Center for Global Best Practices

According to Ellis Davison, entrepreneur and regular contributor to Macworld & TidBITS, the three most important factors to determine your business success are COST, REVENUE and PROFIT. Your business may show a high revenue, but if your costs are higher, there will be no profit. If capital runs out, your business is destined to declare bankruptcy. Achieve competitive advantage for your organization through cost leadership! The Center for Global Best Practices is launching a two-day training entitled, Best Practices in Managing Cost and Profit to be held on Wednesday and Thursday, March 27 & 28, 2019 at the Manila Marriott Hotel, Pasay City, Philippines. This two-day training seeks to enhance knowledge and skills of CEOs, CFOs, finance directors and managers, comptrollers, financial analysts, budget officers, bookkeepers, entrepreneurs and anyone dealing with managing cost and profit across the value chain of a business. This program will teach you the process of ...

With the intensified campaign of both the National Government and the Commission on Audit (COA) in their thrust towards good governance, there has been a clamor  for a program to address the issue of COA disallowances and to find solutions for those encountering such problems. To help solve your most pressing challenges regarding these, the Center for Global Best Practices is hosting a one-day special program entitled, " Best Practices and Remedies to AvoidCOA Disallowances ", scheduled on Friday, March 22, 2019 at the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel, Mandaluyong City. This program will greatly benefit employees, and public officials of local and national government agencies, government-owned and controlled corporations, public utility companies, as well as private entities dealing with the government. Private entities will learn how to package a project or supply goods and services to ensure that their business deals will not fall under illegal, extravagant, unnecessary and u...

Delays in construction permits and clearances arise due to the conflicting interpretation of the Building Code of the Philippines among the government authoriti es, technical professionals, property owners and developers. It is time set the records straight! The Center for Global Best Practices will host a training entitled, “ Property Developers’ Guide to the Building Code IRR of the Philippines ” to be held on Wednesday & Thursday, March 20 & 21, 2019 at the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel, Mandaluyong City, Philippines. This two-day program is designed to provide a clear guideline to the 2005 IRR of the Building Code of the Philippines. This training is to help different stakeholders align their referral codes in architecture, structure, plumbing, electronics, sanitation, electrical, mechanical and interior design to the building code. Attendees will learn valuable insights on how to fast track building permits, updates on the latest government issuances, memoranda, and decided...

With the clamor of lawyers who are yet to comply with the 2019 Mandatory Continuing Legal Education requirement, the Center for Global Best Practices and Lyceum of the Philippines College of Law will host this special four-day training entitled, 2019 MCLE Program on Wednesday to Saturday, March 13, 14, 15, and 16, 2019 at the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel, Mandaluyong City, Philippines. This will feature the most seasoned lecturers and practitioners in their field of expertise to present interesting and unique topics that you will find very useful and relevant to one’s legal practice. The content of the lectures will include new laws and regulations to keep lawyers  updated. Unlike the usual run-of-the-mill MCLE-accredited programs, this is uniquely packed with special and interesting topics. Registration is open to the general public. Lawyers attending the MCLE training can earn full 36 MCLE credit units. CGBP is accredited by the Civil Service Commission. Attendees from th...

You are a startup success. Fine! But if you want to achieve your bigger ambitions and sustain the continued growth of your family business, you need to professionalize it the RIGHT way. According to Dr. Eric Flamholtz, author of the book on family businesses, Growing Pains, businesses go through stages of development: new venture, expansion and growth stage, then comes professionalization. The new venture and expansion stages constitute the entrepreneurial phase of an organizational development. It is during this phase that the need to make the transition from entrepreneurship to a professionally-managed, entrepreneurially-oriented organization begins to occur. Those family businesses who were able to transition successfully experience a more rewarding and fulfilling journey in growing their businesses. However, to most families, this becomes a challenge. To address the clamor of founders, family members of second, third, and fourth generation, business owners, entrepren...