Prof Colin Coulson-Thomas
Prof. Coulson Thomas has spoken at over 200 national and international conferences. He is also a member of, inter alia, the European Commission`s Team Europe, the board of Community Network, the Advisory Boards of the Home Office Partnership and the Forum for Technology in Training, the Council of the Parliamentary Information Technology Committee and the Professional Development Committee of the IOD.
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Prof Colin Coulson-Thomas 's Background
Prof. Colin Coulson Thomas is a Professor of Corporate Transformation. He is a leader and co-ordinator and has served on the boards of publishing and trading companies as well as the governing bodies of many representative, professional, learned and voluntary institutes, societies and associations He has worked with over 100 boards on various activities to improve board and corporate performance and has also reviewed the processes and practices for winning business of over 100 companies and lead the winning business research and best practice programme which is the largest of its type in the world.
An active businessman and process vision holder of major/international change and transformation projects, Colin's early career was in marketing and general management with the Longman Group and Xerox.
Following professorial appointments in Europe, North and South America, India and China he is also Professor of Direction and Leadership at the University of Lincoln, a member of the Professional Accreditation Committee and Board of Examiners of the Institute of Directors and the Corporate Governance and Risk Management Committee of the ACCA.
Colin led the COBRA initiative of the European Commission, which examined business restructuring across Europe and developed a European Approach to re-engineering and transformation. He is the principal author of the resulting methodology which has been used by over 400 companies and other organisations to transform corporate performance.
Tools incorporating critical success factors developed by one of the companies he chairs have won awards at national and international level. From 1994-97 he was Dean of the Faculty of Management, Willmott Dixon Professor of Corporate Transformation, and Head of the Putteridge Bury at the University of Luton, and a Senior Associate at Cambridge University's Judge Institute.
Formerly chairman of ASK Europe plc for eight years, he served for ten years on the Board of Moorfields Eye Hospital, and for six years as Deputy Chairman of the London Electricity Consultative Council. He served two terms on the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine, nine years on the National Biological Standards Board, five years on the Council of the Foundation for Science and Technology and four years as Corporate Affairs Adviser to the British Institute of Management.
He is a past Chairman of the Crossbencher parliamentary liaison programme, and a past Chairman and past President of the Focus Group. Colin has also served on the governing bodies of many representative and professional institutes and associations, including as Chairman and President.
His recent books and reports include: ‘The Information Entrepreneur' (3Com Active Business Unit, 2000), ‘Shaping Things to Come' (Blackhall Publishing, 2001), ‘Pricing for Profit' (Policy Publications, 2002), ‘Transforming the Company, Manage Change, Compete and Win' (Kogan Page, 2002 and 2004), The Knowledge Entrepreneur (Kogan Page, 2003) and Winning Companies, Winning People (Kingsham Press, 2006).
Colin was educated at the London School of Economics (Trevennon Exhibitioner), the London Business School, the EAESP - Fundacao Getulio Vargas (Brasilian Government Scholar), and the Universities of Aston (Doctoral Programme), Chicago (Deans List) and Southern California (Graduate School Distinction). He obtained first place prizes in the final examination of three professions.
Prof Colin Coulson-Thomas 's Areas of Expertise
Have you ever wondered why some companies expand, while others that appear to be in a similar situation plateau and contract? Colin's expertise is understanding the business and management practices that lead on the one hand to growth and development, and on the other hand to stagnation and decline.
His investigations involving over 2,000 companies and some 500 professional firms have uncovered what the leaders of successful companies - or winners - do differently from losers who struggle and fail.
The author's continuing investigations and engagements with companies are examining areas critical to competing and winning such as improving performance, managing change, competitive bidding, building customer relationships and creating and exploiting know-how. The purpose is to determine what boards and management teams need to do - and also what they should not do - to lead, innovate, pioneer, discover and succeed.
Colin's presentations, courses and workshops distinguish between successful and unsuccessful approaches and identify what directors, boards and management teams need to do to build successful businesses, realize their full potential and achieve the commercial rewards and personal fulfillment that comes from competing and winning. Colin's sessions are individually designed for each client.
Presentations, workshops, courses and programmes can be designed to cover critical success factors and/or winning attitudes, approaches and behaviours in the following areas - allowing companies to pick a combination of topics that meet their particular development needs:
Setting the Scene - competing and winning
Understanding the Business Environment
Understanding the company's marketplace
Visioning Providing Strategic Leadership
Creating an effective board
Differentiation Creating New Commercial Offerings
Winning competitive Bids
Securing a premium price
Building customer and key account relationships
Process Improvement, Re-engineering and Transformation
Change Management
Corporate Communications
New Ways of Working
Corporate Learning
Knowledge Management and Exploitation
Transforming workgroup/salesforce Productivity
Creating an entrepreneurial corporate culture
Entrepreneurial Purchasing
Operating in the International Marketplace
Collaboration and Partnering - building effective partnerships
Succeeding with IT and eBusiness
Next Steps- Formulating and implementing an action programme Colin's report The Information Entrepreneur, changing requirements for corporate and individual success on the subject of information and knowledge entrepreneurship, and containing guidance and checklists on how to make money by packaging and selling information and knowledge, was published in May 2000 eBusiness and eCommerce: - Colin has completed his fifth year as chairman of the Awards for Innovation in eBusiness (previously eCommerce).
These are now web-based and have proved to be very popular. He is also the founder chairman of various companies that make use of the internet, and serve this marketplace with internet, intranet and extranet learning and trading applications.
Learning and Knowledge Management: - His report "Developing a Corporate Learning Strategy", covers the link between learning and knowledge creation and application.
Also one of the companies of which Colin is chairman (using its knowledge management framework) won this year's eBusiness Innovation in Knowledge Management Award. Enterprise and Entrepreneurship: - Colin continues to support individual entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial teams.
His book Individuals and Enterprise, creating entrepreneurs for the new millennium through personal transformation sets out what people and organisations need to do to set up new ventures.
It covers topics of corporate venturing and argues that companies need to become incubators of enterprise. Business Development/Winning Business: - Colin also continues as Director of the Business Development Forum and Leader of the Winning Business Programme which will culminate in two series of 'Winning Business' reports. One covers industrial sectors (construction, transport etc.) and the other (with related benchmarking services) professions (law, IT, advertising etc.).
In total, he is the author or co-author of some thirty books and reports.
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What Clients Say About Prof Colin Coulson-Thomas
Thank you for your valuable contribution at the Team Wales event last week in Cardiff. The feedback we received was very positive, so many thanks again
"I want to thank you for the wonderful presentation which every body attended really appreciated."
"It was indeed a pleasure to have your visit to Bombay and a great privilege to have your unique presentation on Boardroom Effectiveness for Transforming the Boardrooms. All the participants gave their rapt attention to the program and appreciated your thorough analysis and deep insights on the subject, your interactivity with them and the high quality of your presentation. In particular, we were grateful for the one to one special session after lunch. On behalf of the Institute and myself, I would like to once again thank you for the presentations and look forward to greater participation in our courses, programs and events.
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