OPEN MINDS Executive Briefing Web Seminars

Series 3: Increasing Your Organizations Strategic Agility Through the Use of High Impact Planning Tools

Today's challenging economic climate calls for multifaceted managers who have a more holistic view of their organization and their market -- who can spot emerging opportunities and navigate through periods of decline as well as growth. This executive briefing series focuses on the intersection between an organizations vision and its planning processes. Participants will learn the emerging best practices in planning models that facilitate organizational evolution and success in turbulent times. This series has five key areas of focus:

• Executive Team Guide to Budgeting & Budget Management:  What is best practice in budgeting? How do I use my budget as a management tool? This practical web seminar teaches you the basics of budget management, focusing on types of budgets, budget methodologies, and technology tools for budgeting. This briefing also provides a systemic plan for executives and information technology professionals who are moving their organizations towards maximum utilization of integrating technology planning with strategic planning. Learn More!

• Developing a Winning Marketing Plan: A Step-by-Step Look at Classic Marketing Tools & Their Application to the Field: Understanding and interpreting the market is the lifeblood of any successful business. However, many organizations fail to understand the difference between knowing the market and putting together a strategy to respond to the market in a systematic way. This interactive on-line seminar will provide a proven step-by-step process, for building your organizations marketing plan and ensuring that the marketing is linked with your overall organizational strategy. Learn More!

• Service Line Decision- Making & New Service Development: Tools for Evaluating Your Organizations Service Portfolio & Assessing New Service Opportunities: How does your organization decide which services to continue, and those to terminate? How does the organization evaluate new services? Is due diligence through market research and seeking alignment with your current business plan part of your process? How do you test and develop these proposed new services? For an update on tried-and-tested approaches to service line evolution, you need this informative web seminar. Learn More!

• Human Capital Management Assessing Team Competencies & Ensuring That You Have the Right Team Through Employee Development & Succession Planning: As competition for skilled labor increases and jobs become more complex, organizational leaders continue to search for ways to maintain strong employees and to build competent management teams at all levels. This session provides participants with advice on how to assess current staff skills, how to use succession planning as an employee/team development tool, and how to build strong management teams that will survive (and contribute to) organizational planning. Learn More!

• Strategic Planning: A Structured Approach to Deploying Resources to Achieve Your Organizational Objectives: This executive briefing will provide you with a strategic planning "roadmap" that outlines the steps to successful strategic planning and implementation. Participants will also be introduced to a structured approach for linking strategy to operation within their own organizations. Learn More!