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March
2008
Havana, Cuba
The UNIDO Pharos training workshop for
senior management of enterprises and business consultants was
implemented in DISAIC, Havana, Cuba during 10-14 March 2008. The
introduction into applying UNIDO PHAROS Software package for monitoring,
measurement and benchmarking of enterprise performance for strategic and
financial management was made during the workshop. Brief overview of
production performance management and benchmarking using Pharos package
was provided as well. Each trainee obtained complete set of UNIDO
software and training and reference materials on CD-ROM.
The workshop results and further steps supporting comprehensive training
in industrial modernisation programme for enterprises and consultants in
Cuba were discussed in meetings with representatives of MINVEC,
Directorate of DISAIC and UNIDO Cuba.
New entrepreneurship facilitation
programme "Management of Change" was launched in Lebanon. It is
implemented by European - Lebanese Center for Industrial Modernization
(ELCIM) under European Union
support and supervision of Lebanese Ministry of Industry. The Programme effectively integrates the experience accumulated during implementation of UNIDO capacity building
programmes for the last 7 years. It has several new methodological components enabling
entrepreneurs to cope with growing impact of changing business
environment in a very practical way. More >>
July
2007
Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
UNIDO Pharos Workshop in Ufa,
Bashkortostan, Russian Federation was run accordingly to Agreement
between UNIDO (Vienna) and Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, Trade
and Entrepreneurship of Republic Bashkortostan (MFERTE). The workshop
took place in Bashkortostan Academy of State Administration and
Management by the President of Bashkortostan Republic, Ufa city, on 17 -
18 July 2008. More >>
July - August
2006
Jakarta , Indonesia
The UNIDO Pharos Training Workshop in
Indonesia was implemented by State Ministry of Research and Technology
of Indonesia - MoRT (or RISTEK in
Indonesian abbreviation), UNIDO (Vienna)
and ICS (Trieste, Italy). The
event took place in Millennium Hotel – Sirih, Jakarta on 31 July – 04
August 2006.
The details and pictures of the
event can reviewed here
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December
2005
Vienna, Austria
New series of UNIDO workshops started
on 5 Dec. 2005 at UNIDO,
Vienna, Austria. The workshops allow trainees learn UNIDO methodology and
obtain complete Pharos software suite for measuring, managing and
benchmarking of enterprises.
The content of the workshop "Measuring,
benchmarking and managing, enterprise business performance with Pharos
software toolkit by UNIDO and its applications for improving
productivity, quality, competitiveness and sustainability of small and
medium enterprises, management of innovations and technology transfer".
The details and some pictures can found here
>>
November
2005
Delhi, India
INDIA GLOBAL SUMMIT ON SMEs took place
in Delhi on 25-26 November 2005organized by
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) jointly with Ministry of Small
Scale Industries (SSI)and Government of India.
Professor Galo Craviero from
Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas, Universidad de La Frontera (DIS
- UFRO), Temuco, Chile shares his experience about using Pharos as
strategic business management tool in vocational training of
entrepreneurs at Faculty of Engineering. The comments are based
on 5 year unique practices, interesting results and entrepreneurs
feedback obtained.
Several new Calls for Proposals by
European Commission related to SME development and support became the
topics for discussions with various prospective partners in Central and
Eastern Europe leading to setting up our first consortia.
We invite prospective partners such as
entrepreneurs, consultants, NGOs and ICT developers to take part in the
discussions for shaping up concrete proposals and teams, qualified and
capable to apply for EC and possibly some other internationally
available funding.
May
2005
Bucharest, Romania
The
WASME 2005 Convention took
place in Bucharest within 16-18 May 2005. The event attracted attention
of many governmental officials and NGOs from various countries. The
topics discussed during the conference included Globalization and its
consequence to the SMEs, Strategies and policies for supporting SMEs in
the transition to the knowledge-based economy, Experiences in SMEs
internationalization, Asian and African experience in SME
internationalization, Asian and African experience in SME
internationalization.
The issues related to improving
productivity, competitiveness, quality and entrepreneurship capacities
to manage innovation and business performancewere discussed during the presentation of Dr. S.Golovanov. EPIC
as WASME 2005 Convention speaker. The presentation "Facilitating
Knowledge based sustainability of economic growth by Training Programmes
for SMEs applying UNIDO methodology” updated participants on results and
prospects of using UNIDO methodology and IT tools for entrepreneurs for
developing knowledge based entrepreneurship, improving business
competitiveness, sustainability and managerial culture in general.
The UNIDO methodology and business
performance management & measurement solutions for entrepreneurs draw
strong interest by the conference participants from India, Turkey,
Nigeria, Romania, Oman, Kenya, Italy, Egypt, Israel, Croatia. The
follow-up meetings resulted in plans for several new projects in
countries in collaboration with national counter-partners as well as
applications for business partnerships in distribution of UNIDO
methodology and software tools.
UNIDO methodology and business
performance management solutions for enterprises became major topics of
interest at awareness seminar for the members of the Industrial
Committee and entrepreneurs, gathered in the Chamber of Commerce
and Industries of the Eastern Province in Dammam on 2 May 2005. The
seminar attracted attention of about 65 participants which took part in
event and intensive Questions & Answers session discussing
practicalities, results of the previous implementations, applications of
the solutions for Saudi Arabian industries.
The presentations at the seminar were
made by Dr. Serge Golovanov, Director, GOLEM IMS GMBH, Austria and Mr.
Narayana Sharma, Director of the UNIDO Focal Point - National Training
Centre in Bangalore who visited Dammam from 1 to 3 May 2005 by
invitation of Chamber of Commerce and Industries of the Eastern
Province and Elite Training Programmes Center, Jubail Industrial City.
Dr. S. Golovanov, Director of
Enterprise Performance Improvement Centre visited China within the
delegation of Austrian businessmen accompanying Dr. Schuessel, Federal Prime-Minister of Austria
in the official visit which
took place with 19 - 25 April 2005,
The visit and meetings with governmental officials and representatives
of training and consulting organizations in Peking, Shanghai and Nanjing
allowed presenting the unique training and upgrading services for SMEs,
contributing to sustainability of industrial developments in China as
well as variety of prospective business partnerships in training,
consulting and using of UNIDO software for improving productivity,
competitiveness and quality of Chinese industries. The modality of Training and Upgrade programmes for
entrepreneurs, its elaboration in Chinese industrial environment allow
contributing to key governmental priorities in improving productivity,
quality and competitiveness of quickly growing Chinese SME industries.
March
2005
Rome, Italy
International Network for SME - INSME
Association published extended interview with Dr. S. Golovanov, Director
of Enterprise Performance Improvement Centre on 24 February 2005. The
interview allows large number of INSME international visitors getting additional insight into EPIC activities,
methodology and experiences based on UNIDO Business Performance
Management Software helping SMEs measure enterprise business results and
the impact of innovation.
Dr. S. Golovanov, Director of
Enterprise Performance Improvement Centre visited India from 16th to
21st February 2005 within the delegation of Austrian businessmen
accompanying Dr. Heinz Fischer, Federal President of Austria. The meetings which took place during
the visit allowed establishing prospective partnerships in improving competitiveness, productivity,
quality, sustainability and entrepreneur capacities of small and medium
sized enterprises in India. Various leading Indian organizations
supporting developments in SME sectors indicated interest in introduction of UNIDO methodology and IT tools into Indian industrial
community. The modality of Training and Upgrade programmes for
entrepreneurs, its transfer to Indian industrial environment and
customized implementation answering the regional needs in particular
states became the main focus of the discussions.
The collaborations allow Indian
counterparts obtain assistance and know how in addressing key priorities of the country
economic development outlined by the Government of India such as
increasing competitiveness, productivity, quality and managerial
capacity of entrepreneurs in main industrial sectors.
February
2005
Dubai, Emirates
The first Dubai SME Conference and
Exhibition, co-organised by Department of Economic Development (DED),
INSME and Seagull Exhibitions and Conferences was held in the United
Arab Emirates from January 31 to February 2, 2005, attracted great
interest across the Middle East and the Gulf as well as visitors and
participants from outside the region (19 countries were represented and
over 200 people attended from the private and public sector).
The conference, which is being held for the first time
in the region, focused on the significance of Small and Medium
Enterprises (SMEs) and their increasing contribution to the economy.
Dr. S.Golovanov was invited to contribute to the
Conference as keynote speaker presenting UNIDO training and upgrade
programmes for entrepreneurs improving productivity, quality,
competitiveness and sustainability based on introduction of UNIDO
information tools for business performance measurement, management and
benchmarking.
New add-on module for Pharos addresses increasing demand for enterprise benchmarking by entrepreneurs and
business consultants. It assists managers in easy obtaining of absolute
and relative changes of major key business indicators. The values of
these indicators are calculated for the current date and compared to any previous
reference date. The data are extracted from the actual enterprise
data available in Pharos and Produce Plus databases.
The benchmarking allows obtaining of the following
indicator estimations:Net Profit (Pre Tax), Expenses Overall, Sales Revenue, Overall Added Value,Overall Added Value per Employee, Labour Ratio, OEE (Overall Equipment Efficiency). The module provides enterprise
management and well as business consultants with evaluation of actual changes of main business indicators facilitating
faster corrective actions.
>> read more
Participation in the Conference and contributing to
the discussions at the Second OECD Ministerial Conference on SMEs.
Dr. Serge Golovanov, General Manager of GOLEM IMS GMBH
and UNIDO International consultant and a Member of Austrian Delegation
for the Conference was invited as speaker to contribute to discussions
which took place in The Business Symposium "SMEs Competing in a
Knowledge Economy". The presentation “Recognition of Knowledge Capital
in Knowledge Economy: The price of ignorance” was focused on issues of
losses occurring due to lack of know-how, managerial skills, effective
ICT tools for performance management and various inefficiencies common
to majority of enterprises in different countries.
>> read more
New business performance management tool suite by
UNIDO
New major upgrade of business performance management
tools for entrepreneurs and executives was released by GOLEM in
collaboration with Manufacturing Improvement International Ltd. UK,
(former MDA). The set
integrates all software products and relevant introductory
reference materials in one CD-ROM. The software products include Pharos
- Business Navigator, advanced data export/import module for Pharos,
Produce Plus including data entry, data management and graph modules as
well as Financial Improvement Toolkit (FIT).
The complete package includes extensive complementary
information for users providing improved support for participants of the
Training Programmes for SME
under implementation in 2004.
>> read more
The UNIDO project in Colombia "Introduction of continuous improvement
practices into selected enterprises in 4 regions of Colombia" started in
January 2002 as pilot project to verify methodology and implementation
in different industrial sectors. Its first phase included training of
national consultants and executives from 4 regions in key industries as
follows: Bogotá (leather industry), Eje Cafetero (electronics), Ibague
(textile) and Barrancabermeja (metal processing). Several workshops and
meetings took place in Colombia in March 2003 within the implementation
of this project exactly one year after the first training in 2002. The
objectives were in reviewing intermediate results of the Project and
obtaining the feedback of its participants.
>> read more
The workshop "Strategic and production management of industrial
enterprise: application of UNIDO benchmarking and business excellence
tools Pharos + Produce-Plus" took place between 18 – 23 January
2003 at UNIDO ITPO/ARCEIT
office in Manama, Bahrain.
The objective of the workshop was to train executives and
consultants from Bahrain, Lebanon and Palestine in using of UNIDO PHAROS
- Business Navigator and Produce software for monitoring of business
performance and production benchmarking.
The successful results of the workshop caused increased interest of
various institutions in the region in establishment of long-term
national and regional programmes for small and medium industries to
apply the UNIDO continuous improvement methodology and Business
Performance Software in Bahrain and several other Gulf and Middle East
countries. >> read more
UNIDO news bulletin
UNIDOScope published new information regarding the results of the
user survey run in July 2002 among companies form 12 countries which
installed and used PHAROS for the last 4 years. Of the respondents who
said they were using the software (82%), all considered PHAROS a
"useful and effective tool for managers".
Additional module for PHAROS with the name
Produce-IT
for production management and planning has been developed within the
framework of collaboration between UNIDO, GOLEM and MDA.
New software is planned to be used for the Programmes for small and
medium enterprises in a number of countries.
The original text of the UNIDOScope bulletin can be
>> read more
March
2002
Bogota, Colombia
The Within one week of 16-23 March 2002 UNIDO software PHAROS -
Business Navigator was successfully introduced into 8 shoe and 2
leather production factories in Bogota at the first stage of
installations covering 40 industrial enterprises in Colombia. The
enterprises had been selected for participation in the UNIDO
Integrated Programme for Colombia to improve quality of production and
management, productivity and competitiveness of national industry. The
large training workshop in the software application for business
performance monitoring took place in the University
of Jorge Tadeo Lozano between 11-15 March 2002. Among 28 participants
there were executives of the industrial enterprises,
specialists from educational organisations and six national
consultants, selected for the implementation of the Programme in the
regions as trainers.
Establishing training and benchmarking services for Small and Medium - sized Enterprises in international and national industrial development programs September 2001
"Five days of future"
Asia's Largest International IT Exhibition
Bangalore
Information Technologies Expo 2000 tooks place on November 1-5,
2000. UNIDO Business Performance
Software, its managerial and educational applications were presented
to the participants of this Asia's largest IT event.
Training of trainer’s workshop on Pharos and MCCT
in UN Center, Nairobi, Kenya
The workshop was prepared within the UNIDO Project of Application of
quality principles to the food processing sector of 7 Sub-Sahara African
countries. The training of trainers took place between 5 – 7 June 2000
at United Nations Office at Nairobi UN Complex, Gigiri, Nairobi.
New upgrade of PHAROS - Business Navigator is
available!
Its development was initiated by a number of issues which had been
pointed out by the managers of enterprises after series of installations
in late 1999. Among major updates there are as follows: introduction of
production schemes which allows for development of production options,
any starting month of the year, user selected inflation option, support
of financial figures in currencies with large number of zeroes,
flexibility in defining production going stocks and sales, automated
import into PHAROS from external software, improved and expanded HELP
supporting user self learning.
October 18-26, 1999
Northern Russia: First installations of UNIDO
software
The installations and enterprise management training were made by
DDTC within the project of integrated programme for the Republic of Komi
“Sustainable Industrial Development and Competitiveness”.
The objective of the mission was to carry out the training workshop
on UNIDO software BEST, FIT, PHAROS and MCCT in the Komi Republic,
assist national experts in the selection of suitable pilot enterprises,
assist in collection of data for software input, review the preparatory
work of the national experts, install the software and train users.
India: PHAROS installations in Automotive Industry
- The software installation and management training were made
within the framework of the UNIDO Project “Strengthening of Small and
Medium automotive component suppliers to deliver export quality products
in India”.
The installations provided selected number of enterprises with
opportunity to improve business management quality. The management of
the 5 selected enterprises, which took part in the project highly,
evaluated the software and its support for executive work.
New Pharos software presentation was developed by using
one of the most innovative tools for developing interactive video on PC:
Shockwave Flash by Macromedia.
The video on the screen allows fast review of the main product features
in multimedia format.
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Joint UNIDO and DDTC case study on applying the UNIDO
Business Performance Software to a furniture production enterprise
in Bratislava, Slovakia started in May 1999. This study was made as the software
applications for furniture industry in the country of
transition.
The management of the furniture factory, "Melli Slovakia
s.r.o." in Bratislava, were interested to trying the software
as assistant to the management providing monitoring of actual production and enterprise operations. The duration of the case study
was 6 months. Its objectives were aimed at obtaining relevant feedback from the management and setup sectoral benchmarking model.
The case study at Melli Slovakia resulted in development of the sample databases for all UNIDO Business Performance Software products reflecting the furniture production sector.
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