Operations and Business Processes

Find the answers.
What is the scalability and financial viability of outsourcing for your company? How can you make a case for security and business continuity? Are you getting the most value out of your suppliers? You do not need to face these questions alone. With more than 60 conferences, councils, and research working groups addressing these challenges, The Conference Board Operations Program provides the network and the knowledge that can help you find the answers.

Events/Forums

Conferences

Corporate Development Conference
Enabling the Capital Agenda

Supplier Relationship Management Conference
Driving Value, Mitigating Risk, and Accelerating Innovation through Collaboration

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Councils

Purchasing and Supply Leadership Council
The Council provides an exclusive network for the candid exchange of best practices and issues critical to the success of a company’s purchasing organization.

Information Research and Management Council
Explores timely issues involving the strategic management of internal and external information resources.

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Research Working Group

Implementing Strategic Workforce Planning Research Working Group
To help your company's transition and further your understanding of the complexities of Strategic Workforce Planning, this working group will explore best practices through discussions, presentations, and member-guided research.

Webcasts

Business Ethics

Webcast

Conference KeyNotes: Senior Marketing Executive

The Conference Board KnowlEdge Series®
Climate Change: Getting the Incentives Right

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Publications

Executive Action Reports
Shift in U.S. Policy on Climate Change Opens a New Era for Business It's no longer business as usual when it comes to climate change. A significant change of direction for U.S. regulatory policy on the issue will eventually affect all of business.		Waddayaknow? Knowledge Management Can Be an Organization's Key to Survival This Executive Action report uses three case studies to build a business case for implementing Knowledge Management, and provides tips for making KM work.
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Research Reports
Protecting Critical Infrastructure: A Cross-Border Action Plan Much of the critical infrastructure on which the citizens of the United States and Canada depend—transportation, energy, and communications systems, among others—exists on both sides of the border.		Innovation and US Competitiveness: Reevaluating the Contributors to Growth This report takes stock of the innovation capabilities of the U.S. economy, including hurdles to maintaining the nation's leadership position, and recommends some means and methods of overcoming those obstacles.
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