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Keynotes, chairing and workshops at several major global conferences every year
The Next Events.... see below for previous engagements
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Florida - January 18-21, 2010
One global Summit, One week, One place containing everything you need to optimize ROI from your process excellence program and succeed in 2010. Your chance to delve deep into cost-cutting, operational and process transformation, process improvement strategies for profit generation, the customer experience, innovation, talent development and much more it's the essential industry meeting of the year to help pull your business back on track after the recession.
Features BP Group Workshop
& Main Sessions

Steve Towers on the judging panel
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India - October 14-16 Bangalore
UAE - October 18-20 Dubai
"This program exceeded my expectations"
WIPRO Director of Service
"Steve promised to change my view of process forever. Job done."
Lead Business Architect
Dubai Development Corporation
"Steve led the best training sessions I have ever taken in my 20+ years as a professional. After those sessions I was able to have immediate impact on my organization. Steve is a very sharp, personable, interesting individual, and a real pleasure to work with. I continue to remain in regular contact with Steve and consider him an invaluable resource on BPM and on change management in general.”
Mark Barnett
SVP, Process Design Manager
Bank of America
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Our flagship event for the financial services industry, the Business Process Excellence Exchange attracts an attendance of over 130 expert practitioners from across Europe, all pre-qualified to a level of seniority and project lead and all from financial institutions.
This provides the optimum platform for peer-to-peer information exchange, learning, networking and gathering fresh ideas and cutting edge strategies to apply in everyone's own business to drive excellence, revenue and performance.
The 2009 Speaker faculty includes:
- Martin Whybrow, Editor in Chief, Director, International Banking Systems
- Malcolm Eastwood, Head of Business Transformation, HSBC
- Fabrizio Majorana, Chief Quality Officer, UniCredit Group
- Peter Blatter, Chief Operating Office & Member of the Board, Citibank Germany *
- Steve Towers, Chair & CEO of BP Group
- Yves Suffeleers, AXA Way Programme Manager & Process Practice Leader, Axa Belgium
- Harjit Chana, Business Improvement Leader, first direct
- Thom Keehan, Business Transformation Leader, GE Capital Global Banking Romania
- Evdokia Karavassilli, Leader, Business Banking, EFG Eurobank Ergasias
- David Bancroft-Turner, Chief Executive, The Academy For Political Intelligence
- Marika Brine, Transformation Leader, Group Operations, SEB
- Subir Chandra, Programme Leader, Work-Out, Strategy&Design, RBS
- Stephen Whitty, Service Improvement, Global Planning, RBS
- Richard Frost, Lead Architect, Lloyds Banking Group
- Caroline Holyhead, Vice President, Bank of New York Mellon
- Susan Baldwin, Head of Operations, ICICI Bank UK
- Peter Kirby, Head of Solutions Development, Kleinwort Benson
- Havana Abid, Former Director, Operations, Bradford & Bingley
- Dr. Vaughan Michell, Associate Fellow with Business Technology Leadership & Management Unit, Warwick Business School
- Paul Irish, Operational Excellence Manager, RSA Group (formerly Royal Sun Alliance)
- Jim Lawless, Taming Tigers
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The world's leading companies have come to realize that only when their customers are successful, will they be successful. In pursuit of their market leadership not only they need to spend time to look inside their business to know how things are getting done but also look outward to get deep understanding of their customers. It is a fair guess to say that a massive chunk of corporate resources go into such efforts, whether it is in IT, finance, sales, marketing, or operations.
At this workshop you will Learn from the lessons from decades of real experience with real (and successful) BPM initiatives for taking BPM from promise to practice.
This will be great primer for beginners and will provide new insight & fresh ideas for people with experience in BPM.
Rest assured, you will never think about business in the same way again.
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As the 5th Annual Business Process Excellence in Finance Exchange, we pride ourselves on the Exchange model delivering the most value for your investment of time, funds and resources. So why does this model work so well and stand head and shoulders above your average conference, meeting or training session?
Exchange events are unique, invitation only meetings providing the opportunity to 'Exchange' ideas and information, develop industry contacts, advance current initiatives and improve business processes.
Exchange combines detailed keynote presentations with interactive workshops and informal consultations with solution providers so that you can take real practical solutions and improved understanding to turn around your organisational challenges.
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Towers Associates support talks and keynotes in topics such as business transformation, BPM, corporate strategy, process alignment, executive engagement, Strategy maps, Balanced Scorecard, BPR, CEM, Successful Customer Outcomes - in fact most things related to performance improvement.
Specific Industry expertise in
- Financial Services (insurance, banking, accounting, credit cards, mutual funds)
- Utilities companies (energy, telecoms service providers, water, nuclear)
- Transportation & Distribution (eg. Fedex, CSX, etc)
- Retail & E-commerce (eBay, Amazon.com, Paypal, etc)
- Healthcare (hospitals, health insurance providers)
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Domain knowledge:
- BPM, BPR, BPI
- Operational Excellence
- Lean & Six Sigma
- Business Process Excellence
- Performance Management (Scorecards, Strategy Maps, Strategic Management)
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In the last three years conferences and seminars delivered include:

Review Previous Events:

SmartUtility 2009
June 22-24
Workshop and Track session
IIR Telecoms - Amsterdam
May 11-14
Keynote
BPM and Local Governance -
Keynote
Prince Salman Center
Prince Sultan University,
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
May 5
The Certified Process Professional
Lead Coach
Sydney, Australia
Apr 6-8
The Certified Process Professional
Lead Coach
Perth, Australia
Apr 1-3
BPM09 World Tour
ICMG - Workshop Leader
Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Delhi
March 2009
Enterprise BPM09
ABPMP - Seminar Leader

Denver, Co
February 2009
BPM08 World Tour
Paradigma - Workshop Leader

Argentina & Montevideo
November 2008
BPM08 World Tour
ICMG - Workshop Leader
Australia - Brisbane - Sydney - Melbourne - Perth
October 2008
BPM08 World Tour
ICMG - Workshop Leader

India - Mumbai, Bangalore
October 2008
FST 'C' Level
Cross Industry
IT & Business Transformation

BPE in Financial Services
London
Workshop and Channel Chair

Marcus Evans BPM & Outsourcing for Telecoms
London
Speaker and Panel Chair
September 2008
The IQPC Exchange,
Amsterdam
Chair & Keynote
June 2008
The India CPP Advanced BPM Program - Leader -
Mumbai - Chennai - New Delhi
April 2008
download the brochure
9th Annual Process Excellence Summit
Overview of Appearances in 2007 (pdf)

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Speaker & Workshop
London
April 2008
The Certified Process Professional
Lead Coach
Riyadh
March 2008
CIO Healthcare Summit
Workshop
Lake Geneva, France
Feb 5-7, 2008
The Certified Process Professional
Lead Coach
Dubai, UAE
Jan 6-8, 2008
The Certified Process Professional
Lead Coach
London, England
Dec 11-13
The Balanced Scorecard Masters
Speaker
Arlington, VA
November 28-30
Presentation available
BPM in Telecoms

Speaker & Chair
Geneva, Switzerland
November 14-16
The 5th Annual
Business Process Excellence
Exchange- IQPC
Keynote, Chairman
& Workshop leader
London, Oct 22-24
FST Summit - Europe
C-level Event
Speaker & Workshop leader
Evian, Lake Geneva, Oct 14-16
3rd Annual BP Innovation
Conference & Exec
Vlerick Management School,
Seminar - Keynote & Workshop
Ghent, Belgium, October 10-11
CRM Excellence 2007

Keynote Speaker
Arlington, VA July 9-10 , 2007 
Process Excellence in Financial Services

Keynote Speaker London, England
June 27-28, 2007
ABPMP Chapter meeting
Seminar Widener University
Philadelphia, PA April 2007 

Gartner European BPM Summit
Conference & Workshop London
March 26-28, 2007 
Wipro BPM Seminar
KeyNote Boston, MA March 15 , 2007 
Shared Service & Outsourcing
Conference & Workshop
Hyderabad International Convention Centre, India
March 20-21, 2007 
The 2007 Six Sigma Excellence Summit
Conference & Workshop, Miami, Florida
March 26-28, 2007 
Gartner BPM Summit Conference & Workshop
San Diego, California February 26-28, 2007 
IIR BPM Conference
Conference Keynote and Workshop
Vienna, Austria January 22-25, 2007 
BPM Professional Certification
Training Lead Coach
Denver, Colorado Dec 11-14, 2006
International IQPC BPM Forum
Conference Chair and Keynote London, England
December 5-6, 2006 |
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