NTU-CEE Distinguished Seminar Series: Professor Foo Check Teck

Organized By

CEE Seminar Committee

Host By

Associate Professor Tiong Lee Kong, Robert

Topic

About the Seminar

AI is transforming management. The impossibly, fast pace at which AI is itself transforming demands researchers to ask: Will AI truly transforms how we are going to manage?

That suggests itself for a possible, a special issue in Chinese Management Studies (SSCI Journal). The journal founded by the speaker (then in NTU) as Editor (2007) with Emerald as publisher. Within four years it was indexed by SSCI 2011. The journal equaled Harvard Business Review in ranking (SCOPUS 2013), an event celebrated at Conference. China is now one of the leaders in shaping AI for industrial applications. He will draw as editor of Springer's Research Book Series, including 2024 Chinese Management Handbook, the participants’ attention to Chinese management. Thus in this ever rapidly changing world: How will AI transform corporate leaders in making strategic decisions?

For instance, corporate identity strategy: Having won a top award for his research on corporate identity strategy, the speaker then embarked on creating the world’s first artificial judge of aesthetics. That is, citing from paper "...one capable of assessing designs in a human-like fashion..." (International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Vol. 1, 2009)

Here at this NTU CEE Seminar the Speaker will touch on relevance of Sun Tzu Art of War in determining strategy. In particular oh how corporations may integrate the AI methodology (machine learning) as part of making strategic decisions, say logos. One should recognize that true competition begins at the level of the human unconscious. Besides this the speaker will discuss his other AI-related research of "Artificial and Neural Firms" (US Journal of High Technology Management) and AI for legal decisionmaking.

About the Speaker

Professor Dr. FOO Check Teck holds a PhD in Strategy from St Andrews, an MBA in Finance from City University, London, and an LLB Hons from London. He is a Fellow of CIMA, a Chartered Accountant in Singapore, a Barrister (Lincoln’s Inn), and an Advocate and Solicitor in Singapore.

Having lived in London, New York, and Tokyo, he has presented globally. He is the Founding Editor of Chinese Management Studies and has served on editorial boards of several journals. He was an Associate Professor at NTU and held the China Talent Professorship at Harbin Institute of Technology. He has held visiting professorships at over 20 Chinese universities, including USTC and Fudan University. Internationally, he held professorships at University of St Andrews, INSEAD, City University of New York, New York Institute of Technology, and University of Malaya. He was Chief Expert for Productivity Research at the Asian Productivity Organization in Japan and an Adjunct Professor in Korea. Harvard University invited him to chair a panel on China Goes Global.

Recently, he was invited to speak at a national forum in China. Recognized as a polymath and named Renaissance Man by Singapore’s Straits Times, he is considered Asia’s foremost expert on Sun Tzu. He created a popular elective at NTU and published in top journals. He served as Executive Director of MIT-NTU Collaboration and Deputy Director at NTU. His doctoral thesis was chosen as Book of the Month by Blackwell, and his book Mind of Sun Tzu won the NBDCS book prize and was translated into Russian. He founded the Sun Tzu Institute, organizing successful global conferences. Before COVID, he organized the 1st MBA Conference on Sun Tzu for Inner Mongolia University of Finance and Economics.

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