Giovanni Schiuma, PhD

“Prof. Giovanni Schiuma” giovanni.schiuma@unibas.it

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Dr. Giovanni Schiuma is a Professor of Innovation Management at the University of Basilicata (Italy) and Visiting Professor of Arts-Based Management at the University of the Arts London, where he founded and developed as Director the Innovation Insights Hub. Vice Mayor and Deputy Mayor for Strategy Planning, Research, Economic Development and Innovation of Matera city (European Cultural Capital 2019) from July 2015 to September 2016. Giovanni is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts in strategic knowledge management, business model innovation of arts and cultural organizations, company’s value creation dynamics and the arts in business for organizational development and innovation. Inspiring speaker and facilitator, with extensive research management expertise and excellent ability to coordinate complex projects and lead research teams. Creative and innovative, with an international mindset and openness to address and face key strategic business research and organizational challenges. Giovanni is widely internationally renowned for his work on the use of the creativity and culture for organisational innovation as well as for his models and insights into the strategic management of knowledge assets for company value governance and performance improvements. His book “The Value of Arts for Business” by Cambridge University Press is regarded as a seminal text on how the arts, in the form of Arts-based Initiatives (ABIs), can innovate management and support organizational development. Giovanni is a champion of arts in business for strategic innovation and organisational development and is commissioned to write and speak internationally on the subject.

Giovanni holds a Ph.D. in business management from the University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy) and has authored or co-authored more than 200 publications, including books, articles, research reports and white papers on a range of research topics particularly embracing Strategic Knowledge Asset and Intellectual Capital Management, Strategic Performance Measurement and Management, Innovation Systems, Innovation Management and Organisational Development. Since 2010 he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Giovanni holds a number of visiting professorships and research fellowships appointments with renowned international Universities and regularly he gives as Visiting Lecture seminars, workshops and master classes around the world. He sits in the scientific advisory board of scientific associations and learning societies, and provides scientific support as advisor and assessor to scientific government bodies, higher education institutions, private and public corporations on research and educational projects/programs, particularly, in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Arts-Based Management to Thrive in a Complex Business Landscape

Giovanni Schiuma

Professor of Innovation Management, University of Basilicata, IT

Docent at Tampere University of Technology, Finland

Do the Arts represent a valuable actionable knowledge domain for managers? Have they any role to play in the development of twenty-first-century organizations and in the achievement of business excellence? Many organizations have already discovered the benefits of using the arts in order to solve business issues: Unilever has largely used an extensive arts program to spur people’s change and to develop organizational culture; Nestlé has used the arts to enhance the marketing team’s creativity and to develop communication skills and collaboration in terms of ideas and expertise sharing; Atradius has captured brand value by developing a partnership with Welsh National Opera; Price Waterhouse Coopers has used arts-based training to unlock employees’ creativity energy, inspiring and challenging people to think and act differently. Professor Giovanni Schiuma claims that new knowledge value drivers are affecting the organizational value creation capacity in the XXI century business landscape. They build the intellectual capital dimensions of the XXI century and they can be labeled as the 6Es: experience, emotions, energy, ethics, environment, and engagement. Organizations are challenged to develop and renew their knowledge management toolbox in order to manage such new intangible based value drivers. For this reason, arts-based management represents a new management framework to support cross-innovation and spur organizational value creation dynamics.

Short Biography:

Giovanni Schiuma is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts in the strategic knowledge management for company value creation dynamics, and arts-based management for organizational development and innovation. He is the Director of the CLabUnibas (Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Development) of the University of Basilicata and Professor in Innovation Management. He has authored over 100 scholarly publications, including “The Value of Arts for Business”, published by Cambridge University Press. He chairs the International Forum of Knowledge Assets Dynamics, an international network for those interested in the role of knowledge and innovation for organizations value creation. He is Chief Editor of two international journals: Knowledge Management Research and Practice, published by Taylor & Francis, and Measuring Business Excellence, published by Emerald. Currently, he holds the position of Visiting Professor at the University of the Arts London, where he directed the Innovation Insights Hub, and held the first international professorship chair in Arts-Based Management. He is also Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Management of the St. Petersburg University, Adjunct Professor at the Tampere University of Technology and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Previously he served as Vice Mayor for Strategy Planning and Innovation of Matera city from July 2015 to September 2016 and has held appointments at Cranfield School of Management, University of Cambridge, Kozminski International Business School of the University of Kozminski, and Liverpool Business School.

Personal Website:  http://www.gschiuma.com/

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