At Beyond Budgeting 2017, the third conference run in partnership between Happy and the Beyond Budgeting Institute, we welcomed seven speakers from a variety of commercial backgrounds: Bjarte Bogsnes, Anders Oleson, Mira Gvozdenovic, Henry Stewart, John Seddon, and Kevin McCoy and Chris Hannay of Next Jump.
At the 2017 Beyond Budgeting Conference, Henry Stewart talked about why you should make your people the main focus of management in your organisation, and gave examples for organisations who have achieved that.
At the 2017 Beyond Budgeting Conference, Mira Gvozdenovic talked about how Beyond Budgeting was implemented at Coloplast, and how this created impressive results across the business.
Anders Olesen is the Director of the Beyond Budgeting Institute, and in this full-length video, he talks about the 12 Beyond Budgeting principles and the benefits scrapping the annual budget has to your organisation.
In this two-minute video, Henry Stewart explains the financial evidence and academic research behind happy workplaces. The Best Workplaces have a Four Factor Alpha of 3.5% on the stock market, compared to ordinary workplaces. Plus, happy workplaces save lives – for every 96 deaths in a happy and engaged hospital, 103 people die in a hospital where staff are disengaged and unhappy.
In this 2-minute video, Mira Gvozdenovic (formerly of Coloplast) explains the issues with the traditional yearly budgeting model – and why Coloplast changed to a high-level rolling forecast instead.
In this two minute video, Bjarte Bogsnes (Chairman at the Beyond Budgeting Institute) talks about evergreen targets at Statoil, and why you should deploy them in your own business.
In this two-minute video, John Seddon (Managing Director Vanguard Consulting) explains about failure demand – and why managers shouldn’t focus on managing costs.
In this two-minute video, Kevin McCoy (Co-Founder at Next Jump) talks about some of the issues that come up when trying to push as much decision-making capability down to the lowest level of your organisation as possible. Do you recognise these behaviours in your organisation?
In this two minute video, Anders Olesen (Director of the Beyond Budgeting Institute) talks about the paradox between management innovation and technological innovation.
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