| IIR is an Informa business providing up-to-date training and conferences. About
IIR
Vision and Mission
Values
IIR Global
Informa About
IIR No matter what your business information needs may be, you can be
confident that IIR has the solution that is right for you. More conference, training
and distance learning formats in more vertical markets means more options for
you to find what you need, when and how you need it. IIR Conferences,
Annual, Large Scale, Training and Distance Learning Events feature the most sought-after
experts in Project Management;
Mining; Human
Resources and Skills Development; Finance
& Investment; Secretarial;
Government and Public Sector;
Strategic Management; Maintenance,
Manufacturing and Engineering; Energy,
Oil and Gas; Tax and Legal,
Quality, Marketing
and Communications; IT and
Telecommunication; Health
Care and Pharmaceuticals; Transport
and Infrastructure. With every IIR event you attend you will find access to
winning ideas and proven strategies, each capable of taking your business and
your career to new levels of success. IIR's philosophy requires each one
of our nearly 400 annual events to be able to stand on its own, so you may already
know us through one or more of our flagship events: HR
Africa
Biofuels
Cosecs ™
The
Balanced Score Card
Financial
Modeling with Vish Tumu
Skills
Africa
Broadband
MECSA ™
Paycon
Artisans
Crushing
and Grinding back to the top Vision
and Mission It is the mission of the Institute for International Research
South Africa to facilitate the growth and advancement of our core client-partners
by supplying the optimum business solutions, at the right time and in the right
format - so that their goals can be surpassed and unique marketplace challenges
overcome. We pride ourselves on our abilities to respond quickly to market
needs and work in conjunction with each of our partners to provide you, our stakeholder,
with quality learning experiences that are leading edge, dynamic, and fully customisable.
back to the top Values
Our Mission and Vision are fueled by a set of core values, to which all
IIR associates are dedicated: - Know our customers and strive to
exceed their expectations
- Keep customer satisfaction as the one
true measure of success.
- Be the innovators of our industry, bringing
new ideas in topic and format to our customers.
- Maintain a work
environment that fosters the entrepreneurial spirit, work ethic, and teamwork
for IIR and its associates.
IIR is an Informa business and so
we strive to meet our mission and vision with the Informa core values as well: The
seven core Informa Values are: INNOVATIVE
NON-BUREAUCRATIC
FOR PROFIT
OPEN
REWARDING
MARKET-FOCUSED
ABOUT QUALITY We want to be innovative in the development
of our product content; in our formats of delivery; in our pricing models to ensure
we keep our offering fresh and relevant for our customers. We want to be the sort
of company that encourages and develops the ideas of our staff, a business that
embraces change. Non-bureaucratic - We have to have proper controls
in place in a business like this but we do not want that requirement to encourage
a form-filling bureaucracy to flourish. We want to be fast moving, decisive, able
to act quickly when opportunity presents and nimble enough to be a revered force
in the market. For profit. Unapologetically, we are here to make money.
But sustainably. We are here for the long term. We want to be open
in our communication. I can think of no question about the business which we should
not be prepared to answer (other than exceptionally if answering it brought us
into breach of market-sensitivity rules). We want the company to be a rewarding
one to work for. Yes financially, but in terms of personal and career development
too. We also want the business to be a fun place to work. Not just because we
are nice but because we think if it is an enjoyable place to work we keep better
people and do better. We have got to be very market-focused. If we
are not we will soon fall behind. The world is changing fast and the old mentality
of just produce and sell is no longer enough. We have to think more, ask more,
anticipate more and do more to meet our customers' needs than was the case even
three years ago. Last, and this is no platitude, we are about Quality.
Our key differentiation is the quality of the information we deliver. back
to the top IIR GlobalThe Institute for International
Research (IIR) is the world's leading knowledge and skills transfer company with
a global network of 48 companies and 113 operating units. Every year, IIR works
with 650,000+ business executives providing them with knowledge and skills through
training, conferences, seminars, e-Learning, blended solutions, publications,
exhibitions, consulting and mentoring. Founded as a newsletter company in
1973, IIR quickly built on its research and thought leadership capabilities to
expand rapidly into new markets and businesses. Growth, both organic and through
acquisitions, has been constant and considerable. For the last decade, IIR has
grown by a minimum of 15% annually. IIR's clients have grown with them. The
list of IIR graduates, delegates, faculty, advisory board members and stake holders
is a virtual who's who of the corporate world and spans the breadth of the Fortune
1000 and the FT index. For many companies, where IIR training programmes have
been customised to solve specific business issues, IIR's knowledge and skills
provision has become so critical a component of the organisation's success, that
graduating from the IIR curriculum is part of the core competencies required for
promotion. In a world of ever decreasing boundaries, it is clear that the
only sustainable form of competitive advantage is intellectual capital. IIR companies
share a passionate belief in the power of effective knowledge and skills transfer
to optimise an organisation's intellectual capital. Even more importantly, for
almost 3 decades, IIR has proven time and again, that it knows exactly how to
do it. back to the top About
InformaInforma plc is the leading international provider of specialist information
and services for the academic and scientific, professional and commercial business
communities. Informa has over 150 offices in more than 40 countries and employs
7,500 staff around the world. Informa is the largest publicly-owned organiser
of conferences and courses in the world with an output of over 10,000 events annually.
Informa publishes over 2,000 subscription-based information services including
academic journals, real-time news and structured databases of commercial intelligence.
Informa's book business has more than 40,000 academic and business titles in print.
Informa's products are founded on high value content in a wide variety of
subject areas. These range from the arts and humanities through social sciences
to physical science and technology; from the professional domains of finance and
the law through to commercial fields such as telecommunications, maritime trade,
energy, commodities, and agriculture. back to
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