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Live
Webcast of Rethink and Discovery II
New Ways of Looking at Old Problems
SAN FRANCISCO, CA --June 14, 2002--(PRNewswire)--This "Thought-Leadership
Program" is designed to share business and technological
views that clarify understandings and stimulate an industry-wide
change and transformation process. The plan is to host
three sessions of the Rethink and Discovery program
each year. The sessions will be led by different panels
of distinguished academic, business, and industry leaders.
Each will present informative and provocative views to
help stimulate and guide the discovery of needed industry
changes in education, business, and technology.
This session will be the second
in the series of discussions that will ultimately make
it clear how the industry should redefine its core technologies
and to get at the root of the industry's financial problem.
Fifteen years ago, the forest products industry comprised
3% of the S&P 500. Today, the entire paper industry
is 0.6% of the S&P 500 and declining. According to
Jim McNutt, Executive Director of the Center for Paper
Business and Industry Studies (CPBIS), "Industry leaders
are mindful of the issues and the need for fundamental
change and transformation of the industry; the problem
relates to the old adage of defining the process to fix
the bicycle while continuing to ride in the race."
CPBIS, working in partnership with
the Institute of Paper Science and Technology (IPST) and
American and Forest and Paper Association's (AF&PA)
Agenda 2020 initiative, will host the second "Rethink
and Discovery" program at the Paper Industry Management
Association's (PIMA) 83rd Annual International
Management Conference. The conference will be held in San
Francisco June 19th through the 21st.
The program will be simultaneously web-broadcasted Live
over the Internet to facilitate interactive participation
by paper industry professionals worldwide. To register
for the webcast please go to: http://www.ipst.edu/news_events/webcast/PIMArethinkII.html
Rethink and Discovery II will
focus on Division and Mill Level operations management
issues. It will include two panel sessions, one with the
recent past, current, and incoming PIMA Presidents, and
one with Seven Mill Level Management leaders. Del Raymond,
Director, Strategic Energy Alternatives at Weyerhaeuser
will give the keynote address at Rethink and Discovery
II -- Superintendent's Roundtable. Dr. Raymond, also
has been a pioneer in championing and developing the forest
products vision, Agenda 2020, a strategic planning document
that describes where the industry will need to be in the
year 2020 to be competitive. He has been involved with
the U.S. Department of Energy's Industries of the Future
Program since its inception. He is currently Chair of the
Chief Technology Officers Committee that guides implementation
of this vision for the forest products industry. His keynote
will set the overall tone for the program and lay out the
key linkages between it and the ongoing Agenda 2020 process.
Katherine Buckman-Davis, Chairman
of the Board of Buckman Laboratories Group will kick off
the event with an overview of what Rethink and Discovery is
all about and a synopsis of Rethink and Discovery I.
Jim McNutt (CPBIS) will host the first panel. His fellow
panelists will include PIMA Presidents (Past, Present,
and Incoming) Rick Larrick (GP); Barre Mitchell (Bowater);
and Ray Heuchling (Irving). Each of the panelists will
provide their own observations of what is and is not working
in the industry today. The second panel will be hosted
by D.D. Smith (Buckman Laboratories). His fellow panelists
will include Boyd Curtis (Potlatch -- Lewiston), Tiger
Teng (Green Bay Pkg. -- Morrilton), Doug Howard (Boise
Cascade -- Boise), John Martin (Riverwood -- Macon), Nyle
Parchim (Weyerhaeuser -- Campti), Simon Gore (Bear Island,
Retired -- Ashland), and Steve Farmer (IP -- Roanoke Rapids).
This panel will provide their observation on what are the
critical issues for this industry at the mill level and
what are the roadblocks and barriers to success.
The first Rethink and Discovery program
("Beyond Today's Papermachine") was web-broadcast
from the Paper Summit 2002, held in March at the Georgia
World Congress Center in Atlanta. Taking a first look at
gaps, needs, and barriers in the technology and business
management arenas for the paper industry, the first program
had some 150 conference attendees, and it attracted interactive
participation from 36 other multi-participant locations
around the world, including real-time questions and views
being submitted from Finland, Brazil, England, Spain, Mexico,
and the U.S. to the panelists.
Rethink and Discovery II program
will be from 2 PM to 5:45 PM, Pacific Daylight Time,
on June 20th, in the Colonial Room of the Westin St.
Francis, San Francisco, California. For more information
on the full Rethink and Discovery Program please
see the previous article entitled: Rethink
and Discovery II Offers New Ways of Looking at Old Problems.
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