Economic Reporter :
A three-day international workshop, titled ‘Managerial Technological Innovation For Global Competition’, concluded in the city on Saturday.
Daffodil International University (DIU) and BASIS jointly organised the workshop at the Banquet Hall of Daffodil Tower in association with Career Development Centre (CDC), while Professor Dr. Nawaz Sharif, Principal Consultant of Myriad Solutions of the USA, was the facilitator.
Dr. Nawaz, also a director of UN-ESCAP’s Asian and Pacific Center for Transfer of Technology (APCTGT), India introduced the concept of nurturing creativity, product innovation and knowledge management. He was a chair professor and vice-president for academic affairs of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok.
Thirty participants attended the workshop and Dr. Nawaz handed over the certificates to them.
The workshop was designed as a ‘Knowledge Exchange Forum’ for general managers, technological managers, line managers, regulators, policymakers and academicians who have interest in managing global technological innovation in organisations.
Dr. Nawaz Sharif was the Doctoral Program Director of the Graduate School of Management and Technology of Maryland University College of the USA. He was also an adjunct professor in the Engineering Professionals Program of John Hopkins University and a visiting professor in the project management program of the George Washington University, USA.
Throughout the workshop, Dr. Nawaz emphasised that innovation provides the key to achieving competitive edge in the current global setting. The three-day workshop was tailored to groom industrial enterprise executives for building their capacity and honing their skills to compete and become significant members of the ‘global value chain’ through continuous productivity improvement and technology-based new product development strategy.
The objectives set down for the workshop enabled the participants to manage the ‘whole process’ of technological innovation in an organisation; make roadmap frameworks for technological innovations to gain productivity; plan, collect and analyse available information and intelligence to design technological innovation projects and choose technological innovation management tools and techniques to achieve sustainable growth.
