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Value Creation
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Our experienced international value creators specialize in Activity Based Management (ABM), Activity Based Costing (ABC), Activity Based Budgeting (ABB), Balanced Scorecard, Business Plans, Business Process Reengineering, Continuous Improvement, Economic Value Added, Fast-Time-To-Market, Feature Costing, Outsourcing, Process Management, Performance Measures, Perpetual Planning, Process Improvement, Risk Management, Strategic Planning, Valuation, and Value Stream Management. John Antos : former CFO, Controller; Clients: Allmerica Financial, Amtrak, Baxter Healthcare, Beech Acres, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Boeing, Brach, CENTEL, Citizens Insurance, City of Charlotte, Computer Science, Connaught Labs, Cornell University, DART, Delta Dental, Defense Logistics Agency, Electric Power Re-search Institute, Emerson, Epson, First National Bank-Chicago, GATX, GSA, Hammond Lead, Hilton, J.C. Penney Life Insurance, LeMANS Group, Nationwide Insurance, Navistar, Novus (Discover Card), Phoenix Duff & Phelps, Rank Video, RCI, Rosemount, Sallie Mae (student loans), Seta, Sun Life of Canada, Teledyne Brown Engineering, Treasury Dept., United Methodist Church Board of Pensions, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Postal Service, Wausau Insurance, IASA, LOMA. Teaches AMA's ABM & Activity Planning/ Budgeting seminars; co-authored Activity Based Management for Service Environments, Government Entities, & Nonprofit Organizations; co-authored Driving Value Using Activity Based Budgeting; Contributor to Handbook of Cost Management for Service; Handbook of Budgeting; Journal of Cost Management, & former editor AMA's Finance Forum. Jim Brimson: former Director of CAM-I (international consortium conducting R&D in advanced management techniques) where he originated Computer Integrated Enterprises and Cost Management programs that created Activity Based Costing; former worldwide Partner of Coopers & Lybrand's ABM consulting practice in London. Clients include: Beth Israel Hospital, FAA, Hamersly Iron Ore, IRS, Lam Research, Levi Strauss, Lockheed; Marianna; Merck; Miller Brewing, Reckitt Colman, Union Pacific Resources, Volvo. Author of Activity Accounting: Activity-Based Costing Approach, co-author of Cost Management for Today's Manufacturing Environment and Activity Based Management for Service Environments, Government Entities and Nonprofit Organizations, and Driving Value Using Activity Based Budgeting. Teaches Activity Based Cost Management and Activity Based Budgeting for American Management Association. Creator of concept of Feature Costing. Creator of Value Stream Manager software which integrates Balanced Scorecard, ABC, ABM, Earned Value, ABB, and Feature Costing and Analysis. Pat Tracy: specializing in ABM, BPR, TQM, ISO 9000, JIT, Best Practices, Teams, Imaging, Marketing, Sales Training, M&A, Valuations, LBO, and Joint Ventures. Clients: auto dealers, construction, distribution/warehousing, government, health care, insurance, legal, manufacturing, real estate, and technology. Rick Balog & Kate Robbins: Teach AMA's seminar on How to Design & Improve a Cost Management Information System, Intermediate Cost Accounting, and Fundamentals of Cost Accounting, Outsourcing. Clients: in U.S., Middle & Far East, South America, and Europe. Rick: CPA, CIA, Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM), Diplomat American Board of Forensic Examiners (DABFE), Diplomat, Board of Forensic Accountants (DBFA). Peat Marwick, Blue Cross & (IIA) Institute of Internal Auditors alum. Kate: former Cost Manager, CFO & Treasurer of Japanese Co. Clients: Insul Group, American Runner, Powdertech, Youngtown Chemical Michael Curran Developed Range Estimating and Bracket Budgeting methods for probabilistic business risk analysis. Expert witness before Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on range estimate of $9 billion petrochemical project. Written and subject of numerous articles on Range Estimating and Bracket Budgeting. Editor of Professional Practice Guide to Risk (Volumes 1-3). Co-developer of Risk Established Value (REVÔ) method for making decisions in high risk, high profile areas (e.g., determining valuations of companies in mergers and acquisitions). Conducts risk-decision seminars and consults for senior managers around the world. Chairs Risk Management Committee of Association for Advancement of Cost Engineering (AACE). Elected to membership in Sigma Xi, Scientific Research Society, based upon his development of theories of Range Estimating and Bracket Budgeting. Kevin Curran Eighteen years experience in probabilistic analysis of cost, schedule, and benefit risk. Assisted and guided executives faced with decisions ranging from $1 million to more than $5 billion in information technology projects, mergers, acquisitions, company valuations, operational budgeting, capital projects, new product and new service introductions, R&D, business expansions, and joint ventures. Co-developer of Risk Established Value (REVÔ) method for making decisions in high risk, high profile areas (e.g. determining valuations of companies in mergers and acquisitions). Authored and co-authored several papers on Range Estimating and Bracket Budgeting. Frequent speaker on practical business risk analysis for American Management Association (AMA), Canadian Management Centre (CMC), and Year 2000 business risk conferences. Mark Czarnicki : specializes in benchmarking. Through our affiliation with Benchmarking Network Mark designs, conducts, and reports benchmarking studies for organizations and associations. A large number of the Fortune 1000 studies have been involved in benchmarking with benchmarking Network. His team of 15 employees provide customized benchmarking studies that can be paid for by a single organization or association or have benchmarking costs shared by all participants in study. Mark's team has benchmarked a wide variety of industries, functional areas, and topics . Tom Devane : Managed Denver office for Coopers & Lybrand Clients (ABM): AT&T-four divisions; US West; Eldec (DOD electronics); Johnson & Johnson (McNeil Consumer Products); (BPR): AT&T, Honeywell, Manville, Weyerhauser (logging & finance); health care, semiconductor, telecommunications. Co-authored The Change Handbook: Group Methods for Creating the Future Leland Forst : His team specializes in shared services using Activity Based Costing. They create and improve shared services organizations; they advise on shared services governance issues and charging out of shared service costs to internal users. Clients include Boeing, GATX, P&G. Robin Fraser: Project director and co-researcher with Jeremy Hope (co-author of Competing in the Third Wave) for CAM-I's Beyond Budgeting research project; former consulting partner with Coopers & Lybrand in UK; 25 years of experience in business planning, performance improvement and cost reduction; clients include Engineering, Steel, Shipbuilding, Cement, Glass, Tobacco, Posts, Telecommunications, Media, Electricity, Water, Civil Aviation, Local Government, Retail, Building Societies, Banking and Professional; led CAM-I's study in Advanced Budgeting; co-chairman of CAM-I's Advanced Management Systems Program in Europe in 1994; developed PBB in UK; Cost reduction (typically 10%-30%); BOC; British Steel; British Shipbuilders; Blue Circle Cement; Pilkington Glass; Unilever; Howden; Glaxo;. Gallaher Tobacco; Taunton Cider; Currys; British Telecom; Central Television; CEGB; South Scotland Electricity Board; South West Water; Anglian Water; South Staffs Water; Civil Aviation Authority; Suffolk County Council; SWIFT; BACS; Barclays Bank; Yorkshire Bank; Share registration in retail banking; Paterson Candy; Helped develop ABM Game. Maurice Greaver: CPA, Deloitte Haskins & Sells alum; former CFO of an insurance company; leads outsourcing seminars for AMA and ABCM seminars for George Washington University and MIS Training Institute; specializes in organizational transformation (including outsourcing and ABCM), strategic, financial and corporate governance issues. Clients include: insurance, mortgage banking, manufacturing, executive search, savings & loan, trade association and professional services industries. Wrote Strategic Outsourcing (AMACOM 1999) and "Board Members Banned from Consulting?" (Directors and Boards magazine, Summer, 1996), "Hard Target: Coordinating Cost Reduction with Strategy and Process Improvement" (National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies’ magazine NAMIC, March/April, 1994), and "A Directors Guide to Constructive Communications with the Chief Financial Officer" (National Association of Corporate Directors’ monograph, 1992). Ken Kipers: former Executive VP of Fortune 500 company. Clients include Experian, Service Master, Trinity Forge, U.S. Army, etc. Pat Laff :was former Chief Operating Officer of a health care organization. He was also, CFO of Budget rental cars. He brings over 20 years of experience in all aspects of operating a business. Wendell Leimbach : has over 20 years experience in engineering consulting. His practice actually does the engineering for new products. Billie Gayle Lewis : Part of Activity Based Costing (ABC) and Activity Based Management (ABM) implementation team at Rockwell International. Helped Tom Pryor (2nd project manager of CAM-I) develop Activity Based Costing software; helped Jim Brimson (first project manager of CAM-I) develop Activity Based Management (ABM) software; worked with Arthur Andersen's Activity Based Costing team; Taught Activity Based Costing for Arthur Andersen and CAM-I. Has been involved with Activity Based Costing for manufacturing; hospitals; State government. Don McCormick: lives in Shanghai, China. He has over 25 years of business experience. He works with companies in the areas of strategic planning, performance management, and balanced scorecard. Phil Neukom: lives in Toronto where he specializes in Activity Based Management (ABM), Activity Based Costing (ABC), and writing of business plans. He speaks 3 languages and works with clients in U.S., Canada, and Europe. Steve Peacock: Former COO, Micro Electronics; VP Operations, Little Daisy; Controller, Atherton Industries. Clients: ASI, City of San Jose, Clorox, Columbia Trust, Dyn-A-Pac, European Investment Bank, George Lithograph, Golden Valley Electric, Lightolier, Intel, Pacific Bell, Ralston Purina, State of Colorado, Syntex, THUMS, U.S. Navy, U.S. Postal Service, and U.S. West. Taught: AICPA, NAPM, NRMA, IIA, Rutgers, SMU, University of Michigan, Pittsburgh, Miami, and AMA's seminar on ABM/ABB. Rob Ryan: His team is heavily involved with computer systems including Activity Based Costing (ABC) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Jim Schmook: Former Fortune 500 VP-Quality; Naval Intelligence Officer. Projects: ABM/ TQM/Change Benchmarking, Project Leadership). Clients: Acxiom (1,200 people in 90 days), Defense Logistics (4,000 people trained); Ford (ABM training), El Paso Natural Gas, GATX, National Demographics & Lifestyles, SHR Perceptual (advertising), Semiconductor System, Smith Tool, Sematech, Techtronix, U.S. Navy. Wayne Simpson: is Activity Based Coordinator for City of Indianapolis. He has been involved with this very successful Activity Based Costing (ABC) project since 1992. This Activity Based Costing project has been written up in numerous publications including Harvard Business Review. He has trained both union and non-union employees on Activity Based Costing. The ABC project included Dept. of Transportation; street maintenance, traffic operations; solid waste, engineering, environmental, permits, parks &recreation and pools. These efforts became foundation for Performance Budget, known as 'Popular Budget.' He has written articles for Government Accountants Journal and Government Finance Review. He is referenced in Activity Based Management in Government and Activity Based Management for Service Industries, Government Entities, and Non-profit Organizations; Activity Based Management II Best Practices for Dramatic Improvement. He has spoken for Executive Enterprises' on Implementing Activity-Based Management, Costing, Planning & Budgeting in Public Sector. Clients: City of Charlotte, City of Washington DC Department of Public Works; State of New York Department of Transportation; City of Dayton Ohio, and Johnson County, Kansas. Gary Steinkohl: former controller at Citibank, specializes in designing, developing and/or delivering experiential learning programs from his training library or in customized form, in accounting, finance, treasury, operations, and technology and systems. Some of his program titles are: Fundamentals of Accounting and Finance, Cost Accounting, Financial Analysis, and Budgeting. Gary's client list includes Sylvania, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Chase Manhattan Bank, Foster Wheeler, Citibank, Deloitte & Touche, Dresser Industries, and Thomson Financial Services. Mark Stevens: specializes in the implementation of performance and cost management decision support systems through the application of ABM, Balanced Score Card, Data Mart and Business Intelligence tools and techniques. Mark has over 20 years of management and systems consulting experience, conducting his first ABC project in 1982 for GTE. His 10 years JIT consulting experience provides unique ABM perspective. His ABM experience across multiple industries, including industrial, automotive, pharmaceutical, consumer products, distribution, insurance and telecommunications. He was former director of ABM for Crowe Chizek; teaches ABM for Sapling, and Indiana and Purdue Universities. Clients include Alcoa, Allstate Insurance, Corning, Metatec, Red Spot Paint, Revere Ware, Timken Bearing, and Wells Aluminum. Dr. Peter Tuxen: is a practicing physician who assists healthcare organizations in better understanding their costs by procedure and payer. Brandon Weinstock: has over 10 years of ABC/ABM training and consulting experience . John Vann: Former Comptroller/senior Army officer. Pioneer in ABC/M work within DoD since 1992. Extensive public works experience. Clients include: Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, government intelligence community, Corps of Engineers, audit agency, government laboratories, United States Military Academy (West Point), multiple bases/installations from Directorate to Secretariat levels. " Authored "Activity Based Costing: The Missing Link in Decision Information," Armed Forces Comptroller magazine, Winter 1997. (Lead and Cover article) Audrey Williams : has been involved with cost management projects for the last 10 years specializing in the federal government sector. Clients include U.S. Army, Veterans Administration, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Agriculture, Department of Systems Information, and DOD. Gerta
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