Alan Wunsche

Current

• Senior Manager, Strategy and Operations Consulting (Finance and Performance Management) at Deloitte Inc. (Canada)
• Member of Board of Directors, Treasurer, Chair Strategic Planning Committee at Toronto Children's Chorus

Past

• President at Leading Knowledge Ltd. - Innovation Management Consultants
• Founder at Knowledge ROI Study - Partnership with Richard Ivey School of Business
• Executive in Residence at Innovations Foundations Exceler@tor (Technology Incubator)

• Vice-President at Itemus
• Principal Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

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Education

• Canadian Securities Institute
• The University of Western Ontario - Richard Ivey School of Business
• University of Western Ontario

• University of Western Ontario
• Darden School of Business

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Connections

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Industry

Management Consulting

Websites

• My Blog

Alan Wunsche’s Summary

I am a business performance management specialist with extensive experience implementing technologies and organizational change. I help companies leverage financial and non-information to improve their analytic capabilities, and their planning, budgeting and forecasting processes to realize their strategic objectives.

I am a Senior Manager in the Strategy & Operations / Finance and Performance Management (F&PM) management consulting practice in the Toronto office of Deloitte. I focus on helping organizations create shareholder value through financial transformation, including: 1) business performance management technologies, 2) process transformation, and 3) organizational change management.

I have over 17 years experience in finance, innovation management and commercialization, organizational restructuring, value-based management, corporate strategy, business process design, change management and executive facilitation. At another global management consultancy, I led the Value-Based Management Centre of Excellence, managed Financial Management Benchmarking and Best Practices studies and led the e-Business practice and specialized in organizational change group. My broad industry experience includes oil and gas, consumer business, financial services, technology and transportation.

I am a Chartered Accountant (Ontario, Canada) and earned my MBA at the Richard Ivey School of Business. At Ivey, I focused on both Finance and Organizational Change.

SELECTED CLIENTS
Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, Ontario Power Authority, Loblaw Companies Limited, Direct Energy, Irving Oil, Sprint Canada, Research in Motion, University of Toronto Innovations Foundation, Ontario Centres of Excellence, Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, Microsoft Canada, Siemens Canada, Cara Foods, Maple Leaf Foods, Sanyo Canada, Sony Canada, Molson Breweries, CP Rail, Fairmont Hotels, Coca-Cola, Delrina, Imperial Oil, AGF Mutual Funds, AT&T Canada, Young & Rubicam

Alan Wunsche’s Specialties:

Strategic Planning and Facilitation; Business Performance Management, Change Management; Project Leadership; Executive Development and Organizational Learning.

Knowledge Economy Leadership: Innovation Process Engineering, IT Project Management, Knowledge and Intellectual Capital Management, Value Creation Management.

Chartered Accountant and former Principal Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers Management Consulting.

Alan Wunsche’s Experience

• Senior Manager, Strategy and Operations Consulting (Finance and Performance Management)

  Deloitte Inc. (Canada)

  (Partnership; Management Consulting industry)

  June 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)

  Finance & Performance Management consultant leading and delivering finance management transformation programs, including value-based management and technology-enabled business performance management. My leadership of Finance transformation includes organizational change management.

• Member of Board of Directors, Treasurer, Chair Strategic Planning Committee

  Toronto Children's Chorus

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  2001 — Present (8 years)

  http://www.torontochildrenschorus.com
  
  * Member of Board of Directors
  * Treasurer
  * Chair, Strategic Planning Committee
  * Member, Marketing Communications Committee

• President

  Leading Knowledge Ltd. - Innovation Management Consultants

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  October 2001 — June 2006 (4 years 9 months)

  • Provided senior strategic management and project leadership services in marketing, solutions selling, and financial planning to technology-based companies
  
  Selected high impact engagements:
  • Partner relationship management strategy for global software manufacturer
  • Project leadership services focused on developing and implementing growth strategy based on new Solutions Marketing and Solutions Selling processes for enterprise customers of a Canadian telecom company; developed CRM portal for effective Marketing and Sales information sharing and collaboration; developed full business case
  • Co-authored with the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants: “Innovation Measurement and Reporting in the Context of Value Creation” and Customer Capital Measurement and Reporting in the Context of Value Creation. Reviewed innovation practices and management’s disclosure of 96 global companies across 3 industry sectors. (2003-2004)
  • Speaker and author on Innovation Management practices

• Founder

  Knowledge ROI Study - Partnership with Richard Ivey School of Business

  (Partnership; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  December 2002 — December 2004 (2 years 1 month)

  http://www.knowledgeroi.com
  
  The 2004 Knowledge ROI Study quantified the return on knowledge and intellectual capital management initiatives while providing insights to enhancing knowledge worker productivity, the innovation process and organizational performance.

• Executive in Residence

  Innovations Foundations Exceler@tor (Technology Incubator)

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  March 2002 — October 2003 (1 year 8 months)

  http://www.excelerator.ca
  
  The Exceler@tor is an information technology and telecommunications (ITC) focused incubator, providing infrastructure, support and professional services to high potential companies who have disruptive or platform technologies. Under the leadership of Innovations Foundation (the University of Toronto's technology commercialization company) activities are supported and encouraged by Ontario's Universities, Industry and all levels of government, Municipal, Provincial and Federal. Its mission is to be a centre for innovation, enabling entrepreneurs to accelerate high potential technology businesses globally, thus having a profound impact on regional wealth creation and Canada's Innovation Agenda.

• Vice-President

  Itemus

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2000 — September 2001 (1 year 2 months)

  * Advised on the financial and strategic plans for portfolio companies
  * Restructured operations and growth strategy of portfolio company

• Principal Consultant

  PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Management Consulting industry)

  September 1991 — August 2000 (9 years)

  * Managed Financial Management Benchmarks and Best Practices Study
  * Managed SAP implementations for Consumer Packaged Goods client
  * Reengineered Financial management and business performance management processes across a variety of industries
  * Reengineered supply chain management for global soft drink manufacturer
  * Led strategic turnaround of consumer electronics client
  * Led Value-based Management Center of Excellence
  * Led development of Canadian E-Business practice
  * Led global Knowledge Management rollout for Canadian practice
  * Certified as Global Management Consulting Instructor
  
  * Performed Audits across variety of industries including manufacturing, telecom, oil and gas

Alan Wunsche’s Education

• Canadian Securities Institute

  Canadian Securities Course , 1994

• The University of Western Ontario - Richard Ivey School of Business

  Chartered Accountant , 1991 — 1993

• University of Western Ontario

  MBA , 1989 — 1991

• University of Western Ontario

  B.Sc. , Chemistry , 1984 — 1988

• Darden School of Business

  E-Business Executive Education , 1999

Additional Information

Alan Wunsche’s Websites:

• My Blog

Alan Wunsche’s Groups:

Director, Past Treasurer, Chair Strategic Planning Committee - Toronto Children's Chorus (http://www.torontochildrenschorus.com)
Coach, North Toronto Soccer, TSC

•    Richard Ivey School of Business Alumni
•    PricewaterhouseCoopers Alumni
•    Global Foresight
•    Business Intelligence
•    EPM - Business Intelligence
•    PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) employees and alumni
•    Systems Thinking
•    Toronto
•    SAP Community
•    Deloitte Leaders
•    Business Intelligence Professionals
•    Richard Ivey School of Business Alumni Network
•    Deloitte Insights Podcast Listener's Group
•    Deloitte.
•    Deloitte employees and alumni
•    MindManager Enthusiasts
•    Business Intelligence & Analytics Group
•    Financial Executives International (FEI)
•    Oracle BI & EPM
•    Hyperion EPM
•    Business Strategy & Competitive Strategy Forum
•    Hyperion
•    Killer Innovations
•    Corporate Performance Management (CPM)
•    PMO - Project Management Office
•    BI-Business Intelligence & EPM-Enterprise Performance Management Practioners Group
•    Global Trend Forecasting
•    Linking Nikon ® D-SLR Camera Users
•    Cognos BI Professionals
•    Hyperion Professionals
•    Wikinomics
•    Future Trends
•    The McKinsey Quarterly readers
•    Innovation Management Institute
•    Junior Achievement of Central Ontario
•    Innovate the Future
•    Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing
•    Ivey Alumni Association Toronto Chapter
•    CFO Connect - Canada
•    Continuous Innovation