Overview: Dean Meyer is one of the original proponents of running shared-services organizations within companies as businesses within a business, and has implemented this philosophy in corporate, government, and non-profit organizations through culture, organizational structure, and market-based resource-governance processes. He's the author of eight books, numerous monographs, countless articles, as well as the Full-cost Maturity Model. He coaches CIOs on organizational and political issues, and invented FullCost, a business and budget planning process based on an internal product/service costing solution.
Dean Meyer has made organizational health his life's work. He has been teaching, writing, and consulting since 1968. He founded NDMA Inc. in 1982 to focus exclusively on organizational transformations.
He doesn't come at it with motivational pep talks or "touchy-feely" interpersonal dynamics. Instead, he systematically designs the organizational environment that staff live in... the system of influences that make or break people's performance.
Meyer combines breakthrough thinking with down to earth practicality, and distills leading-edge concepts into pragmatic implementation processes.
He's invented a tool-kit for business planning, budgeting, and rate-setting that makes it practical for an organization to calculate the true cost of its entire product line -- FullCost.
He's developed a method to change corporate culture in less than a year based on learning theory.
He's researched and applied an entirely new science of organizational structure based on cybernetics.
And he's been a leader in applying market economics within companies to design their resource-governance processes.
The result: Meyer helps leaders convert bureaucracies into vibrant entrepreneurial organizations based on the "business-within-a-business" paradigm. He has facilitated transformations in dozens of diverse corporate, not-for-profit, and public-sector organizations throughout North America.
Meyer is the author of eight books, numerous monographs and research reports, and countless articles throughout the past three decades.
Meyer is a native of San Francisco. He received a BS from the University of California at Berkeley, and earned an MBA from Stanford.
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