Chris McCann
Chris McCann is a Chief Business Engineer who has transformed organizations and functions by developing change visions and strategies then leading execution.
A career in the corporate world with companies as such as Bose, GE and Lockheed-Martin, has taught Chris that driving strategic change is both art and science. He believes the imperative to re-formulate people, process and technology for the robotic age requires skills in many domains.
Chris is a certified LSS Black Belt with a BA in Economics from Cornell and MBA studies at Boston College. He is Owner and Principal Consultant of Polymathy Consulting LLC.
More content by Chris McCann
The 4 Phases of a Finance Transformation Journey
August 08 by Chris McCannThese phases are interdependent and overlap, performing the necessary activities to turn an ambiguous/intangible idea (a transformed capability) into a program that creates a working finance-of-the-fu...
Finance Transformation Starts with a Teardown to Core Processes
July 27 by Chris McCannIn order to build a finance function that meets the needs of your organization you need to tear it down to its basic building blocks and build it up from there.
Revisiting the Five-Tool Knowledge Worker in the Age of AI
June 27 by Chris McCannWhy we can't forget the importance of quantitative thinking, communication skills, people centricity, planning/process mindset, and critical thinking when working with AI.
How Shared Services Are Supporting Enterprise Working Capital
June 29 by Chris McCannThe need for liquidity and forward visibility to cash flow has been vital to enterprises navigating through unprecedented and uncertain times
Best Practice GBS Governance in 3 Steps
May 28 by Chris McCannCreating the perception of a servant leader rather than someone trying to take over will lay the foundation for governance based on trust
Supply Chain Transformation: An Opportunity for GBS
May 04 by Chris McCannSupply chains built for a pre-Covid world have been hit hard. But it is not just the pandemic that is driving a re-evaluation of supply chain operating models - the external environment is changing fa...
The Case for Strategy in GBS and Shared Services
February 26 by Chris McCannStrategy has been degraded, downgraded, and derided as "mostly hot air." It's still critical.
Hiring People "Not Like You"
February 10 by Chris McCannIt's the primary obstacle to achieving the next stage of value proposition for shared services
