Overview: Dean Meyer is one of the original proponents of running shared-services organizations within companies as businesses within a business, where every managerial group is an entrepreneurship funded to produce products and services for customers.
He has implemented this philosophy in corporate, government, and non-profit organizations through the careful design of culture, organizational structure, and internal market economics.
Dean is the author of seven books, numerous monographs, countless articles, as well as the Full-cost Maturity Model. He invented FullCost, a business and budget planning process based on an internal product/service costing solution. He researched the science of organizational structure, captured in his Structural Cybernetics framework and reorganization process. And he developed an approach to corporate culture that leads to meaningful change in less than a year. Dean coaches executives on organizational and political issues, and personally facilitates transformation processes.
From a small office in the New England village of Ridgefield, Connecticut, Dean Meyer writes, invents, coaches leaders, and implements organizational transformation -- all based on 30 years of devotion to the business-within-a-business paradigm.
Dean is both a visionary and a mechanic. He paints a clear picture of how organizations should work, and implements that vision through pragmatic, structured, participative change processes.
He doesn't come at it with motivational pep talks or "touchy-feely" interpersonal dynamics. Instead, Dean systematically designs the organizational "ecosystem" that people live in... the organizational systems that make or break people's performance.
He's a pioneer in the application of market economics within companies to design their resource-governance processes.
He authored the Full-cost Maturity Model which explains exactly how to associate all an organization's costs with its products and services.
He invented a tool-kit for business planning, budgeting, and product/service costing that makes it practical for an organization to calculate the true cost of its entire product line -- FullCost.
He developed a method to change corporate culture in less than a year based on learning theory.
He researched and applied an entirely new science of organizational structure called Structural Cybernetics based on systems science and entrepreneurship.
The result: Dean helps leaders create vibrant entrepreneurial organizations.
Dean has made organizational health his life's work. He has been teaching, writing, and consulting since founding NDMA Inc. in 1982. He has facilitated transformations in dozens of diverse corporate, not-for-profit, and public-sector organizations throughout North America.
Dean is the author of eight books, numerous monographs and research reports, and countless articles throughout the past three decades. Meyer was author of the popular CIO.COM monthly column, Beneath the Buzz, where he cut through the hype and explained hot management buzzwords in common sense terms, with a perspective on what's there and what's not.
Dean received a BS from the University of California at Berkeley, and earned an MBA from Stanford in 1976.
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