We took part last week in the 36th annual meeting of the Association des directrices et des directeurs généraux de caisses Desjardins (ADGC), who reprensents de general managers (GM) of more than 200 credit unions in Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick members of the network known as Mouvement Desjardins. Set in the beautiful landscape of La Malbaie, this year’s conference was « Drawing the future, » an invitation for members to collectively reflect on the topic of innovation and their role in shaping the future of Desjardins.
Our conference, Complexity and co-creation, was the kick-off of this day of reflection. It took stock of this world reconfigured by the social and technical transformations of the last years and suggested a few threads for reflection and action to help managers re-center and better mobilize collective intelligence to take advantage of this emerging complexity. Our exploration followed four tracks – time, information, networks and dematerialization – which we will explore in a four-fold series to be published on blog.fandco.ca.
Following our talk were a number of interventions and workshops. Claude Desjardins, former partner at Secor now at SAGE Consulting, spoke about change through strategic leadership. Christine Lanthier, assistant editor-in-chief at Jobboom Magazine, explored the management of introverts. Sylvain Sénécal, professor of marketing at HEC Montréal, looked at the mobile revolution in the banking sector. The grand finale was left to Éric Bourget, president and founder of Half Serious, who hinted at ways that the dynamics of play could completely change the way we do banking. Throughout the day, master of ceremony Daniel Lacombe challenged particpants with all sorts of tests, dilemmas that had them question their acquired worldviews. He even submitted them to the Marshmallow Challenge!
We had been working with several months with the organizing committee, led by Manon Goudreault and her dynamic team at Dada communications, Daniel Lacombe of SAGE Consulting and Jean-Pierre Dubois at OPC événements. We wanted to create a program that would force general managers to envision a world that had changed not for the worse, but that was rather filled with opportunities for these central actors of the economic development of Quebec – as long as they remain innovative!
Designing the future: betting on complexity
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