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Finance for technical leaders.
Build leaders'
skills, get a fresh perspective on persistent issues, and align your
team toward new solutions.
I offer
workshops in 3 formats. The length of
a workshop depends on the content, goals, and audience. Workshop
topics can be selected from the list below, or
customized to address your situation.
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The
half-day format works best to give busy
executives an overview and interactive discussion of
new ideas.
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The
full-day
format also provides key stakeholders with facilitated discussion of the
ideas and tools and their application to your current issues.
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Two-day workshops provide attendees with a
thorough understanding of the material and its application, using a combination of
tutorial and practices sessions.
These
workshops are most effective when attended by cross-functional participants from
different
management levels.
Contact me to discuss custom workshops for
your needs.
These
provide your executive team with a common thought framework
and language to achieve consensus and resolve persistent problems.
Time is balanced among a tutorial to frame the issues, facilitated
discussion of symptoms and causes as attendees see them, and keys to implementing solutions.
If information
is provided beforehand, workshop content and examples are customized to the
client's situation.
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A full-day
workshop extends beyond the half day event to examine alternative
solutions and outline an action plan. Through guided and facilitated
dialogue, attendees identify and prioritize the solutions that provide
the greatest returns for the company.
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These
workshops provide attendees with deeper understanding of the materials
to prepare them to apply what they've learned to their work. The
event includes both tutorial and practices sessions where attendees
learn to apply the material to example situations. The event ends
with attendees prioritizing ideas and developing action plans.
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Workshops
cover critical issues that impact product innovation results:
| Finance for
Technical Leaders: Develop technical leaders' business acumen.
Align
technical decisions with business goals, improve collaboration,
and increase the depth of your
management talent pool. Unlike the typical "finance for
non-financial managers", this workshop is focused on
product developers, covering financial statements, financial
performance, and applications to product development decisions at all levels. Click here
for a white paper on
finance training, or here for a workshop
brochure. |
| New Product Economic Metrics:
Effective financial oversight of a firm's product investment
requires economic metrics that apply broadly across business
lines and are relevant to business goals. The discounted
margin ratio is a new formulation of discounted cash flow that
compares investment returns to growth and funding targets,
instead of cost of capital. This provides comprehensive
financial metrics that can be applied across product lines from top to bottom to manage product innovation.
Contact me for details. |
| Dependable Schedules: Unreliable new
product schedules lead to fighting fires and juggling resources
… and chronic headaches. Even worse, they undermine customers' confidence in your new products. You can try
attacking the problem symptomatically by simply demanding on
time releases, but that just makes problems show up somewhere
else. This workshop explores systemic approaches to making
product schedules dependable.
Contact me for details. |
| Bringing Product Innovation up to Speed:
Faster response to market opportunities would improve business
results for most enterprises. Just exhorting R&D teams to work
faster has limited effect, and cutting corners to shorten schedules
leads to disaster. This workshop develops ideas about how you
can improve your new product responsiveness by addressing a set
of fundamental issues. Contact me
for details. |
Contact me to explore how an Executive
Workshop would help your team.
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