Farmers Business Network Plows New Ground
Startup is bringing Amazon-like price transparency to the Farm Belt, upsetting giant legacy players.
Startup is bringing Amazon-like price transparency to the Farm Belt, upsetting giant legacy players.
The technology holds great promise, no question—but deployment must be done strategically, and with the understanding that you likely won’t see gains on its first attempt to integrate.
Will high-performance computing level the playing field for small businesses? Will board integrity return to startups? What role will strategic partnerships play? Read on.
As companies get more sophisticated, hackers are finding new weak spots. Often, that means attacking a company through its suppliers.
Dun & Bradstreet CFO Bryan Hipsher shares his experience doing a roadshow with no road and why a good finance chief is like “the consigliere to the CEO.”
Over the next five years, the rise in digital interactions between buyers and suppliers will break traditional sales models. Here are five guidelines to ensure that your business is the ‘disruptor,’ not the ‘disrupted.’
CEOs must continue to walk that fine line: quickly adopting tech that is neither too costly nor unnecessarily time-consuming, but still leads to rapid growth.
What brands really need is to plug into real-time data feeds that can show them how audience habits are changing and how to proactively bolster consumer engagement and loyalty.
The question is, how to make it really work for you? A few secrets of success from a company that has been remote right from the start.
In sector after hard-hit sector, corporate leaders forged paths through the last eight months, with pluck, luck and a whole lot of ingenuity.
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1:00 - 5:00 pm
Over 70% of Executives Surveyed Agree: Many Strategic Planning Efforts Lack Systematic Approach Tips for Enhancing Your Strategic Planning Process
Executives expressed frustration with their current strategic planning process. Issues include:
Steve Rutan and Denise Harrison have put together an afternoon workshop that will provide the tools you need to address these concerns. They have worked with hundreds of executives to develop a systematic approach that will enable your team to make better decisions during strategic planning. Steve and Denise will walk you through exercises for prioritizing your lists and steps that will reset and reinvigorate your process. This will be a hands-on workshop that will enable you to think about your business as you use the tools that are being presented. If you are ready for a Strategic Planning tune-up, select this workshop in your registration form. The additional fee of $695 will be added to your total.
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Female leaders face the same issues all leaders do, but they often face additional challenges too. In this peer session, we will facilitate a discussion of best practices and how to overcome common barriers to help women leaders be more effective within and outside their organizations.
Limited space available.
10:30 - 5:00 pm
General’s Retreat at Hermitage Golf Course
Sponsored by UBS
General’s Retreat, built in 1986 with architect Gary Roger Baird, has been voted the “Best Golf Course in Nashville” and is a “must play” when visiting the Nashville, Tennessee area. With the beautiful setting along the Cumberland River, golfers of all capabilities will thoroughly enjoy the golf, scenery and hospitality.
The golf outing fee includes transportation to and from the hotel, greens/cart fees, use of practice facilities, and boxed lunch. The bus will leave the hotel at 10:30 am for a noon shotgun start and return to the hotel after the cocktail reception following the completion of the round.