The Silver Lining in Business Downturns:
Your Chance to Build a More Agile Organization
Date: Tue, Jun 16, 2009
Time: 02:00 P.M. ET
Duration: 60 hours
Cost: $145.00
SUMMARY
Those who register for this on-line event will be able to apply the registration fee to any paid admission to a CFO conference within a year after the webcast.
Managers need to accept that business downturns are inevitable and focus on building robust business models that work across all economic cycles.
From this webcast, you will learn how to move beyond the usual short-term, disruptive reactions to downturns and, instead, use this "burning platform" as a catalyst for creating a more innovative and agile organization to drive sustainable, long-term shareholder value. You will gain an understanding of how to make essential changes to key business processes, including improvements to performance management, business planning and outlooks, and human capital management.
After this webcast, you will be able to:
- Identify sources of sustainable performance and value in any economic cycle
- Implement more insightful measures of innovation, including value added per employee and customer life cycle cost
- Foster a culture of innovation that allows you to quickly capitalize on opportunities
- Improve business vision by implementing a Rolling/Continuous Business Outlook
- Develop a comprehensive human capital process and measurement scheme
In addition, all attendees of this webcast will receive two white papers from Jack Alexander, entitled "Measuring Innovative Effectiveness" and "Before You Tie a Bow on Next Year's Plan."
About the Speaker
Jack Alexander is a former CFO turned consultant, author and business lecturer. He is the CEO of Jack Alexander and Associates LLC (formerly Value Advisory Group), a consulting and executive education firm with a focus on driving performance and shareholder value; the firm's web site is www.jackalexanderassociates.com.
Jack developed the Value-Performance Framework, which directly links key value drivers to operating processes and activities and provides for measuring and improving business results through the use of dashboards and analytics. These tools provide for increased visibility and improvements to profitability and cash flow. The framework also enables a progressive approach to business planning that provides a "Continuous Business Outlook" (an alternative to traditional budgeting and forecasting practices), scenario planning, performance assessment and goal setting. He has recently extended the framework to "Measure and Drive What's Important" to focus on the importance of agility, innovation, execution and human capital in business performance and value creation.
Prior to founding the consulting practice, Jack held a number of senior financial and operational management positions at EG&G Inc. (renamed PerkinElmer), a global $2.5B technology and services Company with over 40 operating units. He served as the Company's Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Controller and various other operating and financial positions. He also served as CFO for two other publicly traded companies and previously held positions at General Refractories Company and Coopers and Lybrand (now PwC). He is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the Financial Executives Institute. Jack holds an MBA from Rider University and a BS in Business Management from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Jack is also a Senior Lecturer at Babson College, where he has taught managerial finance and advanced finance electives in the MBA program, including valuation, strategic investments and M&A. He is presently active in the College's School of Executive Education, where he has developed and delivered courses in finance and performance management and analytics. Alexander is a frequent speaker on shareholder value and business performance management. He is the author of Performance Dashboards and Analysis for Value Creation, published by Wiley in fall 2006.
Presenter
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Jack Alexander
Founder and President
Jack Alexander & Associates LLC