Helping the Wood Products Industry Profit From the Next 10 Years
Innovative approaches to globalization to be featured at April workshop. Helping the Wood Products Industry Profit From the Next 10 Years St. Paul, MN (1/10/2006) The domestic wood products industry currently faces significant challenges. These challenges are magnified in the hardwood industries with rising foreign competition and related economic impacts on the primary and secondary industries in the Eastern United States.The US Forest Service, Wood Education and Resource Center (WERC) and Dovetail Partners are offering an April workshop to help the industry constructively respond to these challenges. The workshop will include presentations from leading innovators in the industry with real-life and current-day examples of implementation of strategic thinking and repositioning, new leadership models, mass customization, LEAN manufacturing, and other approaches.The workshop will be at the Wood Education and Resource Center (WERC) facilities in Princeton, West Virginia on April 11th and 12th. Workshop participants will be headquartered at the nearby Pipestem Resort State Park "the crown jewel of West Virginia State Parks". Pipestem includes an18hole golf course and offers a golf package for visitors.The work upon which this program is based was funded through a grant awarded by the Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry, USDA Forest Service. Dovetail Partners is an equal opportunity provider. For more information, contact: Dovetail Partners at 651-762-4007 orinfo@dovetailinc.org or visit http://www.dovetailinc.org For more information about Pipestem Resort, visit: http://www.pipestemresort.com
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Apr 11, 2006 11:03 AM
to Apr 12, 2006 11:03 AM |
| Where | Princeton, WV |
| Contact Name | Dovetail Partners |
| Contact Phone | 651-762-4007 |
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