Achieve Competitive Advantage in your Business

Time: 25 September 2009
Venue: Bewleys Hotel, Newlands Cross, Dublin

Every business, irrespective of its size, can be divided into four key components.

• Products: What you make, or the service you provide
• Processes: How you make those products or provide those services
• Competencies: The skills you need to provide these products and services
• Culture: The values, attitudes, and behaviours that determine your actions

Why are they (any successful team or organisation) successful?: They are successful for the following reasons...

• They provide products and services that meet a genuine need, now and in the future
• They focus on identifying, understanding and improving the core processes required to carry out the tasks
• They focus on ensuring everyone has the right competencies to complete those tasks
• They focus on establishing the right culture and behaviours that promote continuous improvement

Content:

• Do you have a vision for your business? Has it been communicated?
• Are the products you make today going to add value in the future?
• Are there better ways to do the things you are doing?
• Are you utilising the skills of employees?
• Are you nurturing the right culture to drive improvement, now and in the future?

Outcomes: They will provide  you with the tools to assess the following...

• Understand what makes a business successful
• Understand the importance of Vision, Mission, Objectives, Governance for your business
• Understand the importance of the right product / Service (In the eyes of the Customer)
• Understand the Concept of Process Understanding & Improvment (Value Stream Mapping)
• Understand the importance on Measurement
• Develop a Continuous Improvement Strategy
• Understand how enhance Competence & Culture to promote Creativity & Innovation
• Develop a roadmap for future success

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