An Overview

TechnoBusiness ~ The term implies a bond between technology and business, an interdependence that drives both to achieve more together than separately. This is a term well-suited to the forest products industry, where research and innovation have driven process improvement and new product development for decades.

With increasing levels of economic and business turbulence across industries, continuous improvement is no longer singularly sufficient for survival and success for the industries of today and tomorrow. Accepting this reality, business leaders will interact over two in-depth days with nationally recognized practitioners and experts from academia and industry on leading edge new perspectives on success-oriented strategies driven by value enhancing enterprise transformation.

Enterprise Transformation ~ Perspectives & Successful Applications

Three discussion sessions and three senior industry executives’ panels will offer an enhanced understanding of the management perspective, driving forces, and directions for successful applications for effective Enterprise Transformation.

An Overarching Management Perspective

There are key differences between dying and dominant companies. Dominant ones are sustained by corporate strategies that create value with (for) customers, by business structures that are built on distinctive competencies and by management systems that rest on stretch cultures

Emerging Driving Forces

Enterprise Transformation and the transformed enterprise both will be impacted by core emerging driving forces. Three such core emerging forces include changes in evolving energy policies, organizational response to the sustainability arena, and the role of entrepreneurial strategy in helping shape both the transformed enterprise and the Enterprise Transformation process itself.

Crucial Directions for Successful Applications

Successful transformation requires knowing when your enterprise is prepared for transformation and which transformation options have worked and why. Knowing the potential risks and required business conditions for success is critical.

Discussion Sessions

The first of the three discussion sessions will address the key leadership dimensions involved in transforming the enterprise with an associated industry leaders’ survey for close in perspective. The second will explore the value of cultural intervention to accelerate, optimize and sustain the value realized by business transformation. And the third will focus on the nature of three selected key driving forces (sustainability, energy, and entrepreneurial strategy), how companies should think about incorporating them, and the factors associated with their impacts on Enterprise Transformation.

CEO/Senior Executive Panels

The three separate panel sessions will be composed of executive leaders from the Paper Industry Manufacturers and Suppliers, as well as from other firms from outside the paper industry where in these three core panel sessions will provide practical insights regarding Market Dominance and Enterprise Transformation today - and discuss obstacles, opportunities and breakthroughs faced by these firms.

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