The Predictiv Network

 

Jonathan Low

Jon is a Partner and Co-Founder of Predictiv, LLC. His specialty is management performance and organizational effectiveness, primarily the impact of intangibles such as strategy execution, brand, intellectual capital, innovation, reputation and organizational transition. He works with clients in business, government and the not-for-profit sector in the U.S., Europe, Asia and South America.

Prior to founding Predictiv, Jon was a Senior Fellow at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young’s Center for Business Innovation. Under his leadership, CGEY produced reports on the growing role of intangibles in the global economy including Measures That Matter and Success Factors in the IPO Transformation Process. He is the co-editor of Enterprise Value in the Knowledge Economy, co-published by the OECD and Ernst & Young in 1997. He is co-author of Invisible Advantage, published by Perseus Press in 2002. He has contributed chapters to Business Power; Creating New Wealth from IP Assets (Wiley, 2007) and From Assets to Profits (Wiley 2008).

Jon has served in a number of positions related to his work on the valuation of intangibles. He has been invited to present his findings to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board, the European Commission and the New York Federal Reserve Bank . Jon served as Deputy Assistant Secretary (Acting) for Work and Technology Policy at the US Department of Labor. In that capacity, Jon served on the SEC Steering Committee on the Future of Accounting and Financial Reporting, The Conference Board Working Group on Corporate Performance Measures and was the U.S. representative to the inaugural OECD Conference on Corporate Governance.

He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Yale University's School of Management.

 

 

Wendi Bukowitz

Wendi Bukowitz is the founder and Managing Director of RGsquared, a network of experienced organizational and human capital strategy consultants. Wendi is a gifted strategy and team-building consultant whose is adept at bringing structure to messy problems by zeroing in on key leverage points and engaging team members in the process so that they are motivated to work together to set and achieve objectives. Her areas of expertise include strategy, innovation implementation, and knowledge management. She is co-author of The Knowledge Management Fieldbook as well as numerous other publications and regularly blogs here. She has participated in groundbreaking international programs to advance the field of intangibles research serving as Rapporteur for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Symposium on Measuring and Reporting Intellectual Capital and on the Strategic and Organizational Issues subgroup for the Brookings Institution’s Working Group on Understanding Intangible Sources of Value. Wendi holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Religion from Duke University.

 

 

Tom Buzas

Tom Buzas has been consulting in the areas of business modeling and survey construction for fifteen years. His focus has been on constructing models linking measures of Leadership, Employee Culture, Customer Service, and Processes with customer metrics, and financial performance, including profit and productivity. He has constructed such models for major companies in the retailing, automotive, financial, business service, hospitality, restaurant, utility, and telecommunications businesses.
Tom received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Business Administration in 1983 and his B.S. in Psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1973. He was Assistant Professor at the University of Florida from 1983-89 and Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan from 1989-1993. He was Director of Research at the CFI Group from 1992-1996 and a Director of Knowledge Stream Partners 1996-1997. He started his own company in 1997 and co-founded Alliance Maps LLC in 2002.

Tom has published articles in Biometrika, Marketing Research and Management Science. His analytical work was featured in the “Employee-Service Profit Chain at Sears,” in the January 1998 issue of Harvard Business Review written by Rick Quinn. One of his clients, GTE Directories Corporation, received a Baldridge Award in 1994. He has spoken at numerous conferences and workshops over the last several years. Recently Forbes featured his work in brand valuation in “Power Brands,” April 18, 2004.

 

 

Jay Chatzkel

As Principal of Progressive Practices, Jay Chatzkel assists organizations in transforming themselves into knowledge-based, intelligent enterprises. This includes working with organizations to develop skills and practices in the areas of merger and acquisition integration, intellectual capital, knowledge management, social media, leadership and collaboration, business process management and performance measurement.

Chatzkel has found that there are a great deal of insightful approaches and deep practical experience that has not been appropriately captured and exploited. He uses that ground as a resource to develop original frameworks for key problems of the field and novel strategies to solve particular problems in enterprises organizations. As example of that effort is the framework for determining the critical knowledge issues related to performance in organizations and sets of measurements to validate changes in the return on investment in an enterprise’s knowledge efforts.

He is the author of three books: Beyond the Deal: Mergers and Acquisitions that Achieve Breakthrough Performance Gains (Co-Author with Hubert Saint-Onge, McGraw-Hill, 2009) Knowledge Capital: How Knowledge-Based Enterprises Really Get Built (Oxford University Press, 2003) and Intellectual Capital (John Wiley & Sons, 2002).

Jay Chatzkel serves on the boards of editors of several publications: North American Editor, Journal of Intellectual Capital, Editor for Conferences and Events, Journal of Knowledge Management, Editor, and The International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development. He has written numerous articles and conference reviews.

He has a Bachelor’s degree from Bucknell University and has Masters degrees from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

 

 

 

Pam Cohen

Pam was a co-founder of Predictiv LLC, and is an expert in performance measurement and management, specializing in intangible valuation. Her consulting work and research additionally focuses on behavioral economics, the development of causal business models, and maximizing the utility of human capital.

Along with her 2002 book Invisible Advantage, co-written with Jonathan Low, Pam has published many articles on intangible valuation. Prior to founding Predictiv, Pam has served as a partner with the consulting firms Sibson and Company and CFI Group, and has taught courses in the psychology and sociology departments of the University of Michigan.

Pam has a Ph.D. in Sociology and an M.A. in Higher and Adult Continuing Education from the University of Michigan, and received her bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin.

 

 

Karen Grasenick

Karin founded Convelop in 2004. Convelop provides firms, institutions and networks with innovative and pragmatic solutions for knowledge communication and knowledge reporting as well as connected learning processes are realised. Her current work is focusing on knowledge communication and measurement of intangibles in networks of firms. Karin has also worked closely with regional governments in Austria.

Karin Grasenick has long lasting experience in accompanying ICT implementation and related organisational change. As senior researcher at Joanneum Research Institute for Technical and Regional Policy she was amongst others responsible for the development of an intellectual capital reporting system for non-university research institutions together with Austrian Research Centers in Seibersdorf.

Grasenick currently lecturesat the Technical University – Graz and provides seminars on measurement and management for policy-makers and practitioners. She has been a speaker at numerous international and national conferences. Karin has a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Graz University.

 

 

Peder Hofman-Bang

Peder is vice president of international business expansion at Actcell Corporation, a Japanese consulting firm specializing in Intellectual Capital Management. The focus is on strategy transformation of large corporations using various techniques for growing their intangibles.

Peder's devotion is to promote change, intrapreneurship and internationalization in any type of organization. This includes development of new business concepts, re-structuring and creation of effective processes and the necessary training that comes with it.

As a co-founder of Intellectual Capital Sweden, Peder’s focus has been on the global roll-out of the Intellectual Capital Partner Community (ICPC) to companies across latitudes ranging from Norway to New Zealand, across longitudes ranging from USA to Japan, across cultures ranging from UK to China, and across economies ranging from Turkey to Taiwan.

Peder is the chief developer of IC Rating™. With that as a base he has participated in more than 200 intellectual capital related projects on five continents with focus on: mergers and acquisitions, strategy alignment, corporate governance, company development, operational risk and business control etc. He is teaching the IC Rating methodology to auditors, consultants and business economists.

Teaching assignments also include executive programs at e.g. Stockholm School of Economics Executive Education, Hong Kong Polytechnical University and Hong Kong Productivity Council.

Publications in various magazines and journals, such as Journal for Business Strategy, Performance Measurement Association (Edinburgh), Journal of Intellectual Capital, Italian accounting association (AIAF) book about reporting on intangibles etc.

Peder holds an MS in Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics.

 

 

Vincent Leung

Vincent is a Hong Kong native and is a co-founder of PredictivAsia. He has held senior management positions in Singapore, Shenzhen, Beijing, Guangzhou and Hong Kong with Areopa, Epson, KPMG, InterContinental Hotels and YTC Group. His areas of expertise include intellectual property intelligence and protection, business development, environmental protection, corporate planning, and HR development. Vincent served advisory roles with the Chinese Quality Brand Protection Committee and the Worldwide Employee Relocation Counci?and is now active with the Knowledge Capital International Union and the Hong Kong Social Entrepreneurship Forum. He is a graduate of Hong Kong Polytechnic University (MS in Knowledge Management and Diploma in Management Studies) and the Southern California University for Professional Studies (MBA). Vincent frequently speaks at seminars in China.

 

 

Roberto Panzarani

Roberto teaches at the Faculty of "Business Psychology" at the University of l'Aquila, Italy. He holds an MbA in Psychology and a PhD in Philosophy, with distinction, from the University of Rome "La Sapienza ".

He has a wide-ranging experience in vocational training. He was in charge of staff development strategies in Alitalia, where he subsequently founded the Alitalia Business School. He has been the President of the A.I.F (Italian Association of Trainers). He is proficient in the field of human capital, particularly with regard to advanced innovation and has authored or edited numerous publications on this topic. In 1999 he was advisor to the Italian Prime Minister for the drafting of the Vocational Training Master Pian. He is currently President of "Govemance", an association which provides expertise and know-how to those companies seeking skilled managerial staff.

In October 2005, based on his professional experience and extensive involvement in Innovative Business Processes, he founded STUDIO PANZARANI & Associates, a consultancy firm which specializes in Business Innovation, of which he is the President. The Studio’s Headquarter are located in Rome.

STUDIO PANZARANI & Associates promotes training programs, associated to Innovative Business Processes, designed for Italian organizations which are aware of the need to provide their senior managers with an in-depth understanding of the new challenges facing the global economic landscape.

The training that the Firm Panzarani implements are ad hoc projects for different companies and are accomplished through workshops, seminars, Strategic Learning Tour and Outdoor Arts.

 

 

Sharon Siegel

Sharon Siegel, M.D. is a board certified diagnostic radiologist with professional creative expertise that transforms technical, medical, pharmaceutical and health knowledge into consumer-enabling information. After more than a decade in clinical practice, Dr. Siegel turned her professional focus to medical- technical writing and data analysis.

Dr. Siegel writes reports and technical documents, translating professional and arcane language into consumer friendly reports and presentations. Her works include foundational analysis and presentations for pharmaceutical, healthcare, specialty and industry groups on a broad range of technical subjects.

Dr. Siegel’s professional and personal subject matter interests include women’s health, preventive medicine, mental and behavioral health, nutrition science and sports medicine. Her work with the media began as a high school student when she served as the chief writer for a popular morning radio program in the Detroit Metropolitan area. In addition to publishing her own work, Dr. Siegel has also served as a professional copywriter and proofreader for other physicians publishing their works. Dr. Siegel is a graduate of the University of Michigan (B.S., Biomedical Science) and the University of Michigan Medical School.