Idea Launch : The Swindon Festival of Business Excellence 2012


Planning is currently at an early stage. We're talking to different businesses collecting thoughts and ideas and gauging the level of interest and support. We'd like to hear from anyone interested in getting involved in any way, including offers of venues, speakers, ideas for events, and sponsorship.

What is SFoBE?

The aim of the festival is to bring together everything that is commendable about business and encourage us all to find ways to do things better by combining good practice and experience with fresh ideas.

It would consist of a series of presentations, seminars, workshops and other events themed around the topic of improving business processes.

Subjects covered could include innovation, constant improvement, quality management, people management and public responsibility with additional events focusing on personal motivation and excellence in sales, marketing and social media.


Provisional Timetable:

February 2012 - Idea Launch
July 2012 - Programme Launch
September 2012 - Festival

More Than Just The Business Community

The scope of the festival doesn't have to limit itself to the business community.

The philosophy of Business Excellence extends into education, health and charities as well, so there is potential for it to appeal to a very wide audience.

There is also the possibility of streaming parts of the festival over the internet to take events to a national audience.

Why Do This?

"Rather than focusing on economic doom and gloom, this is a chance to concentrate on finding positive ways to do things better in business and, as a result, make a contribution to our economic future.

By highlighting excellence and encouraging people in a business, organisation, town, region and even the country to drive improvement within their business processes, we could generate a cumulative effect which would have a very beneficial influence on the economy as a whole.

If other businesses get involved we can work towards developing and building upon the idea, and organise an event which could attract visitors from around the country. With £300,000 of public money currently being spent on a campaign to enhance the perception of Swindon, this is an exciting opportunity for our town to become associated with everything that is great about business.”

Paul Dunn, Festival Director

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