1-SPX Developing Competitiveness, Building Capacity And Capability This video gives a thorough understanding of the SPX Programme as a whole, explaining how the various programme services interconnect. It starts with the SPX definition, going through matchmaking, buyer needs, profiling and supplier development.
Lecturer: Richard Keegan
2- UNIDO - SPX Partnership This video describes the issues having strong contributory importance to success of an SPX Centre, such as: cost control and pricing policy, technological improvements, total quality management and client certification, organization of work and sustainability.
Lecturer: Richard Keegan
3- Applied Benchmarking For Competitiveness This video introduces the important tool of SPX Benchmarking. It explains the steps in order to achieve competitiveness with this tool. Lecturer: Richard Keegan
4- The Diagnosis Of Benchmarking This video goes deeper in presenting the SPX Benchmarking tool, focusing on types and stages of benchmarking, practices and performance and the agenda for enterprise upgrading as main output of the tool.
Lecturer: Richard Keegan
5- The Medicine Of World Class Business This video provides access to enterprise best practice in order to improve effectiveness and efficiency. The main focus is on “Lean manufacturing”, how the concept is used and also to understand the philosophy of enterprise performance improvement.
Lecturer: Richard Keegan
6- Preliminary Actions Basic Tools To Improve Competitiveness This video is part of a series to help improving the competitiveness, the capacity and the capability of the business. The tools presented refer to very useful ways to comprehend the processes, such as Process Mapping, Physical Flow Mapping.
Lecturer: Richard Keegan
7- Monitoring Tools And Staff Building This video provides the first knowledge on enterprise performance improvement. It outlines the basic tools for improvement, check sheets, run charts and staff building.
Lecturer: Richard Keegan
8- First Steps For Improvement Lead Time to Reduction This video shows the first steps to process efficiency. It refers to key measures of Lean, Batch and Continuous Process, Process Flows and Lean Office. Lecturer: Michael A. Nolan
9- Production Control System This video shows the main production control systems prevalently in use. It explains 3 systems to manage stock levels: Make to Order, KanBan and Rate Based Scheduling.
Lecturer: Richard Keegan
10- World Class Business Tools For Saving Time Time is a very important resource and this video describes the right tools to efficiently manage time usage.
Lecturer: Homer L. Krout
11- Maintenance Keeping Things Going This video explains why maintenance has a critical role in business operations. It also provides knowledge on 5 types of maintenance, organization structures, skills development, plant register and associated tools.
Lecturer: Richard Keegan
12- Practical Quality "It Is Cheaper To 'Do-It-Right' The First Time-Than To Have To DO It Over" This video describes a very effective approach on efficiency by ensuring quality and avoiding unnecessary extra costs.
Lecturer: Homer L. Krout
13- Teams And Team Building A competent team is the key to any successful project. However, there is a big challenge on motivating and making every team member walk towards the same goal. This video presents the right understanding and tools to motivate and engage all team members.
Lecturer: Homer L. Krout
14- World Class Sales How To Compete For And Win Profitable Business Sales keep a business alive. This video shows sales strategy, the importance of the customer and how to analyze competition, product and costumers.
Lecturer: Michael A. Nolan
15- Financial Management This video shows how to analyze and plan your business from the financial perspective. This very important approach enables to understand influences on price, manage levels of production in order to maintain profitability, the relation between costing and pricing, and how to manage debtors for a healthy cash flow.
Lecturer: Michael A. Nolan
16- Supply Chain Management Supply Chain has a direct effect on costs and production. This video is focused on how to efficiently manage the processes of supply chain, purchasing, stock management and suppliers.
Lecturer: Michael A. Nolan
17- Innovation And Design This video explains the importance of innovation for business. It approaches important issues related to innovation, such as management, strategy and design processes.
Lecturer: Michael A. Nolan
18- Strategic Planning Your Company's Growth And Profitability In this video, the strategic planning is observed from both the internal and external perspectives. It shows how to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to the company.
Lecturer: Michael A. Nolan
19- Process Benchmarking This video goes deeper into the interesting concept of Benchmarking. It shows how comparing processes from every area of the enterprise helps to determine the requirements to improve and develop the company.
Lecturer: Homer L. Krout
20- Approaches and Technique - 1st Part "Tools for the Pursuit of Excellence" This video is about tools for the pursuit of excellence. There is always a way better, newer and more efficient to production. This video serves to highlight help on deciding what is the best for the organization.
Lecturer: Homer L. Krout
21- Approaches and Technique - 2nd Part "Tools for the Pursuit of Excellence" This video is about tools for the pursuit of excellence. There is always a way better, newer and more efficient to production. This video serves to highlight help on deciding what is the best for the organization.
Lecturer: Homer L. Krout