News from Beth Fitz Gibbon, DM ’09 and Joann Farrell Quinn, PhD ’13
Alumni Council Co-Chairs
THANK YOU!
Your responses to the July 2019 Alumni Survey provided great input for planning the 2020 year.
Here is what we heard about topics of most interest to you for the April 23-25 reunion – our 25th Anniversary Celebration of DM success.
- International/Global perspectives
- Founding faculty comments/presentations: future of DM/PhD Programs in 3 to 5 years
- Keynote speakers: Relevance for practitioners as well as scholars, broad looks at future of geopolitics and its effects on business, strategy and competitive advantage.
- Management, leadership and intentional change
- Mentoring and pairing alumni, current students and faculty for research partnerships
- New research methods and tools
- Design Strategy and Complex systems
- Digital and Creative Destruction
- Ethics and Inclusion
- Publishing trends for practitioners and scholars
- Success stories from top alumni in teaching, research dissemination, consulting, etc.
SAVE THE DATE FOR THE 25TH DM SILVER JUBILEE … A Celebration of You!
Your Alumni Council, faculty, administration and the anniversary planning committee are working hard to make the Spring 2020 reunion our best ever. For the first time, we’ll have 2 ½ days, Thursday afternoon through Saturday at 3 p.m. That extra time allows us to provide enriched content reflecting alumni interests and include more networking. Keynote and panel topics will include:
- Big data, Analytics, Cybersecurity, Deep Fakes and their impact on practice and scholarship
- Big Technology’s impacts on the future of industry 4.0: workforce, economy and industry competitiveness
- Managing and sustaining complex systems in a messy world
- Leadership and Intentional Change
- Collective Action for Ethics & Values
- Research Methods and Writing for Publication
- And much more!
Please plan to attend. Spouses are welcome. For a mere $250 event fee ($150 for spouses) you will receive a wealth of practitioner-scholar information and enjoy the camaraderie of old friends and new. More details to come – watch for monthly email updates.
Become an Alumni Council Member
Your Council works to sustain a return-on-investment for your degree by working on behalf of your interests, including important issues such as the proposed DM name change. 2020 can be the year all 298 alumni come together to benefit from, participate in and support alumni activities. To do that, we need your voice. How can we make your investment in your degree more beneficial and valuable? Council members are responsible for staying current with alumni concerns. Participation requires one conference-call meeting per quarter, with occasional in-between calls for planning events such as Reunions. Council members are nominated and voted for in periodic elections. A new election will be held in 2020. Please, at any time before May 2020, nominate yourself or someone you know.
Tell us what you're up to!
We want to be “proud out loud” about alumni achievements: publications, presentations, promotions, new positions … and personal news: Have a new child or grandchild? Been on a great vacation? Moved to a new city or retired to the country? Please let us know what’s up with you professionally and in your “real life.” We’re happy to share alumni updates and photos in the DM Digest.
HELP WANTED!
Your Cohort Needs a Class Representative
Cohort Representatives are needed to gather updates from other members of their graduating class, willing to reach out to them occasionally for updates, and forward the news they share, we will post their news in the quarterly DM Digest.
If you would like to volunteer to be your cohort’s Representative, please send a message to Beth Fitz Gibbon, DM ’09 (pathfox820@gmail.com) or Joann Farrell Quinn, PhD’13 (jfquinn@jfqconsulting.com); or directly to Sue Nartker at san2@case.edu. Thank you!
