Benchmarking Partnerships
Benchmarking Partnerships

 

VASTLY IMPROVED & SUSTAINED KPI RESULTS
9 PILLARS – PRACTICAL HOW TO’S

Dates:

Thursday 11 March, Sydney – 9am to 4.45pm Venue - TBC

Learn and practice current global best practices from the international experience of Bruce Searles & Anton Benc  with 25 years Benchmarking experience, Directors, Benchmarking Partnerships, Australia; Asian Productivity Organisation Benchmarking Resources Persons  & Director of the Global Benchmarking Network.

Overview of the Program:

Learn from our recent Global Benchmarking regarding:

  • How did organisations quickly gain vastly improved and sustainable results as shown adjacent  – over 25 case studies
  • What are the improvement tools over 200 organisations across the globe will be using in future? How to best use these tools to ensure effective results?
  • Myths and misconceptions about Benchmarking - Key best practices in how to do Benchmarking

Practise Key Elements of the Nine Pillars

  1. Right KPIs
  2. Process Innovation
  3. Leadership of Business Excellence
  4. Customer Centricity
  5. Strategy to Action & Results
  6. Management Framework &  Assessment
  7. Doing Benchmarking Well
  8. Lean Strategy
  9. People Engagement for Business Change & Improvement

Take Away key tools & templates

Up to 50% productivity improvements

Vastly improved customer focus

Buy-in & Alignment throughout

Global Best Practice Leadership

Take Away Tools & Templates – what works and what doesn’t

Outcomes from the Workshop for You?:

9 Pillars

The course utilises:

  1. interactive materials
  2. videos of real projects
  3. tools and templates for you to take away
  4. tips from case study experience
  5. access to real case study reports
  6. full workshop manual for you to take away

Agenda adapted to suit specific needs of participants

Share the lessons learned, and experience through benchmarking knowledge exchange

Competency feedback evaluation assessment & Your Action Plan

     
    PROGRAM
    9.45am Registration, coffee on arrival.
       
    9.00am

    Introductions, Program & facilitate learning needs – Bruce Searles &/or Anton Benc (25 years Benchmarking experience, Directors, Benchmarking Partnerships, Australia; Asian Productivity Organisation Benchmarking Resources People & Director, Global Benchmarking Network).
       
    9.30am

    HOW DO ORGANISATIONS ACHIEVE VASTLY IMPROVED AND SUSTAINABLE RESULTS - BEST PRACTICES FROM OUR GLOBAL BENCHMARKING – Bruce Searles & /or Anton Benc, Managing Partners, Benchmarking Partnerships.

    This interactive presentation and discussion will cover:

    • How the 25+ case study organisations achieved vastly improved & sustainable results quickly
    • Overview of the 9 Pillars – what works well / what doesn’t

    Anton &/or Bruce will describe a variety of Global Best Practices to save you searching for them yourself. The 9 Pillars for Building Business Capability towards Rapidly Improved and Sustainable Business Results is the umbrella framework for identifying and comparing with these best practices.  See the summary of the 9 Pillars over the page.
       
    10.30am

    Morning tea & Networking.
       
    11.00am

    KEY FEATURES OF PRACTICAL BEST PRACTICE BENCHMARKING IN DETAIL.

    Bruce &/or Anton will discuss how to identify and prioritise your strategic focus for improvement through benchmarking and how to develop and measure the vital few KPIs that are important for you.  You will then practice an example of how to identify your most important topic and scope of improvement and how to undertake benchmarking to accelerate improvement of your performance by identifying innovative benchmarking partners.

    Covers the following Pillars– delegates to choose from:

    1 – Having the Right KPIs – the vital few KPIs to give focus
    7 – How to do Benchmarking Well – and how NOT to do it
    5 – Strategy to Action and Results – aligned strategic plans throughout your organisation

       
    12.30pm Lunch and networking
       
    1.30pm

    PRACTISING & DISCUSSING SOME KEY ELEMENTS OF THE 9 PILLARS.

    Participants will use tools and templates supplied to practice or discuss some key elements of the 9 Pillars to demonstrate their practical use and application – for example delegates to choose from:

    4 – Customer Centricity – see practical approaches by other organisations
    8 – Lean Strategy – interactive real life videos and tools
    2 – Process Innovation – how to develop a business case in only 4 days
    3 – Leadership for Results – understand and discuss the 3 key roles of leaders
    6 – Assessment – how to develop leaders and organizational capability
    9 – People Engagement – gaining buy-in and commitment

    Afternoon Coffee included.
       
    4.15pm

    WORKSHOPPING HANDY HINTS TOWARDS YOUR ACTION PLAN – facilitated by Bruce Searles & Anton Benc.

    Small group discussions:

    • What key points/ messages came from the presentations / exercises for you?
    • What ideas are coming from the other workshop participants?
    • What will you do when you go back to work?
    • What further questions do you have?
       
    4.45pm Close
       
       

    ABOUT BENCHMARKING PARTNERSHIPS

    Benchmarking Partnerships mission is to connect best practices with people, their knowledge and ideas. We are owners and sole deliverers of former Australian Quality Council (AQC) Benchmarking and Business Excellence Study Tours (B.E.S.T.) & appointed by Asian Productivity Organisation (APO) as Benchmarking subject specialists to assist 20 Asian countries in productivity improvements. Benchmarking Partnerships has carried out joint projects with National Productivity Corporation, Malaysia; Development Academy of the Philippines;  New Zealand Business Excellence Foundation (NZBEF), BPIR.com Ltd (New Zealand), Singapore Productivity Association (SPA), Thailand Productivity Institute (FTPI), Training and Productivity Authority of Fiji (TPAF) and the APQC (American Productivity and Quality Centre).  Benchmarking Partnerships is a Board member of the Global Benchmarking Network (GBN) community, and recently successfully co-facilitated the first GBN Roadshow in conjunction with the National Quality Institute in Toronto, Canada. Benchmarking Partnerships have facilitated over 100 benchmarking studies across your network of 5,000 people over the past decade and the results of this work have let to the development of the 9 Pillars for building your business capability towards rapidly improved and sustainable business results.

       
     

    Build Business Capability – 9 Pillars for Rapidly Improved & Sustainable Business Result

    Registration Form

    Topic: 9 Pillars – Practical How To’s Benchmarking Workshop
    Training Workshop Date: Thursday 11th March, 2010. SYDNEY

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    Phone: 0418 267 794

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