SP-1 & SP-2 - From Vision to Strategy to Tactics
Facilitated by Dale Houle
November 4 at 9:30am, repeated at 2:30pm
There is a constant battle between meeting short-term performance expectations and achieving long-term strategic objectives in most organizations. This presentation demonstrates AGI’s approach to breaking that conflict once and for all and creating integrated and implementable strategies - from the boardroom to the frontlines, from the short-term to the long-term.

SP-3 - Creating Market Strategies
Facilitated by Tracey Burton-Houle
November 5 at 11:00am
It’s rare in these times to find an organization that isn’t struggling to increase their sales. Learn how to systematically create unrefusable, implementable offers (UROs) that will open the floodgates to sales and create for your organization a dominant and sustainable competitive advantage.

SP-4 - Developing and Integrating Market Strategy and Operations: A Detailed Case Study - Suntory
Facilitated by Eric DeSmet
November 5 at 4:00pm
Aligning an organization's operations with its business strategy is key to ensuring that an organization delivers on its commitments. Suntory successfully was able to align its Corporate Information Systems division with the businesses its served to deliver beyond its customers expectations, ahead of time and within budget. Learn the details of the TOC process Suntory used with the real life examples from their execution.

SP-5 - Show Me the Money! - Using TOC to Improve Your Organization’s Cash Flow
Facilitated by Hugh Cole
November 6 at 11:00am
It’s been said that if your business has cash, it’s not important - if it doesn’t have cash, nothing else is important. Come see how a TOC-based Strategy can help that Cash Flow Summary.

SP-6 - Creating Corporate Vision and Strategy: A Detailed Case Study - JRI
Facilitated by Eric De Smet
November 6 at 4:00pm
Follow the journey that JRI took to define, reach concensus on and commit to its corporate vision, and to create a robust and implementable strategy for aggressively pursuing it. Learn the details of the TOC process JRI used combined with real life examples from their strategy work. This session will take you through the real how to's of getting results.

SP-7 - Aligning an Organization to its Strategy
Facilitated by Bill McClelland
November 7 at 11:00am
Changes in functional, business, or organizational strategy invariably require changes in many peoples’ roles and responsibilities. Learn how to gain their active support and collaboration in the new direction.

SP-8 - When is it time to revisit a strategy?
Facilitated by Tracey Burton-Houle
November 7 at 4:00pm
Unfortunately, the effective lifespan of a strategy doesn’t always follow an organization’s yearly planning cycle, and hence, planning cycles should be driven by a strategy’s performance over time, not by the calendar. Learn how to track the performance of a strategy, identify when a strategy and/or its implementation are going astray, and when it’s time to initiate a new planning cycle.