Transforming your Organization
   while Defeating the Competition

      Through Innovative Structuring,
        Talent Management, Cultural Change &
          21st Century Leadership

Monday, August 8^th, 2005   8:00am to 4:00pm
BMO Financial Group Institute for Learning
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Overarching Concept:

Workshop Purpose and Benefits:

This management workshop will assist company executives in: Achieving short-term “world class” performance levels in order to out-perform key business competitors. Transforming their enterprise through new combinations of concepts, capabilities, people and structures that exploit their company’s competitive advantages and protect against business vulnerabilities thereby sustaining ones strategic position in the global market-place. Adding innovation, creativity and adaptability to ones culture and value system.     Knowledge, insights and diagnostic tools will be shared with you that enable you to apply requisite organizational principles to your respective management systems. You will leave with an understanding of the critical "Five Steps to Achieving World Class Performance"... Establishing the Right Organization Structure Maximizing the Talent of your People Implementing Effective Business Systems and Processes Establishing a Supportive Work Culture Implementing a “World Class” Leadership Development Program ... and how these steps can be applied to in order to transform your organization, while defeating the competition!

Workshop Format:

Your Session Leaders:

	Michael A. Kirby Mr. Mike Kirby joined Secretary Francis Harvey's management team at HQDA on the 10th of June 2005 and will be serving as the Executive Director, Institutional Army Transformation. He will be responsible for implementing Secretary Harvey's business transformation initiatives. These include the efforts already launched by MG Ross Thompson which include the training of senior leaders in the management skills of designing and implementing lean six sigma management programs. He will also be responsible for implementing the Secretary's game plan for creating efficiencies throughout the Institutional Army. Mr. Kirby arrives from Northrop Grumman where he was Business Development Deputy of Mission Systems, a $4B sector of Northrop Grumman Corporation focused primarily on complex systems integration for defense and intelligence customers. He led the resource allocation process for bidding and development funds and managed company-wide business development initiatives. Additionally, he served as a consultant to the U.S. Army Science Board. Mr. Kirby has served as a combat arms officer in the U.S. Army. His last assignments included tours as the Executive Assistant to the Army Chief of Staff and as the leader of the Ground Maneuver Joint Warfighting Capability Assessment for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, JS.
	Steve Clement Dr. Stephen D. Clement is founder and President of Organizational Design, Inc. (ODI), of San Antonio, Texas. Organizational Design, Inc. is an international consulting firm founded in 1985 to assist executives in enhancing the profitability and productivity of their respective organizations. The firm holds the belief that building a competitive edge requires that a company establish a requisite organizational structure, define clear roles, assign competent people to such roles and establish clear working relationships. As a consultant to industry, Dr. Clement specializes in the application of basic design principles to the organization of work including key work related processes, and the underlying leadership and management skills required to perform such work effectively. Stephen developed the design principles used by ODI in partnership with Dr. Elliott Jaques, a world renowned organization expert. Dr. Clement and Dr. Jaques have co-authored a number of publications describing the underlying principle base, including a book titled "Executive Leadership-A Practical Guide to Managing Complexity". Dr. Clement has over thirty years of experience in the organizational development field. Dr. Stephen D. Clement, was recently appointed a special advisor to the Honorable Dr. Francis J. Harvey, Secretary of the Army. Dr. Clement is working with a special task force created by Secretary Harvey to overhaul senior staffs within the Department of Army. This includes the Pentagon Headquarters staff and comparable staffs at major subordinate commands throughout the world. The purpose of this restructuring effort is to transform the existing headquarters staff organizations to better support the on-going transformation of the field fighting forces. The changes are designed to decrease the size of the existing headquarters bureaucracy. These changes are also intended to decrease the cycle time of the existing decision making process while concomitantly increasing the Army's overall response rate to rapidly changing military situations. Dr. Clement is currently serving as a member of the Army Science Board where he chairs a special task force focusing on ways to institutionalize innovation and creativity in the U.S. Army.

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