An Executive Dinner by GEN - The Global Executive Network is an excellent opportunity for exchanging ideas with experts and your peers and discussing the latest and most important trends for a specific industry-related or management-focused topic. Executive Dinners are usually attended by between 20 and 35 executive guests and participation is always free of charge. 

Learn at the "Strategic Planning as a Management Process" Executive Dinner how leading companies deal with the current market challenges and engage in high-level networking.

Today, many industries face the challenges of short innovation cycles, a rapidly changing competitive environment and continuous pressure on prices. Global companies, in particular, need to combine hard facts and figures with soft data such as information on the competition, the own market position and current trends, in order to be able to take strategic decisions in the best way possible.

You will learn how to:

• Compare hard facts with soft data for a more realistic planning
• Reduce your planning efforts by 60% through an efficient system and highly effective structures
• Simplify your planning processes and create transparency

This Executive Dinner is of particular interest to:

• Members of the executive board
• Managing directors
• Executives responsible for
  - Corporate development
  - Strategic planning
  - Corporate strategy
  - Controlling
  - Strategic controlling
  - Business development

Impressions of previous "Strategic Planning as a Management Process" Executive Dinners:

GUESTS

In February 2010, 24 guests from companies such as Energias de Portugal, Banco Comercial Português, Portugal Telecom, Sonae, REN Group, Banco BPI, Galp Energia, Cimpor, Brisa, Jerónimo Martins and others exchanged experiences and best practices, expanded their personal networks and engaged in shop talk.

DINNER SPEAKERS

At this Executive Dinner, you will listen to a "Strategic Planning as a Management Process" Dinner Speech (exactly 15 minutes) by a distinguished expert presenting a concrete business case. All dinners are sponsored by the speakers. The focus of the evening is to encourage quality networking among the guests, facilitated by detailed guest introductions and G.E.N.'s unrivaled Connecting Services.

OPINIONS
What participants say about our Executive Dinners:

"Outstanding contacts at the dinner and first-class information provided by a real insider."
"High level of guests, i.e. general, department, division, and project managers - a very successful ambience."
"Very good, condensed talks, completely understandable – a great deal of top-level insider news – definitely worth recommending!"

"Thank you very much for the updated list of participant summaries. The event in Zurich persuaded me: very good organization, wonderful atmosphere in the Guild Hall, with good food and excellent beverages, enough time for networking, and interesting introductions of the participants and short presentations by the sponsors. A big Thank You. I'm glad I was able to be there."
Urs D. Schmid
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