LinkedIn: Joe Katzman

Current

Product Manager & Editor at Defense Industry Daily (Watershed Publishing)
Founder at Winds of Change.NET
Principal at C.A.T. Consulting

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Past

Senior Consultant at KPMG Consulting (Bearing Point)
Senior Consultant at Ernst & Young Canada
Manager, Center for Business Knowledge at Ernst & Young Canada

VP Administration at CUSA, Inc.

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Education

York University - Schulich School of Business
Carleton University

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Joe Katzman’s Summary

I can talk business and strategy on even terms with businesspeople and strategists, and technology on even terms with the technologists. Translation plus effective management and facilitation = the right structure, working toward the right goals, on the right project.

Joe Katzman’s Specialties:

knowledge management, information technology, internet, business strategy, process improvement, facilitation, on-line branding, teaching & training, international relations, project management.

Joe Katzman’s Experience

Product Manager & Editor

Defense Industry Daily (Watershed Publishing)

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Defense & Space industry)

2004 — Present (4 years)

How does a new B2B product carve out a unique, viable, and respected niche against a crowded field of larger incumbents, in an innately conservative industry? Know your market, and look outward before looking inward. Define your niche. Know, and stick to, your strategy. Understand pricing. Then deliver.

Defense Industry Daily offers a top-tier global round-up of purchases and developments in the global defense industry. My role involves strategizing, managing, and delivering a product that has grown from a standing start to about 13,000 subscribers, and become a respected and requested B2B source in the industry, and in governments around the globe. The Editor-in-Chief needs to draw on expertise that includes product management, defense tech, geopolitical analysis, project management, organizational behavior & management, leadership of virtual teams, and internet strategy, in order to keep all of this humming - and growing.
Founder

Winds of Change.NET

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

April 2003 — Present (5 years 2 months)

Not really employees, but contributors. Winds of Change.NET is a successful team blog with a determinedly civilized tone, whose members have successfully leveraged their work as part of their applications to positions in academia, industry, and government agencies. "Liberty. Discovery. Humanity. Victory." is the Winds credo.
Principal

C.A.T. Consulting

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Defense & Space industry)

August 1995 — Present (12 years 10 months)

See summary. My main client at present is Defense Industry Daily, and that is a full-time endeavor, but I continue to consult for other clients within my areas of expertise - and outside of the field I report on.

Work over the years has also included a number of strategic and technical engagements in the online, e-learning, information technology, corporate communications, and project management spaces.
Senior Consultant

KPMG Consulting (Bearing Point)

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

1999 — 2001 (2 years)

Client engagements generally revolved around developing new online products or new ventures: they included defining business planning & strategy, corporate structure for new ventures, IT architecture and development roadmaps, presentations to corporate senior management teams, et. al. Clients ranged from start-ups (incl. NewMindsets.com, Centrsource.com) to large entities like telecom firms and foreign governments.

Innovator within the firm, working at the junction of strategy and technology with the Digital Strategy & E-Integration groups. Also involved in a number of internal BearingPoint initiatives, from SMART project management to knowledge management, improved recruiting, better alliance relationships, and a corporate newsletter that acted as the firm-wide resource on e-business strategy and trends.
Senior Consultant

Ernst & Young Canada

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year)

Consultant specializing in knowledge management, I.T., and doing business on the Internet. Worked for a range of clients, and extended my previous intranet role by pioneering the firm's use of the web as an extranet tool to win client business and manage projects.

Projects included a successful integrated website and permission marketing application for a major retailer, a supply chain process improvement knowledge base for a major consumer firm, business plan and strategy for a telco wishing to offer internet services, et. al.
Manager, Center for Business Knowledge

Ernst & Young Canada

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

1997 — 1998 (1 year)

The Center for Business Knowledge delivers the strategy & infrastructure required to leverage and distribute the combined knowledge of the firm, making it accessible to each consultant, auditor, and tax professional. This is achieved through a combination of software modules, library resources, external services, and practitioner consultants with formal roles in the knowledge network.

Thought leader within the Canadian firm; as part of my tenure, I also led a team that built the firm's first intranet, based on my analysis of underserved front-line needs. Despite its simplicity and low cost, it met those needs, and soon became a critical resource for the firm's auditors and consultants alike.
VP Administration

CUSA, Inc.

(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Government Administration industry)

1989 — 1990 (1 year)

Managed 11 direct reports and 75+ related organizations, formulated and managed a total budget in excess of $215,000 and served as Acting President in the President’s absence. The Association represented over 20,000 students and had a budget of $1.3 million.

My personal mission was to fundamentally change the way CUSA related to and served its student base. A combination of innovative approaches, reflective analysis, and new enabling structures led to success.

Joe Katzman’s Education

York University - Schulich School of Business

MBA, 1993 — 1995

Final course was an independent study involving the recommendation and implementation of a groupware application to support the school's flagship "601 Strategy" (i.e. slave consulting) course.

Activities and Societies:

Used the Internet as its own non-credited course of study to gain a deep understanding of the Internet, wired organizations, and their applications to business strategy. Ended up implementing 601Net as a groupware solution for the school's flagship strategy course.
Carleton University

BA Hons., Psychology & Criminology, 1986 — 1991

Activities and Societies:

VP CUSA Inc., Chief Electoral Office of RRRA, Council Chair of RRRA. Recipient of the Carleton University Honour Award for Service.

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Joe Katzman’s Interests:

Stuff that creates the future, for good or ill: New product development; Wired organizations, knoweldge management & virtual communities; Web 2.0; Geopolitics; Military & intelligence; The human side of science. Why do some things work, and others fail? Business strategy & technology; Business process improvement; Project management; Ecology, Public policy, Zen & philosophy. The world's pretty cool - enjoy it: SCUBA diving (was an instructor at one point), Astronomy, Skiing, Hiking & exploring the natural world, Providing a temporary refuge for distressed animals of all types, Spirituality & religion, Poetry, Animation (my favorite: Looney Tunes' singing frog). I wish I...: had more musical ability.

Joe Katzman’s Groups:

Defense publications, Blogging, Silicon Valley, Relative, Silicon Valley Product Management Association, Conference Presenter, U of T eBusiness certificate program lecturer (fmr.).