The workshop "Strategic and production management of industrial enterprise: application of UNIDO benchmarking and business excellence tools Pharos + Produce-Plus" took place 18 – 23 January 2003 at UNIDO ITPO/ARCEIT office in Manama, Bahrain.

The objective of the workshop was to train executives and consultants from Bahrain, Lebanon and Palestine in using of UNIDO PHAROS - Business Navigator and Produce software for monitoring of business performance and production benchmarking.

The training workshop was opened by Mr. Gerardo Patacconi, UNIDO and Hashim Hussein, Head ITPO in Bahrain followed by training sessions by Mr. Serge Golovanov (GOLEM, Austria) and Terry James (MDA, UK) as UNIDO International consultants and trainers.

The workshop went through successfully and caused increased interest in further use and application of the UNIDO Business Performance software and continuous improvement methodology.