Profit 101 - Pathways to Growth Overview This training provides hands on experience with a collection of data-proven tools and tactics for reducing risk and increasing success with new products, services, customers and markets. It reviews the world's best practice in the areas of innovation, product development, marketing, sales, new customer and market development and accelerating ideas to market. Learning retention increases exponentially when you interact and use new knowledge. Therefore, the entire program is set against a fictional case-study that parallels the current business conditions for many companies in today's economy. You learn from real-world examples of businesses that have recently achieved impressive and robust growth, and increased their value. You leave feeling inspired about the future potential in your business and take away insights that you can immediately apply to your business. Who Should Attend Business Owners and CEOs, Start Up Companies, Strategic Planners, Plant Managers, Marketing Personnel, New Product Developers Brief Course Outline Sharpening your MARKETING message to TRIPLE your selling effectiveness Using customer MINING to improve your team’s innovation abilities by 7X Using COLLABORATION with suppliers & innovators to speed time to market by 5X How to “think like a START UP” in order to restart, reboot & revitalize your profits Why “breaking down employee SILOS” is the missing 98% for success with growth Kirk Manor – Project Manager, AMS Kirk Manor is a Project Manager for AMS, a Winrock strategic partner. As a member of the Winrock team, Kirk’s responsibilities include Strategic Management, Lean Manufacturing, Growth Strategy Planning and Coaching, Transformation Management, Quality Management, and Leadership Development. Kirk leads and performs assessments of client companies to obtain information necessary to identify operational improvements in areas such as manufacturing/conversion, growth services, integrated business planning, and quality management. Greene County Industrial Training Consortium & Training Center Black River Technical College 870-239-0969 • 1 Black River Dr. • Paragould, AR 72450 ©2007-2008 ~ All rights reserved Find an error on this site? Contact Webmaster: Audra Howerton