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The First One Day Seminar for Senior Executives and Managers To be held under the Chatham House Rule Finding The Next 5% - What would an extra 5% mean to your business? Time: 09:30 - 16:00hrs Date: 19th November The Boardroom, Castle Hill House, Windsor SIGN UP NOW Great Companies embrace continual improvement to survive, compete and thrive. Great managers have a strong grasp of their business levers and demonstrate consistent delivery of best-in-class KPIs. Those that relentlessly drive new levels of performance find strong allies among stake­holders. This seminar is your opportunity to discuss meth­ods and processes as used by some of the most successful conglomerates under the watchful eye of Gordon Lovell-Read. Learn his tips and tools which helped him to successfully grow start up businesses successfully to exit. Gordon has also used the same tips and tools to successfully manage 435,000 employees across 161 countries deploying mission critical projects that could bring a country to a stand still if exe­cuted incorrectly and yet still manage to reduce budgets by over a billion without upsetting the workforce! The seminar will cover and discuss: · How to identify the waste which is masquer­ading as value · Where to find new levels of productivity which is often overlooked · Mission critical thinking and operation execu­tion · Complex processes : How increasing complex­ity can reduce costs · Tried and tested methods tips and tools for finding 5% more business · Explore how your organisation processes can be improved · Consultancy process stripping methods strat­egy - do they really work? · Reflect on issues which are costing your or­ganisation This seminar to be held under Chatham House Rule SIGN UP NOW About Gordon: Gordon Lovell-Read - CEO of Orgmentor & former Group CIO of Siemens. During Gordon’s thirty-five years in business, he has led or been part of, many global business transformation programmes to intercept, or out­pace, significant market shifts. Most of these journeys have been in mission critical and/or regulated high volume business environments in­volving large, multi-year high-risk programmes and projects. In parallel, Gordon is also working with Boston University, the Institution of Global Work and a selection of global IT leaders to define the next generation models for global distributed business operations. About Your Day Finding The Next 5% will give you the knowledge of new ways of increasing pro­ductivity as well as actual tools and tips all backed with practical and actual examples. This Seminar will be of value to Senior Managers and Executives involved in working towards out­come engineering the future of their organisation to be the leaders in their field. It will also benefit those managers and executives who are tasked in managing and administrating shared services. Cost: With special thanks to our sponsors of the event, Erudyte Ltd are pleased to be able to offer this at the reduced cost of £498 + VAT per person (normally £2,875pp). All refreshments and lunch included. Next Step: Places are limited as it is preferable to keep discussions to a small group, so call 0845 094 1044 now to speak to Chris and book your place. Secure payment can be taken over the phone, or an invoice can be raised if you prefer. SIGN UP NOW Hosted by: Erudyte Ltd Erudyte Ltd is proud to bring to our clients, Rainmakers who have had hands on experi­ence as being leaders, delivered on their goals and now share a vision to create a better world. Our Rainmakers are driven by a deep pas­sion towards making a measurable, significant and permanent differ­ence in the world and are therefore people who have all made things happen - people who have brought an edge of demonstrable value into an organisa­tional environment. They do this by impart­ing their knowledge through popular meth­ods such as speaking, consulting, training and one to ones or a seam­less programme work­ing alongside existing training schedules, con­sulting processes or conference events. Rainmakers will take you and your organi­sation to the edge - beyond the boundaries! SIGN UP NOW Contact: Chris Taylor +44 (0) 845 094 1044 info@rainmakers.erudyte.com Book ticket: http://erudyte.eventbrite.com More info: www.rainmakers.erudyte.com

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