Full Day Workshops
Two ALL NEW Interactive Pre and Post Summit Workshops:
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9
Stress Test Strategy through a War Game: A Group Exercise to Convert External Intelligence into Corporate Strategy
Michael Sandman, Senior Vice President, Fuld & Company
Summit delegates have the unique opportunity to participate in this new, very hot Pre-Summit structured strategic exercise designed to immerse participants into a real-business competitive intelligence scenario. War games are about anticipating competitive moves before your rivals make them. They allow you to understand unexplored, or unforeseen strategic options. Most important, a war game will show you the implications of your decisions months or years ahead.
A war game is not about outright victory or defeat. A war game is a live simulation reflecting the real business world, forcing competitors, customers and possible new entrants, to stress test their strategies. It is about forcing you out of your comfort zone and helping you gain a fresh, realistic view of the competitive landscape. It allows you to test the true tensile strength of your firm’s strategy and peer inside that of your rival’s.
Working through a set of rules and frameworks during this full-day workshop, Michael Sandman will demonstrate a war game process to help you bullet proof your strategy by helping you fully understand your strategic options–even in a rapidly changing market with active and fast-moving rivals.
Learn How To:
- Make the accurate predictions of third parties’ moves
- Understand the steps and process needed for effective gaming strategy
- Precisely understand the role of intelligence in a war game
- Gain insight and review the analysis and predictions from two other war games on this specific Smart Grid/Energy Topic
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12
Beyond the Balanced Scorecard: Improving Business Intelligence with Analytics
Mark Graham Brown, Author, Beyond the Balanced Scorecard: Improving Business Intelligence with Analytics
The vast majority of organizations have adopted some form of the balanced scorecard in the last 15 years. Yet, recent research by APQC reveals that most scorecards are based upon singular and unsophisticated measures of complex dimensions of performance, providing flawed data on what is really going on. In this full-day workshop, you will learn about 4th generation balanced scorecards that are based around analytics. Analytics or performance indices are metrics that include a number of leading and lagging sub-metrics. These new types of measures provide leaders with accurate ways of measuring complex aspects of performance such as corporate culture, customer relationships, communication, and intellectual capital. The workshop includes examples from a wide variety of real organizations, including corporations, hospitals, schools, military, and government.
Mark Graham Brown is one of the world’s leading experts on performance measurement. Mark’s clients include many major corporations, such as Pepsi, Sysco, Nestle, Bose, Medtronic, Wells Fargo, and Bechtel. Government and non-profit clients include City of Los Angeles, Department of Energy, Navy, Coast Guard, and State of Florida. Mark’s style is humorous, practical, and the training involves evaluating case studies based around real organizations. Mark is the author of three books on balanced scorecards, including his most recent title: Beyond the Balanced Scorecard – Improving Business Intelligence with Analytics (Productivity Press, 2007)
Learn How To:
- Identify the flaws and opportunities to improve your existing scorecard
- Create analytic metrics that provide more information on complex dimensions of performance
- Design and implement metrics based on the best practices of leading organizations
- Measure customer satisfaction and employee morale without doing surveys
- Develop metrics for communication, ethics, external factors, and other important dimensions not currently being measured on most scorecards
For more information, please call 800.554.2111 or email ConferencesNA@thepalladiumgroup.com.