You are invited to join members of the Executive Connection for our next speaker session, led by speaker Simon Waller on “Using Technology to Gear Up for Growth”

Using Technology to Gear Up for Growth

We are told ‘growth is good’ but anyone who has worked in or managed a growing business also knows it’s not always easy. ‘Scaling up’ is meant to make things cheaper and easier, but as an organisation grows and starts employing more people challenges start to emerge:

• it becomes harder to coordinate work between people

• it becomes harder to communicate and keep everyone informed

• work starts getting duplicated because of poor communication

• response times increase and customer service suffers

These all lead to decreasing productivity, more mistakes, overworked employees and growing frustration for business owners. But by digitising these activities leaders open up the ability to improve, streamline and automate them. This not only has the potential to reduce bottlenecks, increase productivity and improve quality, it also frees up the capacity which can enable future growth.

In this workshop Simon shares his framework for identifying and implementing digital improvement projects. He will take your members through a process mapping exercise to help identify where the bottlenecks are in their businesses and how to create a demand for change. He will also share the three skill sets every business needs to drive digital innovation projects and how they can develop them in house rather than constantly rely on expensive consultants.

Workshop Content

• Find out why most of the challenges of growth have almost nothing to do with production and everything to do with people

• Understand how Value Stream Mapping can not only identify improvement opportunities but also create an internal demand for change

• Identify technology improvement opportunities that can be immediately taken away and implemented (it is expected that everyone leaves the session with at least one $50,000 opportunity to pursue)

• Find out who should be driving these projects internally, what you should expect from them and how you can best support them

OUR SPEAKER, Simon Waller

Simon Waller is an international keynote speaker, published author and founder of the Digital Champions Club.

Simon’s experience sits at the intersection of business management, process improvement and technology. He has a long history of working in and managing small and medium sized businesses. In addition he has worked for multinational organisations driving operational efficiencies through methodologies such as LEAN and Six Sigma. He is also a trained futurist and speaks to international audiences about the impact of technology on business, people and society.

In 2015 Simon founded the Digital Champions Club, a peer learning community to help SMEs use technology to overcome the challenges of business growth

Along the way he has also written a couple of books: Analogosaurus: How to avoid extinction in a world of digital business was written to engage leaders in the opportunities that technology offers and The Digital Champion: Connecting the dots between people, work and technology is a practical guide to identifying and implementing the technology opportunities that enable growth.

You can find out more about Simon at Simon Waller Profile 

Comments from TEC presentations:

• “You provided some high value content and a useful tool that could be put into practice straight away. I would be very happy to recommend you to other TEC Chairs.”

• “Members thought the presentation excellent as is, and the only suggestions for improvement were to get you back again for a more detailed session!”

• “There was a consensus that your workshop stimulated a complete reassessment of how the members approach their use of technology and bring themselves up to speed and put themselves in a good place to take advantage of new developments as their occur.”

TEC members are high-integrity business leaders from a diverse range of industries who meet monthly to support each other and address the challenges of leading in these increasingly uncertain times.

The speaker session is the first part of a monthly all-day meeting and is attended by between 14 and 16 people. During the afternoon, the TEC members continue with their Executive Session. Our speakers are subject experts focused on stimulating active discussion with the group.

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