Events
Events
Announcement: MSc in Managing Organisational Performance (Modular): Increasing Organisational Performance Capabilities (subject to Senate approval)
The MSc in Managing Organisational Performance is designed to give mid-career individuals the knowledge, skills, confidence and experience necessary for performance management roles. The programme provides practical and thorough research-grounded knowledge of planning performance outcomes, managing performance, measuring performance and reviewing performance.
The short, formal periods of learning offered by the modular approach (eight one-week residential modules) together with extensive individual and team project work within organisations will be attractive to both prospective students and their potential sponsors.
For more information visit: www.cranfield.ac.uk/som/cbp/cbpmsc.asp
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES26th SMS Annual International Conference
Dates and location: 29 October-1 November, 2006, Vienna, Austria
The annual SMS conference is an international forum for managers and consultants to exchange ideas and practices with leading academic theoreticians on specific themes relevant to the field of strategic management.
The conference deals with a broad, current theme addressed through keynote addresses, discussion panels, research and practice paper presentations, and poster sessions. It involves executives from industry, academics, and consultants to establish a linkage between scholarship and practical applications in the field.
For further information visit: www.smsweb.org/activities/index.html
3rd Workshop on Corporate Governance EIASM
Dates and location: 9-10 November 2006, Brussels, Belgium
The first workshop, which took place 4-5 November, 2004 in Brussels with participants from 21 countries dealt mainly with the challenges of corporate governance in the context of social, political and economic environments prevailing in different parts of the world.
The second workshop which took place 24-25 November, 2005 with participants from 23 countries addressed international aspects of corporate governance.
This third workshop will address situational, strategic, management and controlling dimensions of corporate governance.
For further information visit: www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_announcement.asp?event_id=457
2nd Workshop on Visualising, Measuring and Managing Intangibles and Intellectual Capital
Dates and location: 25-27 October 2006, Maastricht, The Netherlands
The 1st workshop on Visualising, Measuring and Managing Intangibles and Intellectual Capital, held in Ferrara (Italy) on 18-20 October, 2005 was a great success, showing the ever-growing theoretical and practical importance of the subject area of intangibles and intellectual capital for organizations. Both companies and institutions and the academic world show their conviction that in the twenty-first century business enterprises are rapidly changing and that the major levers of such a discontinuity have an intangible nature and are largely dependent upon organisational knowledge creation, accumulation and appropriation. Brands, research and innovation, quality of management,competencies and capabilities, organisational culture and climate are only a few examples of those decisive intangible assets. Organizations are furthermore becoming increasingly involved in complex networks of alliances deriving their value and growth primarily from intangibles. Knowledge intensive organizations in a multitude of industries – ranging from pharmaceutical, biotech,software up to education – have indeed solid economic reasons for developing and knowing more about their intangibles. Indeed, also in the management and reporting of public sector entities (universities, cities,regional hubs) intangibles and intellectual capital seem to be increasingly recognised as key resources
The 2nd EIASM Workshop on “Intangibles and Intellectual Capital”aims to further work on the road that was hit last year and hopes to re-invite and attract all the scholars who wish to give a contribution to this field from a variety of perspectives – offering them a unique platform to present their research plans and findings –, and to exchange views and ideas with colleagues of the same or other disciplines interested in intangibles and intellectual capital issues.
For further information visit: www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_announcement.asp?event_id=476
11th World Congress – “Developing management and organisational capability to improve business performance”
Dates and location: 4-6 December 2006, Wellington, New Zealand
In our current global economic and social environment, organisational survival demands extraordinary improvement in business performance. Organisations need to exist in a highly and increasingly networked world. They face fast-paced technological, economic, regulatory, environmental, demographic,and cultural changes that daily influence their ability to remain relevant and viable.
The Congress will provide attendees with a more complete understanding of what it takes to become a successful organisation in today’s and tomorrow’s business world. We are confident that attendees will obtain ideas and initiatives that, if implemented, will lead to substantial improvements in their own organization’s business capability and performance.
Call for papers
Papers are encouraged that provide examples of best practices in the following areas:
leadership;
social and environmental responsibility;
strategic planning and deployment;
customer and market focus;
performance measurement;
benchmarking;
knowledge management and information technology;
process management and improvement;
innovation;
supplier relationships and partnerships;
standards and certification;
education, training, development and learning;
employee teams, empowerment, motivation, and satisfaction;
business excellence assessments, awards and models; and
building management and organisational capability.
For further details refer to World Congress at www.worldqualitycongress.com or e-mail: enquiry@worldqualitycongress.com
5th Conference on New Directions in Management Accounting: Innovations in Practice and Research
Dates and location: 14-16 December 2006, Brussels, Belgium
The purpose of this conference, like its four predecessors, is to examine innovative management accounting practices and innovative ideas about how to conduct research on them. The conference will consist of plenary sessions and research paper presentations. In the 2006 conference, the general theme for the plenary speakers will be “The boundaries, links, and spaces in and around management accounting”. We have invited five distinguished accounting scholars to address specific issues dealing with this theme, including management accounting as related to hierarchy, cross-functional, horizontal, and inter-organisational issues of management accounting and corporate governance,and linkages between management accounting and the rest of accounting. The invited plenary speakers are:
Robert Chenhall, Monash University, Australia.
David Cooper, University of Alberta, Canada.
Henri Dekker, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
David Larcker, Stanford University, USA.
Ken Merchant, University of Southern California, USA.
Call for papers
Submission of papers that deal with innovative management accounting practices, theories, and research methods are particularly relevant to this conference. For reference, papers on the following types of issues are welcomed warmly:
Practice:
innovative management accounting practices in particular parts of the world;
management accounting in new organizational designs (flat, horizontal,matrix, network, virtual, team);
management accounting systems for enterprise resource planning systems,e-commerce, electronic data interchange, electronic meetings, customer relationship management, and supply chain management;
value chain accounting;
new management accounting techniques, processes and information;
linkages between competitive strategy and management accounting;
integration/disintegration of management accounting;
challenges of globalisation for management accounting;
changing roles of management accountants in organizations;
information about what practitioners expect management accounting researchers to do.
Research:
role of social science and other theories in researching innovative practices;
comparative analyses of various theoretical approaches;
new theories for researching innovative practices;
ways of improving the relevance, validity, and reliability of theory-based empirical research;
role of research design in management accounting studies;
research method issues in researching innovative practices;
innovative ways of conducting management accounting research.
Copies of completed papers intended for presentation at the conference should be submitted by 15 September 2006.
For further information visit: www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_announcement.asp?event_id=434
4th Conference on Performance Measurement and Management Control – Measuring and Rewarding Performance
Dates and location: 26-28 September 2007, Nice, France
The third edition of the EIASM conference on performance measurement and management control was a great success. Over 180 scholars participated in the conference (+59 per cent), 108 papers were presented (+96 per cent), some of which later appeared in a book published by JAI Press (Elsevier Science) in the USA and Europe. In light of the success of this third edition and to continue to explore and exchange on these issues, a fourth conference will take place in 2007.
As in 2003, the 2007 edition will be focused broadly on “performance measurement and management control”. But we also want to give this fourth edition a particular focus on the critical issues related to the measurement,evaluation and reward of performance, defined broadly.
This conference will provide a full exploration of the current research on these topics, as well as an opportunity to discuss current research, current corporate practice and future trends in research and practice. The two invited speakers will present their most recent work on management control and performance measurement. This will include an update on the current research in the field and extensive discussion of business practices and trends in these areas.
The first day (26 September) will be reserved for the presentations of early works and papers from emerging scholars in order to facilitate more discussions on them.
Call for papers
Research papers using a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches are invited on any topic related to the general theme of performance measurement and management control.
Of particular interest for this edition of the conference will be papers addressing issues related to the measurement, evaluation and reward of performance. The link between performance measures and rewards can be examined from several angles, including the balanced scorecard, other performance measurement and strategic management systems in different types of organization and sector (including public sector), and at various organizational levels(including the corporation, strategic business unit, functions, teams, and individuals). It would particularly address some of the following issues and questions:
What are the links between these levels and how important is it that there is a link?
Do performance measures need to be tied to rewards?
Do performance measures play (or need to play) different roles:–in the attribution of different types of rewards (e.g. manager consideration,salary increase, promotion, bonus)?– at different hierarchical levels?– across industries, types of business, organizational strategy, etc?
What are the pros and cons of relative performance evaluation systems?
When is it desirable to hold employees accountable for actions over which they have limited or no control?
How important is the performance measurement system in driving superior performance?
Those who want to present a paper at the conference should submit an abstract in English (approximately 300 words) by 31 January, 2007 to www.eiasm.org
PRACTITIONER CONFERENCESThe 4th Annual Government Summit: Aligning the Government Together to Inspire Performance
Dates and location: 10-12 October 2006, Washington, DC
At this conference, you will learn how innovative government agencies have used the Balanced Scorecard to implement their strategies and achieve breakthrough results. Each case study provides an in-depth look at how an agency manages performance to optimize its efficiency and effectiveness in serving the public. Balanced Scorecard co-creators, Dr Robert Kaplan and Dr David Norton and other speakers will present at this event.
For the latest agenda, please visit: www.bscol.com/GOV502
Balanced Scorecard Collaborative’s Annual North American Summit
Dates and location: 7-9 November 2006, San Diego, CA
Join Balanced Scorecard creators, Dr Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton. This year’s topics include strategy management, process and business analytics, planning and performance reporting, business intelligence, and organizational alignment.
For further information visit: www.bscol.com/education/conferences/summit
COURSESBalanced Scorecard, Strategy Maps and Strategic Performance Management – An Introduction to these Management Tools
This workshop is designed to explain the background, rationale and benefit of the Balanced Scorecard and will be an introduction to this popular management tool. Participants will learn about the four perspectives of the Balanced Scorecard: Financial Perspective, Customer Perspective, Internal Processes Perspective, Innovation and Learning Perspective Plus Case Studies.
Dates and location: Thursday, 21 September 2006, London; Thursday, 23 November 2006, London
For further information visit: www.unicom.co.uk
Benefit Realisation Management – A Vehicle for Transformational Change
Benefits Management is an approach to managing organisational change that maximises the realisation of benefits. It is more than a methodology for justifying investments and more than a mechanism for benefit measurement.
Dates and location: Wednesday, 13 September, 2006 London; Wednesday, 1 November 2006, London; Tuesday, 5 December 2006, London
For further information visit: www.unicom.co.uk
Understanding Six Sigma: A Toolkit for Continual Improvement
Six sigma is a business method for improving quality by removing defects and their causes in the business process. This workshop introduces the key principles and methodologies, aligning them to overall business strategy and goals, and shows how to implement Six Sigma to accelerate improvment.
Dates and location: Monday, 18 September 2006, London; Monday, 27 November 2006, London
For further information visit: www.unicom.co.uk
Lean Thinking
The workshop has been designed based on the commonly used ’LEAN’tools for problem solving and process improvements. The objective is to train the participants on the ’LEAN’ concepts and to apply those concepts to a real-world problem.
Dates and location: Tuesday, 19 September 2006, London; Tuesday, 28 November 2006, London
For further information visit: www.unicom.co.uk
Strategic Planning Tools, Techniques and Implementation
This seminar covers the application of tools and techniques to help implement your firm’s strategy defining external and internal influences on strategy to ensuring alignment during implementation.
Dates and location: 19-20 October 2006, Las Vegas, NV; 30 November-1 December 2006, Chicago, IL; 7-8 December 2006, New York, NY; 22-23 March 2007, Washington, DC; 10-11 May 2007, New York, NY
For further information visit: www.amanet.org/seminars/seminar.cfm?ID=1526&Cat=200&org=Sem
Performance Management: Strategy, Design and Implementation
This course presents the key concepts associated with measuring and rewarding performance at the organizationwide, group and individual levels. Issues addressed include: organizational performance planning, business strategy, the performance management system and process, measurement, individual motivation and the link between rewards and performance.
Dates and location: 11-12 September 2006, Atlanta, GA; 25-26 September 2006, San Francisco, CA; 16-17 October 2006, Long Beach, CA; 6-7 November 2006, Chicago, IL; 4-5 December 2006, New York, NY
For further information visit: www.amanet.org/seminars/seminar.cfm?ID=1669&Cat=213
Managing Supplier Performance: Measurement, Certification and Quality Improvement
Learn to effectively managing suppliers in order to save money, avoid risks,enhance operations – and thrive in today’s business environment.
Dates and location: 2-3 October 2006, Las Vegas, NV; 16-17 November 2006, New York, NY; 15-16 March 2007, Las Vegas, NV; 26-27 April 2007, New York, NY
For further information visit: www.amanet.org/seminars/seminar.cfm?ID=1552&Cat=199&org=Sem
The Balanced Scorecard Institute – Training Seminars and Workshops
These interactive professional courses are updated regularly to include the latest best practices and ideas. Each course includes a seminar on our award-winning balanced scorecard/performance measurement methodology with a 200-page workbook, case studies, exercises, international best practices,small-group scorecard and measures development, and expert lectures. They also include practical workshops which allow you to focus directly on your own current project.
Dates and location:
12-13 September 2006, Strategic Thinking and Strategy Mapping, Washington,DC
12-14 September 2006, Strategic Process Improvement, Raleigh, NC
19-21 September 2006 Performance Management for Government, Washington, DC
26-28 September 2006, Developing Meaningful Performance Measures,Washington, DC
10-12 October 2006, Developing Meaningful Performance Measures, UWI,Trinidad
17-19 October 2006, Introduction to the Balanced Scorecard, Washington, DC;
24-26 October 2006, Advanced Balanced Scorecard, Raleigh, NC
7-8 November 2006, Strategic Thinking and Strategy Mapping, Washington, DC
14-16 November 2006, Introduction to the Balanced Scorecard, Washington, DC.
5-7 December 2006 Advanced Balanced Scorecard, Washington, DC.
5-7 December 2006, Strategic Process Improvement, Raleigh, NC.
For further information visit: www.balancedscorecard.org/training
Performance Measurement: Beyond the Balanced Scorecard
20.1 Dates and location: 9-11 October 2006 + 5 March 2007, Cranfield School of Management, UK
This programme is for those planning to redesign or upgrade their performance measurement system. From design of scorecards to implementation and use of the measures, the programme uses practical tools and techniques which participants can take away and use to manage their own businesses. A key theme underpinning the programme, is that the power of measurement lies in the fact that it allows managers to do much more than simply track progress. By the end of the programme delegates have developed and reviewed personal action plans to improve the measurement systems used in their own organisations.
For further information visit: www.cranfield.ac.uk/som/cbp
Key Skills of Organisational Performance Management
Cranfield School of Management, UK
The Centre for Business Performance has developed a suite of programmes that takes participants through the key skills needed to create, manage and maximise a performance measurement system: Design, Implement, Use and Improve. This programme is made up of five days as per the model below.
Delegates have the flexibility to book any module they require on a stand alone basis as individual units are useful in themselves, or for those wishing to attend the whole programme can book the five core units in one consecutive week or in modular blocks.
The core units are,
Strategy and Success Maps – 4 December 2006.
Designing Appropriate Performance Measures – 5 December 2006.
Managing the Performance Review Process – 6 December 2006.
Planning and Managing Action – 7 December 2006.
Performance Improvement Tools – 8 December 2006.
For further information visit: www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/research/centres/cbp/courses/courses.asp
Service Performance: Strategies for Success
Dates and location: 9-11 October 2006, Cranfield School of Management, UK
This programme is focused on the successful implementation of effective strategies to meet the ever changing and increasing demands for higher service quality levels, greater customer responsiveness, and increased productivity. We examine the benefits of greater customer focus whilst understanding how to overcome potential barriers in developing it. By the end of the programme participants will be able to develop the framework of a cohesive action plan to apply to their own organisation, with a clear understanding of the challenges of leading the change process involved.
For further information visit: www.cranfield.ac.uk/som
Performance at the Limit
Dates and location: 21-22 November 2006, Cranfield School of Management, UK
The connection between performance and all the elements of the organisation is fundamental to success. This programme uses engaging and novel ways to capture your imagination. Discover the skills used by highly successful teams from the competitive world of motorsport and apply them to your own organisation.
For further information visit: www.cranfield.ac.uk/som
Leading & Managing with the Balanced Scorecard
Dates and location: 17-18 October 2006, New Orleans, LA
For further information visit: www.bscol.com/education/conferences/howto/index.cfm
Mapping Strategy Using the Balanced Scorecard
Dates and location: 6-7 December 2006, Coral Gables, FL
For further information visit: www.bscol.com/education/conferences/howto/index.cfm
Achieving Process Excellence – Six Sigma process improvement
Dates and location: 3 October 2006, London
For further information visit: www.cimaglobal.com
Activity-based Management Techniques for Informed Decision Making
Dates and location: 18 October 2006, Dublin
For further information visit: www.cimaglobal.com
Applying Business Process Improvement
Dates and location: 21 November 2006, London
For further information visit: www.cimaglobal.com
Better Management Reporting, Planning and Control
Dates and location: 13 September 2006, Manchester; 29 November 2006, London
For further information visit: www.cimaglobal.com
Better Forecasting and Budgeting
Dates and location: 11 October 2006, London
For further information visit: www.cimaglobal.com
Decision-based Reporting
Dates and location: 26 September 2006, London
For further information visit: www.cimaglobal.com
Developing Team Performance
Realise organisational goals through your team by attending this two-day seminar
Dates and location: 21 September 2006, London; 1 November 2006, London; 4 December 2006, London
For further information visit: www.cimaglobal.com
Flexible Planning and Rolling Forecasts
Dates and location: 9 November 2006 London
For further information visit: www.cimaglobal.com
From Activity-based Costing (ABC) to Activity-based Management (ABM)
How to maximise benefits from implementing activity-based costing and activity-based cost management, providing practical solutions to common problems.
Dates and location: 18 September 2006, London; 7 December 2006, London
For further information visit: www.cimaglobal.com
Implementing beyond Budgeting
Dates and location: 6 October 2006, Birmingham; 24 November 2006, London
For further information visit: www.cimaglobal.com
Implementing Driver-based Budgeting and Rolling Re-forecasts
Dates and location: 16 October 2006, Manchester
For further information visit: www.cimaglobal.com
Performance Management
Dates and location: 2 October 2006, Leeds; 17 November 2006, London
For further information visit: www.cimaglobal.com
Performance Measurement and Benchmarking
Dates and location: 30 November 2006, London
For further information visit: www.cimaglobal.com
Strategic Management Accounting
Accounting for competitive advantage.
Dates and location: 28 November 2006, London
For further information visit: www.cimaglobal.com
Strategic Valuation of Companies
Update your ability to value business units for acquisition, divestment and flotation, and to evaluate the strategic alternatives
Dates and location: 23 November 2006, London
For further information visit: www.cimaglobal.com
The Balanced Scorecard
Dates and location: 22 September 2006, Dublin; 10 November 2006, Manchester; 15 December 2006, London
For further information visit: www.cimaglobal.com
Building “best practice” Balanced Scorecards
Dates and location: 11-12 September 2006, Henley Management College, UK
Organised by 2GC Limited.
A two-day course introducing participants to the latest thinking in Balanced Scorecard design methods. This highly-rated course combines clearly presented theory with extensive practical exercises and discussion.
For further information visit: www.2gc.co.uk
Advanced Performance Management Training Course
Dates and location: 10-11 October 2006, Henley Management College, UK
Organised by 2GC Limited.
A two-day advanced training course focusing on developing the skills and methods need to manage the design, implementation and maintenance of modern performance management systems. The emphasis on this course is on developing facilitation skills, project planning and design skills, and the challenges of maintaining and developing such systems over time.
For further information visit: www.2gc.co.uk
Building “best practice” Balanced Scorecards
Dates and location: 5-6 December 2006, Henley Management College, UK
Organised by 2GC Limited.
A two-day course introducing participants to the latest thinking in Balanced Scorecard design methods. This highly-rated course combines clearly presented theory with extensive practical exercises and discussion.
For further information visit: www.2gc.co.uk
