Keynote Address

Jumping the S-Curve: How to Beat the Growth Cycle, Get on Top, and Stay There
Mr. Paul F. Nunes, Executive Director of Research, Accenture

How do a few leading companies, such as P&G, Porsche, Wells Fargo, UPS and Schlumberger perpetually out-perform their peers? How do they grow revenue and increase profitability, not only in the short run, but even across economic and market disruptions?

Paul Nunes, a leader in the Accenture High Performance Business Research program, reveals how the best companies get to the top and stay there. Drawing on nearly a decade of research on thousands of companies from around the world, he will show that too many leaders manage their companies only to the visible S-curve of revenue growth in which a business starts out slowly, grows rapidly until it approaches market saturation, and then levels off. High performers, by contrast, actively manage to the cresting of three hidden S-curves that reach the end of their lives well before the company’s financial curve reaches its peak. By jumping these three-curves early, while the core business continues to thrive, companies lay the foundation for a successful leap to a new financial S-curve later—and for lasting greatness by executing a series of these moves.

Paul Nunes is Executive Director of Research at the Accenture Institute for High Performance based in Boston, Massachusetts. His research has focused on business and marketing strategy, with particular attention paid to the evolution of consumer behavior and marketing channels.

He earned his Master of Science degree in Management from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Northwestern University.

Exclusive Product Launch

Innovating for Manufacturing and the Global Supply Chain
Scott Toney, President and CEO, Camstar Systems, Inc.
Karim Lokas, Vice President of Marketing and Product Strategy, Camstar Systems, Inc.

Join us for a customer-exclusive launch of the newest versions of Camstar’s platform and cloud-based solutions.

Pre-launch of Camstar V5
The next big release of our platform promises exciting innovations for manufacturing and the entire global supply chain.

• Next Generation Natural User Experience
• Next Generation Configuration and Productivity Tools
• Embedded Reporting and Analysis
• New Richer Manufacturing Execution Functionality
• Cloud-Ready Manufacturing Quality Intelligence
• End-to-end Supply Chain Visibility

Beginning at the heart of our platform – our state-of-the-art manufacturing execution system – we will reveal new functionality that helps you stay ahead of the competition. For advancing product quality and gaining efficiencies, Camstar V5 promises to prepare you for expanding global manufacturing.

Launch of Camstar SigmaSure V7
We will unveil Version 7.1 of Camstar SigmaSure, the next generation of our On-demand Supply Chain

Quality applications:

• Faster and Easier Supply Chain Data Exchange
• Aggregated Supply Chain Data Views
• Flexible and Custom Queries, Charts and Grids
• Multi-Dimensional Data Analysis and Discovery
• New iPhone App

You’ll learn about the inherent connection of Camstar V5 to Supply Chain Intelligence and Supplier Quality Networks in Camstar SigmaSure V7. See what our Supply Chain Quality Superheroes are doing: Bridging the control of our platform with end-to-end Supply Chain intelligence in the cloud.