Redefining manufacturing
Keynote presenters Paul Lester CBE, Chief Executive VT Group and Cranfield School of Management's Graham Clark examine the potential for manufacturing companies to open up new revenue streams by re-defining what manufacturing can mean in the modern era.
Breakfast-to-lunch, Central London Re-defining manufacturing with keynote presenter: Paul Lester CBE, Chief Executive VT Group
VT may be famous for building Royal Navy destroyers, but it has turned engineering and manufacturing capability into a very big service industry, revealing that looking after a product over a period of five years is worth up to four times its original value. But now it's also into training, building schools and waste management.
VT Group Chief Executive Paul Lester, awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for his service to the defence industry, will discuss with Leaders Club members the story behind the diversification of one of Britain's industrial and commercial giants.
As one time Managing Director of Balfour Beatty the international engineering, construction and services group; past Chief Executive of electronics instrument group Graseby; current Advisory Board member of the venture capitalists Alchemy, a director of Civica, and a member of the Manufacturing Forum government think tank, few are better qualified.
