Keynote Speakers
Professor Robert Chenhall
Professor Kenneth Merchant
Professor Andy Neely
Jim Harland
Professor Robert Chenhall - Monash University
Professor Robert Chenhall
Robert Chenhall is Professor of Accounting & Finance at Monash University. Professor Chenhall’s research has focused mainly on theory-based, empirical studies in management accounting employing organizational and behavioural frameworks. His research has included examining conditions in which different types of performance management systems are effective and how those systems are implicated in strategic and organizational change. He is co-author of Reinventing Competitiveness: Best Practice in Australia, publishes regularly in international academic journals, and is on the editorial board of many leading international accounting journals. He has experience in assisting with implementing accounting innovations in a variety of Australian organizations in both private and public sectors.
His current research activities involve investigating how strategic management accounting systems may be designed to assist Australian commercial organisations to develop internationally competitive strategies.
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Professor Kenneth Merchant - University of Southern California
Professor Kenneth Merchant
Ken Merchant holds the Deloitte & Touche LLP Chair of Accountancy at the University of Southern California. He is currently teaching in USC's MBA and undergraduate accounting programs. Previously he served as Senior Associate Dean-Corporate Programs in USC’s Marshall School of Business (2003-04) and as Dean of USC’s Leventhal School of Accounting (1994-2001). Professor Merchant is also a research professor (part-time) at the University of Maastricht (the Netherlands). Before joining USC in 1990, he taught at Harvard University (1978-1990) and the University of California (Berkeley) (1976-77).
Professor Merchant’s current research projects are focused on various issues related to the design and effects of performance measurement/evaluation/incentive systems and corporate control/governance systems. He has published eight books, including Accounting: Text and Cases (2007), Management Control Systems: Performance Measurement, Evaluation and Incentives (2007), Rewarding Results: Motivating Profit Center Managers (1989), and Fraudulent and Questionable Financial Reporting: A Corporate Perspective (1987), as well as numerous journal articles and teaching cases.
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Professor Andy Neely - Cambridge University and Cranfield School of Management
Professor Andy Neely
Professor Andy Neely is widely recognised as one of the world’s leading authorities on organisational performance measurement and management. He holds joint posts at Cranfield School of Management and the Advanced Institute of Management Research, the UK's management research initiative. At Cranfield he is Director of Research and Chairman of the Centre for Business Performance. He was elected a Fellow of the Sunningdale Institute in 2005, a Fellow of the British Academy of Management in 2007 and an Acadamician of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2008.
Andy has authored over 100 books and articles, including “Measuring Business Performance”, published by the Economist and “The Performance Prism”, published by the Financial Times. He has won numerous awards for his research and chairs the Performance Measurement Association, an international network for those Currently he is researching issues of performance and innovation in services.
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Jim Harland - Dunedin City CEO
Jim Harland
Jim is the Chief Executive of Dunedin City Council, having been appointed to this position in March 2000. Prior to this Jim has held senior roles in the public and private sector working for Murray North Ltd, Ford Motor Company, North Shore City Council, Auckland Regional Council and the Ministry of Works. He also established a tourism planning course at Auckland University where he was a part time senior lecturer. Jim holds a Bachelors degree in Geography, Diploma in Town Planning, a Masters of Town Planning with Honours, is a member of the New Zealand Planning Institute and a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Management.
Jim has extensive experience in change management, leadership, and tourism strategic planning and feasibility studies. In the past Jim has received a distinguished service award from the New Zealand Planning Institute and his teams have won awards from that organisation as well as the SOLGM NZ Post Management Excellence Award for process improvement and people development. In 2007 Dunedin City Council received the SOLGM NZ Post Management Excellence Supreme Award for its Activity Management Plan project under Jim's leadership.
Jim provides the Dunedin City Council with the vision and executive leadership to continuously evolve its performance measurement systems so that every member of staff can clearly understand their own unique contribution to the organisations strategic goals thus building a continuous improvement and citizen/customer oriented culture.
He is Deputy Chairman of the NZ Masters Games Company, was Chair of the Carisbrook Working Party and is a member of the Project Control Group responsible for planning the revitalisation of Dunedin's waterfront. On behalf of the Local Government sector he is the sponsor of the Quality of Life and Recruitment and Retention projects.
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