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MEETING INFORMATION
Manufacturing CEO's Group
September 18 & 19, 2008
Atlanta, GA
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OVERVIEW |
MEETING AGENDA |
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ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION TOPICS |
- Cash Management Strategies in a Down Economy
- What strategies can help you gain better control of cash outflow and maximize idle cost?
- How can you increase the speed of your collections?
- What are the best practices for forecasting the money going in and out of your business?
- How to Effectively Deal with Price Increases
- Benchmarking percentage of how much copmany absorbs vs. how much it passes along.
- How do we maintain control of our materials cost?
- Best practices for ensuring your contract with your customer allows you to pass on your cost increases.
- What is Beyond Innovation to Halt Commoditization?
- What are others doing to stop the commoditization spiral?
- Training your sales people to see on value rather than price. What are some good techniques?
- What can we learn from other industries about stopping commoditization?
- Long Term Growth Planning Best Practices
- What type of strategic planning initiatives need to be in place to sustain long term growth, especially in a slowing economy?
- Will your current business model survive and thrive without meaningful change in the next five years?
- What steps/programs have been implemented to drive growth results?
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ADVISORY BOARD SESSION
(EX-OFFICIO BOARD SESSION©)
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In this session each member presents their most pressing business challenge to the other members in their CEO group. From this “ex-officio” board of directors, members obtain constructive advice from other CEO’s who have successfully tackled similar issues.
The net result is a significant reduction of the “CEO Learning Curve” on the issues that are critical to the growth and profitability of your company. |
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