Public Service Events’ fourth annual Lean Government conference will offer practical sessions showcasing lean thinking in a public sector setting, sharing experiences and best practice. Delegates will receive an understanding of lean and its principles, a review of efficiency and lean initiatives in the public sector and lessons learned, and a range of case studies [...]

The Scenario Planning Master Class (SPMC), an advanced two-day training programme, will cover a broad range of case studies from a variety of sectors including energy, banking and telecommunications.

Chief executives are realising that the Euro crisis is a chronic, long term problem and that firms have to get to grips with it. The SPS is supporting a  conference, The Eurozone Crisis: Best Practice Contingency Planning for Financial Institutions and Corporates, which will help provide the necessary guidance. Rolf Strauch, Director of Research and [...]

The 12-13 March SPS Working Conference sponsored by Saïd Business School was attended by 60 delegates including senior strategy practitioners, academics, executives from other professions and strategists from the US Army Corps of Engineers. Delegates hailed from 15 nations, as far afield as Brazil, Qatar, Turkey, the USA and Australia, and had worked in an [...]

The inaugural SPS Strategy Club event at Strathclyde University on 7 February saw a full house of captivated students and local business people who are alumni. Dr George Burt, Full-time, Part-time and Flexible Learning MBA Course Director, introduced Kim Warren, Teaching Fellow at London Business School and creator of the Strategy Dynamics Approach, who gave [...]

In the past month support for the SPS business schools initiative has grown considerably. Saïd Business School and Oxford Brookes have both become corporate members of SPS and nominated faculty members. Duncan Angwin of Oxford Brookes and Richard Whittington of Saїd were instrumental in building the relationship with SPS and now plan to collaborate to [...]

In line with its mission to elevate strategy towards the status of established and recognised professional discipline, SPS will run a working conference on 13 March 2012 for those interested in the future of strategy as a professional discipline. A possible title for the event is: ‘Developing Strategy as a Profession’. The structure of the [...]

Following the first SPS Strategy Club event at Cardiff Business School which we reported on in the last newsletter, the first event at St Andrews business school on 16 November was also deemed a success. Students from all courses at the business school heard a presentation by Kim Warren, teaching Fellow at London Business School [...]

SPS is pleased to announce that we have agreed a partnership with IE Group, organisers of Strategy Summits for Heads of Strategy and C-Level Executives, for their event taking place in New York on 8 December. Others are planned for 2012.
As media partners to the events, videos of keynote addresses will be available to SPS [...]

Mark Anderson, President of Strategy and Business Development at Pearson International has agreed to speak at SPS Strategy Club events on the subject of strategic leadership. He is an SPS member and author of The Leadership Book (see SPS newsletter January 2011). “I am delighted to be supporting and contributing to the SPS Strategy Clubs [...]