Institute for Knowledge and Innovation Southeast Asia (IKI-SEA)
The Institute for Knowledge and Innovation Southeast Asia (IKI-SEA), is a Bangkok University Center of Excellence operating as a not for profit organization. The IKI-SEA combines leading-edge academic research capability with in-depth business experience to provide practical and effective business solutions to the private and public sectors, both here in Thailand as well as throughout Southeast Asia.
We provide consultancy, trainings, seminars, workshops, facilitation, coaching, and advisory services to help organizations in implementing and leveraging their Knowledge Management, Innovation Management, Organizational Creativity, and Organizational Learning strategies and projects. We have in-house subject experts in a number of business domains, as well as access to an internationally-based network of affiliated experts in both Knowledge Management, Organizational Creativity and Innovation Management fields.
IKI History
The Institute for Knowledge and Innovation (IKI) was founded at the George Washington University in 2001 by Dr. Michael Stankosky (Professor at the Engineering Management and Systems Engineering (EMSE) Department) and Dr. William Halal (Business School).
At the time, the George Washington University was the first university in the United States to offer a Master's degree and Doctorate of Science in the new emerging field of Knowledge Management. Feel free to visit the I2KI Web site to learn more about our parent institute.
In 2007, Dr. Vincent Ribiere (Director for Asian Activities at IKI) moved to Thailand and with the support of Dr. Lugkana Worasinchai and of Dr. Aurilla Aurelie Bechina Arntzen founded the South-East Asian Branch of IKI (IKI-SEA). In 2009, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between the IKI of the George Washington University and the South-East Asian branch of IKI (IKI-SEA) hosted by Bangkok University in Bangkok, Thailand.
For more information about the IKI-SEA, please visit: http://www.iki-sea.org
MBI - Master In Business Innovation, Bangkok University
VISION of the MBI program:
To ensure student employability and the progression of innovation management capabilities by aligning the content of education with the business needs through the development of new integrative pedagogical approaches.
MISSION of the MBI program:
To prepare the 21st century manager by providing students the knowledge and skills necessary to adapt to the complex and fast evolving corporate environment of today and tomorrow.
VALUES of the MBI program:
Developing our MBI students to further develop their creative thinking, curiosity, open mindedness, critical thinking, interdisciplinarity and experiential learning capabilities.
Program Highlights of the Master in Business Innovation (MBI)
This MBI program is The 1st in Thailand, it is New Creative Program in Asia.
This curriculum is an international and multidisciplinary program. The MBI can be completed in 18 months and classes are taught on Saturdays.
Not only being a master dedicated to Innovation, the MBI is taught innovatively:
- Blended learning with 2/3 time spent in class and 1/3 scheduled online.
- Innovative teaching techniques (SPOCs, MOOCs, Action Learning, Problem and Team based learning, flipped classroom)
- Project-based learning (PBL) in collaboration with local organizations
The objective for any business is to sustain and grow their activities. The world is changing at a fast pace. It is not only about meeting the increasing demand to adapt to change, but to propose new ways of approaching combinations of transformations. Successful companies are not the ones following a change process, but those that generate and lead change through innovation.
The Master in Business Innovation (MBI) focuses upon management within the frameworks of short-term and long-term objectives.
For many companies, a critical issue is how to compromise between efficiency and innovation in combining their short and long term aims. For today's business leader, it requires the mobilization of existing resources to current activities, whilst seeking new resources to develop innovative businesses and services. Hence, our Master in Business Innovation program's overall objective is to provide learners with theories, methods, and tools to shape them as innovative managers in organizations operating under uncertainty in complex and rapidly changing market and technological environments.
