BigBuilder 08 - The tools to succeed - (Page 4) CONFERENCE PROGRAM DIRECTORS Jim Bagley, President, Americrest Homes Bill Becker, Managing Director and President, The William E. Becker Organization Tony Callahan, Senior VP of National Purchasing, Planning and Design, Beazer Homes Mollie Carmichael, Senior Vice President, John Burns Real Estate Consulting Larry Comegys, Managing Director, Algon Group Tom Eggleston, CEO, CP Morgan Clark Ellis, Principal, FMI Kim Ence, President, Ence Homes Martin Freedland, CEO, The Berke Group Steve Friedman, Partner, Ernst & Young Chuck Fuhr, Atlanta Division President, Ryland Homes Patrick Higgins, VP of Sales and Marketing, John Laing Homes Ara Hovnanian, CEO, Hovnanian Enterprises Shyam Kannan, VP & Director of Research and Development, RCLCO Michael Medick, VP of Architecture and Planning, John Wieland Homes & Neighborhoods John Monocci, Senior VP of Operations, Winchester Homes Sheryl Palmer, CEO and President, Taylor Morrison Laurence Pelosi, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley Merchant Banking Ken Pinto, National Program Manager, Standard Pacific Homes Jamie Pirrello, CFO, Michael Sivage Homes Ron Robichaud, Managing Director, Robichaud Financial Services Scott Schapiro, CFO, Highland Homes Pat Schiewitz, Director, Standard Pacific Homes Mike Snider, Executive VP of Home Building, LGI Dominick Tringali, Founder, Dominick Tringali Architects John Tsui, President, Peninsula House Chris Ward, Principal, Magnolia Development Larry Webb, Former CEO, John Laing Homes Eric Weesner, Director, National Accounts, Taylor Morrison BLUEPRINT FOR IMPROVED PROFITABILITY A FIVE-PART BUSINESS STRATEGY WORKSHOP This dramatic, hands-on, interactive event is designed to help you develop a customized blueprint for improved profitability, using the knowledge and creativity within your own company. After selecting one of FIVE PROGRAMMING TRACKS, you’ll be guided through four intensely collaborative workshops designed by innovation consultants from Boiling Point.* The work you’ll do during the sessions will culminate on the final day with the development of a personalized Blueprint for Improved Profitability. ALL NEW CONFERENCE FORMAT WITH 5 SPECIAL SESSIONS 1 PURCHASING Making Every Decision Count: Realizing Purchasing’s Untapped Profit Potential 2 OPERATIONS Stopping the Leaks: Protecting Margins Through Operational Excellence Today, operations must be flawlessly organized and efficiently managed to meet customer demands and deliver reliable margins. With that expectation in mind, the group will draw on expert and peer insight to help attendees in: • Identifying the biggest opportunity • Creating the true price/value Purchasing has a new and intensely critical role in the industry today; it is now a part of solving how homes can be built more affordably, efficiently and profitably. With the goal of unleashing purchasing’s promise in this challenged market, discussion topics include: areas for margin improvement • Developing possible initiatives for equations for the smartest purchase decisions • Determining the risks/rewards of protecting margins • Deciding which initiatives are both centralized versus divisional supply chain models • Understanding, embracing powerful and practical to execute and activating the new role of purchasing as a strategic player SPONSORED BY:
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