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(28) BENCHMARKING FOR IMPROVED PERFORMANCEKUALA LUMPUR l 16-17 June 2008A Vital Tool to Improve Your Competitiveness Today, companies in pursuit of world class excellence use benchmarking to measure themselves against the best-in-class in quality and performance. Benchmarking is a systematic method for comparing every aspect of your operation to the best-in-class. But its benefits go well beyond analyzing the process by which things are made or services are performed. Benchmarking allows you to choose companies by specific areas of excellence. Benchmark one company for order fulfillment or strategic planning, another for shipping or warehousing. This intensive 2-day course will give you a firm grasp of the benchmarking process through a hands-on interactive format. This workshop will help you:
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
WHO SHOULD ATTEND Managing Directors & CEOs; Financial, Purchasing, Materials, Manufacturing, Planning, Quality, Marketing, Market Research, Operations, Production, Human Resource, Joint Venture and Training Managers; and all other Managers who are involved in the process of benchmarking. This workshop covers benchmarking applications across the entire management spectrum. COURSE
OUTLINE Benchmarking - An Overview Benchmarking Today Primary Steps in Benchmarking Models of Benchmarking Determining What to Benchmark Who (and What) is Involved in Benchmarking Whom to Benchmark With (or Against) Major Options In Collecting Benchmarking Information Collecting Benchmarking Data Using Benchmarking Data Next Steps COURSE TIMINGS 8.30am - Registration (Day One) 9.00am - Program Starts 10.30am - Coffee Break (15 minutes) 12.30 - 1.30pm - Lunch (provided)
3.00pm
- 4.30pm - Program Ends YOUR
EXPERT COURSE LEADER
Dr.
Clifford (Cliff) R. Kettemborough’s professional background spans 30
years. His business and
management experience includes: developing
centers of business and organizational excellence, IT and technology-based
strategy development, strategic global marketing, business process
re-engineering, strategic global business management, continuous
quality/process improvement, achieving process and operational excellence,
total quality management, systems and software engineering, and technical
and organizational leadership. Dr.
Kettemborough’s knowledge,
experiences and superior presentation skills makes him very much in
demand with numerous training and
development organizations as a seminar/workshop
leader, as a professor to
numerous colleges and universities, or as a quest
speaker at professional conferences.
In addition, he is sought by companies wishing to understand how
to benefit from knowledge based economy, by helping them to improve
knowledge processes, increase
intellectual capital value,
importance of benchmarking and lead
major business changes. Dr.
Kettemborough functioned in professional positions, including senior
management for several large organizations such as: Boeing, NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of
Technology, Rockwell International (now Boeing Corp.), Xerox Corp., IBM
Corp. (Europe), Maxicare Health Plans, Inc., Transamerica Financial
Services, Corp., and Software
Analysis & Management, Inc. In
addition, Dr. Kettemborough is the Founder, President and Owner of
a high-tech organization established to help
companies with successful solutions to their technology, management and
business challenges, and an education and corporate training
provider that connects industry organizations with various educational and
training institutions to satisfy growing training needs of their
employees. Dr. Kettemborough has worked with prestigious
consulting firms, such as Ernst
& Young, PriceWaterhouse and McKensie
& Assoc. on technology and
business assessment and strategic planning projects. Dr.
Kettemborough has been invited as a guest
speaker to numerous seminars
and has conducted numerous workshops
and corporate training around the world.
He has extensive
intercultural experiences teaching numerous MBA,
EMBA, IMBA, DBA courses overseas (over 60). His industry consulting expertise has been appreciated by
numerous companies in several countries.
Dr. Kettemborough’s teaching,
seminars, workshops, guest speaker, and international consulting
experience includes numerous organizations across all types of
industries in The United States, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Austria,
Korea, Japan, P. R. China, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, The Philippines,
Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, Mongolia and Romania. In addition, Dr. Kettemborough has traveled to over 100
countries, thus being well versed in
many cultures and customs, both personal and for business purposes. In addition
to his professional career with several large business organizations, Dr.
Kettemborough is an accomplished
professor with outstanding
evaluations from undergraduate, graduate, and executive students, as
well as administrators. He
has extensive teaching and training experience at close to 30
different institutions ranging from high-school
to vocational college and to college and university graduate level on
three continents. He has
taught over 600 and a variety of courses (live) including over 100 on-line using Blackboard, Convene, eCollege, Embanet, eCompanion)
in Computer Science, Management of Information Systems, Computer
Information Systems, Mathematics, Business Administration, and Technology
Management. Dr.
Kettemborough is also listed
in "Who's Who in California,
West, America, World, Emerging Leaders in America, Science and
Engineering, Information Technology, International Who’s Who of
Professionals, World Who’s Who Hall of Fame", “International
Cultural Diploma of Honor” publications in U.S. and U.K.
“1996, 1998 Man of the
Year,” “1997 Platinum Record
for Exceptional Performance,” and
“Gold Record of Achievement
for 1999" awards from American Biographical Institute,
"2000 Outstanding Intellectuals
of the 20th Century,"
and “Top 100 Communicators –
2006” and "International
Man of the Year" from International Biographical
Centre, Cambridge, U.K. Member
of Research Board of Advisors - American
Biographical Institute.
He also is a member of several Professional
organizations such as: ACM, AIAA, AMA, AMS, DECUS,
ICCP, IEEE, ISACA, MAA, NMA, QAI. Military service:
major-lieutenant, in reserve, special operations.
Dr. Kettemborough has also received the
following awards: NASA/JPL
Leadership Award for Y2K Project Successful Completion, ahead of
schedule and he has been Nominated
Member in “Alfred Whitehead
Leadership Society” - 1996. Finally,
Dr. Kettemborough is sought by numerous world class publishing companies
as a consultant and textbook
reviewer, such as: Addison-Wesley,
McGraw-Hill, Pearson/Prentice-Hall, Thomson/Course Technology. Dr. Kettemborough’s formal
educational background spans over 30 years of undergraduate, graduate
and post –graduate work. He
holds numerous formal degrees, as follows: Doctor
of Education, Specialty:
Computer Technology in Education, Doctor of Philosophy in Business
Administration, Specialty:
Technology Management with “Honors”, Doctor
of Philosophy in Computer & Information Sciences with
“Honors”, Master in Education, Specialty:
Education Leadership, Master of Business Administration, Master of
Management Information Systems, Master of Science in Computer Science,
Studies in Cybernetics, Licentiate/Diplomat (Bachelor of Science with
Thesis) in Mathematics/Informatics/Operations
Research. COURSE FEES RM1,895 per person TEAM DISCOUNT (For organisations sending 3 or more participants) RM1,695 per person REGISTRATION DEADLINE2 weeks before each scheduled date. |
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