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About
Us Background
Since 1988, the Strategic Alignment Group has been helping firms dramatically
reduce time-to-market while increasing innovation and quality. Our
education seminars are for senior leaders who are responsible for
designing and implementing portfolio and product development
strategies.
8 principles drive our work:
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Strategy
guides speed; without it, speed is dumb and dangerous
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Execution
and change are much easier when there is alignment
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People
are more important than structure or process
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Structure,
process and tools enable scale, reduce grunt work and control errors
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Balanced
metrics are essential but how you use measures is just as important as
what you measure
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Relentless,
disciplined experimentation is superior to flawless planning
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Leadership
starts with caring about others and must include curiosity, innovation
and persistence
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Everyone
feels better when they're winning!
Today, the firm focuses on
putting the time-to-market and innovation strategies created by
Christopher Meyer into practice. In
addition, the firm has a partnership with PRTM,
the leading management consultants to technology industry.
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Chairman,
Strategic Alignment Group, Inc.
Accelerating
Product Development, California Institute of Technology,
Industrial
Relations
Center
Academic
Affiliate: PRTM, Inc.
Christopher Meyer, Ph.D. is the
Chairman of the Strategic Alignment Group, Inc.
Dr. Meyer is internationally recognized as an expert in creating
competitive advantage through fast cycle time, innovation and customer
experience management. He
is also a recognized leader in designing performance management systems,
emphasizing metrics that support creativity, prediction, balanced with
managerial control.
For thirty years, he has served as
an executive, consultant and academic.
Dr. Meyer’s most recent article, Understanding
Customer Experience, was published in the Harvard Business Review,
February 2007. He last book,
Relentless Growth: How Silicon Valley Innovation Strategies Can Work in
Your Company, (The Free Press 1998) outlines how to design growth
strategies that are relevant to today’s high-speed, global knowledge
economy. Based on research of
successful
Silicon Valley
firms, Relentless Growth illustrates
how growth values and methods must be as robust and clear as everyday
operating practices.
Dr. Meyer is also the author of Fast Cycle Time: How to Align Purpose, Strategy & Structure for
Speed. Firms such as Johnson & Johnson, Cisco Systems, Applied
Biosystems, Genzyme and Hewlett-Packard have reduced time to market,
improved service responsiveness and increased operating effectiveness
using Fast Cycle Time as their
roadmap. His Harvard
Business Review article, How the
Right Measures Help Teams Excel, is a standard in the performance
management literature. Dr.
Meyer’s executive experience includes serving as vice-president for
Human Resources at Silicon Graphics Computer Systems and organizational
effectiveness advisor at Zilog, Inc.
He has served on the faculty of the University of Southern
California, University of Minnesota, and as academic director of Fast
Cycle Time Strategy and faculty for the Innovation Management
program at Stanford University. He
is currently an instructor at the California Institute of Technology
Industrial Relations Center. He
received his Ph.D. and masters in organization strategy and design from
the
University
of
Southern California, and holds a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School of Finance and
Commerce. He has taught at Stanford
University, University of Michigan and Santa Clara University.
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