Business Weekly - Cambridge, UK

Catalyst Consulting Lean Six Sigma Awareness Day Edinburgh (All Day)
This highly participative programme introduces the key concepts and benefits of Lean Six Sigma, including a brief introduction to the importance of the ‘softer skills’ needed for successful projects and change.

Contact Info : Elizabeth Wilkinson Tel: +44 (0) 845 345 2282 Email : This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Url: http://www.catalystconsulting.co.uk

Catalyst Consulting Lean Six Sigma Foundation Green Belt Edinburgh (8:00AM)

The course includes practical training on the structure of and tools used in Lean Six Sigma projects. Using the DMAIC process, delegates 'walk through' the project process.

Through a combination of lecture, practical exercises, other media and shared experiences, delegates will become familiar with the steps in Lean Six Sigma DMAIC projects.

This course has proved to be equally relevant to manufacturing and service/transactional environments. Each participant receives a comprehensive delegate pack including a copy of Catalyst's Lean Six Sigma Improvement Journey toolbook.

Contact Info : Elizabeth Wilkinson Tel: +44 (0) 845 345 2282 Email : This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Url: http://www.catalystconsulting.co.uk

Catalyst Consulting Design For Six Sigma Stratford Upon Avon (9:00AM)

This course assumes a foundation level awareness of Lean Six Sigma and lean techniques.

This 4-day course will give you an excellent perspective on the DFSS methodology and how it may be applied. Equally applicable to manufacturing and service environments, the training uses the 'House of Quality' approach as its foundation.

The course provides training on the range of DFSS tools and techniques and shows clearly how these link with and build on the more familiar Lean Six Sigma Improvement tools that you may already be using in your business.

For more information: http://www.catalystconsulting.co.uk/PublicLeanSixSigma/158/DesignforSixSigma.html

About us

Catalyst Consulting Ltd is a UK based specialist in business improvement techniques. We provide in-company and public Lean Six Sigma Training and Coaching support.

Contact Info : Elizabeth Wilkinson Tel: +44 (0) 845 345 2282 Email : This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Url: http://www.catalystconsulting.co.uk

Catalyst Consulting Stats Tools 1 Stratford Upon Avon (9:00AM)

Delegates explore the Lean Six Sigma Project Structure that includes:

• Introduction to MINITAB™ Statistical Software Normality (Central Limit Theorem, P-values, Transforming Data)
• Sampling (Random and Process Sampling, Determining Sample Sizes, Selecting Samples)
• Measurement System Analysis (Data Types, Gauge R&R, Attribute Agreement Analysis)
• Introduction to Hypothesis Tests (Z- and t-tests)

About us

Catalyst Consulting Ltd is a UK based specialist in business improvement techniques. We provide in-company and public Lean Six Sigma Training and Coaching support.

Contact Info : Elizabeth Wilkinson Tel: +44 (0) 845 345 2282 Email : This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Url: http://www.catalystconsulting.co.uk

Howes Percival LLP To Present Overage Seminar (4:00PM - 6:00PM)

Next month, Property law experts from Howes Percival LLP will debate the tricky subject of overage agreements, which are becoming more common in current uncertain market conditions.

Overage agreements can take many forms, but in basic terms, give a developer the opportunity to purchase land but subject to paying the landowner more money in the future depending on how the land is developed.

The seminar will consider overage agreements (sometimes called ‘clawback’) from both a landowner’s and property developer’s viewpoint. Jeremy Heal, Partner, Head of Estates and Tessa Haskey, Partner, Commercial Property and Head of Property Finance will cover how deals are structured, protecting the ‘clawback’ and, related taxation issues. The event will be of interest to both landowners and developers.

The seminar is free of charge.

Contact Info : Lucy Najid at Howes Percival on 01603 762 103 or email seminars@howespercival.com. Email : This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Url: http://www.howespercival.com

Cambridge Network Open Meeting: 'Cambridge Ideas That Could Change The World' (5:00PM - 9:00PM)
The event will highlight ideas that are in Cambridge laboratories today, but which have the potential to change all our lives within 10 to 15 years.

Under the Chairmanship of Professor Ian Leslie, Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Cambridge, the meeting will hear presentations on technologies in the realms of:

• Biotechnology – Professor Chris Lowe, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.
• Energy demand reduction and climate change – Dr Julian Allwood, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge
• Sustainable energy: arithmetic in the context of energy discussions – David J.C. MacKay, Professor of Natural Philosophy, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

The event takes place at The Law Faculty, University of Cambridge, starting at 17.00 and will conclude with a networking drinks reception.

This event is free to Cambridge Network Members, which includes all staff and students at Cambridge University and Anglia Ruskin University, and non-members can attend for an entry fee of £40+VAT (payable in advance).

To register to attend please go to:

http://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/events/article/default.aspx?objid=49662 (nb. if you experience any problems with the registration link, could you please email vicky.faupel@cambridgenetwork.co.uk direct) 

Contact Info : vicky.faupel@cambridgenetwork.co.uk tel 01223 422363 www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk Email : This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Url: http://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/events/article/default.aspx?objid=49662

Catalyst Consulting Applying Science To The Art Of Sales Management Stratford Upon Avon (All Day)

Employing Six Sigma in sales and marketing organisations allows companies to better understand the needs of their customers, to improve profitability, and resource plan for the future.

Critically it provides a road map for the company to improve sales function focus, sales function efficiency and sales function effectiveness.

For more information: http://www.catalystconsulting.co.uk/Training/137/ApplyingScienceto.html

About us

Catalyst Consulting Ltd is a UK based specialist in business improvement techniques. We provide in-company and public Lean Six Sigma Training and Coaching support.

Contact Info : Elizabeth Wilkinson Tel: +44 (0) 845 345 2282 Email : This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Url: http://www.catalystconsulting.co.uk

Bench2Boardroom (8:00AM)
Bench2Boardroom is the UK’s largest Life Science networking event, and is specifically designed for those individuals wishing to learn about the skills, services and products available to Biotech and Medtech companies.

Contact Info : Bench2Boardroom Team 01223 750121 Email : This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Url: http://www.bench2boardroom.com

Bailey Fisher's Financial Controllers Lunch Club (12:00PM - 2:30PM)

An informal networking lunch for Financial Controllers in Cambridge's technology companies. Neil Parker, Market Strategist at RBS will talk about "The Credit Crunch.

How do we manage our way out and what are the longer term implications?" Guests will meet for drinks and networking at 12pm at the offices of NatWest, Vision Park, Histon, Cambridge.

The talk will start at 12.30pm and a buffet lunch will be served at 1pm. Attendance is by invitation. If you are a Financial Controller in the technology sector in Cambridge and would be interested in attending this or future events, please contact Rachel Keaveney at Bailey Fisher on rachel@baileyfisher.com This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Contact Info : Rachel Keaveney at Bailey Fisher ~ Executive Search Email : This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Url: http://www.baileyfisher.com

Catalyst Consulting Change Management - Skills For Change Agents (8:00AM)

The Change Agent has a key role in ensuring the success of a Six Sigma project by actively and effectively guiding the organisation through the changes.

Catalyst Consulting has developed a framework for managing change that has proven to be highly successfully in helping organisations through the implementation of Six Sigma projects.

This framework and a comprehensive set of leadership skills form the backbone of this module. You will have the opportunity to understand the concepts and apply the skills during the programme. It is full of exercises to assist you in applying sound theory and techniques to the situations you will be facing as a Change Agent in your organisation.

In addition, video case studies give a number of real world examples. The program has achieved high levels of satisfaction from delegates.

Contact Info : Elizabeth Wilkinson Tel: +44 (0) 845 345 2282 Email : This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Url: http://www.catalystconsulting.co.uk

Catalyst Consulting Change Management - Skills For Change Agents Edinburgh (8:00AM)

The Change Agent has a key role in ensuring the success of a Six Sigma project by actively and effectively guiding the organisation through the changes.

Catalyst Consulting has developed a framework for managing change that has proven to be highly successfully in helping organisations through the implementation of Six Sigma projects.

This framework and a comprehensive set of leadership skills form the backbone of this module. You will have the opportunity to understand the concepts and apply the skills during the programme. It is full of exercises to assist you in applying sound theory and techniques to the situations you will be facing as a Change Agent in your organisation.

In addition, video case studies give a number of real world examples. The program has achieved high levels of satisfaction from delegates.

Contact Info : Elizabeth Wilkinson Tel: +44 (0) 845 345 2282 Email : This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Url: http://www.catalystconsulting.co.uk

Catalyst Consulting Stats Tools 2 Stratford Upon Avon (9:00AM)

Delegates explore the Lean Six Sigma Project Structure that includes: 

• Hypothesis Tests (Analysis of Variance and Chi-Square Tests)
• Regression (Simple, Multiple, Binary Logistic)
• Control Charts (Continuous and Attribute Data Charts)
• Process Sigma (Short and Long-Term Sigma, Determining Process Shift, Improvement Strategies)
• Introduction to Designed Experiments (Full and Fractional Factorial Designs)

About us

Catalyst Consulting Ltd is a UK based specialist in business improvement techniques. We provide in-company and public Lean Six Sigma Training and Coaching support.

Contact Info : Elizabeth Wilkinson Tel: +44 (0) 845 345 2282 Email : This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Url: http://www.catalystconsulting.co.uk

Cambridge Network Open Meeting: 'Communicating With Software' (5:30PM - 8:30PM)
All members are welcome to attend this Open Meeting, which will provide you with an opportunity to pick up the latest thinking on how people and machines will be communicating in the future!

Hosted by Microsoft Research, and with presentations from Red Gate Software, Microsoft Research, Kodak and the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, the Cambridge Network is delighted to stimulate debate on this controversial subject, which is key to the success of many of our member organisations.

If you believe that:
• most software is pretty difficult and non-intuitive to communicate with when you come across it for the first time
• if people do not enjoy/benefit from the first experience with a tool they seldom come back
• if people do enjoy/benefit from the first experience, they quickly tell their friends, and a social 'snowball' can ensue
• really simple things like size/positioning of buttons can make a big difference
• there are a host of new business opportunities out there constrained not by the logic of the process, but by the human interface
• Cambridge invents new science/technology very well - but is not good at getting real people to use it, …
you, too, will want to hear the response from organisations such as these that are investing hugely in new man-machine interfaces for software!

The Q&A session following the presentations will provide the opportunity for everyone to question the panel (Stephen Chambers from Red Gate Software, John Piper from Kodak, Natasa Milic-Frayling from Microsoft Research, and Alan Blackwell from Cambridge University's Computer Laboratory, chaired by Cambridge Network's Peter Hewkin).

Please do come and join the debate, which will, no doubt, spill over into further discussion and networking over a drinks buffet kindly provided by Microsoft Research and Red Gate Software. This will be a fascinating look into a subject important to everybody today, and we do hope that you can join us at the meeting.

Participation is free to individual and corporate members of the Cambridge Network, and anybody at the University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University. Non-members can attend at a fee of £40+VAT, payable before the event.

To register to attend, please follow this link: www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/events/article/default.aspx?objid=50783. (nb. if you experience any problems with this registration link, could you please email vicky.faupel@cambridgenetwork.co.uk direct)

We are grateful to Red Gate Software and Microsoft Research for sponsoring and hosting this event. Venue: Microsoft Research Ltd, Roger Needham Building, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0FB Organiser name: Cambridge Network

Contact Info : 01223 422363 Vicky Faupel, Cambridge Network Email : This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Url: http://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/events/article/default.aspx?objid=50783

WORKING TOGETHER WITH HOWES PERCIVAL LLP (4:30PM - 6:00PM)

How to use the grievance process to defend against a discrimination claim is the topic of Howes Percival LLP’s next ‘Working Together’ employment seminar.

The law firm’s employment expert, Tom Sharpe, will offer employers practical guidance on this issue and offer them the opportunity to ask questions relevant to their organisation.

Tom will also provide a round-up of recent employment case-law and, at the end of the seminar there will be an opportunity for attendees to discuss any employment law issues currently facing their organisation.

The seminar will be held on Wednesday 22 October 2008 (4.30 to 6.00pm) at the Norwich University College of The Arts, Duke Street, Norwich. The event is free but a limited number of places are available.

Contact Info : To reserve a place or to find out more information, please contact Lucy Najid at Howes Percival on 01603 762 103 or email seminars@howespercival.com. Email : This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Url: http://www.howespercival.com

Pioneering Nanotechnology! (6:00PM)
Part of La Playa’s Golden Egg Business Innovation Seminars, Pioneering Nanotechnology is the latest seminar hosted by the specialist Science & Technology insurance broker.

Far from being a remote or ephemeral science, nanotechnology and the materials that it has spawned are fast becoming ubiquitous – now in everyday use in consumer products from cleaning fluids to MP3 players.

Nanotechnology now features regularly in mainstream news services, and public awareness about the potential benefits is growing – as is concern about the possible impact on health and environmental safety.

La Playa has brought together an impressive panel of speakers to examine some of the practical issues involved with nanotechnology, including:

• Bringing nanotechnology to life – from concept to successful commercial operation.
• Identifying the need for standards in nanotechnology to ensure safety in its development and use.
• Examining the developments in nanotechnology in the Far East.

The event will be held in Cambridge on 23 October

For more information please contact matthew.clark@laplaya.co.uk or go to http://www.laplaya.co.uk/technology.html for further information.

Contact Info : Matthew Clark, Director 01223 200667 Email : This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Url: http://www.laplaya.co.uk/technology.html

Catalyst Consulting Coaching Clinic Stratford Upon Avon (9:00AM)

This Coaching Clinic is a fully developed, organisation-tested model which managers, leaders and coaches can implement immediately in their work-place.

It includes:

• A two-day intensive experiential learning programme
• A networking dinner at the end of day one
• Assistance in the development of coaching support processes and feedback loops
• Coaching Clinic follow-up teleconference group session for all participants to reinforce their learning during implementation
• A follow up individal telephone coaching session to evaluate results, provide process troubleshooting, and to celebrate success

For more information: http://www.catalystconsulting.co.uk/Training/134/CoachingClinicfor.html

About us

Catalyst Consulting Ltd is a UK based specialist in business improvement techniques. We provide in-company and public Lean Six Sigma Training and Coaching support.

Contact Info : Elizabeth Wilkinson Tel: +44 (0) 845 345 2282 Email : This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Url: http://www.catalystconsulting.co.uk

Dynamic Marketing Workshop (All Day)

Business Link East have appointed Liza Jones of marketing and public relations consultants, Abucon International Management to run a series of dynamic marketing workshops for them throughout East Anglia, starting in late October. 

Aimed at helping SMEs to get more out of their marketing budgets and to increase their sales, these two hour workshops cost £30 including VAT (tickets available from www.bookevents.org ).

Venue: Hatfield BioPark

Contact Info : Liza Jones Abucon International Management, marketing and PR consultants Tel: 020 7834 1066 Url: http://www.bookevents.org