An experienced BI analyst and software engineer who leads a number of strategic programmes for manufacturing clients, including Smiths Medical. Having also successfully founded an online legal services business prior to joining PMSI, Adam brings creative energy to all forms of data discovery, KPI modelling and programming requirements across multiple technology platforms.
BI Connect 2012
Tuesday 17th July 2012, The Belfry, West Midlands
If you are considering installing or updating Business Intelligence, attendance to BI Connect 2012 is vital to ensure that your company has access to the best solutions in the market. This event is designed to support UK manufacturers in the process of selecting and installing BI, offering insights from fellow manufacturers and researchers and helping you minimise the overall time and effort involved in qualifying potential vendors.
BI Connect is a unique event for you and your team to see the best in BI solutions in the world all in one place, all at the same time!
CORE BENEFITS
- Inspirational keynote and case studies that will help you build the right implementation strategy and avoid costly mistakes.
- Structured one-to-one meetings with a select group of vendors that will provide you with full understanding of the solutions available in the market and who can best support your company in its BI journey.
- Best practice and latest research on the benefits and capabilities of BI.
- Networking opportunities with the fellow professionals that will help you acquire the knowledge and insight needed to implement and maximise BI.
- NOTE: BI Connect 2012 is restricted to 60 company delegates. Early registration is strongly recommended.
KEY FEATURES
- Access to high quality presentations including the latest insights from technologists, researchers and industry leaders.
- Expert guidance on how to understand your IT needs.
- Informal peer-to-peer networking.
- One-to-one meetings between delegates and vendors addressing individual business needs.
CONNECT FORMULA
One-to-one focused meetings:
- The connect element enables each attending company to meet vendors across the spectrum in short one-to-one meetings. This saves weeks if not months of research as companies will quickly establish which vendors are most suited for further engagement.
DELEGATE FEES
- Discounted fee of £95 + VAT to manufacturing delegates attending both one-to-one sessions and conference.
- £395 + VAT will be charged to delegates who attend the conference only and not the one-to-one meetings.
- * Early bird offer of FREE Kindle e-reader if you register and pay before Monday 2 July 2012 and participate in one-to-one meetings.
ENQUIRIES
For all delegate enquires please contact Peter Kealy on 0207 202 4893 or email p.kealy@sayonemedia.com
Speakers
Adam Slader
Chief Data Scientist - PMSI Consulting
Alan Goggin
Group IT Manager - Megger
During more than 15 years in senior management roles at Megger, Alan has used his IT background in a number of projects aimed at improving business performance. Alan’s position as Group IT Manager encompasses full responsibility for all aspects of business systems, financial reporting and business intelligence. Alan has advocated an integrated approach to IT systems, manufacturing and supply chain and has championed the Group’s SAP landscape since he initially implemented SAP nearly seven years ago.
Alan has experience of working in a wide range of businesses including Hi-technology, electronics and chemical process manufacturing.
Andrew White
Head of Business Intelligence - Future Publishing
Andrew is Head of Business Intelligence at Future Publishing, the international media group and leading digital publisher, where he has for the past 4 years driven forward a function that owns and manages the data used across the organisation with a key focus on ensuring that all outputs are accurate, relevant, informative and available to all users in a timely manner and in an easily absorbable format. In his current role, Andrew works across all revenue streams including print, websites, eCommerce, ad sales and more recently the nascent field of digital editions and tablet publishing. At his best guess, he has ‘been blessed’ with at least one new data feed of some sort every week, often with minimal notice and therefore effective management of data and ensuring he has the right partner in this is dear to his heart. He previously made the mistake of working in the financial sector for both Barclays Retail Bank and AA Insurance Services in the field of Resource Planning.
Glen Westlake
UK IT Association representative - and Chief Executive Officer IT Performs
Glen graduated with a Masters in Engineering but was recruited into Management Consultancy in the late 80’s with Price Waterhouse where he became a specialist in Management Information. Working as a freelance consultant for 10 years enabled Glen to gain real world experience of Data Warehousing and BI across many different types of organisations.
In 2002 Glen founded IT Performs as a specialist Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence consultancy which has grown significantly each year.
Accredited by The Data Warehousing Institute as a Certified Business Intelligence Professional at Master level, Glen has remained ‘hands on’ whilst researching to ensure solutions are delivered using the best tools and approaches to continually drive business benefit.
Now as CEO, Glen focuses more in the area of Change and Performance Management of Business Intelligence to ensure organisations obtain maximum value from their technology, people and data.
Greg Swimer
Vice President IT, Business Intelligence - Unilever
Greg joined Unilever’s IT department in 1994 and was appointed National IT Manager for Unilever’s newly acquired businesses in Israel in 1997. He left Unilever in 2000 to help found and run a UK-based e-Commerce start-up, returning to Unilever in 2003. From 2003-2010 held number of Director positions leading global and regional projects and initiatives for Unilever IT, leading Business Intelligence and Information Management teams since 2006. In April 2010 he was appointed Vice-President IT for Business Intelligence responsible for leading Unilever’s global drive to transform it’s Information Management and Analytic capabilities, and is a member of Unilever’s Global IT Leadership Team, reporting to the Unilever CIO.
Gus Urquhart
Chief Data Scientist - PMSI Consulting
Gus joined PMSI after working with Tesco on a variety of modelling and analytical work-streams for their online strategy. Gus now leads PMSI programme support for Jabil Circuit Inc. in the US, along with a variety of other manufacturing clients. With a focus on modelling and forecasting for the data team, Gus also drives development of PMSI proprietary software to support rapid development of analytical capability within client teams.
Nick Reeks
Director IT Sales and Marketing - Tata Steel Europe
Nick Reeks is Director of IT Sales and Marketing for Tata Steel Europe. He has covered procurement strategy and governance for operations in Europe, India and SE Asia. Nick has worked in the steel industry for some 21 years, dividing his career almost equally between sales and purchasing.
Pamela Edmond
Associate Director - PMSI Consulting
An experienced industrial marketing, product and brand management specialist with over 15 years experience working for manufacturers and distributors, including BOC Gases, Wesfarmers & The LindeGroup. Pam’s consulting experience includes knowledge-management and innovation process programmes for The Linde Group, sales effectiveness for Oracle Corp EMEA and strategic customer segmentation for ESAB Welding.
Patrick Mosimann
Founding Director - PMSI Consulting
Formerly of Mercer Consulting, Morgan Grenfell and Arthur Andersen, with an MBA from Wharton Business School (University of Pennsylvania) and a B.Sc in Economics from LSE, Patrick brings extensive experience from across a variety of sectors, including consumer goods, manufacturing, healthcare, banking and telecoms.
Patrick brings a hands-on approach to all client relationships, while delivering leadership and support for project teams through his intimate knowledge of BI solutions, predictive and advanced analytics.
Peter Thorne
Managing Director - Cambashi
Peter is responsible for consulting projects related to the new product introduction process, e-business, and other industrial applications of information and communication technologies. He works closely with IT vendors, providing them with independent expertise on matching their products and services to real industry needs.
He has applied information technology to engineering and manufacturing enterprises for more than 20 years, holding development, marketing and management positions with both user and vendor organisations. Immediately prior to joining Cambashi in 1996, he headed the UK arm of a major IT vendor’s Engineering Systems Business Unit, which grew from a small R&D group to a multi-million pound profit centre under his leadership.
Peter holds a Master of Arts degree in Natural Sciences and Computer Science from Cambridge University, is a Chartered Engineer, and a member of the British Computer Society.
Simon Hicks
Business Consultant, Consumer Products and Retail - Teradata
Simon has worked as a consultant in Teradata’s manufacturing and retail sectors since 2008.
Before joining Teradata he worked at Kraft Foods for 10 years in a variety of innovation and supply chain roles at local, regional and global level. Prior to that he spent 5 years at British Steel/Corus.
In his 4 years at Teradata Simon has built business cases for improved supply chain analytics, created roadmaps for enterprise-wide data warehouse implementations and helped companies develop consumer data strategies.
When he’s not advocating improved business performance through the power of integrated data and analytics Simon builds Lego models with his 2 sons, listens to obscure music and tends the vegetables in his allotment.
Steve Whittle
Head of Finance Systems and Data Improvement - Rolls-Royce
Steve has worked for Rolls-Royce in Business/IT roles for over thirty years, working in Defence, AR&O, ERP, Operations, CHQ and now Finance. Steve has produced a number of analysis tools capable of rapid analysis of program changes, Key Performance Indicators and Financial Information. Steve designed, automated and implemented a Global, Centralised Knowledge Management Hub providing reports and information for Cost, Quality, Delivery and People. He was responsible for the development of the ‘Forecast to Cash’ model, this provided a comprehensive process map of all activities and transactions utilised with UK ERP and he was instrumental in establishing a new corporate master scheduling process for Defence Aerospace. Steve has also chaired various special interest groups.
Tony Doran
European Director of IS - NSK Europe Ltd
Tony graduated from the College of Commerce, Dublin in 1981 with a Computer Programming Degree and moved to the UK in 1985.
Tony has 31 years of experience working in IT across various industry sectors, including retail, software development, third party logistics and manufacturing. He has worked in Europe, with spells living in Sweden and Holland.
Tony has operated at Board level since 1995 and achieved the IOD Diploma in Company Direction in 1999.
Tony joined NSK Europe in 2001 with responsibility for European IS, supporting 18 locations across 8 countries. He is a member of the NSK Global IT Strategy team, formulating IT strategy and direction for the NSK Group.
Programme details
Tuesday 17th July 2012
Chairman's Welcome
How to make it a success: vision, objectives, strategy and challenges for a BI journey
NSK Europe is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of rolling bearings, linear technology, automotive components and steering systems. NSK Europe offers standard and customised products to key industrial sectors, and its services cover product training courses, application engineering, profitability improvement programmes, technical tools, and online services and downloads. NSK Europe is just starting the journey of implementing a Business Intelligence Strategy, and this presentation will provide an overview of the thinking, planning and approach it is looking to take.
The presentation will:
- Define the NSK Europe vision for BI
- Review current situation and status of BI within the organization
- Present the objectives, strategy and proposed BI model
- Outline the challenges to implementing a BI Strategy
Test, Measurement and Business Intelligence – The essentials for informed decision making
Megger designs and manufactures portable electric test equipment and is a world leader in its industry. Alan will explain Megger’s Business Intelligence journey and how they are simplifying, standardising and automating business reporting to provide intuitive analytics and powerful decision support. Built upon SAP BusinessObjects tools, Alan will present how Megger has improved profitability analysis, accounts receivable and cost centre reporting. He will then discuss how management are now able to make effective, informed decisions based on solid data and web-based analysis. Alan will conclude by sharing thoughts on further BI enhancements to their SAP landscape in line with business requirements and operational reporting.
Defining a strategic BI roadmap for performance improvement from customer profitability within manufacturing
From Business Strategy to MI Dashboard, a coherent, business focussed approach to using your data to improve business performance. From real world experience of working with many manufacturing organisations including Cadburys, Tarmac and British Sugar, Glen shares his Company’s approach to deliver BI Solutions within a framework to deliver business benefits.
Topics covered include:
- Defining KPI’s at the bottom of a Metrics Tree
- BI Maturity & Technical Capability
- Defining the Business Case for BI
- BI Planning and the Strategic BI Roadmap
- Agile Development
- Continual Assessment & Improvement with Closed Loop BI
- Performance Improvement with Customer Profitability & Standard Costing
Questions and answers
Morning break and one-to-one networking meetings
Improving sales and procurement planning through BI
Tata Steel has recently deployed a Sales & Marketing cockpit using Business Objects for its European operations. Wiring up dozens of legacy systems and preparing for a SAP SD programme rollout provided a host of issues for the project team. Globally, Tata Steel has connected all its spend cubes through one SAP Business Intelligence report to support the global procurement teams and category managers. Both of these major projects raise questions for IT and business managers and Nick will pick up these themes.
Pre-purchase evaluation and how to choose the right vendor
Future plc is an international special-interest media group that is listed on the London Stock Exchange. Founded in 1985 with one magazine, today Future has operations in the UK, US and Australia creating over 180 special-interest publications, websites and events for people who are passionate about their interests. The company holds market-leading positions in games, film, music, technology, cycling, automotive and crafts.
Future sells 3.2 million magazines each month, attracts more than 23 million unique visitors to its websites, and hosts 27 annual live events that attract hundreds of thousands of enthusiasts. In addition, Future exports or syndicates publications to 90 countries internationally, making it the UK’s number one exporter and licensor of monthly magazines.
Andrew is Head of Business Intelligence at Future, where he has for the past 4 years driven forward a function that owns and manages the data used across the organisation with a key focus on ensuring that all outputs are accurate, relevant, informative and available to all users in a timely manner and in an easily absorbable format.
In his presentation Andrew will reflect on the following topics.
- Too many cooks spoil the broth – how many opinions should you listen to when forming your initial choices?
- To suit the CEO or the shop floor?
- Paid vs Free Solutions and True Total Cost of Ownership – Free isn’t always cheaper!
- To suit now or X years time? Do you want to fix today’s problems but potentially cause more down the line?
- References and key questions to ask
Analytics at Global Scale in Unilever
- Unilever’s Information Journey
- How Unilever are using technology to enable business analytics
- The key benefits that we have achieved
- Key challenges faced and how we have overcome these
- Thoughts on the future of Business Intelligence
Questions and answers
Lunch and one-to-one networking meetings
The BI game
The Game is a simulated business intelligence challenge for teams of 4-5 delegates. You will be briefed as the new executive team for Nano Micro International, a leading micro-chip manufacturer operating across 3 key markets – North America, Europe and Asia.
You will be required to make decisions across market focus, quality levels and sales resource planning, with access to a variety of business intelligence reports, along with the ability to review some decisions as the Game moves through the quarters.
Join the Game workshop to see a business intelligence strategy at work, to experience the impact good analytics can provide and to understand some of the challenges in managing an effective information (data) supply chain.
Afternoon break and networking
“Big Data” – Who can make sense of it?
- “Big Data” verses “Lots of Data”
- What would a BI “Lots of Data” team look like?
- What skill set is required – the right “Person”
- The right “Team”
- Data and Information Governance Group – Business led
How to address your most crucial business questions: building a blueprint for success
Decisions based on analysis and reporting with data that are siloed are inadequate when relationships between disparate data are critical to understanding decisions affecting the entire enterprise. The ability to drive and maintain profit increasingly depends on the ability to manage the complex interrelationships of all enterprise systems, data, and channels as a whole. In this presentation Simon will discuss these issues and some possible solutions to them focusing on the following case studies:
- Intel
- Western Digital
- McCain
- Coke
- Ford
- 3M
Questions and answers
Final remarks by the chairman
Event Close
Agenda
17th July 2012
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Chairman's Welcome
Peter Thorne, Managing Director, Cambashi
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How to make it a success: vision, objectives, strategy and challenges for a BI journey
Tony Doran, European Director of IS, NSK Europe Ltd
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Test, Measurement and Business Intelligence – The essentials for informed decision making
Alan Goggin, Group IT Manager, Megger
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Defining a strategic BI roadmap for performance improvement from customer profitability within manufacturing
Glen Westlake, UK IT Association representative, and Chief Executive Officer IT Performs
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| 10:35 - 11:05 | Morning break and one-to-one networking meetings | |||||
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Improving sales and procurement planning through BI
Nick Reeks, Director IT Sales and Marketing , Tata Steel Europe
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| 11:30 - 11:55 |
Pre-purchase evaluation and how to choose the right vendor
Andrew White, Head of Business Intelligence, Future Publishing
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Analytics at Global Scale in Unilever
Greg Swimer, Vice President IT, Business Intelligence, Unilever
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| 12:35 - 13:50 | Lunch and one-to-one networking meetings | |||||
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The BI game
Facilitated by: Adam Slader, Chief Data Scientist, PMSI Consulting
Pamela Edmond, Associate Director, PMSI Consulting
Patrick Mosimann, Founding Director, PMSI Consulting
Gus Urquhart, Chief Data Scientist, PMSI Consulting
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| 15:30 - 16:15 | Afternoon break and networking | |||||
| 16:05 - 16:30 |
“Big Data” – Who can make sense of it?
Steve Whittle, Head of Finance Systems and Data Improvement, Rolls-Royce
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| 16:30 - 16:55 |
How to address your most crucial business questions: building a blueprint for success
Simon Hicks, Business Consultant, Consumer Products and Retail, Teradata
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| 16:55 - 17:05 | Questions and answers | |||||
| 17:05 - 17:10 |
Final remarks by the chairman
Peter Thorne, Managing Director, Cambashi
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| 17:10 - 17:10 | Event Close | |||||
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Sponsors
Gold
SAP (BI)
SAP is the world’s leading provider of business software solutions, but it may surprise you to learn that 78% of our customers are small and mid-size companies. Manufacturers choose SAP not just for our innovative solutions but also our industry specific best practices knowledge, accumulated through 40 years of collaboration with manufacturing companies and our deep understanding of the sector’s dynamics and challenges. We support all the verticals in manufacturing from fabricated metals, packaging products or pulp and paper to aerospace and defence, high tech and industrial machinery and components.
Business analytics solutions from SAP give you real-time access to relevant information – processing vast amounts of data instantly, enabling manufacturers to understand the opportunities and challenges in their global supply and demand network to:
- Optimise inventory holding
- Manage shared intellectual property and solution bundles
- Rapidly respond to changing market conditions
The business analytics suite includes applications and tools for data warehousing, enterprise information management, business intelligence and in-memory computing. With SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence solutions you can empower everyone in your organisation with self-service information access – whether they’re in the office or using a mobile device. Equipped with the right information, your people can respond more quickly to change and make confident decisions, enabling your company to operate better.
http://www.sap.com/uk/solutions/business-analytics/business-intelligence.epx
BOARD
BOARD unifies Business Intelligence and Performance Management in a single integrated environment, providing a seamless solution for the support, control and management of core processes such as:
- Reporting
- Analysis and Simulation
- Scorecarding and Dashboarding
- Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting
- Profitability Modelling and Optimisation
- Strategy Management
By integrating BI and CPM in a single produce, BOARD helps companies manage and control the entire decision-making process: from data collection to information analysis, from goal setting to decision-making, from operational execution to monitoring results. Thanks to its innovative toolkit approach, BOARD makes it possible to create customised BI and CPM solutions without the need for any programming.
BOARD quality has been widely recognised by end-users, competitors, IT analysts and clients:
- Voted ‘BEST PRODUCT FOR BUSINESS BENEFITS’ in The BI Survey 9 (the world’s largest BI & CPM user survey)
- Winner of the MICROSOFT SWISS INNOVATION AWARD 2010
- Included in both the Gartner MAGIC QUADRANT FOR BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PLATFORMS 2011 and in the MAGIC QUADRANT FOR CORPORATE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SUITES 2011
- Chosen by over 2500 organisations worldwide including Mitsubishi Electric, NEC Display Solutions, ABB, Puma, GlaxoSmithKline and Johnson & Johnson
Silver
PMSI
PMSI is a management consulting firm specialising in advanced analytics and insight creation for strategic programmes, market intelligence and M&A transactions. Having been founded over 20 years ago, PMSI continues to break new ground in analytic challenges, strategy design and sound transaction advice.
With extensive experience in manufacturing sectors, PMSI works across a variety of BI platforms, as well as providing support on integration, data management and KPI design. The team focus on strategic success as the ultimate output for clients, whether across pricing, product or a variety of performance improvement programmes. PMSI also supports a number of Private Equity and corporate clients on commercial due diligence for acquisition strategies.

