The accepted standard for the understanding of best practice business process integration and improvement.

Organisations seeking success on the journey to excellence must develop a critical mass of practical and well-founded knowledge amongst managers, team leaders, functional specialists and project leaders. It is vital that every part of the team understands how the company seeks to work in practice as a whole.

This course provides the foundation of understanding of how to operate the organisation as an integrated business and the multiple transitions along its journey to excellence. It provides a thorough understanding of the Oliver Wight Integrated Business Model and demonstrates the crucial role of Integrated Business Management in meeting today’s targets and re-optimising the business in response to change whilst achieving strategic objectives.

Taken with a supporting expert application course, it enables managers to see their role in implementing and managing through integrated business processes and the critical role of supportive behaviours. It will further provide the knowledge for them to design and introduce new accelerated processes.

This course provides a practical and thorough overview of the proven techniques to implement and operate integrated planning and control whilst pursuing the journey to excellence. This includes an introduction to the comprehensive Oliver Wight Class A Checklist for Business Excellence together with a step-by-step understanding of the process characteristics and behaviours to achieve Class A performance. The course explains the role of Integrated Business Management in setting and maintaining the business plan; it describes the prime business processes of Product Management, Demand Management, Internal Supply and Management of the Extended Supply Chain. It presents the Oliver Wight Proven Path implementation methodology, which has been successful over 30 years of client projects and highlights the role of process acceleration in the step change of process performance throughout the business.

This recognised industry standard course is the only course available in the UK to provide such a broad yet deep understanding of excellence in all business processes and their integration to one management agenda whilst emphasising the crucial underpinning behaviours required for success. This course provides a firm foundation of understanding leading to further attendance at one of our appropriate expert courses.

Course Duration:

3 Days

Course Fee:

£1,795 per delegate