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Partner / executive management consultant with Nolan, Norton & Co, and
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Director of the Nolan Norton Institute
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Professor of organization and change at the Amsterdam Business School of the Universiteit van Amsterdam
My latest book (Dutch)
Shared Service Centers II - the expanded and completely updated new edition, including updates of the cases and new cases. Published by Van Gorcum - Stichting Management Studies, Assen -Den Haag, 2010. (click for more information).
My second latest book (Dutch)
Van unitmanagement naar multidimensionale organisaties (van Gorcum - Stichting Management Studies, Assen - Den Haag, 2008). An provisionary English summary paper, The Emergence of the Multidimensional Organization, can be found at: http://ssrn.com/paper=1077363, Executive Summary (English) and short summary presentation. For further enquiries, please e-mail me: hans.strikwerda@nolannorton.com. Boek bestellen
My fields of expertise
Business Administration for the 21st Century
Today the theory-in-use of many firms and executives still is the dogma of business administration as coined in the first quarter of the twentieth century, by the great organizers such as Fayol, Dupont, Barnard and Sloan. This dogma no longer applies in the informational economy of the 12st century. But in this era we lack the entrepreneurial great organizers to codify a new business administration.
Internal governance: Corporate strategy, grand strategy, assessment of environmental developments, developing new economic models, new business models, implementation of strategic change, post-merger execution.
Organization (re)design and changes processes at governance level and the level of business models, management processes, accountability, allocating decision rights, coordination mechanisms (self-coordiation, imposed coordination)
Corporate strategy. The field of corporate strategy / strategic management is in need to redefine itself. What we used to label strategy appears to be from a perspective of corporate finance and active shareholders simply tactics and economizing. Usefull, but today corporate strategy is about grand strategy, about power play in the market. So I have moved into that field
Management consultancy as a profession: issues, institutional changes, intellectual challenges, the contribution of the profession to the development of society (member of the OOA, certified management consultant).
My methods of engagement (see www.nolannorton.com):
- Consultancy
- Workshops/seminars
- (key note) speaker
- In-house courses
- (multi-)client studies
- Reviews/analysis/monitoring of design processes, change processes, decision making, implementation
Courses I teach
In the international MBA of the Universiteit van Amsterdam:
- The Executive Process (based on the CCMO-course at Harvard Business School) see course syllabus
In the post-doctoral course for controllers (EMFC):
- Internal Governance (organization design, resource allocation, how to organize for uncertainty, management of change, the role of culture, styles of leadership)
- New developments in the economy and society as relevant for CFO's and controllers
In the post-doctoral course for internal auditors (EMIA):
- Internal Governance (see EMFC, here with an emphasis on behavioral aspects and how to audit the system of internal governance and what goes with it)