A business tour helps to develop your own knowledge by immersing yourself, living and understanding the way leaders think. These trips allow companies to explore the best practices applicable in their industry, comparing their operations and results with competitors and market leaders. They become the fuel for moving forward and upward.

Our 10-year experience in organizing trips reliably confirms this. Feedback from participants is the best proof. After a business trip, we ask:
What was most important for you on the trip?
How will you incorporate this "experience" into your work?

1. Breaking Out of Isolation

"Stewing in your own juices" - this rarely leads to growth and development for both the manager and company. It is useful to share information with and discuss problems with colleagues who have different backgrounds. A business trip is a good way to make new contacts.

FROM A FEEDBACK:
"Of course, the director of the company has made an indelible impression on me. He combines qualities of a true leader - he is an inspirer, a teacher, and a manager. He can be considered a role model for a leader. I truly hope that we can establish cooperation with the company and with him."

FROM A FEEDBACK:
"The special value of these visits lies in the opportunity for direct communication between experts from different countries. It allows not only discussing common problems, but also overcoming many initial obstacles that arise due to cultural and political differences. Without this, cooperation would be difficult."

2. Hands-On Benchmarking

A business trip (ГИПЕРССЫЛКА НА РАЗДЕЛ БИЗНЕС-ТУРЫ) is a productive benchmarking with your own hands. We study everyone who can provide ideas and effective solutions.

It becomes possible to assess the level of development of your company in comparison with leaders (and, if possible, competitors). Having understood the reasons for their success, you can compare their way of thinking, the corporate culture, and ideas about the right way. As a result, you will be able to refine and adjust your own company's strategy to increase its position in the target market and find a new niche or promising business model. Benchmarking helps you to find best practices and apply them.

FROM A FEEDBACK:
«After the trip, we realized that, first of all, we need to develop a system for monitor the operation of the equipment in order to understand how we are actually using our capacities and see what reserves we have. Then it will be possible to adjust our business model».

FROM A FEEDBACK:
«Our team's participation in the trip helped us to develop a strategy for development and launch a number of significant transformation projects for the company. To begin with, it made it possible for us to switch to using a single terminology, and to have a common understanding of what each term really means».

FROM A FEEDBACK:
«The information obtained during the trip will help us to move from local changes towards the development of a common strategy in planning and organizing production».

3. Beyond Desk Research

Benchmarking can, of course, be conducted "in the office" based on soft data about other companies. You can find out WHAT the company under your study has implemented to get such high results, but you can almost never get an answer to the question: "HOW did they do it?"

It's quite another thing when you come to a factory and look at HOW things really are, point your finger, and ask: "How do you do this to happen? Why do your workers do things that was impossible for other companies?"

4. Business-trip (ГИПЕРССЫЛКА НА РАЗДЕЛ БИЗНЕС-ТУРЫ) is a source of information about technologies and methods of action that are new to you

FROM A FEEDBACK: 

«Getting to know the practices of companies that are actively implementing robotic systems, meeting with their managers, allowed us to gain fresh experience, launch new technologies. This opens up new markets for us».

5. Benchmark and business-trip (ГИПЕРССЫЛКА НА РАЗДЕЛ БИЗНЕС-ТУРЫ) – is a source of inspiration to see your own weaknesses, understand what can to be improved in your company, and turn it into an area of growth.

FROM A FEEDBACK: 

«As a result of the trip, we learned about new tools which, a long time ago, would have allowed us to achieve better business results. These are "large room" and joint equipment maintenance. Now, we have incorporated them into our production system improvement plan.».

FROM A FEEDBACK: 

«We were very impressed by the results of mapping processes in the offices of the plant. The focus was on identifying and eliminating/reducing ineffective processes/functions, and we couldn't imagine what savings it would give us».

6. Benchmark and business-trip (ГИПЕРССЫЛКА НА РАЗДЕЛ БИЗНЕС-ТУРЫ) is a great way to motivate yourself and your team. The inclusion of a member of staff among the participants of such a trip motivates in itself: they are an important part of the company, entrusted with a mission to generate and introduce new knowledge to the company that improve its wellbeing. It also serves as an inspiration for new achievements.

FROM A FEEDBACK:

«The most important thing was that after the trip we had confidence in our ability to implement lean production as».

FROM A FEEDBACK: 

«I fully understand that everything we saw was the result of years of hard work. The most important lesson we learned is that we need to develop the staff's willingness to improve their work and the company's performance. Then everything will fall into place.»

How Should I Prepare for a Business Trip?

Define the goal. Why do we need to go on this trip? What do you want to learn? We gather information about companies that are part of the business trip program. We prepare questions that will help us understand the company's operations.
Form a team for the trip: It's best to include representatives from different departments, because it's a shared understanding of problems, solutions, and directions for necessary changes that allow you to make the most of your experience.

During the visit:

We will be open.
Asking questions and listening to answers is neither scary nor embarrassing. We compare with our own experience.
We capture ideas immediately and systematize later. After the benchmark business tour:

We systematize what we've learned and how it can be applied. We act: try to introduce new methods and ideas.
In 2025, we will travel a lot (ГИПЕРССЫЛКА НА РАЗДЕЛ БИЗНЕС-ТУРЫ)
Join us! We will look at it together, discuss it and try it out for our companies. We will be various and so it will be interesting and useful.