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IIR is an Informa business providing up-to-date training and conferences.

About IIR
Vision and Mission
Values
IIR Global
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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

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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.

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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.

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IIR Global

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.

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About Informa

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.

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