Events

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(2005), "Events", Measuring Business Excellence, Vol. 9 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/mbe.2005.26709dab.002

Events

Events

ConferencesCPM Asia Pacific 2006: Corporate Governance: Leadership, Stewardship and Control

Dates and locations: 1-3 March 2006, Canberra, Australia

The Project Management Institute – College of Performance Management (CPM) announces the ninth Australian International Performance Management Symposium for the Asia Pacific Area. Enterprise Performance Management 2006 will be the ninth performance management symposium conducted in Australia. The symposium is an important part of CPM’s global vision with companion CPM Symposia in the USA (5 November) and Japan (5 October) and related Symposia in the UK (5 May), Canada (5 September), and Sweden (5 November). These symposia embrace a wide range of disciplines directed at the management and control of projects and enterprises. Past symposiums have concentrated on the mechanics of performance management. At EPM2006, we will address the important topic of corporate governance and what assurance processes and performance management systems are integral to management success.

EPM2006 will examine the traditional concepts and principles of performance management and how these contribute to the emerging ideas about corporate governance with a focus on leadership, stewardship and control. papers are invited which address the symposium theme and enterprise performance management.

Abstract and biography due by 14 October 2005. For more information please visit the Symposium web site: www.mtc.aust.com/symposium

The Management Control Association Workshops and Conference

The Management Control Association (MCA) is a not-for-profit charity established “to advance the education of the public in the theory and practice related to systems of management control in industrial, commercial, public and other organisations”. The MCA provides a supportive and encouraging atmosphere for research in any aspect of management control, including many aspects of financial and non-financial performance measurement and management.

The Association holds four workshops each year. The next scheduled workshops are 16 September 2005 (Sheffield University), 25 November 2005 (King’s College London), 24 February 2006 (Birmingham University) and 19 May 2006 (Manchester Metropolitan University). Papers are welcome from experienced academics, practitioners or new researchers and papers may cover practitioner issues, completed research, work in progress or research proposals. Meetings of the MCA are focused on four papers, each being allocated one hour, comprising around 40 minutes for presentation and 20 minutes for discussion. There is no charge for attendance and lunch and refreshments are provided, funded by the Association. If you would like to be on our mailing list, attend a workshop or present a paper at a future meeting, contact the Secretary, Paul Collier at p.m.collier@aston.ac.uk

The Association also holds a triennial international conference. The next conference, also in conjunction with ENROAC, is being planned for 2007. Details of our workshops and conferences are on the Association’s web site at www.managementcontrolassociation.ac.uk/

Performance Measurement and Management: Public and Private: The Fifth International Conference on Theory and Practice in Performance Measurement – Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers and Participation

Dates and locations: 25-28 July 2006, London, UK

Following the success of the previous four international performance measurement conferences (July 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2004), we are pleased to announce the fifth conference of the PMA. The event will be held between the 25 and 28 July 2006 at the New Connaught Rooms in the heart of London’s Covent Garden. The conference will undoubtedly involve the usual eclectic mix of academics and practitioners sharing ideas and information about performance measurement and management in the public and private sectors.

Two keynote speakers are confirmed. We have Paul Boyle, who is the Chief Executive of the Financial Reporting Council, the UK’s independent regulator for corporate reporting and governance. Also presenting will be Professor Banker of the Fox School of Business at Temple University, one of the world’s most widely respected academics working on performance measurement. The conference will be chaired by Professor Andy Neely and Dr Mike Kennerley

We are looking for submissions from performance measurement and management-related academic disciplines and encourage submissions from practitioners, especially those reporting collaborative research.

For further information visit www.performanceportal.org/pma2006.htm

COURSESAmerican Management Association’s 2-Day Course on Corporate Performance Management

Dates and locations: 14-15 November, 2005, New York, New York; 10-11 April, 2006, Las Vegas, Nevada, 15-16 May, 2006, Washington, DC; 19-20 June, 2006, New York, New York, USA

Discover the business metrics, processes and systems that will help you better execute and monitor strategic efforts to improve performance management. Using case studies and practical examples, this seminar will help you plan and implement an effective corporate performance management (CPM) system:

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  Understand what CPM is – and its powerful impact.

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  Overcome planning weaknesses.

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  Quickly grasp the capabilities of the latest technologies as applied to CPM.

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  See how other companies are benefiting from CPM technologies.

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  Overcome organizational resistance to CPM.

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  Learn how to build a CPM “road-map”.

You will cover:

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  Strategy gap: why traditional planning and reporting processes may lead to failure.

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  Key CPM processes and their interaction.

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  Best practices that streamline the planning and reporting processes.

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  The technologies that support CPM.

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  Designing the CPM system: translating strategy into a model.

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  Evaluating CPM software solutions.

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  Controlling implementations: manage a project effectively.

Contact: www.amanet.org/seminars/seminar.cfm?ID=1437&Cat=197&org=Sem

The Balanced Scorecard Institute – training seminars and workshops

These interactive professional courses are updated regularly to include the latest best practices and ideas. Each course includes a seminar on our award-winning balanced scorecard/performance measurement methodology with a 200-page workbook, case studies, exercises, international best practices, small-group scorecard and measures development, and expert lectures. They also include practical workshops which allow you to focus directly on your own current project:

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  6-7 December 2005 – Developing Meaningful Performance Measures for Balanced Scorecards, Raleigh, NC (www.balancedscorecard.org/training/desc/course304.html).

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  13-15 December 2005 – Building and Implementing Balanced Scorecards: Nine Steps to Success Brookings Institution, Washington, DC. (www.balancedscorecard.org/training/desc/course301.html).

Performance Measurement: Beyond the Balanced Scorecard

Provider: Cranfield School of ManagementDate: 7 March 2006

This programme is for those planning to redesign or upgrade their performance measurement system. From design of scorecards to implementation and use of the measures, the programme uses practical tools and techniques which participants can take away and use to manage their own businesses. A key theme underpinning the programme is that the power of measurement lies in the fact that it allows managers to do much more than simply track progress. By the end of the programme delegates have developed and reviewed personal action plans to improve the measurement systems used in their own organisations.

Contact: www.cranfield.ac.uk/som/cbp

Key Skills of Organisational Performance Management

Provider: Cranfield School of Management

The Centre for Business Performance has developed a suite of programmes that takes participants through the key skills needed to create, manage and maximise a performance measurement system: Design, Implement, Use and Improve. This programme is made up of five days as per the model below.

Delegates have the flexibility to book any module they require on a stand alone basis as individual units are useful in themselves, or for those wishing to attend the whole programme can book the five core units in one consecutive week or in modular blocks.

The core units are:

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  Strategy and Success Maps – 12 December 2005.

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  Designing Appropriate Performance Measures – 13 December 2005.

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  Implementing and Refreshing Measurement Systems – 14 December 2005.

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  Managing Through Measures and Prediction – 15 December 2005.

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  Performance Improvement Tools – 16 December 2005.

Contact: www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/research/centres/cbp/courses/courses.asp

Implementing beyond Budgeting

Provider: CIMADate and location: 6 December 2005, London, UK

Drawing on research by the Beyond Budgeting Round Table (BBRT), this course helps understand:

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  why management practices inherited from the industrial age are barriers to success in the information age;

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  how to break free from negotiated fixed targets and adopt practices that pave the way for stretch goals and fair rewards;

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  how to introduce continuous planning supported by rolling forecasts, and measurement and reporting systems that enable adaptive performance management;

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  how to eliminate the cost protection mentality of budgets and reduce costs;

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  how to establish a governance framework that enables customer responsiveness and increased staff motivation, productivity and retention;

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  how tools such as enterprise-wide information systems, balanced scorecard, ABM, EVA and rolling forecasts can be used more effectively;

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  how to build consensus within the organisation for this vision of adaptive performance management; and

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  how to lead the change process and achieve a successful transformation.

Contact: www.cimaglobal.com

Executing Strategy Using the BSC

Provider: The Balanced Scorecard CollaborativeDates and locations 30 November-2 December, Sydney, Australia

Contact: www.bscol.com/education/conferences/executive/

Mapping Strategy Using the Balanced Scorecard

Provider: The Balanced Scorecard CollaborativeDates and location: 1-2 December, Miami Beach, Florida, Louisiana, USA

Contact: www.bscol.com/education/conferences/howto/