Supporting the below United Nations Sustainable Development Goals:支持以下聯合國可持續發展目標：支持以下联合国可持续发展目标：
The siloed, highly specialized approach to strategic management is ill-fitted to support firms that operate in an era of global supply chains, rising commodity prices and demands for enhanced sustainability. Resource Kaizen represents the new paradigm where systems thinking, circularity and closed loop practices and behavioural modifications and nudges give rise to new strategies for enhancing productivity and profitability. In this session, Prof. Scott Valentine, Associate Dean of Sustainability and Urban Planning will provide participants with insights into three tools for enhancing productivity: systems redesign, closed loop planning and nudges. Scott coordinates a team of senior professors at RMIT who span numerous disciplines (Chemistry, Materials Engineering, Industrial Design, Construction, Planning, and Process Management). The team works directly with industry to provide advice and guidance on how to elevate productivity and profitability through applied practice. As part of his presentation, Scott will talk about how universities can pay a central role in all this.
Dr Scott Valentine is a Professor and Associate Dean of Sustainability and Urban Planning at RMIT in Melbourne. As an academic he is author of Wind Power Politics and Policies (Oxford University Press), Life in the Balance (Infinity) and co-author of the National Politics of Nuclear Power (Routledge) and Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy (Johns Hopkins University Press) and Empowering the Great Energy Transition (Columbia University Press). He has also published more than 30 book chapters and journal articles and is on the editorial boards of the journals, Energy Research and Social Science, AIMS Energy, Sustainability Science and CSR and Environmental Management. Scott has over 20 years of diverse international business experience specializing in business development and organizational development. Past positions include Executive Vice-President of Vektor Multimedia in charge of Japanese operations (subsequently Sony-Vektor), Managing Director of Asia Pacific Development International, Dean of the British Education College in Tokyo (affiliated with the UK Northern Consortium), and Director of the British Council Training Centre in Taiwan. As a trainer he worked with the Japan International Cooperation Centre and the LKY School Executive Education program to provide leadership training to civil service officers around the world. He has provided training in leadership, public policy and urban planning to public officials at Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs, Brunei’s Ministry of Defense and the Central Bank, Saudi Arabia’s Central Bank and the G20 Secretariat, Indonesia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Thailand’s Ministry of Communications, the Hungarian Central Bank, Dubai’s Public Service, India’s Ministry of Finance and Kazakhstan’s International Finance Center in Astana. He has also trained a number of public officials and diplomats who have come to NUS’s open courses. Academic achievements include: PhD Public Policy (NUS), Doctorate in Business Administration (CalSouthern), MBA (Adelaide), MScEnvMgmt (NUS), MA Advanced Japanese (Sheffield), and MEduTech (UBC).