and long time consultant of Haier’s iconic CEO Zhang Ruimin

​Sylvia Guan Senior Researcher at Haier Model Research Institute (HMI)

What will you learn:

Participants in the webinar will get a first glimpse of the history of the company’s transformation towards an ecosystem of loosely coupled, independent, entrepreneurial units.

• Does the Haier model really represent the end of bureaucracy and how did Haier get there, through what phases?

• How do strategy, budgeting, performance management, and other key processes work in a big company with over 80,000 employees but without middle management?

• What are the key entities in Haier’s model of an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Enabling Organization?

• What does it mean when employees become “CEOs of themselves”?

These are some of the questions we will explore with the experts in the webinar.

Moderated by: 

Simone Cicero, Co-founder Boundaryless and Original Ideator Platform Design Toolkit

Haier Certified Online Course

The Webinar will also be a unique chance to get informed about an upcoming Haier Certified 3 Half Day online course that Bill Fischer and Simone Cicero will facilitate online on June 16-17-18 for a limited cohort of maximum 40 participants.

The course will be an excellent opportunity to:

• Learn more about the story of Haier and the basics of Rendanheyi organizational model;
• Identify the cultural elements that need to be developed if your organization wants to embrace a culture of entrepreneurship and ecosystem enablement;
• Explore the pitfalls and challenges in transforming an organization into a rapidly evolving organism;
• Discover a practical set of visual tools to design experiments to be executed in your organization.

The course will be the first one to be Certified by Haier Model Institute and will also be essential to provide access to a community of experts and practitioners, that will be animated directly by Haier, Boundaryless and other partners and will be a unique place for those interested in exploring the Rendanheyi model and its general principles of applicability, in more depth.

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