Improving Organizational Performance: Focus on Strategy and Change
Today's organizations - in all industries and sectors - are challenged to survive and thrive in an environment of unprecedented turbulence. A well designed and well implemented strategy management system - integrating planning, execution, and change leadership - enables organizations to respond to change with better strategic focus, aligned action, employee engagement, prioritization of projects and budgets, and measurable results.
IQPC and the Balanced Scorecard Institute have teamed up again to provide you with best practices, case studies and practical hands-on advice on how you can drive performance improvement within your business, not-for-profit or government organization and create a culture that embraces change. Strategy leaders, executives, managers and practitioners from business, not-for-profit and government organizations will share their expertise and methods for implementing change, improving performance, and aligning employees around a shared vision of the future. This three-day event will focus on:
- Strategic Agility: The development of business strategies that allow an organization to react quickly to changing environmental circumstances
- Change Leadership: The crucial skills needed to drive change
- Strategic Line of Sight: Using a strategic management system to communicate with clarity throughout the organization, ensuring that the strategy is understood and acted upon
- Company Buy-In: Engaging employees and other key stakeholders in designing and achieving desired goals
- Executive Support: Building C-level and Board support for the implementation of initiatives and process changes critical to strategic success
- Performance Measures: Best practices for developing outcome and output measures that define success and improve decision making
- Measuring Results: Measuring financial and non-financial performance indicators against targets
- Change Management: A step-by-step guide to Do's and Don'ts, including understanding and dealing with resistance to change
- Practical Application of Performance and Change Management Tools: Case studies of how Balanced Scorecards, Lean, Six Sigma, and the Baldrige Model have been applied and practiced
- Operational Planning: The conversion of strategic goals into operational plans, budgets and execution
- Organizational Learning: Incorporating feedback into continuous improvement