Dr. Jimmy Schwarzkopf

Current

Research Fellow, CXX analyst, and Managing Partner at S T K I "The Knowledge Integrators" (previously META Group Israel)

Past

Country Manager at META Group
Marketing at Digital Equipment Corporation Israel
Entrepreneur at several startups

R&D Manager at Israel Defence Forces
Infantry Soldier/Officer at Israel Defence Forces

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Education

Case Western Reserve University - Weatherhead School of Management
IDF Staff and Command School
Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business

University of Central Florida
Lehigh University

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Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Dr. Jimmy Schwarzkopf’s Summary

Managing the only IT analyst group in Israel (STKI) doing user and vendor oriented research.

מחקר שוק טכנולוגיית המידע בישראל
http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/STKI

POWERPOINT presentations
http://www.slideshare.net/jimmyschwarzkopf/slideshows

International Information Technology Visionary & Futurist; presenter and researcher

Building a Academic Center for Research on Entrepreneurship in Israel; researching entrepreneursip (ICT) at the genesis (startup/early) stage and its relationship with Venture Capitalists and Angel investors.

recommended readings on entrepreneurship:

http://www.scribd.com/people/view/1233538

Editorial Board Member of the academic journal "International Journal of Opportunity, Growth and Value Creation" (IJOGVC).

ד"ר ג'ימי (חיים) שוורצקוף

Dr. Jimmy Schwarzkopf’s Specialties:

Information Technology Analyst in my work as the managing partner of STKI.

I also do academic research on the ISRAELI ENTREPRENEURIAL (ICT) SCENE

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Dr. Jimmy Schwarzkopf’s Experience

Research Fellow, CXX analyst, and Managing Partner

S T K I "The Knowledge Integrators" (previously META Group Israel)

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 1992 — Present (16 years 10 months)

Analysing the Israeli Market for Information Technology (products, clients, vendors). Strategic Consulting in Marketing to vendors selling in Israel, including business plan & sales strategy development.
Advising businesses using information technology, including RFPs,strategic multi-year plans and product decisions.
www.stki.info
Country Manager

META Group

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

1992 — 2005 (13 years)

See above.... same company but a changed name
Marketing

Digital Equipment Corporation Israel

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DEC; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 1987 — November 1991 (4 years 10 months)

Marketing Department. In charge of analysis of the market,clients, competitors. Developed competitive strategies for products and planned the sales strategy per product/service sold.
Entrepreneur

several startups

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1984 — January 1987 (3 years 1 month)

Wrote the first hebrew spreadsheet and word processor for the IBM PC. Wrote one of the first accounting systems for microcomputers (in Pascal for the Apple 3 and Lisa). Started a company that sold e-mail service(store and forward messaging) and bulletin boards (pre internet). etc.
R&D Manager

Israel Defence Forces

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; IDF; Military industry)

July 1980 — December 1983 (3 years 6 months)

Major in the reserves
Finished Staff and Command School in 1981
Served in the R&D Division in charge of R&D projects based on information technology and C4I applications for all branches of the military.
Infantry Soldier/Officer

Israel Defence Forces

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; IDF; Military industry)

March 1971 — December 1973 (2 years 10 months)

Dr. Jimmy Schwarzkopf’s Education

Case Western Reserve University - Weatherhead School of Management

Doctorate, Entrepreneurship and Management Science, 2004 — 2007

paper 1: http://sprouts.case.edu/060203.cfm

paper 2: http://www.mansci.uwaterloo.ca/~levesque/papers/Schwarzkopf%20&%20Levesque.pdf

Activities and Societies:

Entrepreneurial research presented:
Academy of Management Conference (2007),
Babson Entrepreneurial Conference (Madrid) (2007)
IDF Staff and Command School

MidCommand School 1980 — 1981
Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business

MSIA, Information Systems, 1977 — 1980

I was also a PhD candidate, passed qualifiers but didn't finish my dissertation.
MENSA member.

Activities and Societies:

Taught courses in systems design, statistical analysis, etc.
PhD Thesis subject was " np complete analysis of distributed data bases"
University of Central Florida

BSE-MSE, Systems Engineering, 1974 — 1977

Thesis on Distributed Computer Systems

http://en.scientificcommons.org/2516126

Activities and Societies:

Graduated with honors
Honor Societies:Tau Beta Pi, Alpha Pi Mu,Epsilon Chi Phi
Lehigh University

none, Engineering Physics, 1969 — 1971

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Activities and Societies:

Member of Psi Upsilon Fraternity.