Adrian Slywotzky is a Director and member of the Board of Directors of Mercer Management Consulting, a global strategy consulting firm that focuses on the development of strategies for growth in changing markets. He is responsible for development of the firm's intellectual capital. Since 1979, he has consulted to companies in a broad spectrum of industries including information services, financial services, consumer products, health care, pharmaceuticals, computer hardware and software, chemicals, electronic materials, steel, broadcasting, and retailing.Mr. Slywotzky has worked extensively at the CEO level for several major corporations on issues relating to new business development and value growth. His focus has been on developing customer-based strategic perspectives and effective new business designs.In addition to co-authoring How Digital Is Your Business?, Mr. Slywotzky is a co-author of Profit Patterns: 30 Ways to Anticipate and Profit from Strategic Forces Reshaping Your Business (Times Business/Random House). He is also co-author of The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow's Profits (Times Business/Random House), which Business Week magazine named to its list of Top 10 Business Books of 1998; and author of Value Migration: How to Think Several Moves Ahead of the Competition (Harvard Business School Press).As a frequent speaker on the changing face of business strategy, Value Migration®, and Business Design, Mr. Slywotzky has been featured at The World Economic Forum at Davos and at numerous conferences sponsored by The Conference Board and The Planning Forum. He was a keynote speaker at the 1997 Microsoft CEO Summit, and within the past two years has been the keynote speaker at the Forbes CEO Forum, the Fortune CEO Conference, and the Fortune CIO Conference.Mr. Slywotzky holds degrees from Harvard College, Harvard Law School, andHarvard Business School. |