2nd Annual Corporate Performance Improvement Summit 2013 (CPI 2013)

ACCRA, Ghana - May 29, 2013 - PRLog -- You are warmly invited to attend the 2nd Annual Corporate Performance Improvement Summit. (CPI 2013) which takes place at the Fiesta Royale Hotel in Accra, Ghana on 10th and 11th September 2013.

The Summit will bring together leading heads of business performance, change management, operational excellence, continuous improvement, six sigma and quality, and different perspectives from a variety of public and private sector performance improvement case studies. More than 40 organizations are expected to participate in this year’s event. The corporate and global setting will be well represented by the wide variety of business sectors in which our participants work.

Key features:

Networking buffet on the night of 9th September 2013
Improvement platform session in a back-to-back fashion with six (6) distinguished authors, thought leaders, established business executives and speakers in a ninety (90) minute compelling and exciting session.
Opportunities for Private Corporate sessions where you can book a 3hour Private session with a selection of our speakers and experts at your organisation.
A variety of plenary, keynote, workshop and practical sessions on thought provoking Corporate Performance Improvement related topics.
A variety of networking and refreshment breaks
Access to audio recordings of proceedings
Opportunity to train and get certified as a Lean Six Sigma Champion upon attending the session

Among the thematic areas for discussion are:

Bound for flight: Elevating organizational excellence using Lean Six Sigma

Performance Improvement continues to evolve. Six Sigma, Lean, Theory of Constraints, Change Management; soft skills, technical skills, leadership skills... it's hard to know who to listen to or where to begin your own transformation journey. The answer is, right here! Join Enterprise Master Black Belt R. Scott Bonney as he walks through the core concepts of many of the most popular and successful performance improvement methods of the past several decades. Breaking down the confusing terms and with an eye toward the history of many of the "new" tools in our transformation arsenal, you will leave this presentation with a clearer understanding of what works, why it works, and renewed confidence that you can make it work in your own organization, from cubicle-land to the board room.

Making Organizational Change Work: Change Management for the entire workforce

Pay-for-performance, meaningful use, compliance, increased productivity, standardized organisational practices. These are all initiatives that need to happen at most organization in order to assure continued organizational success, and all of them involve an engaged and motivated team. Come and explore how to make change work in your organisation.

Linking Performance Management and Strategy Execution to Drive Business Improvement

Most organisations have performance objectives and measures, but they are often disconnected from the process of strategy implementation and review. This conference examines how to implement good strategy, how performance management systems - objectives, targets, measures and incentives – are a means to connect strategy with decisions and actions, and how to engage staff in times of change.

Strategic Planning: A common-sense, collaborative approach to integrated strategic deployment

Strategy is more than thinking about the big picture -- it's about translating the vision into action. The simpler and clearer the plan, the more quickly and effectively you can gain buy-in and begin breaking the constraints that stand between the as-is and the to-be. Master Black Belt R. Scott Bonney has facilitated strategic planning sessions for Agencies and Military Services across the United States Federal Government. Come and learn how to facilitate your own leadership team to quickly understand its core customers, products, and processes. Stop trying to fix everything. Identify the few critical constraints that impede your organization, and develop a plan to quantify and execute the most critical projects for immediate enterprise-wide results.

Strategic Staffing in Support of Organization Capability

Organizations in every industry face the challenges of competition for qualified talent and retention of knowledge workers. Hear how taking a longer term view of building a workforce, using analytics and data, can increase your ability to have the right talent available to take advantage of market opportunities.

• Gain an understanding of future uncertainties and risks involved in staffing

• Gain better insight on setting strategic workforce priorities

• Better align talent management plans to long term strategies

Return on Investment on staff training and development

The Board may see a big picture of how the training affects the company’s ability to achieve its corporate goals. The finance department may be looking to see how training stacks up financially against other ways to invest the company’s money, and whether the training, as carried out, was financially more effective than alternative forms of development. The business unit manager may be solely concerned with the impact on performance and productivity in achieving the goals of their department. The training and development manager may be concerned with the impact training programmes are having on the credibility and status as the training function within the company and its ability to secure investment in the future to drive further business performance enhancements. The question is ‘How do you measure ROI on the investment you make or plan to make on your human capital to elicit organisation’s continuous improvement?’

Workshop: HPT – Creating an alignment of the Organisation, Management and HR processes

The workshop demonstrates proven tools and techniques used in the organisational performance improvement landscape today. The workshop is aligned with the 10 standards for Performance Improvement of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI).

· Focus on results and outcomes

· Systems thinking and systematic approach

· Add value

· Work with partners and teams

· Gap and cause analysis

· Design of intervention(s)

· Develop of intervention(s)

· Implementation of intervention(s)

· Evaluate and measure impact of improved performance

Workshop Outcomes and topics

Participants will be able to apply performance improvement skills and tools to analyse performance problems at a work (processes and activities), worker (individuals and teams) and workplace (organisational inhibitors) levels and prescribe the correct intervention to address the gaps.