The University of Auckland Business School
Auckland, New Zealand
http://www.uco.canterbury.ac.nz/

Inventory Record Accuracy

Knowing how much inventory you have is a fundamental core sub-process of the supply chain. This course is designed to provide you with a proven and practical methodology which will allow you to secure a minimum of 95% Inventory Record Accuracy (IRA). The process developed will enable you to comfortably secure best practice status and eliminate the non-value adding wasteful stock taking proces......
 

Our business success is determined by the decisions we make. Flexibility and adaptability are vital components of decision making. This course is designed to give organizational members a number of tools in order to make decisions wisely. During the two days participants will be involved in a number of practical exercises to illustrate the key attributes of adaptability and flexibility. Top......
 

Value Stream Mapping is a fundamental part of Lean Thinking. You will learn to build a Value Stream Map for one customer process, with elimination of waste as a key objective. This practical Short Course will focus on examples from the Toyota Motor Corporation, an innovative organisation that utilises Lean Thinking. Toyota Motor Company has been quietly revolutionising the manufacturing wo......
 

There are 3 key elements which will form the core of the Strategic Implementation course: Speed of Implementation Efficiency of Implementation Effectiveness of Implementation The key resources required to execute this plan are People �Process �Systems �Personality. Leaders can improve Strategic Performance by: Focussing on Implementation �not the grandstanding “motivate the tr......
 

We all set out to hire the best people, yet not all of us succeed. Having the right people in the right roles increases an organisation’s ability to realise their competitive advantage through alignment of capability and business strategy. Organisation’s must hire and promote people that are capable of meeting or exceeding the demands of the job. This can be easier said than done, the key to su......
 

Most strategic planning processes work from today forward not from the future back - implicitly assuming, whatever the evidence to the contrary, that the future will be more or less like the present. Only a tiny percentage of the industry conventions are ever challenged, rendering strategy-making largely extrapolative. Topics Covered Over the 2 days you will cover: Strategy Development......
 

We are negotiating every day…often unknowingly. Negotiation and influencing skills are increasingly important in producing better outcomes at all levels of organisational life. Very few companies realize the potential of thinking systematically about their negotiating activities as a whole. This course examines the critical negotiation process steps as well as placing strategic negotiati......
 

To gain an in-depth understanding of International business continuity management best practices, guidelines and governance structures and how they can be applied within New Zealand businesses To gain greater appreciation of the essential links existing and emerging between Operational Risk, Business Continuity and Corporate Governance. To gain knowledge of and experience in using practical t......
 

Planning for growth is a cardinal element of any ongoing business enterprise, as no commercial venture can remain stagnant and expect to stay at the top. Managers of business enterprises should possess the skill to appreciate how economic forces of the market place create both opportunities and the constraints for making profit as well as formulating a plan for market growth. To this end an und......
 

New Product Development (NPD) is one of the most important processes for many companies. It is the long term life blood of the organisation. Ultimately, it will drive growth, customer value and return to shareholders. However, it is frequently poorly managed, with a range of functional silos responsible for various elements resulting in poor communication, confusion and possible failure. ......
 

The ability to negotiate well is both a key business skill and an important ‘life skill� Most of us regardless of the position we hold or the type of business we work in find ourselves negotiating, either formally or informally, on an almost daily basis. It has been said that ‘there is no easier place in the commercial process to make or lose money than at the negotiation table� I t would p......
 

Many people are promoted into management and leadership positions because of their technical expertise. Yet managing and leading people effectively requires a new set of skills. This workshop deals with the key issues of understanding the people you work with, and how to communicate effectively with them. It offers essential skills for communication, dealing with issues, leadership and motivati......
 

Discovering that your idea of ‘teamwork�and collaboration is turning out to be quite different from others in your multicultural team? Wondering why your diverse top talent team fails to meet its ‘deliverables�deadline? Finding productivity is reduced because of conflict and loss of trust in your multicultural teams? Believe that virtual communication can bridge all these sticky cross-cult......
 

As organisations grow and evolve they face different challenges and requirements in terms of both externally focused activities such as sales and marketing, and internally focused activities such as financial control. Successful growth can cause its own problems if all an organisation’s resources are not focused and co-ordinated to achieve the same result looking forward. Competing over custome......
 

If you’re like the majority of New Zealand’s managers, with plenty of experience but little if any formal management training, then this workshop is for you! It will hone your current skills, reinforce some key management concepts and give you some ideas and tools you can use bring out the best in yourself and your team. Finding the best people is competitive and expensive, so keeping them ......
 

Laws, regulations, government policies and practices shape the way we do business. That’s true whether your business is operating nationwide or just in one region. Often businesses (and others) want a say in how those policies and practices are developed and implemented. If your business needs some part of the government �either central or local - to be listening to you about a particular issu......
 

Why do 70% of mergers, 65% of change programmes and 50% of attempts at internationalising fail? Is it because people did not plan? Is it because they did not implement? Or is it because they assumed these issues were solvable based on past experience�. but they were not. This is the area of complexity - where too many variables are interacting and the outcome is not a forgone concl......
 

Governance skills have become increasingly critical for directors and managers. Understanding the value of boards, why they exist, how they should operate and how to support them is an essential component in modern CEO and senior management tool kit. This course provides the essential concepts of the way a board operates, the necessary theory and practice and the skills to allow you to opera......
 

“Designing and producing an event �whether it is a meeting, corporate event, fund-raising gala, conference, convention, incentive or other special event �has been compared to directing a movie but it is actually more like a live stage production. It is a high-wire act without the safety nets. Once your event starts there are no second chances� Judy Allen, Event Planning An event is a......
 

This course covers everything you want to know about economics but were too embarrassed to ask! Economics is the study of our market system; it’s the study of how people make choices about what they buy, what they produce, and how our market system works. This course should clear up some of these mysteries with clear answers. Topics Covered Over the 2 days we will cover: What is e......
 

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