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Falfurrias Capital Partners Announces Growth Investment in Executive Platforms

Falfurrias Capital Partners and Executive Platforms will enter into a strategic partnership for expansion across new markets and capabilities  CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Falfurrias Capital Partners (FCP), a Charlotte-based private equity firm focused on growth-oriented, middle-market businesses, today announced its investment in Executive Platforms, the leading curator of forums for senior leaders in businesses and organizations. Founded in 2014, Executive Platforms builds world-class forums to facilitate the sharing of ideas among the senior leadership of businesses and organizations with common objectives, interests, and challenges. Their curated experiences bring key decision-makers and industry leaders together to share insights and expertise and challenge each…

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Building Competitive Advantage as Companies Localize and Regionalize Their Supply Chain Network

If you spend your career in any specific field, you will see themes and trends and moods and styles and eras come and go over the course of your working life that are defined by a single issue or pressure or innovation that shapes everything else you do for a time. Supply Chain professionals are no different, and right now as we come out the far side of a pandemic, we are in an extended moment where frequent disruptions of all shapes and sizes are now accepted as a business norm, and all anyone wants to talk about is building…

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EUSCES23 in a Nutshell

Executive Platforms’ first European Supply Chain Executive Summit ran June 19-21, 2023 at the Melia Sitges a short drive outside Barcelona on the beautiful Spanish coast of the Mediterranean. It was attended by 215 delegates, speakers, sponsor representatives, and guests from more than 150 different companies and organizations. The agenda included more than 35 keynotes, case studies, workshops, themed lunch discussions, focus groups, and more. Early feedback has been universally positive, and work is already underway to build upon this success and make next year’s summit even bigger and better. That is the shortest overview we can offer of the…

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Pride 2023

It’s Pride Month, and anyone consuming media in any form has seen a lot of great content go out into the world talking about 2SLGBTQQIA+ issues. For those who wonder just how much of an impact is made by having a time and space available to talk about these issues, ask yourself if you have had more than the usual number of personal and professional conversations relating to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging over the last couple of weeks. I know I have, and what could be a better illustration of the power of having a month dedicated to fostering…

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Drew Dudley, the WSJ-Bestselling Author of This is Day One: A Practical Guide to Leadership that Matters

— Geoff Micks Head of Content & Research Executive Platforms Geoff joined the industry events business as a conference producer in 2010 after four years working in print media. He has researched, planned, organized, run, and contributed to more than a hundred events across North America and Europe for senior leaders, with special emphasis on the energy, mining, manufacturing, maintenance, supply chain, human resources, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, finance, and sustainability sectors. As part of his role as Head of Content & Research, Geoff hosts Executive Platforms’ bluEPrint Podcast series as well as a weekly blog focusing on issues relevant…

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DEIB in the Workforce – A Pride Month Conversation with The Get REAL Movement

— Geoff Micks Head of Content & Research Executive Platforms Geoff joined the industry events business as a conference producer in 2010 after four years working in print media. He has researched, planned, organized, run, and contributed to more than a hundred events across North America and Europe for senior leaders, with special emphasis on the energy, mining, manufacturing, maintenance, supply chain, human resources, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, finance, and sustainability sectors. As part of his role as Head of Content & Research, Geoff hosts Executive Platforms’ bluEPrint Podcast series as well as a weekly blog focusing on issues relevant…

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The Looming Talent Crisis, Crunch, and Chaos Bottlenecking the Future of Medicine

In many ways, the next ten years promise to be the single brightest decade the pharmaceutical world has ever seen, and we are speaking about an industry that has gone from strength to strength for most of its history. Not only are Small Molecule products undergoing a renaissance powered in part by Digital Transformation while Large Molecule products are finally enjoying their first Golden Age as a now established and mature biopharmaceutical sector within the larger whole, but a whole new and novel generation of products is at last reaching the tipping point of commercialization and stands at the cusp…

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PMWS23 in a Nutshell

This 2023 edition of the Pharma Manufacturing World Summit series ran May 15th and 16th at the Boston Marriott Copley Place in the heart of downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It was attended by 275 delegates, speakers, sponsor representatives, and guests from more than 200 different companies and organizations. The agenda included more than 40 keynotes, case studies, workshops, themed lunch discussions, focus groups, interactive think tanks, and more. Early feedback has been universally positive, and work is already underway to build upon this success and make next year’s summit even bigger and better. That is the shortest overview we can offer…

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Ideas and Innovations on Mentoring, Sponsoring, and Reverse-Mentoring

As I write this, Executive Platforms organizes events for senior leaders relating to Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing, supply chains in both North America and Europe, Technology, Human Resources, Finance, Food Safety and Quality, Sustainability, and Manufacturing. It is surprisingly easy to find common issues and challenges that people in positions of authority in these different roles have in common not just within their own disciplines, but across sectors. At some point as you rise through an organization, the specifics of your profession must include universals about leadership and people. You can have a conversation about a leader’s responsibilities and soft…

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The Digital Revolution and Frontline Workers: Putting the Big Picture in the Palm of Their Hands

Last week marked my thirteenth anniversary as an industry conference producer, and of all the conferences, summits, forums, and symposia I have worked on over the years, the largest single category must be manufacturing events. I love building events for people who build things. It helps that I worked a bunch of factory jobs to pay my way through school. I crushed rock into powder. I cooked steel until it was hard enough to cut other steel. I made brake parts for trains and gas tanks for cars. When people talk about safety training or shopfloor optimization or materials handling,…

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NAMES23 in a Nutshell

The 2023 edition of the long-running and successful North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit ran April 16th through to the 18th at the Omni Fort Worth Hotel in the heart of downtown Fort Worth, Texas. It was attended by 575 delegates, speakers, sponsor representatives, and guests from more than 400 different companies and organizations. The agenda included more than 65 keynotes, case studies, workshops, roundtable discussions, focus groups, interactive think tanks, and more. In the days after the event, feedback has been universally positive, and work is already underway to build upon this success and make next year’s summit even bigger…

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Robbie Friedman of ootBox — A Conversation about Entrepreneurship, Customer-Centricity, and Appearing on Shark Tank

— Geoff Micks Head of Content & Research Executive Platforms Geoff joined the industry events business as a conference producer in 2010 after four years working in print media. He has researched, planned, organized, run, and contributed to more than a hundred events across North America and Europe for senior leaders, with special emphasis on the energy, mining, manufacturing, maintenance, supply chain, human resources, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, finance, and sustainability sectors. As part of his role as Head of Content & Research, Geoff hosts Executive Platforms’ bluEPrint Podcast series as well as a weekly blog focusing on issues relevant…

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Steve Hunt, Author of Talent Tectonics — A Conversation About the Forces Shaping the Future of HR and Business

— Geoff Micks Head of Content & Research Executive Platforms Geoff joined the industry events business as a conference producer in 2010 after four years working in print media. He has researched, planned, organized, run, and contributed to more than a hundred events across North America and Europe for senior leaders, with special emphasis on the energy, mining, manufacturing, maintenance, supply chain, human resources, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, finance, and sustainability sectors. As part of his role as Head of Content & Research, Geoff hosts Executive Platforms’ bluEPrint Podcast series as well as a weekly blog focusing on issues relevant…

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The Rise of ChatGPT and How It Will Impact Businesses

At the end of November 2022 the San Francisco-based company OpenAI launched a prototype of a free artificial intelligence chatbot fine-tuned with both supervised and reinforcement learning techniques to deliver detailed, articulate responses across a wide range of topic areas. Within five days, the chatbot —called ChatGPT in reference to the category of large language models it uses, which are known as Generative Pre-trained Transformers— had over a million users. By January, it had over 100 million users, making it the fastest growing consumer application ever to date. Within just three months on the strength of ChatGPT’s early performance, OpenAI…

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Showcasing the Interviews You Missed

2023 is going to be a big year for this blog and our podcast, The bluEPrint. I have been given a mandate to grow these channels and make them something relevant and interesting both to our existing network of senior business executives and also to a wider audience who have some of the same business challenges and opportunities in their own working lives. Many of you may have already noticed a lot more content is coming out a lot more regularly, and we are only picking up speed! I am proud to say we have already published almost as many…

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Avoiding the Curse of Shelfware

A universal fear of anyone who buys new equipment or systems for their company is that they might make the wrong choice and end up with nothing to show for their outlay of expense and effort but a never-used user manual that sits somewhere in their office, mocking them every time they look at it. Whatever they were trying to do with the best of intentions, somehow instead of hardware or software all they ended up with was shelfware. I love the word shelfware. Even just the sound of it conveys disappointment and defeat wrapped up in a vague but…

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Fixing the Peter Principle in Large Organizations

The Peter Principle states, “In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to the level of their incompetence.” This is one of those ideas that has been around so long, it has become a joke where the punchline is that everyone knows it is true. We all can think of someone who is bad at their job who got to where they are because they were great at what they were doing before. It is a serious problem that can lead to disastrous long-term results for any organization unlucky enough to have its rising talent find themselves moved upwards into…

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