Ed Colby

About Ed Colby

Most organizations fail to fully utilize the innovative creativity and productive potential capacity of their workforce, thereby reducing the return on their investment in people. I help build higher-performing workforces and organizations by helping organizations actualize the adage:PEOPLE ARE OUR GREATEST ASSET!” I help organizations do this by optimizing the intersection and effectiveness of people, process, technology, and information.i.e, helping organizations get the greatest return on their investment in each of these assets; leading to long-term, sustainable competitive success.I have been both a student and educator of innovation, management, and technology; with a unique blend of 20 years as a practitioner leader, and almost 20 years as an external management consultant. I’ve held executive leadership roles in: human capital management, workforce management, and operational management consulting; value analysis; systems and application design, development, and implementation, and; product and solutions marketing. I’ve led many large-scale systems and operations transformation and implementation engagements at Fortune 500 organizations. I’ve also experienced the “excitement” and enthusiasm of helping birth three high-tech start-up organizations, as well as helped sustain the growth of two global technology market leaders.

Experience

1. Managing Partner - Innovation and Organizational Effectiveness Evangelist Leader

   Innovationone, Llc

   Jan 2016 — Present · Chapel Hill, NC, US

   Many leaders and organizations espouse innovation as a critical component of business strategy. However, relatively few are perceived as truly innovative, or are able to sustain it over time. There are many barriers to attaining a truly innovative organization, often resulting in a huge gap between strategy and execution. As such, most organizations fail to realize the full innovative creativity and productive potential of their workforce, technology, systems, processes, and information; thereby failing to get the highest return on their investment in same. As a Managing Partner of InnovationOne I help organizations identify and overcome their barriers to innovative and organizational excellence by assessing, measuring, and identifying their areas of innovative strength and weakness. “You Can Manage What You Can Measure.” Innovation measurement and management allows organizations to overcome their innovation hurdles and cross their innovation chasm. This helps transform their innovation results from random, short term innovation gains; to a long term, renewable Culture of Innovation which drives employee engagement, purpose, and ongoing business value; resulting in long-term sustainable competitive success.

Education

• Northeastern University

  MBA, Marketing/Computer Sciences

• Tufts University

  B.S., Psychology

Skills

• Talent Management
• Brand Loyalty
• Business Transformation
• Human Capital Management
• Customer Retention
• Program Management
• Project Management
• Personnel Management
• Project Execution
• Enterprise Software
• Business Process Improvement
• Solutions Marketing
• Hris
• Technology Evangelism
• Human Resources
• Workforce Management
• Consulting
• Customer Loyalty
• Management Consulting
• Customer Engagement
• Product Marketing
• Solutions Consulting and Sales
• Marketing Strategy