ALPSP Strategic Management Workshop: Strategic Planning for Not-for-Profit Publishers

["Laura Cox" <laura.cox@frontlinegms.com>]

Apologies for cross posting

Strategic Planning for Not-for-Profit Publishers: making the most of your
publishing business

5-6 April 2005, London

Facilitators: Mary Waltham, Peter Shepherd and Tony Llewellyn

A residential workshop for the directors and managers responsible for the
publishing business in a not-for-profit (NFP) organisation in which
publishing is an important part of the organisation's mission, but is not
the sole, or even major activity.

Background

For many learned societies and other professional organisations, and for
a number of universities with their own university presses, publishing
is an important, but not dominant activity. Often it is an important
revenue stream; invariably it is seen as a way of maintaining the
organisation=92s visibility with its membership and in the wider world. 

In today's rapidly evolving publishing environment there are new
opportunities and threats for the small to medium-sized NFP publisher.
This makes it all the more important for those responsible for managing
these publishing programmes to understand the strategic decisions that are
confronting them, and to have the tools and skills necessary to set about
finding the right answers for their organisation.

Workshop objectives

* To understand the challenges specifically affecting NFP publishing
businesses in the new, largely electronic publishing environment

* To provide the skills for strategic planning that will enable executives
to set about finding the appropriate solutions for their own organisation

* To provide a forum in which a small group of NFP publishers can have a
discussion and benefit from the experience of three senior executives who
have already faced the challenges of transforming a largely print business
into a largely electronic one.

Who needs this Workshop?

Senior executives with responsibility for the management, future direction
and shape of the publishing business of a small to medium-sized
not-for-profit organisation in which publishing is not the sole or major
activity. It is assumed that participants will have at least 3-5 years'
publishing experience with P&L responsibility.

This residential workshop will begin with a working dinner on the
Tuesday evening (5 April) and finish at approximately 5.00pm on
Wednesday (6 April); dinner and overnight accommodation are included in
the fee.  Places on this Workshop will be limited to 16.

Course Fees: ALPSP members =A3515, Non-members =A3615 (ex VAT)
Venue: The Novartis Foundation, 41 Portland Place, London W1B 1BN

For a full programme outline please go to
http://www.alpsp.org/training/tSPM050405.htm 

Register online at 
http://www.alpsp.org/training/tSPM050405.htm

Further information:
Amanda Whiting, tel: +44(0)1865 247776; 
email: training@alpsp.org