Financial Times

CIMA Mastercourse on “Reducing costs through lean thinking”
CIMA Sri Lanka Division is conducting a Mastercourse on “Reducing cost through lean thinking” on January 17 at the Trans Asia Hotel. Jeremy Hope MA, FCA writer and management educator will lead this Mastercourse.

CIMA said this course makes hidden costs more visible and draws managers’ attention to the scale of the problem and what can be done about it. “This programme will help you to understand how to dismantle bureaucracy; how to use “lean” thinking to eliminate waste in both manufacturing and service operations; how to focus on process flows rather than functions and departments; how to put pressure on central (shared) services costs; how to identify worthwhile products and customers (those that are strategic and profitable),” it said.

Jeremy Hope is one of the world’s foremost thought leaders in the field of performance management and has written dozens of articles and co-written three books (Transforming the Bottom Line (1995), Competing in the Third Wave (1997) and Beyond Budgeting (2003) – all published by the Harvard Business School Press.

He also has a new book from the same publisher due out in early 2006 entitled “Reinventing the CFO”. He has been keynote speaker at many conferences on performance management around the world.

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