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- New programs approved
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Analyzing history through a modern business lens
Renowned business consultant and author Mark Kozak-Holland will visit Peterborough on Friday, April 11 to speak to Fleming College students in the post-graduate Global Supply Chain Management program.
This guest lecture has been rescheduled from an earlier date of February 7, which had to be cancelled due to inclement weather.
Mr. Kozak-Holland will present “Churchill’s Demand Driven Supply Chain: Beaverbrook’s story.” Entertaining and full of intriguing historical details, the presentation focuses on how British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Canadian Lord Beaverbrook jump-started production of RAF aircraft in the wake of an invasion threat from Germany during World War II.
The presentation looks at how Churchill and Beaverbrook initiated a project that moved the peacetime economy into one that could support a war. This included acting with agility, understanding the supply chain and focusing strained resources on the threat as well as how:
• Churchill and Beaverbrook overcame institutionalized resistance to change
• Beaverbrook selected his project team
• Best practices were brought in from various industries
• Preconceived notions were continuously challenged
• Metrics were used to track and guide the project
This historical analysis is done through a modern business lens, describing Beaverbrook’s actions and strategy using modern business tools and techniques.
Mr. Kozak-Holland has helped numerous Fortune 500 companies leverage emerging technologies, straddling the two worlds of business and information technology. He is also a historian, seeking out the wisdom of the past to help others avoid repeating mistakes and to capture time-proven techniques. This presentation is just one in a series authored by Mr. Kozak-Holland at www.lessons-from-history.com.
The presentation is free and open to the public. It will take place at the Sutherland Campus, 599 Brealey Dr. in Peterborough from 10:30 a.m. to noon on April 11.
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For more information:
Laura Copeland, Communications Officer, 749-5530 ext. 1370 or copeland@flemingc.on.ca