Each year around 10% of Europe’s top 500 companies will replace their Chief Executives, and trends in the US indicate even higher rates of churn amongst senior business leaders. Each new CEO is under tremendous pressure to make their mark and bring about positive change. Many are under scrutiny as leaders of large publicly quoted companies, answerable to a plethora of investors and industry commentators all seeking evidence that the new CEO is pulling all the right levers to improve shareholder returns. As evidence will often be judged over relatively short horizons of perhaps a few months or years, it means that the new leader has little time to demonstrate tangible results.

Solving International is again invited back to provide a MASTER-CLASS addressing delegates at the leading IT and technology showcase, SOFTWORLD for the SUPPLY CHAIN. This year, Solving share insights on the key success factors for successful implementation.

Professor Alan Waller of Solving International is again delighted to be a leading contributor to Logicon 2008. This year, Alan will be chairing a workshop on the theme of Supply Chain Leadership.

Solving EFESO is pleased to be a major contributor and main events sponsor for the European Supply Chain and Logistics Summit to be held in Dusseldorf in May 2008 As part of the event Solving EFESO will be delivering an interactive workshop on the subject of Managing Complexity in the Supply Chain in a Commercially Effective Way.

“Human behaviour impacts supply chain performance”. Professor Alan Waller, Vice President Innovation, at Solving Efeso has been invited to return and give a keynote speech which sets out the challenges that human behaviour presents to supply chain practitioners and gives an insight into potential solutions to overcome these challenges.