Neil has over 20 years of experience improving performance in high tech, medical device, services and manufacturing companies. He is a published expert in the management of corporate initiatives and has deep expertise in the best practices for developing organization capabilities that are needed to achieve critical operational and strategic goals. Example accomplishments: reduced cost of inventory levels by 25% ($40M), reduced new product development time 30% and shortened hiring process cycle time by 50%. Strong skills in aligning executives and project teams on current reality and the best path forward and often brought in to get organizations unstuck and initiatives back on track. Clients and corporate positions include Cisco Systems, Infinera Corporation, Johnson & Johnson, VMware, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, General Electric.
What easing combat assignments for women in the military means
This week, the Department of Defense announced that women in the military would be officially allowed closer to the front lines of combat. I say officially because during the Iraq and Afghanistan fighting, women medics, helicopter pilots, intelligence officers, and MPs were sometimes sent to work with the combat troops although they were not assigned Read the full article…