BUSINESS / PUBLIC SECTOR PERFORMANCE ROUNDTABLE
8 July 2015
Cranfield School of Management
09.30
Registration and Coffee
10.00
Welcome and Introductions
10.05
Creating and Delivering a Commercial Strategy – a Case Study
Ed Turner, Managing Partner of law firm Taylor Vinters
Creating and delivering a commercial strategy – a case study
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Refocusing Taylor Vinters
The process of developing and implementing the new strategy
The importance of engagement for success
11.30
Coffee break
11.45
Managing Complex Projects
Patrick Hoverstadt, Visiting Fellow, Cranfield School of Management
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13.00
Getting large complex projects to deliver continues to be a problem for both the public
and private sectors – this session looks at some of the underlying causes and why
conventional project management approaches fail to handle complexity and
uncertainty
Conventional and systemic approaches use different paradigms to manage complexity
and uncertainty – we’ll look at how and where each paradigm can be effective and the
limits of effectiveness of each – including the limitations of both PRINCE and Agile
We’ll then map out an alternative approach to managing complex projects built from a
set of well proven systemic tools and how these can be integrated into a complex
project management approach
Lunch
CENTRE FOR BUSINESS PERFORMANCE
WWW.KNOWLEDGEINTOACTION.CO.UK
14.00
Public Sector Balanced Scorecard Implementation
Akin Soname, Cranfield School of Management
Akin will talk about the case of implementing a balanced scorecard in the Central Bank of
Nigeria.
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14.45
History of the balanced scorecard in the Central Bank of Nigeria
The context of the Nigerian public sector.
The issue of implementation.
People and Performance
Mike Bourne, Cranfield School of Management
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15.45
16.00
Present some of the evidence we have created over the years that focus on what
aspects of performance measurement and management can be shown to be beneficial
Facilitate a discussion around your understanding of how people and systems deliver
performance
Unpick some of the tools and frameworks to see if this can help our understanding
Feedback and Review
Depart
Venue
Cranfield Management Development Centre
Cranfield, Bedford, MK43 0AL
Date for your diaries 2015
Wednesday, 28 October
For more information about the roundtable, or to book your place, please contact:
Ben Hamilton
Cranfield School of Management
Cranfield, Bedford, MK43 0AL
+44 (0)1234 751122
b.hamilton@cranfield.ac.uk
m.bourne@cranfield.ac.uk