Xpel Balances Customer Responsiveness With Manufacturing Scale
CEO Pape has built markets by contracting output but believes it might be time for vehicle-coatings company to do-it-yourself.
Get pragmatic, unfiltered advice on issues essential to manufacturing leaders in this series of interactive engagements with experts on topics from cybersecurity to energy efficiency.
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What can manufacturing companies do to ensure access to the coveted skilled workforce and community support upon which their success or failure hangs in the balance? This session will explore this question by providing a systematic framework for formulating and implementing manufacturing strategies to enhance success, competitiveness and performance. The strategic advantage bestowed by culture, both internal and external to the manufacturing company, is analyzed using the strategic management framework.
Successful manufacturing business models require high productivity. Higher productivity allows a company to earn more profit, pay higher wages, and charge lower prices. Achieving it requires sophisticated integration of technology, training, and hiring. Reshoring, automation, artificial intelligence, permanent labor shortages, and other new economic phenomena have changed how companies should manage productivity. This session offers new guidance on how manufacturing executives can lift the productivity of their talent and fixed assets.
In this masterclass, Professor Phil Powell at Indiana University, will help you understand the forces that drive inflation and what we need to see for a return to the stability enjoyed before the pandemic. He will also dive deeper into how to better frame your inflation challenges and adjust business practices that better protect your company from unexpected price increases.
CEO Pape has built markets by contracting output but believes it might be time for vehicle-coatings company to do-it-yourself.
Ford CEO Jim Farley turns to a trusted lieutenant as the CEO of an enterprise expected to grow to $45 billion by 2025.
Air Protein CEO Dyson oversees development of what might be the ultimate sustainability play.
CEO Washburn inks deals with American Airlines, Lincoln and others while emphasizing the brand’s birthplace
Founder and CEO Marty Davis pushes product innovations, manufacturing technology and worker development.
CEO Beck emphasizes internal control and scalability of crucial functions—but outsources manufacturing.
CEO Happe has turned around RV giant by entering growing sectors—even acquiring a boat maker.
CEO Schabel needs manufacturing workers more than ever, but they’ve got to satisfy standards for integrity and trust.
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1:00 - 5:00 pm
Over 70% of Executives Surveyed Agree: Many Strategic Planning Efforts Lack Systematic Approach Tips for Enhancing Your Strategic Planning Process
Executives expressed frustration with their current strategic planning process. Issues include:
Steve Rutan and Denise Harrison have put together an afternoon workshop that will provide the tools you need to address these concerns. They have worked with hundreds of executives to develop a systematic approach that will enable your team to make better decisions during strategic planning. Steve and Denise will walk you through exercises for prioritizing your lists and steps that will reset and reinvigorate your process. This will be a hands-on workshop that will enable you to think about your business as you use the tools that are being presented. If you are ready for a Strategic Planning tune-up, select this workshop in your registration form. The additional fee of $695 will be added to your total.
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Female leaders face the same issues all leaders do, but they often face additional challenges too. In this peer session, we will facilitate a discussion of best practices and how to overcome common barriers to help women leaders be more effective within and outside their organizations.
Limited space available.
10:30 - 5:00 pm
General’s Retreat at Hermitage Golf Course
Sponsored by UBS
General’s Retreat, built in 1986 with architect Gary Roger Baird, has been voted the “Best Golf Course in Nashville” and is a “must play” when visiting the Nashville, Tennessee area. With the beautiful setting along the Cumberland River, golfers of all capabilities will thoroughly enjoy the golf, scenery and hospitality.
The golf outing fee includes transportation to and from the hotel, greens/cart fees, use of practice facilities, and boxed lunch. The bus will leave the hotel at 10:30 am for a noon shotgun start and return to the hotel after the cocktail reception following the completion of the round.