NAMTECH 2009
Global Tactics for Turbulent Times
Day 1
Competing Against All Odds
You must be creative, aggressive, and innovative in difficult times. Learn lessons that can get you and your company through tough times.
21st Century Leadership
Long-term, sustained growth is driven by engaged leadership and a supported, appreciated, and engaged workforce. Find out how leadership and leadership principles combined with an employee “stakeholder” model create higher quality, satisfied customers, and sustainable profits.
Interactive Session — New Information Technologies and Your Bottom Line
There’s lots to consider in new manufacturing systems and software applications — but which emerging technologies are right for your business? This session will offer a quick-hitting overview of what to look for in IT investments — and how to make sure you implement them for short-term payback and long-term viability.
The Art of Price and Cost Management
Many manufacturers still believe they can compete on a price = profit – cost pricing formula — but customers say otherwise. In this session learn how dynamic pricing models can optimize your margins — with the same inventories and product mix you already have.
Interactive Session — The ROI of CapEx
Manufacturers often fail to calculate the full impact of capital equipment and facilities investments on the bottom line, including maintenance/uptime improvement, enhanced quality, safety performance, adaptability, scalability, etc. Learn how to evaluate your current equipment and facilities — and how to assess new CapEx investment opportunities.
World-Class Operations and Profits
Variability — in customer demand, supply availability and costs, market and regulatory conditions — can wreak havoc on unstable operations. Learn how to turn your production facilities into world-class operations that learn, adapt and continually improve.
Navigating Your Organization Through Troubled Times
Most organizations fail to establish the few, key organization-wide goals that can drive success, and even fewer cascade those top-line goals into meaningful targets for middle management and plantfloor personnel. Learn how well-executed strategy deployment eliminates internal confusion and leads to external success.
Day Two
Keynote: Time to Go Green for Growth
Amid the current business chaos, one thing is certain. Green. If you’re not Green, you’ll need to be. If you think you’re Green, you’ll need to be Greener. Hear how dramatically consumers/customers are racing to Green products (and processes that create them), and how quickly manufacturers are creating market advantages by satisfying those Green needs. Don’t be colored blind — this engaging session will help you quickly get Green.
Interactive Session — The Manufacturing Doctor Is In: Diagnosing Trouble in Your Operations
No one knows your operations and markets better than you do. Yet an outside eye can often see significant problems to which you’ve become blind. Learn how to plan, conduct and leverage a diagnostic review of your operations.
Innovation Saved My Company
Learn how the impetus for innovation is often the prospect of failure. Almost every manufacturer will at some stage see a dramatic need to innovate — products, processes, market approaches — or else be blown away by the competition. Learn how a manufacturer realized and swiftly acted on the need to innovate — and how you can, too.
What Do Your Customers Really Want?
Turbulent times usually call for something different — or completely new. Is your organization faced with stagnant customer demand, aging product lines, and an uncertain market future? You will get simple, actionable strategies to immediately begin developing new products and product iterations that grow demand from existing customers and open up new markets at home and abroad. Even amid tough times, many manufacturers are growing market share and profits — will you?
Other Event Highlights:
· John Brandt, CEO, The MPI Group and IndustryWeek columnist, moderates the event
· World-class reception, food and breaks
· On-site golfing
· Hole-in-one competition
