Conference Explores Strategies for Today's Unpredictable Business Environment.LOS ANGELES -- Success in a millennium marked by dramatic change requires new strategies. Today, a convergence of forces - economic uncertainty, global competition, governmental turmoil, rapidly-developing new technologies, war, and intense security concerns - present unprecedented challenges for organizations. In response, the Association for Strategic Planning (ASP, www.strategyplus.org) announced that it is partnering with Pepperdine University to deliver ASPs fourth annual "Strategy in Action" Conference on November 8th, 2004, at the Renaissance Hotel at the Los Angeles Airport. The conference, "Strategy in a Turbulent World," focuses on how leaders can interpret today's new realities, formulate viable choices, and execute strategies under extreme uncertainty. The highly-interactive conference includes discussions by leading strategists, CEOs, academics and authors to explore how businesses can survive and thrive in this period of rapid change. Industries represented include airline, entertainment, healthcare, technology, homeland security, mortgage, finance, distribution, retail and non-profit. Keynote speakers for the 2004 conference are: Dwight Allen, Deloitte Research, David La Piana, expert in non-profit organization management, Peter Bershatsky , representing Geoffrey Moore's Chasm Group. CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and Executive presenters at the Conference include executives from United Airlines, the Jane Goodall Institute The Jane Goodall Institute was founded by Jane Goodall and Genevieve, Princess di San Faustino, in 1977. In 1991, JGI launched its widest-reaching program: Roots & Shoots, a program about making positive change happen—for our communities, for animals and for the environment. , Larta, Global Business Network, WMC WMC Winter Music Conference WMC Weill Medical College (Cornell University) WMC Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (Madison, WI) WMC Westchester Medical Center WMC Western Mining Corporation Mortgage, a GE Consumer Finance Company, Warner Home Video Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (for Warner Communications, Inc.). It was re-named Warner Home Video in 1980. , Sport Chalet, Inc., United West Labs and Prepaid Concepts, Inc. Interactive and workshop session leaders include companies such as Valley Credit Union Valley Credit Union was founded in 1953 to serve the employees of the San Jose Telephone Company. , CogniTech, Weyerhaeuser, Cisco Systems, and Gap Inc. About the Association for Strategic Planning Founded in 1999, The Association for Strategic Planning is a national not-for-profit professional association dedicated to advancing thought and practice in strategy development and deployment for businesses, non-profit and government organizations, and academic institutions. For further information contact Janice Laureen at (877) 816-2080, executivedirector@strategyplus.org or visit the Association for Strategic Planning web site at www.strategyplus.org About Pepperdine University The Graziadio School of Business and Management, is the nation's fifth largest graduate business school accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. (AACSB AACSB Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (formerly American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business) AACSB American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business International) and enrolls approximately 2,400 students in its full- and part-time programs. For further information contact Lori Putnam at (310).568.5550 or visit the Graziadio School Website at http://bschool.pepperdine.edu/newsevents/ |
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