Dates: 07 November 2006 to 08 November 2006
Venue: Novotel, Hammersmith, London

The two day event, Peter Collin, CITI, discusses the frustrations and successes when translating strategy into action. On day two, Thomas Docker, CITI, joins GCHQ to discuss the value of sharing skills and best practice between GCHQ and Eurostar.

DAY ONE: Strategic Moves

Peter Collin, Principal Consultant

Strategies may be difficult to define, and developing the business vision may cause considerable anguish, but the source of most board level irritation and despondency, is the inability to translate the strategy into action. This session describes strategy implementation planning, a thoroughly tested approach to executing a business vision – translating the desirable into the ‘doable’.

Using this approach, programme directors and programme sponsors can definitively establish the viability and validity of the vision – testing the linkage between the blueprint (target operating model) and the benefits.

DAY TWO: Skill Swap – GCHQ and Eurostar

Steve Jones, GCHQ and Thomas Docker, Chairman

Through CITI’s Centres of Excellence Club, a unique chance to develop skills through experiencing life in another sector has given a project manager at Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ) a wider window on their professional world.

One of GCHQ’s developing project managers was sent to gain experience in a different sector through a five-month placement with the high speed train operator Eurostar, at its main offices at Waterloo International Station in London. Although the business drivers differed between the organisations, there were many similar project issues. Steve Jones of GCHQ and Thomas Docker of CITI will discuss the drivers, the experience and the results.