Management Meeting 2023
As every year, the Management Meeting took place last November. The Board of Directors, the Management Team and the Leadership Team were able to travel to Dresden – a beautiful city.
In order to waste as little time as possible on long journeys and transfers from the airport, it was decided to hold the meeting in the heart of Dresden, not far from the famous and highly symbolic Frauenkirche. As it was a long journey for most of the almost 50 participants, many travelled there the evening before and were therefore able to get the first day of the meeting off to a great start.
The first day was opened with a short welcome by Alexander Hagemann and a program overview by Jasmin Leuschner.
As the Cicor family is constantly growing, the new employees were briefly introduced and their roles explained. Rolf Bormet then presented the Buttlar, Wutha-Farnroda and Tunisia sites under the title ‘The first year at Cicor’. The participants learnt facts about the new sites and gained an insight into how the integration of the sites into the Cicor Group has progressed. Alexander Hagemann presented the new STS Defence site in Gosport on behalf of Jonathan Bowley. This gave the participants an insight into the field of activity and further information.
Over the course of the day, there were a number of important topics discussed by our management; trends in medical devices - impact on product development and production; successes and further potential with our key customers; the power of digitalisation in product costing; ESG (environmental, social and governance); operations (process optimisation, efficiency improvement, cost management, quality assurance, resource and supplier management); finance and IT and, of course, other topics.
As in the previous year, the Board of Directors and the Management Team once again held a panel discussion this year, during which many of the participants’ questions about Cicor’s strategy, priorities and ideas for the coming year 2024 were answered.
After an intensive day of meetings, there was once again an evening programme during which the participants were able to visit something regional, in this case the Transport Museum in Dresden. Exhibits on the history of the railway, road transport, air transport and shipping were on display here. The subsequent dinner with catering directly in the museum building was opened by Alexander Hagemann with a speech.
As the first day of the meeting was already very full, the second day was used to visit the two sites in Radeberg and Dresden. The colleagues were given a deep insight into production and its processes, which is of course exciting every year when a site is visited. Once again, many thanks to Michael Bork and his team for the great organisation of the guided tours of the plants!
The management meeting was officially concluded with a tour of the Radeberger brewery and a buffet lunch, and all participants were able to travel home satisfied and with many impressions and inspirations for the new financial year.
Jasmin Leuschner
Executive Assistant to CEO