Events

Citation

(2005), "Events", Measuring Business Excellence, Vol. 9 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/mbe.2005.26709aab.005

Events

Events

Maximising the Benefits of Intangible Assets

Provider: Cranfield School of ManagementDates and locations: 17 March 2005, Cranfield, UK

With the rapid pace of change in today’s business environment, intangible assets – such as knowledge, skills, relationships, processes, brands, or culture – are, more than ever, a vital strategic resource. For those companies investigating how to harness their knowledge and other intangible assets, it is essential to understand that as major drivers of corporate value and growth, they need to be measured, managed and included in the overall business strategy. However, corporate financial statements, traditionally seen as the prime source for business information, include only very limited information about the intangible assets and their potential for future value creation. In order to understand corporate performance, managers, investors, and other stakeholders need to identify the crucial value drivers and how they are used to create sustainable performance.

Contact: www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/cbp/courses/conferences.asp

International Politics of Performance Conference

Provider: Cranfield School of ManagementDates and locations: 6-7 April 2005, Cranfield, UK

Performance measurement and management remains at the top of the agenda in the public sector. The UK Government continues to drive change, modernisation and improvements through a technocratic use of measures and league tables. Our focus is also on the efficiencies emerging from the EU, with new members’ ascension in May 2004 adding to the size, shape and structure of the Union.

Taxpayers have been taught to demand value from public services. Not surprisingly the rhetoric of political parties is dominated by whom can best manage the public sector. While the UK continues to be one of the leaders in developing performance measurement systems, no one would argue that we have got it completely right. We ask if there are lessons to be learnt from further afield.

Hence this year’s conference takes a more international perspective, with a view to widening our horizons and learning from others involved in this field outside the UK.

Contact: www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/cbp/courses/conferences.asp

Performance Management

Provider: CIMADates and locations: 22 April and 11 November, London, UK; 29 June, York, UK

What can be gained from the course:

Awareness of an effective means of managing performance through a balanced portfolio of performance measures and reporting mechanisms, including the ability to:

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  avoid measures which stimulate counter-productive attitudes and behaviours;

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  exploit the motivational aspects of target-setting;

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  ensure that rewards and incentives support business strategies, rather than work against them; and

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  guarantee that costs and revenues are managed in such a way as to promote overall aims and objectives.

Contact: www.cimaglobal.com/estore

Executing Strategy using the Balanced Scorecard

Provider: The Balanced Scorecard CollaborativeDates and Locations: 26-27 April, Washington, DC, USA; 16-17 June, Atlanta, GA, USA; 10-11 August, San Francisco, CA, USA; 27-28 September, London, UK

Learn from the creators! You’ve heard about the Balanced Scorecard, you’ve read the articles about it, and you’ve heard about success stories at other companies. So how do you get started? This is the seminar for which you have been waiting! This is the only Balanced Scorecard “How-To” training seminar developed and endorsed by Drs Robert Kaplan and David Norton, the creators of the Balanced Scorecard.

Contacts: www.bscol.com/education/conferences/calendar

The Balanced Scorecard European Summit 2005: Executing Strategy: The Discipline of Strategic Management

Provider: The Balanced Scorecard CollaborativeDates and Locations: 7-9 June, Madrid, Spain

Contacts: www.bscolevents.com/

Performance Measurement for Strategic Advantage

Provider: Cranfield School of ManagementDates and locations: 9 June 2005, Cranfield, UK

A one-day conference at which leading companies present their latest practice and thinking in using performance measurement information to manage their business. This event is accompanied by a one-day workshop which allows participants greater access to the tools and techniques.

Contact: www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/cbp/courses/conferences.asp

Performance Measurement and Benchmarking

Provider CIMADates and locations: 11 June, Nottingham UK; 17 November, London, UK

What can be gained from the course:

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  A good understanding of the principles on which effective performance measurement and benchmarking are based.

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  Insights into how performance measurement systems influence behaviours – for the better and for the worse.

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  Useful techniques for choosing the right set of measures for your organisation.

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  Lots of practical examples of how organisations have gone about performance measurement and benchmarking – both well and badly.

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  Hands-on practice of the techniques through exercises in which you try out what you have learned in the context of your own workplace.

Contact: www.cimaglobal.com/estore

Performance Measurement: Beyond the Balanced Scorecard

Provider: Cranfield School of ManagementDates and locations: 27-29 June; 26-28 October, Cranfield, UK

This is the programme for those planning to redesign or upgrade their performance measurement system. From design of scorecards to implementation and use of the measures, the programme uses practical tools and techniques which participants can take away and use to manage their own businesses. A key theme underpinning the programme, is that the power of measurement lies in the fact that it allows managers to do much more than simply track progress. By the end of the programme delegates have developed and reviewed personal action plans to improve the measurement systems used in their own organisations.

Contact: www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/cbp/courses/courses_Beyond_BSC.asp

Predictive Planning and Budgeting

Provider: Cranfield School of Management supported by CIMADates and locations: 7-8 July, Cranfield, UK

This is a popular conference will examine the problems of traditional planning and budgeting, review best practice in cost efficient and more effective financial planning and consider the ways in which better processes can contribute to improving shareholder value. The traditional budgeting model was developed in the early part of the twentieth century to assist financial managers to control costs in large organisations. Economic growth across all sectors has led to large organisations having to deal with more and more complex practices. Therefore, the model was designed to allow for the business to be sectioned and managed separately. It was then down to the individual staff to manage these sections with financial discipline. Accounting practices are evolving all the time and need to in order to stay competitive. The CBP is uniquely positioned to bring together examples of best practice and to facilitate objective and open discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to planning and budgeting. This conference has been developed to highlight some of the up-to-the-minute thinking on planning and budgeting methodology. The speaker panel has been selected to provide a broad range of perspectives from across all the sectors to share experience of the latest topics in planning and budgeting arena, including Unilever, Statoil, The National Blood Service, Nuaire Group, Fifth Third Bank and Cranfield faculty.

Contact www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/cbp/courses/conferences.asp