Women in Leadership in the 21st century

How Reaching Out makes a difference

The facts on female leaders

Leadership

• Management is a maskulin diciplin developed by the Army to defend or attack

• Present operating models are more than 20 years old

• Most of us play with kids like ourselves

Numbers

• Women students in management schools have increased faster than uptake in business

• Good numbers always have quotas and programs behind them

• European women are less attracted by science

Facts on technology trends

The technology waves are reshaping the business landscape

1.Data as a Platform 2.Analytics driving the evolution from BI

4.From Server-centric toService-centric

3.Cloud Computing Higher up the Stack

5. IT Security Rapidly, Progressively, Proportionly

6. Data Privacy a Risk-based Approach

7. Social Platforms New Source of Business Intelligence

8. User Experience is What Matters

European snap shot

European competiveness challenged by the digital imperative between Asia and Europe

Pace struggle in demand and supply of young educated in science

Mores law has moved into economics

2 scenarios 2020

We are Europeans• Slow increase in women in

science due to programs without targets

• Slower increase in female leaders

• Decrease of women in power positions due to harder financial climate

• Weakened democracy due to lack of equal representation

Reaching out• Targeted growth rate of

women in leadership, boardrooms and entrepreneurs

– due to action plan with dedicated financial funding

• European model reaching outside of Europe enhancing sustainable and redesigned growth models

The vision for leadership

Reaching Out Scenario

• Diversed leaderteams• Sustainable technology

development driven by diversed team

• Sustainable innovation driven by diversed education and funding

1: Role Models on stage

• Proffesor II postions for female technology leaders

• Cluster and enhance good youth programs – Tekno-camps to introduce

partnership with business• Media funding should comit

exposure of women• New media must have program

for women

2: Follow the money

• The american model for government funding

• Women in government boards

• Women in boards in public held companies

• Consider tax-incentives

3: Technology to women

Technology in sectors dominated by women

• Government solutions enhancing collaboration

• Service Development ToolBoxes enabling the solution to become an innovation platform

• Collaboration platform implies bettr worklife balance and green-solutions

4: Global Network

Non-Profit Foundation• Platform for innovation for

women entrpreneurs• Toolbox for established

networks giving them a cause• A cause mobilizing girls to

science by practical examples,but options to onboard

• An idea enhancing and growing female leaders around the world

My dream for 2020

We are Europeans• Slow increase in women in

science due to programs without targets

• Slower increase in female leaders

• Decrease of women in power positions due to harder financial climate

• Weakened democracy due to lack of equal representation

Reaching out• Targeted growth rate of

women in leadership, boardrooms and entrepreneurs

– due to action plan with dedicated financial funding

• European model reaching outside of Europe enhancing sustainable and redesigned growth models