fforward.biz organizes educational business tours for companies to gain first-hand experience and knowledge from leading global companies since 2004. The tours include presentations and discussions with managers at key departments to observe innovative management approaches, technologies, and talent strategies. Participating companies benefit from new business contacts, ideas to implement in their own growth strategies, and building long-term relationships with innovative companies. Tour types include management concepts, IT, retail, HR management, banking, and manufacturing tours focused on lean principles in the US, Europe, Brazil, Japan and more. Programs are customized and include up to 20 representatives per company.

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First-Hand Business
Experience from Leading
Companies

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About Us
Since the year 2004, we have been professionally organizing
open and corporate tours for our clients to gain experience,
knowledge and valuable business contacts.
Each tour program
includes presentations
and open
communication with
actual managers and
employees of leading
companies, as well as
visits to key departments
and facilities of said
companies.

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Management Tour
Concept
Conventional business education provides only a general idea of how business works. Studying
successful businesses in action is the only way to gain real and practical knowledge first hand.
Executives want practical knowledge: they want to hear, see, touch, and understand.
Management tour is the best way to see a potential partner in action and to determine whether an
innovation is especially noteworthy or whether it is just a waste of time and effort.
It is an ideal way to motivate your talented employees, increase loyalty, and nurture an
innovative mode of thought.
Moreover, each visit gives an impulse of innovative breakthrough ideas that will help shape your
company’s growth strategy for a few years ahead.

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IT Tours
Silicon Valley IT Companies
Brazilian IT companies
Technological
innovation that will be
available to your rivals
only in a few years
A
powerful impulse
of innovative ideas
for business growth;
you will see these
ideas implemented
Latest
achievements of Silicon
Valley pioneers
Innovative management approaches to
technology, company management, as well
as talent retention and development
A unique community
of Silicon Valley
entrepreneurs whose
ideas might earn them
millions in the near
future
Long-term acquaintance
with the managers of
innovative companies

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Retail Tours
US Retail Chains: Wal-Mart, Target, Costco, Whole Foods, Wegmans.
European Retail Chains: Tesco, Metro, Rewe, Lidl, Aldi, Asda, Morrisons.
Hands-on experience
of retail leaders.
Various practices
implemented at
different types of
American retail
companies. Their
market positioning
strategies and
operational
arrangements.
New business contacts
within the national
business environment. Up
to 500 people from
Ukraine and CIS took part
in FastForward tours. 90%
of participants are
business owners and
executives at companies
with a turnover of $5 to
$500 million.
Innovative ideas
put to practice. Much
of what you will see
and hear can be
implemented
afterwards in your
business!
Personal contact
with American retail
managers. An
opportunity to build
long-lasting business
relationships. It is also a
great opportunity to
present your product to
potential partners or
make arrangements to
represent the interests
of American companies.

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HR Management Tour
San Francisco, Las Vegas, USA. New challenges in human resources
management. The importance of HR for companies of all shapes and sizes.
Silicon Valley: what
makes it tick?
Primary objectives for
HR management.
Stanford Day.
HR management during
active business growth
period.
Corporate culture. HR
analytics. HR services.
Best executive
search practices,
building a culture of
a learning
organization.
Efficient HR system
facing new challenges.
Employee attraction,
development and
motivation programs.

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US Banking Sector Tour
USA (New York). Best banks in the US. Strategies. Experience.
An overview of the US
banking sector and its
major development trends
with professors from
Columbia Business
School; visits to Bank of
America and Citi Bank.
Visits to Deutsche Bank
and Capital One Bank,
summing up with
professors from
Columbia Business
School.
Meeting American
Express
representatives, visit to
Federal Reserve Bank
of New York, visit to
Scotiabank. Visits to
NYSE Euronext and
Bank of New York
Mellon.
Visits to UMPQA Bank
and Key Bank;
networking dinner
with representatives
of NY Stern и
Columbia.

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Kaizen Tour
A tour of Japan’s leading companies.
Manufacturing and service improvement.
Lean production principle.
Kanban management. Just in time и
Jidoka systems. Visit to Toyota
factory with an expert on Toyota
Production System.
Training at TPS DOJO
(Toyota House).
Inventory control.
A guided tour of the Honda factory.
Implementing TPS in other industries
and countries.

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Corporate Tours
Management Tour Format
The tour program is
100% adjustable to the
client’s wishes and the
strategic course of the
client company’s
development.
Number of Participants
The tour
program is
agreed with
the client
company.
An opportunity to integrate the
innovation and management in-
house sessions will be given. With
this purpose, FastForward hires a
facilitator, i.e. a representative of a
top business school or a business
guru to hold the in-house sessions
between company visits.
15 to 20 representatives from one company

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Our Clients

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Video-reports
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Thank You for Your Attention!
Our mission is to make your trips
as educational as possible – that’s
why our managers will surely
answer all your questions at any
time.
visits@fforward.biz +7 499 500 5534, +380 44 591 9541