Apr 17 2008
Donald A Marchand
Professor of Information Management & Strategy , IMD, Switzerland
Dr. Donald Marchand is a world authority on demonstrating the business value of using information technology. His special research and teaching interests include how organizations and leaders use information and knowledge to collaborate and compete, how companies develop business models to leverage standardization and flexibility in processes and information systems locally, regionally and globally, and how leaders create organizations where people can fully share and act on what they know and discover what they do not know to learn and change closer to real time.
Champion of the formula for competitive advantage and superior business performance.
A former Dean and Professor of Information Management at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University; before that, he founded and directed the Institute for Information Management, Technology and Policy in the College of Business Administration at the University of South Carolina. From 1997 – 2000, while Director of the IMD / Accenture Navigating Business Success research project, the largest externally funded Partnership Research Project at IMD, a new business performance predictor was discovered namely, ‘Information Orientation’, IO. He is Founder, Chairman and President of enterpriseIQ®, a leading business analytics company.[/expand]
Donald Marchand is an international expert and popular speaker on the centrality of information management and technology to the competitive strategies of industries, companies and managers. He has been in the unique position of taking his ideas from research directly to management practice. He is a frequent and acclaimed speaker on a variety of compelling business topics at corporate seminars and conferences worldwide. Over the years, he has been an advisor and consultant to over 100 companies as well as public and not-for- profit organizations globally.[/expand]
With over 30 years experience gained in research, teaching and executive program development at IMD, he speaks in a clear and concise manner using real case studies to demonstrate the business value of using IT. [/expand]
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Topics
Building the Right Mix of Business Strategies and Capabilities
Globalising the Enterprise: the information capability advantage
Competing Globally: the IT advantage
Lessons from the Dark Side of Information Use: the impact on people, values and performance
Measuring, Valuing and Managing Information, People and IT Capabilities: Pre and Post merger and Acquisition
Publications
2001
Making the Invisible Visible – How Companies Win with the Right Information, People and IT.
Information Orientation (IO): The Link to Business Performance
2000
Competing with Information: A Manager’s Guide to Creating Business Value with Information Content
Mastering Information Management, co-edited with Tom Davenport.
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