About Agiledge
Agiledge: Who we are
Welcome to the AGILEdge Resource Site. Since 1996, AGILEdge has helped businesses, non-profits and government agencies improve their performance by providing "tools", project management and advisory services to create sustainable advantageous capability. These are the capability(ies) that enable organizations to move to a new level of people and process performance over the long term. To do this, we focus on assessing the critical success factors, then addressing the underlying causes of performance and then working with you to develop the sustainable advantageous capability which typically come from simultaneous people, process and focus optimization.
AGILEdge
Creating Sustainable Advantageous Capabilities through Action and Decision effectiveness.
Alan brings expertise from a career implementing positive change in well over 100 organizations by first formulating a clear understanding people and process and then designing and implementing a plan to create sustainable advantageous capability. His skills have been developed as an executive, program manager, sales manager and entrepreneur. Beginning with experiences as a systems analyst and Systems Productivity manager at General Dynamics, as a Market Manager at American Express and from various leadership roles at divisions of United Technologies and as a Performance Improvement Process Leader at dozens of smaller organizations.
As a member of United Technologies’ Leadership Associates team, Alan served as a Product Manager in charge of development and marketing activities of an $100 million/year product line, as leader of a Supplier Management/purchasing program, as plant manager, as Director of Sales and Marketing for a $180 million/year operation and as a leader of several major change efforts within large organizations. In addition, he was a small business consultant in New York City, while earning his MBA at Columbia University . Alan has worked with dozens of companies producing results repeatedly exceeding expectations. . For seven years, he was the Southern California facilitator for a leading management development program, leading the development of several hundred managers in a 12 month program.
Alan has led engagements which have resulted in major productivity, profitability and effectiveness improvements in operations, marketing and sales. Alan is also an adjunct Professor...
Our focus at AGILEdge is on creating sustainable advantageous capability. There are three dimensions to this focus. First, we work with organizations to improve the performance of key management, operational and marketing/sales processes. In doing so, we provide and support a number of proven (typically web-based) tools for achieving remarkable improvements in people decision-making, goal achievement and/or communications in specific processes. Second, we work with organizations to optimize their people decisions by using the most scientific and powerful tools available along with our many years of experience. Both together constitute optimizing process and people and when done simultaneously with an optimal focus, they result in sustainable advantageous capability.
The business has been built around the three pillars for creating and maintaining a high performing organization and more importantly for creating sustainable advantageous capability, the hallmark of high performing organizations over the long term:
- People: Selecting High Performers and Building Highly Effective Teams (WHO)
- Focus: Strategy and Goal Achievement (WHAT)
- Process: People-Process Performance Improvement (HOW)
Over the years, we've assembled a powerful arsenal of expertise, business tools and programs to address the creation and maintaining of SACS and which through this enables organizations to have action...
