With 44 top notch speakers and 57 sessions over two days this is Europe’s premier annual event for those folks interested in all things Process. Also featuring the Annual awards we have submissions from more than 20 companies across categories including Innovation, manufacturing, financial services, fast track and technology. Steve Towers will be delivering his keynote on the theme of “Process Excellence to Business Excellence” and featuring several new case studies and 2007-8 research findings from the Bennu Group. Full members will be able to download the presentation later in the week.

If you want to book last minute and join several hundred Process & Performance explorers, guru’s and Masters visit www.iqpc.com/uk/processexcellence/2020

Several Bennu Group people will be there so make yourselves known to Steve Towers or John Corr and they may even buy you a drink in the wonderful Queen Elizabeth 2 Centre.

Gilead Systems wins the Triple Crown – simultaneously improving revenues, reducing costs and enhancing service.
As Business Week puts it in the prelude to this years review of the top 50 performers in Standard and Poors 500 stock index “for many years pharmaceutical companies viewed the development of HIV treatments as a necessary – but unprofitable – public service. There was some logic to that view, given that the majority of victims lived in developing nations and were unable to pay what drug makers could earn from selling other products. But Gilead Systems had a different perspective"

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By Steve Towers & Terry Schurter

It’s a confusing world out there. At the last count there were over 6,000 improvement methodologies (Wikipedia) all geared to helping organizations get better at business. So at least there’s always been plenty of choice depending on your particular flavor of the month however one has to ask the question why so many and why do even the better ones fail to help our companies adapt and change? (more…)

Many of us know the excellent work Virgin Group are undertaking in meeting Customer Expectations. Here’s the latest from the horses mouth… virgin - it’s all about people (powerpoint)

By 2011, according to the International Air Traffic Association (IATA) there will be 4.75 billion airline passengers a year. In other words that’s the equivalent of 3 out of every 4 people on the planet taking a flight in one year, and everyone of those trips involves an average of 1.6 bags per person – that is 7.6 billion bags a year. Every bag has a unique bar-marked id attached, however despite that it is estimated 1 in 100 gets misplaced, involving finding, tracking and reconciling with worried owners. If the ‘lost’ bags were lined up end to end the line they would stretch to the moon and back. (more…)