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This may sound harsh but our business climate often appears heartless, even cruel. Under pressure, competitors scramble for sales discounting to the point of undermining everyone’s opportunity to create reasonable profit. Clients demand lower prices, higher quality, shorter lead times, and any number of impossible demands. It’s unlikely this scenario will change. It’s time to innovate, innovate, and innovate. This is not a time for high-sounding theories and speculation. Excessive experimentation or trial and error are margin-killers and could leave us vulnerable to enlightened competitors. Even at the operations level, we need innovation to meet the ever increasing demands of senior management and business owners.
If you’re open to another possibility, we invite you to invest two and a half hours with one of our most progressive and innovative clients. You’ll hear, first-hand, how they faced a tough marketplace, fierce, panicked competition, demands to increase performance levels as their U.S. parent-company struggled with a decimated market. JELD-WEN Canada sells doors and windows to new-home builders. Imagine the spot they were in at the end of 2009 and early 2010. To hear a 5-part interview with Jesse Hawthorne, click here.
In this action-packed seminar, you’ll hear no wild theories, no “war stories” from across the border, speculation, or exaggerated, self-serving stories. Instead, you’ll hear specific examples from Canadians who created genuine, measurable, bottom-line results in a depressing business climate. Jesse Hawthorne, general manager of the Vaughan JELD-WEN plant, kept his team focused, faced the dragon, and came up with unprecedented outcomes in these horrific circumstances.
To download a one-page summary of the JELD-WEN innovation story click here.
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Jesse and his team innovated like never before. He applied more than lean manufacturing principles, brainstorming, idea-finding, creativity, Six Sigma, or any number of traditional business improvement methods. You’ll meet and hear Emma Williams, a key member of the JELD-WEN innovation team share her experience with this process.
This is a one-of-a kind opportunity and all we ask is two and a half hours of your time. You won’t sit through a sales pitch, fluff, or people no longer actively involved in day-to-day operations. Instead, you’ll hear, first-hand, real-life experiences from the people who lived through it and are still in the game here in Canada.
This innovation process has been used by a non-profit, charitable organization to stimulate large donations in a tough economy; a software developer to bring speed, accuracy and customer-friendly reports to their products and services; a retailer to increase the average sale per visit while increasing customer satisfaction scores; a retailer to drive over a million dollars of waste out of their system; an engineering firm to connect at a deeper level with clients and reduce the time and cost of responding to requests for proposals; a service organization to reduce turnover and reduce the time and money it takes to attract, hire and retain people; a global organization to streamline their on-boarding process and attract the best candidates during competitive times; and a sales organization to increase sales by taking customers away from the competition. Register today!
Who Should Attend?
This workshop is intended for CEOs, Business Owners, Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Directors, General Managers, Operations Managers, Human Resource Managers and C-Level Executives.
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