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For more than 20 years, he has helped companies transform business strategies into maximum profits. He is a leading expert in purchasing and supply chain management whose teaching and research interests include procurement transformation, ethics and sustainability, and risk management. He has more than 100 published articles and is coauthor of the book Transform Your Supply Chain: Releasing Value in Business.","Url_Bio":"","Url_Image":"/~/_acnmedia/accenture/conversion-assets/blogs/images/28/accenture-bill-michels.png","Social_Linked_In":"","Social_Twitter":"https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=","Social_Email":"mailto:lbill.michels@aripart.com","AuthorId":"{FCB5666C-B00C-4E07-A32F-18A030E7312F}"},{"Name":"Bill Tayler","Short_Description":"Bill Tayler is a professor at Brigham Young University's School of Accountancy, the top-ranked accounting school in the United States (Businessweek, 2014). ","Long_Description":"Bill Tayler is a professor at Brigham Young University's School of Accountancy, the top-ranked accounting school in the United States (Businessweek, 2014). He specializes in management accounting (including performance measurement), the assignment of decision rights, and incentive compensation. He is also an expert on the subjects of balanced scorecard, revenue and cost-variance analysis, standard costing, subjective performance evaluation, activity-based costing, joint revenue and cost allocation, process costing, inventory management, cost-volume-profit analysis, overhead allocation, and capital budgeting.\r\n\r\nBill is a certified management accountant and has received numerous research and teaching awards. 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In all these settings, her financial acumen, creativity, and entrepreneurial spirit have led to successive levels of responsibility in company strategic planning, business development, and new business expansions. From these positions, Oswald gained an impressive reputation for growing businesses, building alliances, and solving business problems.\r\nCherie started her career as a financial analyst for General Foods, working on a factory floor with industrial engineers and plant management. She then progressed to increasingly responsible financial positions with Fortune 1000 companies like PepsiCo, Quaker Oats, Northwest Industries, and Scripps Interactive. Oswald is also a member of the world-renowned John Maxwell Team, lecturing nationally on the principles of leadership and teamwork.\r\nShe has a BS and an MS in finance from the University of Illinois, Champaign.\r\nOswald is a Bronze Tablet Scholar and Betsy Magness Leadership Institute Alumnus. 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He has a global background in the areas of accounting, finance, supply chain management, and global shared services. Simpkins has a strong background in streamlining operations and improving departmental efficiency. He has a thorough understanding of today’s ever-changing business environment and how change is necessary. He is involved in several nonprofit organizations, including as a board member for the Alzheimer’s Association of Southeastern Wisconsin.\r\n \r\nCraig Simpkins graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside with a BS in accounting. Following this, he graduated from North Park University with an MBA and received an MS in accounting from Regis University. 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He has made major research contributions in inventory models, production planning and scheduling, and global operations and supply chain management. He has coauthored two books and has published numerous academic papers. His book Inventory Management and Production Planning and Scheduling, coauthored with E. A. Silver and R. Peterson (John Wiley & Sons, 1998) is used in numerous PhD programs worldwide. 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Along with having presented for the Wall Street Journal’s Executive Diversity Career Fairs, Koen coaches, consults, and presents nationally on career management, transitions, and women in the work force. She regularly conducts leadership development programs for the International Visitors Leadership Program sponsored by the US Department of State. Koen brings her expertise and enthusiasm to every engagement to create innovative solutions.","Url_Bio":"","Url_Image":"/~/_acnmedia/accenture/conversion-assets/blogs/images/11/accenture-deb-koen-bw.png","Social_Linked_In":"","Social_Twitter":"https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=","Social_Email":"mailto:","AuthorId":"{AFE02409-58B1-46FB-BE93-6A52286631A2}"},{"Name":"Dennis Foster","Short_Description":"As a senior academic with 20 years of experience in UK higher education, Dennis Foster has designed, developed, and delivered postgraduate courses in engineering, logistics, supply chain, project management, and enterprise systems management.","Long_Description":"As a senior academic with 20 years of experience in UK higher education, Dennis Foster has designed, developed, and delivered postgraduate courses in engineering, logistics, supply chain, project management, and enterprise systems management.\r\n\r\nHighly skilled in all areas of teaching and learning supported by research, he currently operates as a learning and development consultant specializing in e-learning course design and delivery in a range of logistics and engineering management subjects. His clients across the United Kingdom, Europe, United States, and the Middle East include universities, colleges, humanitarian-aid charities, and the Accenture Supply Chain Academy.\r\n\r\nOver the past 10 years, appointed on behalf of the UK Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, Foster has acted as course designer, tutor, and advisor to distance learning students across the world.\r\n\r\nPrior to his educational career, Dennis Foster’s commercial background included experience in operations, sales, product development, innovation, supply chain management, business intelligence management, and asset optimization. Dennis Foster holds an MBA from Coventry University in the United Kingdom and is a certified NLP practitioner.","Url_Bio":"","Url_Image":"/~/_acnmedia/accenture/conversion-assets/blogs/images/11/accenture-dennis-foster-bw.png","Social_Linked_In":"","Social_Twitter":"https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=","Social_Email":"mailto:dennis@meta-learning.co.uk","AuthorId":"{448DBC51-9018-44EC-A577-4EF1BB7A60FF}"},{"Name":"Doug Thomas","Short_Description":"Doug Thomas is a professor of business administration at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.","Long_Description":"

Doug Thomas is a professor of business administration at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.

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Doug Thomas teaches courses in operations management and supply chain management at the Darden School. He has been honored with numerous teaching awards throughout his career and is a frequent faculty leader in executive development programs. He has conducted numerous executive education sessions in Europe, Asia, and North America, including open-enrollment programs at Penn State and the Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as custom executive programs for numerous Fortune 500 companies.

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Thomas's research interests include coordinating production and inventory planning across the extended enterprise and connecting decision models to logistics performance measurement. He is a research associate with the Center for Supply Chain Research where he serves as the faculty director for the sales and operations planning benchmarking consortium. His work has appeared in several academic and practitioner journals for logistics and operations management, including Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Business Logistics, and Achieving Supply Chain Excellence through Technology. He serves as a senior editor for Production and Operations Management.

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Thomas has worked as a consultant for several large corporations on issues pertaining to supply chain optimization models, sales and operations planning, and supply chain strategy.

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She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Missouri Western State University","Url_Bio":"","Url_Image":"/~/_acnmedia/accenture/conversion-assets/blogs/images/13/accenture-erynn-buckman.png","Social_Linked_In":"","Social_Twitter":"https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=","Social_Email":"mailto:","AuthorId":"{0768E54A-1E08-4916-A63F-59C3925649EA}"},{"Name":"Gary Cokins","Short_Description":"Gary Cokins is an internationally recognized expert, speaker and author in advanced cost management and enterprise performance and risk management systems. He is the founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC, an advisory firm located in Cary, North Carolina. His most recent books are Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics and Predictive Business Analytics: Forward Looking Capabilities to Improve Business Performance.","Long_Description":"Gary Cokins is an internationally recognized expert, speaker and author in advanced cost management and enterprise performance and risk management systems. He is the founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC, an advisory firm located in Cary, North Carolina. His most recent books are Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics and Predictive Business Analytics: Forward Looking Capabilities to Improve Business Performance.\r\n\r\nGary Cokins received a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering and operations research from Cornell University in 1971. He received his master’s degree in business administration from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in 1974.\r\n\r\nGary Cokins began his career in industry with a Fortune 100 company in CFO and operations roles. He then worked 15 years in consulting with Deloitte, KPMG, and EDS (now part of HP). From 1997 until 2013, Cokins was a principal consultant with SAS, a leading provider of enterprise performance management and business analytics software.\r\n","Url_Bio":"","Url_Image":"/~/_acnmedia/accenture/conversion-assets/blogs/images/25/accenture-gary-cokins-v2.jpg","Social_Linked_In":"","Social_Twitter":"https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=","Social_Email":"mailto:gcokins@garycokins.com","AuthorId":"{93BBFF90-BE17-4151-9278-1218A035B9E1}"},{"Name":"Gary Hecht","Short_Description":"Gary Hecht is an associate professor in the department of accountancy in the college of business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He primarily teaches managerial accounting at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.","Long_Description":"Gary Hecht is an associate professor in the department of accountancy in the college of business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He primarily teaches managerial accounting at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.\r\n \r\nGary Hecht's research focuses on managers' judgments and decisions within strategic performance measurement systems as well as the antecedents and consequences of managerial discretion within firms' incentives systems. \r\n \r\nHe has published articles in Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). \r\n \r\nGary Hecht obtained his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also holds a bachelor's degree from Illinois State University.\r\n \r\nBefore receiving his PhD, Hecht worked as both an auditor and a tax specialist at Crowe Chizek, as a financial analyst at Landis & Staefa, and as an internal consultant at ACCO Brands.","Url_Bio":"","Url_Image":"/~/_acnmedia/accenture/conversion-assets/blogs/images/11/accenture-gary-hecht-bw.png","Social_Linked_In":"","Social_Twitter":"https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=","Social_Email":"mailto:hecht.gary@gmail.com","AuthorId":"{C0139220-7DC7-4D55-B758-76473ED10D81}"},{"Name":"Glenn Parker","Short_Description":"Glenn Parker is an internationally recognized workshop facilitator, organizational consultant, and conference speaker in the areas of teamwork, collaboration, and team meetings.","Long_Description":"Glenn Parker is an internationally recognized workshop facilitator, organizational consultant, and conference speaker in the areas of teamwork, collaboration, and team meetings. He has helped create high-performing teams for various organizations such as Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Merck & Company, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Phillips-Van Heusen, Telcordia Technologies, BOC Gases, and the US Coast Guard. \r\n\r\nGlenn Parker holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the City College of New York, a master’s degree from the University of Illinois, and has studied for a doctorate at Cornell University. He has also studied at the University of Oslo (Norway). In addition, he has been a professor for team management at Rider University.\r\n \r\nParker currently lives in the Princeton, New Jersey, area. In his spare time, he is an active volunteer with the American Cancer Society, where he helped create Run for Dad, a Father’s Day event designed to raise awareness about prostate cancer, which in 2013 drew some 1,800 participants and raised more than $100,000 for cancer research.\r\n\r\nGlenn Parker has extensive experience as an author. Some of his best sellers include Cross Functional Teams: Working with Allies, Enemies, and Other Strangers and Team Players and Teamwork: New Strategies for Developing Successful Collaboration. \r\nHis widely used instruments include the Parker Team Player Survey, which has sold over one million copies, and manuals for practitioners such as 50 Activities for Team Building and Team Depot: A Warehouse of 585 Tools to Reassess, Rejuvenate, and Rehabilitate Your Team. His seminal work on team player styles was featured in the best-selling CRM video Team Building II: What Makes a Good Team Player? Some of his other books include Rewarding Teams: Lessons from the Trenches and Meeting Excellence: 33 Tools to Lead Meetings That Get Results.\r\nParker is 1 of only 75 management thinkers recognized in the book The Guru Guide. He recently authored the Parker Team Series, which includes 10 practical booklets on various aspects of successful teamwork.\r\n","Url_Bio":"http://www.glennparker.com/","Url_Image":"/~/_acnmedia/accenture/conversion-assets/blogs/images/21/accenture-parker-glenn-headshot.png","Social_Linked_In":"http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=2792881&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile","Social_Twitter":"https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=","Social_Email":"mailto:glenn@glennparker.com","AuthorId":"{180259A6-B548-4BA7-95E2-84A53F0E8E84}"},{"Name":"Mark Graham Brown","Short_Description":"Mark Graham Brown has been consulting with organizations on improving performance since 1979. He has a wide range of clients, including a number of Fortune 100 corporations; military, government, and health care organizations; and universities.\r\n\r\n","Long_Description":"Mark Graham Brown has been consulting with organizations on improving performance since 1979. He has a wide range of clients, including a number of Fortune 100 corporations; military, government, and health care organizations; and universities.\r\n\r\nMark Graham Brown has an MA in applied behavior analysis from Western Michigan University. He has headed his own consulting and training practice in southern California since 1990. Prior to that, he worked for a boutique consulting firm in Chicago—Svenson and Wallace—and Creative Universal in Detroit, a marketing communications and training firm.\r\n\r\nMark Graham Brown has done extensive work on strategic planning and scorecards for many R&D organizations; in addition, the US Navy has been his client for more than 20 years. He is the author of the first and best-selling books on understanding the Baldrige Award and five books on balanced scorecards/performance management. 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His achievements included designing and leading company-wide business processes to enhance the finance infrastructure. He also held leadership roles on due diligence and integration planning teams for a broad range of domestic and international companies. Robertson was asked to join Integrated Electrical Services (IES) to create the corporate financial planning and analysis. At IES, he led the strategic, operating, and financial planning processes. He built a core team from the ground up that enabled a more accurate view of where the business was headed, a better understanding of the financial implications of business decisions, and a deeper focus on strategy execution. Jim Robertson earned an MSc in business and management research from the Henley Business School at the University of Reading. He also holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Robertson earned his BA in history and political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. Since 2007, he has held the Certified Treasury Professional (CTP) credential. Robertson speaks frequently at industry conferences on analytics, strategy execution, and financial planning and analysis. He can be reached at james.robertson.wg88@wharton.upenn.edu. His web page is www.jarobertson2.com.","Url_Bio":"","Url_Image":"/~/_acnmedia/accenture/conversion-assets/blogs/images/11/accenture-jim-robertson.png","Social_Linked_In":"","Social_Twitter":"https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=","Social_Email":"mailto:jarobertson2@gmail.com","AuthorId":"{91F11AA5-7F48-4DC3-8590-14FE9ED9B65E}"},{"Name":"Jason Acimovic","Short_Description":"Jason Acimovic is an assistant professor of supply chain management at the Smeal College of Business at the Pennsylvania State University. Acimovic’s research interests include finding practical solutions to practice-driven inventory problems in unique contexts, from mobile money in developing economies to fulfillment at omnichannel retailers.","Long_Description":"Jason Acimovic is an assistant professor of supply chain management at the Smeal College of Business at the Pennsylvania State University. Acimovic's research interests include finding practical solutions to practice-driven inventory problems in unique contexts, from mobile money in developing economies to fulfillment at omnichannel retailers.\r\n\r\n\r\nJason Acimovic's work has been implemented at online retailing companies and with the PGA Tour. His research has appeared in several academic journals for operations management, including Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM) and Journal of Operations Management. Acimovic's work has been honored with various awards, including the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science's (INFORMS') Dantzig Dissertation Award, Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals' (CSCMP's) Best Dissertation Award, the journal of M&SOM's Best Paper Award, and the journal M&SOM's Practice Driven Research Competition Finalist recognition.\r\n\r\nJason Acimovic holds a PhD in operations research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor of science in physics from Yale University. In addition to his academic work, he has worked in humanitarian logistics, credit card operations, and online retailing operations. He co-developed the golf metric \"Strokes Gained: Putting,\" which is in use at the PGA Tour.","Url_Bio":"","Url_Image":"/~/_acnmedia/accenture/us-en/images/accenture-jason-acimovic-headsot.png","Social_Linked_In":"","Social_Twitter":"https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=","Social_Email":"mailto:jaa26@psu.edu","AuthorId":"{48730310-A3B9-4F9D-8214-E10145FE0404}"},{"Name":"Jim Robertson","Short_Description":"Jim Robertson has more than 20 years of experience in senior strategy and finance positions with public and private companies in the United States and Europe. ","Long_Description":"Jim Robertson has more than 20 years of experience in senior strategy and finance positions with public and private companies in the United States and Europe. He specializes in helping companies make better decisions by using business analytics and by focusing on strategy execution. \r\n \r\nHis hobbies include playing acoustic and electric-stringed instruments, creating stained glass, and studying history. He is married and has four children and a golden doodle.\r\n \r\nAfter earning his MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Jim Robertson worked at Braxton Associates, the strategy consulting arm of Deloitte. He cofounded and served as CFO for a start-up medical device company for three years before joining MCI, where he held senior corporate and business financial positions with this leading telecommunications company. He then joined Network Solutions to expand the financial planning and analysis team. After VeriSign acquired Network Solutions in 2001, he assumed increasingly responsible positions in financial planning and analysis, business unit finance, and treasury. His achievements included designing and leading company-wide business processes to enhance the finance infrastructure. He also held leadership roles on due diligence and integration planning teams for a broad range of domestic and international companies. \r\n \r\nRobertson was asked to join Integrated Electrical Services (IES) to create the corporate financial planning and analysis. At IES, he led the strategic, operating, and financial planning processes. He built a core team from the ground up that enabled a more accurate view of where the business was headed, a better understanding of the financial implications of business decisions, and a deeper focus on strategy execution.\r\n \r\nJim Robertson earned an MSc in business and management research from the Henley Business School at the University of Reading. He also holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Robertson earned his BA in history and political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. Since 2007, he has held the Certified Treasury Professional (CTP) credential. Robertson speaks frequently at industry conferences on analytics, strategy execution, and financial planning and analysis.\r\nHe can be reached at james.robertson.wg88@wharton.upenn.edu. \r\n \r\nHis web page is www.jarobertson2.com. \r\n","Url_Bio":"","Url_Image":"/~/_acnmedia/accenture/conversion-assets/blogs/images/11/accenture-jim-robertson.png","Social_Linked_In":"","Social_Twitter":"https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=","Social_Email":"mailto:","AuthorId":"{A3A932FE-724E-4F9C-846B-5DB507EE75EB}"},{"Name":"Jodi Ader","Short_Description":"Jodi Ader has had a successful business career working for Fortune 500 companies in logistics and compliance.","Long_Description":"Jodi Ader has had a successful business career working for Fortune 500 companies in logistics and compliance.\r\n\r\nDuring her 25 years in international trade, Jodi Ader has developed trade compliance and training programs; streamlined import and export processes; managed carriers, freight forwarders, and customhouse brokers; and negotiated global ocean container and charter contracts. She currently provides medium- to large-size companies with various kinds of regulatory compliance support, including compliance assessments, development of compliance procedures, product classifications, analysis of free-trade agreements, valuation analysis, duty optimization, audits, customized training courses, and regulatory research.\r\n\r\nJodi Ader has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Chinese studies from the University of Michigan. She is a licensed customhouse broker.","Url_Bio":"","Url_Image":"/~/_acnmedia/accenture/conversion-assets/blogs/images/11/accenture-jodi-ader-bw.png","Social_Linked_In":"","Social_Twitter":"https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=","Social_Email":"mailto:jodi.ader@gtpiconsulting.com","AuthorId":"{8A600059-FD1C-440B-85AD-F2803ADF905D}"},{"Name":"John Sanchez","Short_Description":"John Sanchez is the managing director of FPA Group, a consulting and training firm.","Long_Description":"John Sanchez is the managing director of FPA Group, a consulting and training firm. He started his career in public accounting and transitioned to mergers and acquisitions and corporate planning roles for major corporations before establishing his own consulting practice. Over the years, Sanchez saw an enormous need for training in a number of areas related to corporate finance, especially for effective communication in a finance and accounting environment. Over the past five years, Sanchez has been a speaker and trainer at several finance industry conferences, and he continues to develop and deliver training to finance and accounting professionals from all over the world.","Url_Bio":"","Url_Image":"/~/_acnmedia/accenture/conversion-assets/blogs/images/15/accenture-john-sanchez-v2.png","Social_Linked_In":"","Social_Twitter":"https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=","Social_Email":"mailto:","AuthorId":"{9938E64A-151C-483A-8992-5043687666B3}"},{"Name":"Jonathan Bunce","Short_Description":"Jonathan Bunce has more than 22 years of entrepreneurial and corporate experience, the majority of which has been executive-level leadership in enterprise business development and corporate development, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A) integration and transformations.","Long_Description":"Jonathan Bunce has more than 22 years of entrepreneurial and corporate experience, the majority of which has been executive-level leadership in enterprise business development and corporate development, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A) integration and transformations. With over $6 billion in M&A transaction involvement, Bunce is recognized as a thought leader specializing in multigenerational employee motivation and cultural transformation events. He has considerable skill in navigating the complex cross-functional intricacies aligning strategy and structures to successfully promote the corporate doctrine and value solutions to all stakeholders, internal and external. \r\n\r\nA consummate innovator and critical thinker, Bunce is accustomed to identifying new trends that impact business models. His skills, experience, education, and passion have equipped him with an in-depth, holistic business operations knowledge and experience that is rare. He is a regular guest lecturer at universities and corporations on business strategy, growth, SaaS (software as a service) integrations, and SMAC (social, mobile, analytics, and cloud), and how these platform revolutions are transforming how consumers and enterprises operate.\r\n\r\nJonathan Bunce’s leadership, competencies, experience, and interpersonal skills cross a broad spectrum of industries from start-ups to Fortune 100 organizations. Notable companies with which he has been engaged include Accenture, Flextronics, Dell, EMC Isilon, Riverbed, PlayStation, SGI, Apple, Pepperdine University, Stanford University, Granite Construction, Pritchett, ModalMinds, Waste Management, and Sherwin-Williams.\r\n\r\nJonathan Bunce earned a post-graduate certificate from Oxford University in global enterprise management, organizations and political environment, a master of business administration from Pepperdine University, and a bachelor of science in marketing and economics from San Jose State University.","Url_Bio":"","Url_Image":"/~/_acnmedia/accenture/conversion-assets/blogs/images/25/accenture-jonathan-bunce.png","Social_Linked_In":"","Social_Twitter":"https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=","Social_Email":"mailto:jebunce@gmail.com","AuthorId":"{D85332E8-3C3A-487B-AA92-959984AA709F}"},{"Name":"Kathie Topel","Short_Description":"Kathie Topel is the vice president of Impact Insights, a part of SPR Companies. Impact Insights is a performance consulting group that dedicates its work to aligning businesses and the people within them to one common business strategy. Topel has complete responsibility for the success of Impact Insights.","Long_Description":"Kathie Topel is the vice president of Impact Insights, a part of SPR Companies. Impact Insights is a performance consulting group that dedicates its work to aligning businesses and the people within them to one common business strategy. Topel has complete responsibility for the success of Impact Insights.\r\n \r\nIn 1988, Kathie Topel was founding partner of Scheyer-Austin Ltd., a former 15-year Midwest-based system integration firm. She served as the chief executive officer responsible for building and implementing corporate organizational change to provide financial balance, strategic growth, and company-wide motivation. Over the past 10 years, she has been instrumental in creating leadership initiatives both internally, as Scheyer-Austin grew, and externally, for clients and national user groups. She has utilized her skill in building programs for the personnel development focus at Common, a national leader in technical and management development. As her success at Common grew, she began building curriculums to help clients that were experiencing the same type of operational growing pains. \r\n \r\nKathie Topel received a degree in production and inventory control management from DePaul University.","Url_Bio":"","Url_Image":"/~/_acnmedia/accenture/conversion-assets/blogs/images/16/accenture-kathie-topel-headshot.png","Social_Linked_In":"","Social_Twitter":"https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=","Social_Email":"mailto:kathie.topel@impactinsights.com","AuthorId":"{5DE68C4B-328D-4DA4-9A2B-87180DB1056D}"},{"Name":"Kress Riley","Short_Description":"Director of Operations for Accenture Academy","Long_Description":"Kress Riley is the director of operations for Accenture Academy. He is responsible for content development, product infrastructure and support, learning innovation, product planning, financials and product marketing. He joined the Accenture Academy team in 2006 and has over 20 years of operations and sales management experience within the learning industry. Kress holds a Mechanical Engineering Degree from Rochester Institute of Technology with experience in manufacturing, inventory management, warehouse logistics, systems management, plant design and implementation. He also holds a MBA in Operations Management from Rochester Institute of Technology.","Url_Bio":"","Url_Image":"/~/_acnmedia/accenture/conversion-assets/blogs/images/13/accenture-kress-riley.png","Social_Linked_In":"","Social_Twitter":"https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=","Social_Email":"mailto:","AuthorId":"{0EE04EBE-BEFD-4801-8216-8EE7B751323A}"},{"Name":"Mark Johnson","Short_Description":"Mark Johnson is head of the Operations Management group at Warwick Business School (WBS), where he is also an associate professor. ","Long_Description":"Mark Johnson is head of the Operations Management group at Warwick Business School (WBS), where he is also an associate professor. Johnson’s research examines operations, processes, supply chain strategies, network configurations, and the overarching interorganizational relationships for companies deploying new business models such as servitization. He has published widely in international journals and sits on the editorial boards of three journals. \r\nMark Johnson has worked with a number of companies in his research and education. These include Rolls-Royce, Emirates, Dnata, BAE Systems, Atos Origin, PA Consulting, UK Trade and Investment, DB Schenker, British American Tobacco, Jaguar Land Rover, GKN Aerospace, and GVA Grimley. He teaches a range of subjects at undergraduate, postgraduate, and executive levels. These include operations management, supply chain management, and managing interorganizational relationships and collaboration. Johnson’s work has received media coverage on the Weather Channel, BBC Radio 2, and the Guardian website, among others.","Url_Bio":"","Url_Image":"/~/_acnmedia/accenture/conversion-assets/blogs/images/11/accenture-mark-johnson-bw.png","Social_Linked_In":"","Social_Twitter":"https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=","Social_Email":"mailto:mark.johnson@wbs.ac.uk","AuthorId":"{3FFEDA5C-D45A-449D-8F30-72A885987531}"},{"Name":"Martin Lockstrom","Short_Description":"Martin Lockström is a research associate and director at the BMW-SMI Centre for Purchasing and Supply Management at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Shanghai, China.","Long_Description":"Martin Lockström is a research associate and director at the BMW-SMI Centre for Purchasing and Supply Management at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Shanghai, China. He also serves as deputy director of the CEIBS Centre for Automotive Research, deputy director of the CEIBS-Siemens Centre for Sustainability and Supply Chains, and senior representative for Supply Chain Management Institute, China. He previously taught graduate courses at the European Business School, Moscow State University, Tongji University, and CEIBS.\r\nMartin Lockström received his certified purchasing manager (CPM) designation from the Institute for Supply Management, USA, and received his doctorate in supply chain management from Supply Chain Management Institute and the European Business School, Germany. He also has a master of science degree from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.\r\n \r\nHis research interests focus on global sourcing, financial supply management, and performance measurement. His contributions include publishing and reviewing for leading academic journals such as theJournal of Operations Management andJournal of Supply Chain Management. \r\n","Url_Bio":"","Url_Image":"/~/_acnmedia/accenture/conversion-assets/blogs/images/11/accenture-martin-lockstrom-bw.png","Social_Linked_In":"","Social_Twitter":"https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=","Social_Email":"mailto:","AuthorId":"{8C345AD3-6B03-4FA4-BB41-99F39B478968}"},{"Name":"Michael Kenfield","Short_Description":"Michael Kenfield is a trained organization effectiveness consultant and a certified Lean Six Sigma master black belt. ","Long_Description":"Michael Kenfield is a trained organization effectiveness consultant and a certified Lean Six Sigma master black belt. \r\n\r\nMichael Kenfield has more than 25 years of experience in improving both the people and process sides of organization performance. He specializes in applying the methods and tools of process improvement to transactional and service processes.\r\n \r\nKenfield has consulted with organizations in health care, retail sales, insurance, information technology, and food production and processing. His clients include Fairview Health Services in Minnesota, Cargill, Chevron, and Best Buy. \r\n \r\nMichael Kenfield holds a master’s degree with a program emphasis in organization development and quality from the University of Minnesota.","Url_Bio":"","Url_Image":"/~/_acnmedia/accenture/conversion-assets/blogs/images/16/accenture-michael-kenfield-headshot.png","Social_Linked_In":"","Social_Twitter":"https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=","Social_Email":"mailto:michael@aletheiagroup.com","AuthorId":"{4E9C4A3D-486D-4F01-A597-9B60AF78EFF5}"},{"Name":"Mike Hortiatis","Short_Description":"Michael Hortiatis has more than 30 years of experience serving as a senior operations and logistics executive in the global pharmaceutical and consumer packaged-goods industries.","Long_Description":"Michael Hortiatis has more than 30 years of experience serving as a senior operations and logistics executive in the global pharmaceutical and consumer packaged-goods industries. After beginning his career at Gillette and Revlon, Michael Hortiatis served as the director of operations for Revlon, then as the VP facilities planning/supply chain in the United States for Bristol-Myers, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Bausch & Lomb. He has a track record of optimizing supply chains, reducing the total delivered costs of products, and reducing operating costs through order-to-cash processes with a focus on international trade compliance.","Url_Bio":"","Url_Image":"/~/_acnmedia/accenture/conversion-assets/blogs/images/15/accenture-mike-hortiatis-headshot.png","Social_Linked_In":"","Social_Twitter":"https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=","Social_Email":"mailto:mike.hortiatis@frozenphoenix.com","AuthorId":"{F22F2F4E-9E70-4F39-81E5-0657FE6A4133}"},{"Name":"Phil Godsiff","Short_Description":"Phil Godsiff is a senior research fellow at the Surrey Centre for the Digital Economy (CoDE), part of the Business School at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom.","Long_Description":"Phil Godsiff is a senior research fellow at the Surrey Centre for the Digital Economy (CoDE), part of the Business School at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom. His principal research area is the effect of innovations in the digital economy, particularly cryptocurrencies, on business models, and on the transformative effects of those innovations on the economy and society. His other research interests include the nature of money and the development of industrial revolutions.\r\n \r\nPhil Godsiff’s current research involves issues of governance, standards, and regulation around digital currencies, and he is helping to define the future research agenda. He is an investigator on the United Kingdom government-funded research project CREDIT, which is investigating the growth and development of blockchains. He is a member of the expert panel comprising practitioners and academics that advised the United Kingdom government’s chief scientific officer on his report titled Distributed Ledger Technology: Beyond Blockchain, published in January 2016.\r\n \r\nPhil Godsiff holds a PhD in management studies from the University of Exeter, United Kingdom, and an MA in economics from the University of Cambridge. His thesis was on wicked problems, a class of problem for which there is no rational solution, and how they affected the operations of a government agency. He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, and prior to gaining his PhD, he spent 30 years working and consulting in financial services. This involved leading major strategic projects, including business process redesign, activity-based costing, designing and building Internet banks, and financial analysis.","Url_Bio":"","Url_Image":"/~/_acnmedia/accenture/conversion-assets/blogs/images/16/accenture-godsiff-phil-headshot.png","Social_Linked_In":"","Social_Twitter":"https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=","Social_Email":"mailto:p.godsiff@surrey.ac.uk","AuthorId":"{77668B24-3D1F-463B-82E4-D94CE63E3073}"},{"Name":"Pierre David","Short_Description":"Pierre David is a professor of business administration at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio.","Long_Description":"Pierre David is a professor of business administration at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. His primary teaching interests are in international logistics and international market research.\r\nPierre has been teaching international logistics to graduate students for the past 25 years. He is the author of the leading textbook in international logistics in the United States, International Logistics: The Management of International Trade Operations(Cicero Books). The book has been translated into Chinese, Greek, Spanish, and Portuguese. In India, it was published as International Supply Chain Management.\r\nPierre received his PhD from Kent State University, Ohio, USA, in marketing and operations management; his MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, in marketing and operations management; and his MBA from Ecole de Hautes Etudes Commerciales du Nord, Lille, France, in marketing and operations management.","Url_Bio":"","Url_Image":"/~/_acnmedia/accenture/conversion-assets/blogs/images/11/accenture-pierre-david-bw.png","Social_Linked_In":"","Social_Twitter":"https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=","Social_Email":"mailto:","AuthorId":"{B7024694-6C48-4CD0-8792-06866A11FBC4}"},{"Name":"Ramesh Mohan","Short_Description":"Ramesh Mohan, PhD, is currently an associate professor at Bryant University.","Long_Description":"Ramesh Mohan, PhD, is currently an associate professor at Bryant University. He has taught a range of courses in economics/finance, international business, and research methods at the graduate and undergraduate levels for the past 12 years at various universities in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Malaysia, and Singapore.\r\nRamesh worked as a consultant for numerous projects in different countries. His research has appeared in the Journal of Economics and Finance, Applied Econometrics and International Development, theAsean Economic Bulletin, the Journal of International Business and Economics, the Journal of Development Studies, the ICFAIJournal of Applied Economics, theSouthwest Business and Economics Journal, the Journal of Business and Economics Research, the Empirical Economic Letters, the EconomicsBulletin, the Journal of Internet Business, the Journal of Information Technology Impact, and the Journal of Information & Knowledge Management.","Url_Bio":"","Url_Image":"/~/_acnmedia/accenture/conversion-assets/blogs/images/11/accenture-ramesh-mohan-bw.png","Social_Linked_In":"","Social_Twitter":"https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=","Social_Email":"mailto:","AuthorId":"{11E96A8F-ECC1-4897-AC0C-9E6750AD12CC}"},{"Name":"Rob Friedman","Short_Description":"Rob Friedman is currently the managing director of Central Park Consulting LLC, a consulting firm that advises clients regarding business strategy issues, with a particular focus on pricing and profitability management and other types of customer analytics.","Long_Description":"Rob Friedman is currently the managing director of Central Park Consulting LLC, a consulting firm that advises clients regarding business strategy issues, with a particular focus on pricing and profitability management and other types of customer analytics. \r\n \r\nRob Friedman earned both a bachelor of science degree in economics and a master of business administration degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He concentrated his undergraduate studies on finance and accounting and his graduate studies on marketing and real estate. \r\n \r\nRob Friedman has nearly three decades of experience working as a strategy consultant and as an executive at financial services companies. Prior to forming Central Park Consulting, he was a director in the strategy practice at Deloitte Consulting LLC, where he focused on pricing and profitability management and customer analytics for financial services companies. He has extensive experience utilizing a combination of profitability analytics, pricing strategy, and price optimization to enhance business performance. Earlier in his career, Friedman was an executive with JPMorgan Chase, where he had a variety of corporate and business-line strategic roles; in addition, he was a strategy consultant with Oliver, Wyman & Company.","Url_Bio":"","Url_Image":"/~/_acnmedia/accenture/conversion-assets/blogs/images/11/accenture-rob-friedman-bw.png","Social_Linked_In":"","Social_Twitter":"https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=","Social_Email":"mailto:centralparkconsultingllc@gmail.com","AuthorId":"{FA9D6A4C-E870-471D-802B-B33C01E119D1}"},{"Name":"Rosemary Carlson","Short_Description":"Rosemary Carlson is a professor emeritus in business administration/finance from Morehead State University where she taught for 25 years. ","Long_Description":"Rosemary Carlson is a professor emeritus in business administration/finance from Morehead State University where she taught for 25 years. She has been an online course developer since 1996 in a variety of venues and has developed finance courses in almost every area of the discipline. She is also a freelance writer and editor in all areas of finance and other areas such as education, online learning, and social issues. She started and manages her own business consultancy and has served as an expert witness in the finance area in federal court cases. She currently writes for a division of the New York Times along with her business consulting. ","Url_Bio":"","Url_Image":"/~/_acnmedia/accenture/conversion-assets/blogs/images/11/accenture-rosemary-carlson-bw.png","Social_Linked_In":"","Social_Twitter":"https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=","Social_Email":"mailto:","AuthorId":"{21003034-A7CF-49E8-BB7E-5DEC81403991}"},{"Name":"Sean Bengry","Short_Description":"Sean Bengry is a strategist in the Talent and Organization practice of Accenture Strategy. ","Long_Description":"Sean Bengry is a strategist in the Talent and Organization practice of Accenture Strategy. He joined the Accenture Academy team in 2008 with responsibility for developing learning solutions that align to the latest Learning and Development innovations and trends. Sean has over 15 years of experience in Learning and Development. He is an active speaker and has traveled the world advising clients on corporate learning strategy and technology. Sean holds a Master’s Degree in Curriculum/Instructional Design from Roberts Wesleyan College.","Url_Bio":"","Url_Image":"/~/_acnmedia/accenture/conversion-assets/blogs/images/13/accenture-sean-v2.png","Social_Linked_In":"","Social_Twitter":"https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=","Social_Email":"mailto:","AuthorId":"{05B74B73-33B4-4022-8104-E6B7F12D898B}"},{"Name":"Shashank Rao","Short_Description":"Shashank Rao, PhD, is the Jim W. Thompson associate professor of supply chain management at Auburn University, prior to which he held a faculty appointment at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.","Long_Description":"Shashank Rao, PhD, is the Jim W. Thompson associate professor of supply chain management at Auburn University, prior to which he held a faculty appointment at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. His research interests focus on retailing, order fulfillment, and blockchain applications in the supply chain. He has published more than 20 articles in academic and professional journals such as the Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Business Logistics, Decision Sciences Journal, Production and Operations Management, and others. He also serves on the editorial review board of the Journal of Business Logistics and the Journal of Supply Chain Management and as an associate editor of the Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce. In addition, he is the guest editor of the Journal of Business Logistics special issue on blockchain application in the supply chain, due to be published in 2018. \r\nShashank Rao holds a BS in environmental engineering, an MBA in marketing and finance, and a PhD in operations and supply chain management. \r\n\r\nPrior to entering academe, Shashank Rao was a relationship manager at Citigroup NA. He previously also worked for the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India and has served as a consultant to manufacturers, retailers, and logistics service providers. ","Url_Bio":"","Url_Image":"/~/_acnmedia/accenture/conversion-assets/dotcom/images/local/us-en/34/accenture-shashank-rao.jpg","Social_Linked_In":"","Social_Twitter":"https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=","Social_Email":"mailto:ssrao80@gmail.com","AuthorId":"{3CF6B757-0EC3-421E-9AE8-F30A4A37FE4F}"},{"Name":"Sid Ghatak","Short_Description":"Sid Ghatak is the founder and owner of Rolling Forecast Solutions LLC, a boutique consulting and software firm specializing in advanced analytics. ","Long_Description":"Sid Ghatak is the founder and owner of Rolling Forecast Solutions LLC, a boutique consulting and software firm specializing in advanced analytics. Ghatak is passionate about technology and the potential that it holds to fundamentally transform our lives. He is a frequent speaker and has been invited to present his thoughts at conferences across the United States, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. He was recognized as the North American consultant of the year by Cognos Corporation for two consecutive years. He was also recognized by Fortune magazine for best implementation of a technology solution. He is a senior fellow at the American Strategic Management Institute and a member of the Data Warehouse Institute. In addition, he has served as an adjunct professor at Villanova University in business intelligence.\r\n\r\nSid Ghatak has more than 20 years of experience in consulting and management in both the private and public sectors. He has focused his efforts on developing solutions and improving business processes at large private and public organizations. His client list includes several members of the Dow 30, including JP Morgan Chase and Merck as well as Thomson Reuters, Time Warner, Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, the Federal Reserve System, the Department of Energy, and the State of Ohio. His solutions range from improving budgeting and planning processes to developing custom-built advanced analytics solutions for the financial services sector.\r\n\r\nSid Ghatak graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a Bachelor of Arts in economics and completed graduate studies in finance and strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.","Url_Bio":"","Url_Image":"/~/_acnmedia/accenture/conversion-assets/blogs/images/16/accenture-ghatak-sid.png","Social_Linked_In":"","Social_Twitter":"https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=","Social_Email":"mailto:sid.ghatak@gmail.com ","AuthorId":"{389DFA2F-C687-40E1-9CF5-8809340E981C}"},{"Name":"Simon Templar","Short_Description":"Simon Templar (BSc, MSc, PhD, ACMA, CGMA, FCILT, MCIPS) is a qualified accountant and visiting fellow at the Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Cranfield School of Management, and Royal Holloway University, United Kingdom.","Long_Description":"Simon Templar (BSc, MSc, PhD, ACMA, CGMA, FCILT, MCIPS) is a qualified accountant and visiting fellow at the Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Cranfield School of Management, and Royal Holloway University, United Kingdom.\r\n \r\nSimon Templar received his PhD from Cranfield in 2013, received an MSc in logistics and supply chain management from Cranfield in 2001, and has a BSc combined studies (transport and economics) from Plymouth Polytechnic (United Kingdom). 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As a member of a multidisciplinary research team jointly funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), he also helped develop a novel process to assess supply chain costs in the food and drink industry.\r\n\r\nTemplar has authored and collaborated on a number of journals, conferences, and practitioner papers associated with his research interests. His article “Ensuring the Transfer Price Is Right” was included in the International Federation of Accountants Articles of Merit Award Program for Distinguished Contribution to Management Accounting in 2005. The Cranfield Students Association awarded Templar best lecturer at Cranfield School of Management in 2013–14 and 2015–16. 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