Seminars, Workshops & Training

DotInDots runs specialised smart card business development and  business planning seminars, workshops and technical training within the Asia Pacific region

Participants may attend open, pre-scheduled events jointly with other companies, or alternatively, small group  seminars or workshops can be scheduled for a number of in-house staff including programs for clients of smart card vendors. These can be custom designed where necessary, using standard or specially developed components and the programs run "in-house" or outsourced via DotInDots  throughout Asia Pacific.  Specialised replicable training, such as sales training, can be designed and outsourced throughout Asia Pacific.

Current courses, seminars & workshops include:

Smart Cards - Building the Marketing & Financial Business Case An intense one day hands-on workshop that goes through both the qualitative and quantitative elements of smart card business cases.  The workshop helps participants understand the line items required to build smart card financial business cases using an excel spreadsheet template, as well as addressing the smart card related qualitative & marketing issues. A great opportunity for attendees to gain real world tangible experience in writing a smart card business case and take this knowledge away with them on disk.   The course is designed for marketing and business managers and planners with little smart card knowledge, but with strong business and analytical skills, and requires each participant to bring their own laptop. The workshop can be run in a number of  different formats, as an "In House" brain storming exercise, as a tool for vendors to use to assist clients, or as an industry development tool to be used by industry associations or Government industry development authorities. Participants: Maximum 12, Minimum 6 Standard Workshop Costs:  Australia - AU $600.00 plus 10% GST per head, SE Asian locations, US$350.00 per head  fully catered. Customised Workshop Costs: By Quotation Download 2002 Workshop Details (Adobe Acrobat version 5 document) For further details and schedules, email your request to smartcards@dotindot.com

Smart Cards - Non-Technical Introduction

A half day seminar providing the basics of smart card technology for non-technical and marketing staff.  Usually run "In House" the session is designed as an introduction to the business development workshop or brain-storming session, this short introduction will enable participants to understand the basics of smart cards, including:

	The relationships and leverage between banks, merchants and payments associations
	Failures and successes, what works & what does not.
	Simple explanations of  the key technical issues
	The roles of the different vendors in the industry
	Who is doing what to whom?

Participants: Maximum 20, Minimum 6

Costs:  Price by quotation only

Schedule: Subject to demand

For further details and schedules, email your request to smartcards@dotindot.com

Business Development Workshop A one or two day interactive workshop that is customised to the requirements of each organisation, and designed to rapidly generate the information required for an organisation to build a smart card related business and marketing plan.  It may be appropriate for some or all of the participants to have previously attended the two events above.  The output from this workshop would likely form the input to a larger business case and marketing planning exercise. Costs:  Price by quotation only Schedule: Subject to demand For further details and schedules, email your request to smartcards@dotindot.com

SmartCity Technical Training The standard five day hands on technical training course for operators, developers or users of the SmartCity smart card management system. Participants: Maximum 8, Minimum 5 Costs:  AU $4,500 Per head or AU $20,000 per course + GST (maximum 8 participants), Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra.  Other locations in Asia Pacific by quotation. Schedule: Subject to demand For further details and schedules, email your request to smartcards@dotindot.com

For further details email smartcards@dotindot.com or give us a call......

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