Date and Time: December 20, 2023, 09:00
Venue: Room 220, Building of School of Business, Lin-gang Campus
Topic: Innovation China
Organizer: School of Business
About the Speaker: Professor Mike Danilovic, an expert in industrial management and innovation management from Sweden, specializes in complex systems management. He is renowned for his creation of the Domain Mapping Matrix (DMM), also known as the Danilovic Matrix, a highly acclaimed tool for analyzing multidimensional, interdependent complex systems across various domains. It is widely used in the management of complex and dynamic systems, complex product development, complex project management, cross-domain element or activity traceability, and aims to enhance the accuracy of decision-making in complex systems management.
From 2010 to 2014, Professor Mike served as the head of the Center for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Learning (CIEL) at Halmstad University, Sweden, and since 2014, he has been leading the business model innovation research at the same university. He formerly served as an academic accreditation committee member for EU sixth framework programme for research (FP6).
Professor Mike has been a renowned overseas professor of SDJU since 2012. He teaches courses like Innovation Management and Innovation Capability for undergraduate students in School of Business and foreign students. His classes closely align with international frontier of his research fields, providing students with an international perspective. Professor Mike’s teaching style is described as “serious yet humorous”, and he has received high praise for the effectiveness of his instruction. In addition, he is dedicated to the joint SDJU-Halmstad graduate program. For four consecutive years after 2013, he tailored and implemented a three-month overseas practical learning program “Wind Power and Innovation” for 30 SDJU graduate students majoring in electrical automation. The program received a satisfaction rate of 93% in feedback surveys among participants, and nearly 70% believed the learning experience significantly contributive to their employment prospects. In 2014, Shanghai Municipal Education Commission awarded the program the title of “Overseas Practice Base of Shanghai Graduate Education”.
Over the years, Professor Mike has published over 70 academic papers in the fields of complex systems management, business model innovation, product development, project management, and organizational management, including multiple high-quality international journal papers indexed in SSCI and EI
He has extensive industrial experience related to project management, product development, and business model innovation. He has engaged in large-scale industry-academic research projects with companies such as Saab in Sweden, Scania, Whirlpool, and Audi as well as major business model innovation projects with ISS in Sweden and Goldwind in China.
