Out to Lunch: Shepherding Success: How Business Operations Unleashes Innovation, Enables Growth and Wins in the Marketplace

Shepherding Success: How Business Operations Unleashes Innovation, Enables Growth and Wins in the Marketplace
Date: April 9th, 2013
Time: 12:00PM – 1:00PM
Location: The Accelerator720 Ouellette AvenueWindsor, Ontario N9A 1C2
Cost: FREE
Register: RSVP required. To register, please visit www.out2lunch.eventbrite.com
For more information contact: Yvonne Pilon ypilon@wetech-alliance.com
About the Session: Did you know the #1 cause of business failure is planning – either no planning at all, or just plain bad planning? And 9 of the top 10 causes of business failure are related to lack of experience – not in your chosen field, but in business operations. What is the right balance to strike between getting your message out there and execution? How do you best protect your reputation in the marketplace? What does business planning have to do with agility? How does careful planning unleash innovation and enable you and your colleagues to win in the marketplace? What is the risk of bad operations, and how do you mitigate it? Ethan will share best practices learned from working with numerous startups at various points during their life cycle. He’s on a mission to turn business planning from a check-the-box activity to one that generates value and cultivates success. Ethan is a former television producer turned entrepreneur, and the insights he’s gleaned are sure to help you and your organization.
About our Speaker: Ethan Mayers, Partner & CEO at Synthenai
Ethan Mayers is the founder and one of the partners of Synthenai, a New York City-based management consulting firm focused on rethinking and reframing business design and processes for small to mid-sized businesses. After a successful career as a television producer that included stops at ESPN, University of Tennessee and Voom, Ethan took advantage of his work in research and analysis and founded Synthenai in 2008. Since then, Synthenai has inspired firms across many industries to focus on strong leadership, refined process management and responsiveness to a rapidly changing marketplace. Ethan holds a Bachelor’s in Business Administration and a Master’s in Communications from the University of Tennessee. When not guiding companies, Ethan is an avid photographer, musician and aspiring chef.