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STRATEGIC MARKETING

Business of Arts and Culture

Washington, DC | April 12-13, 2012

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ARTS AND CULTURAL MANAGEMENT: FROM SERVICE DESIGN TO SUCCESS

New York, NY | April 24-26, 2012

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FINANCE

Business of Arts and Culture

Minneapolis | October 11-12, 2012

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STRATEGIC GOVERNANCE

Business of Arts and Culture

Miami | November 15-16, 2012

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Finance

Seminar Sessions

Finance is a two day seminar.

Day One

  • Session 1: Value Creation

    You examine the meaning of value creation and identify dimensions of value for arts and culture organizations. You then preview the linkages between financial management and the ability of organizations to create value.
  • Session 2: Using Financial Management to Understand Change - Revenue Drivers

    You analyze different sources of cash and examine the levers available to organizations to affect revenue in light of a changing internal and external environment. You then explore the benefits of a focus on revenue growth relative to margin management.
  • Session 3: Using Financial Management to Understand Change – Cost Drivers

    You identify complex ways that changes in organization activities affect its costs. You analyze the management of controllable costs and compare costs that change with amount of activity and those expected to simply decrease over time through organizational learning.

Day Two

  • Session 1: Evidence-based Management – Resource Allocation

    You discuss tools for estimating revenue and costs in the near future and devising effective strategies for making longer-term investment decisions. You investigate the benefits of these resource allocation tools specifically for arts and culture organizations.
  • Session 2: Evidence-based Management – Performance Measurement

    You expand the theory and practice of evidence-based management, determining how an organization’s financial systems can provide the data needed to monitor, control and align the day-to-day activities of the organization.
  • Session 3: Communicating Financial Outcomes

    You discuss how to get and keep the attention of stakeholders through understanding what motivates them, providing appropriate training and making a clear connection between the mission of the organization and the numbers coming from its financial system.
  • Session 4: The Leader’s Financial Agenda

    In this session, you work with your team to define key opportunities and challenges in their current environment and lessons from the program that can help address them. The session concludes with a group discussion in which participants share agenda ideas.

 

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The complex issues involved in leading a cultural nonprofit today can challenge even the most skilled management team. Using our first-hand experience in the arts and working with faculty from leading business and graduate schools, we deliver executive-level programs that help you find new opportunities, manage your resources and lead your organization toward its mission.

 

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