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MUBBEG Calendar Dates for 2009
Business Breakfast Series (7.00am to 8.30am)
20th February 2009
Speaker: Mr Denis Keay, Lean Capabilities
Venue: Monash University, Berwick Campus
Just about any business can survive during a boom, but when times are tough many businesses fail due to negative cash-flow. This is usually because they apply out-dated 'traditional' work practices. However, campanies that apply 'Lean Thinking' practices typically weather the storm with much more resilience, by reducing their initial costs and capturing business from their competitors.
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15th May 2009
Speaker: Ms Andrea McCall, Monash University
Venue: Shanikas Italian Restaurant, Berwick
how do I attract and retain the right staff for my kind of business? What workplace strategies can I utilise to manage my industry's skills shortages, diversities and changing workscape? Andrea will explain how, through performance and reward management, you can successfully staff you busienss in an environment of skills and shortages and worplace change.
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24 July 2009
Speaker: Mr Gary Haywood, Design Victoria
Venue: The Berwick Inn, Berwick
Design Victoria aims to inspire retailers to look at their business differently, through best design practice in merchandising, shop fitting and interior design business activities. It is said that customers remember 5 per cent of what they read, 10 per cent of what they hear and 25 per cent of what they see. A good proportion of the experience customers seek is influenced by visual factors - store design and how products and goods are merchandised.
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2 October 2009
Speaker: Mr Paris Nicols, Service Growth Unit, EPA Victoria
Venue: TBA
Carbon Trading and how it will impact small to medium businesses. Paris Nichols joined the EPA's climate change policy team in 2005, and has worked on a number of projects since then, including: Greenhouse Gas Reporting and Disclosure; Carbon Neutrality; Guidance on Carbon Offsets; and more recently re-developing EPA's Greenhouse Calculator.
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27 November 2009
Speaker: Ms Kate O'Keeffe, Innovation Manager, South East Water
Venue: TBA
Innovation is much more than just new ideas, it is the process of transforming creativity and knowledge into value, and is a vital part of our business and our industry. Kate is an entrepreneur, small business owner and lecturer in eBusiness. Kate will look at idea generation and how to bring these ideas into being, and how to convert them into value for yourself, your staff and clients, and your business.
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For more information about these programs contact Jo Prezioso/Annita Allman, Executive Assistants, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University on 9904 7098 / 9904 7224 or mubbeg@buseco.monash.edu.au
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