The focus of Joseph DiVanna’s workshop series is to provide corporations with tools to develop actionable strategies. Participants are presented with unique approaches to examine their firm's value proposition within a vertical industry and to ask how they will add value to compete in the global economy.

Book-in-a-Day

Featured in The Economist, the Book-in-a-Day Workshop is designed to bring together individuals from diverse backgrounds in specific industries (strategy, management, financial services, amongst others) into a process of facilitated dialogue that results in a published document. The objective of this executive interchange is threefold: to identify the market forces that are reshaping an industry; to put the issues into the context of providing products and services in a highly competitive environment; and to develop initiatives which can be made actionable by corporations large and small to remain competitive. 

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The methodology uses the tangible concept of a book to organize thinking, dialogue and materials into a cohesive format. Organizations license this methodology for internal use as a means of developing rapid actionable strategies.

This workshop is available under license for internal use by clients.

 Global Financial Services Competitive Diagnostic

What are your strengths and where are your weaknesses is the uncomplicated premise behind the Global Financial Services Competitive Diagnostic Workshop. Designed to help financial institutions to generate competitive market differentiation, this activity engages banking professionals into issues shaping the financial services industry. Participants learn the fundamentals of their organization's business model and assess the effectiveness of how they are adding value by examining process, people and technology from strategic and tactical viewpoints.

This workshop uses a lecture/lab environment to stimulate thinking and facilitate experimental learning in small working teams. Its primary outcome is to assess your readiness to compete in the new world of financial services. Participants rate the firm's use of technology, the process of serving customers, the skills required for core competencies, and ranks your institution against global averages. More importantly, the workshop develops a plan for action. People  interested in this workshop must ask themselves a simple question: “will your organizaiton be a casualty or a contender in the new economy?”

This workshop is available under license for internal use by clients.

The One-Day MBA for Financial Services

This workshop is designed to examine the challenges faced by professionals working in today's competitive landscape of financial services. Based on concepts discussed in Joe DiVanna's books Redefining Financial Services, The Future of Retail Banking and Strategic Thinking in Tactical Times (all by Palgrave-Macmillan), this workshop uses a diagnostic methodology which enables financial services organizations to self assess their performance against objectives such as product leadership, customer intimacy and operational efficiency.

The format of the workshop combines presentations with interactive sessions to demonstrate how concepts such as The Value Disciplines can be used by organizations to deliver the next generation of financial services. The content of the workshop centres on understanding the key drivers in the delivery of global financial services, on how to build teams and create diagnostic business activity. Participants will learn how to interpret the results and form an action plan to deliver results.

This workshop is available under license for internal use by clients.

Strategy Development

Joseph DiVanna’s strategy workshop series focuses on how to develop actionable strategies by presenting participants with five vertical industries are developing value propositions to compete in the new economy. Businesses are undergoing a transformation as technology presents an opportunity to rethink how organizations work. Consumer buying habits indicate that the rate at which society adopts technology is rising. The increased knowledge of how to use technology is resulting in a fundamental re-examination of our relationship with technology, social customs, taxation, new markets, economic pressures, and a host of other factors that are redefining how businesses operate and add value. Using the computer simulator Capitalism, this workshop is designed to engage participants in the fundamental process of strategy development, execution and measurement of the results.

This workshop is available under license for internal use by clients.

Human Capital Balance Sheet

Drawn from the research on DiVanna's book People, the New Asset on the Balance Sheet, this workshop addresses the complex problem of assessing the value of intangible assets such as human capital, intellectual property and the potential of employee brainpower.

In the 1990s, corporations believed that technology gave them market differentiation; yet two comparable corporations equally equipped rarely perform the same. How organizations deliver customer service, innovate new products and increase shareholder value rests principally on the core competencies they create using their employees' capabilities.

Joseph DiVanna presents to participants a means to define the primary elements of value which constitute the competencies and capabilities of the firm as the first step in valuing people as a tangible asset.  Participants are provided with an approach that can be used within their companies to effectively measure the value of human capital in a way meaningful to the people beyond the HR department.   

This workshop is available under license for internal use by clients.