Experience you can benefit from
Mission Statement:
Enable clients to strengthen their organization's strategic position.
Core Values:
Accelerated Business Consulting has three core values that represent how we approach all aspects of our business internally and externally.
Consulting Staff
Scott Archibald - President
Scott founded Accelerated Business Consulting to help small to medium sized business owners and senior managers navigate through the change that inevitably happens to organizations. Through my career I have seen the challenges that executives face and now have the opportunity to help CEO, CFO, CIO, COO and senior executives.
No matter whether you are part of a small or large organization at some point you will be faced with the need to navigate through strategic technology and business transformations, business change or run your operation more efficiently. Regardless of what your situation is we can help by setting you up for success.
I have managed everything from small teams to large complex organizations at Fortune 50 companies. Put my nearly 20 years of management experience to work for you. A quick summary of my accomplishments are listed below:
- 2007: Managed a non-profit 501c3 entity with a $1,000,000 budget to be a profitable venture so it can grow in the years to come.
- 2006: Managed a world wide service organization to provide desktop computing client services for all of Hewlett Packard including over 300,000 desktops, laptops, mobile devices and printers.
- 2005: Lead a Program Management Office (PMO) responsible for reducing HP IT annual infrastructure spend by nearly $300 million.
- 2002: Responsible for Day 1 IT Infrastructure working flawlessly during the Compaq/Hewlett Packard merger.
- 1999: Managed the Hewlett Packard IT Infrastructure spin off of Agilent Technologies.
- 1995-1998: Managed world wide teams responsible for IT service engineering, marketing, provisioning and support across Hewlett Packard.
- 1993-1994: Worked directly with the Executive Council at Intel Corp to enable the use of a mobile collaboration computing platform.
Scott is a member of several non-profit organizations within his community. Jim is a member of local non-profit Boards and community organizations. Experienced in development and implementation of employee relations, career development, and succession programs. Skilled in recruitment, university relations, implementation and management of internship programs. Experienced with Environmental Health & Safety, OSHA, EEO, John Cruden III - Director Risk Management Services John is experienced in the areas of Risk Management, including Risk Analysis, Loss Control Method Selection, Proactive Loss Control, Implementation of Risk Management Methods, and Monitoring and Measuring Risk Outcome Analysis. He is also Licensed in Insurance Placement of Professional Liability, Errors and Omissions, Directors and Officers, General Liability, Products Liability, Employment Practices Liability, Fidelity and Fiduciary Liability, Performance Bonding, Workers Compensation, Employee Benefits, Employee Benefits Liability, Property Insurance, Vehicle Fleet Liability and Physical Damage, Crime Coverage, Business Interruption and Extra Expense Coverage, Umbrella and Excess Liability. John also is well versed in employee benefits consulting and benefits insurance placement services, including: health, life, disability, dental, vision, long term care, employee assistance plans and wellness programs.
Jim Arena - Director Strategy & Transformation
Jim Arena has made his career in motivating and driving transformational change in organizations for Fortune 500 companies. He has spent most of the last 20 years in the technology industry heading up cross organization initiatives in IT, Supply Chain, Marketing, Sales and HR . All of these strategies focused on breakthrough revenue and customer loyalty that engaged employees to deliver aspirational change that became, in time, indistinguished with the organization's DNA. He was part of the executive team in the office of the CEO for the HP/Compaq integration, and was responsible for the Decision Accelerator, a capability designed to take the toughest decisions and make them stick. More recently, he was responsible for acquiring $100M through four acqusitions for Business Objects, now an SAP company. Jim's focus at Accelerated Business Consulting is in three areas:
Fidel Lara - Director HR Services
Fidel is a visionary leader, strategic planner, and creative HR management professional with management experience working within large, complex organizations with diverse, multicultural populations in multiple-geography locations within union and non-union environments. In-depth knowledge of local, remote, and virtual Business Operations Process management. Fidel has over 17 years of HR related experience across:
Languages: English, Spanish: Fluent speech, read, write, translation. Portuguese, Italian: Read
John P. Cruden III, CPCU & ARM. Specializing in risk Management and Insurance Placement services for over 28 years, he has earned two professional degrees, a CPCU, Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter, and an ARM, Associate in Risk Management. Currently providing services to educational institutions, not for profit organizations, high technology software and hardware developers and manufacturers, consulting firms, law firms, accounting firms, engineering and construction firms, and high net worth families.
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