Mark Ranford

Current

Consultant Strategy Planning at Ministry of Works
Managing Director at Stratagility Management Consultants

Past

Regional Director, Asia Pacific at Accellion
Vice President, Product Management at SPH ASIAONE
Director, Financial Services at KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING

Manager, Advanced Business Systems at ALLIANZ
Senior Knowledge Engineer & Consultant at Computer Sciences Corporation
IT Consultancy & Teaching (awarded DFE licence) at BTC
Knowledge Engineer at WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION

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Education

University Technology Sydney
University of Essex
University of East London

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Management Consulting

Mark Ranford’s Summary

Mark Ranford is the founder and Managing Director of Stratagility. Mark graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Mathematics and Computing, as well as a Masters in Knowledge Systems. His experience spans over 20 years in a broad range of roles including: strategy management, knowledge management, project management, product management & marketing, account management, business & partnership development.

Mark’s last post before founding Stratagility was at Accellion where he helped build a whole new line of business for the company in the Internet Backup area. This Backup service acquired two of the worlds largest PC manufacturers as its resellers during marks tenure and represented Accellion’s dominant source of revenue.

Mark's endeavour in creating a Backup service encapsulates his approach to strategy. Envisioning and then moulding the future to ones own advantage. Repeatedly innovating to maintain and increase value.

At heart, Marks nature has always been entrepreneurial. He thinks of himself best as an “Imagineer”. His inspirations include: James Lovelock, Alfred Whitehead, David Bohm, Gary Hamel, JJ Krishnamurti & John Storrs-Hall.

With Stratagility, Mark is building a business that helps others repeatedly innovate to create new business & value, a capability that he terms “Strategic Agility”. Stratagility offers solutions & services in Strategy, Innovation and Knowledge Management.

Mark Ranford’s Specialties:

Strategy, Strategy Management, Balanced Scorecard, BSC, Strategy Aligned Management, Business Agility, Strategic Agility, Innovation, Knowledge Management, Knowledege Engineering, Business & Product Development

Mark Ranford’s Experience

Consultant Strategy Planning

Ministry of Works

(Government Agency; Construction industry)

July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

Architecting and Managing the Ministry of Works Strategy and
Performance Management process. This requires implementing the Balanced Scorecard and managing the change until the ongoing closed-loop management and governance processes are thoroughly embedded and optimized, integrating with the financial and HR processes and establishing the supporting systems and software for documenting strategy and reporting performance. The aim is to have in place a real world class example of best practice strategy management that delivers an "execution premium" for the MOW, and is recognized as such through awards such as the "Hall of Fame". But beyond that it means establishing a strategy management capability that learns and adapts and that increasingly demonstrates a "Strategic Agility".
Managing Director

Stratagility Management Consultants

(Management Consulting industry)

March 2004 — Present (5 years 9 months)

Generating a strong and profitable foundation, Leading the business into new growth areas, building a quality clientelle, laying down an effective organizational framework, developing strong and trusted network of partners, refining the companies unique strategy framework and methodologies, developing the vison and thought leadership of the company, practicing Strategic Consulting assignments as an example for others as well as a way to keep up to date with market and customer needs.
Regional Director, Asia Pacific

Accellion

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 2000 — February 2004 (3 years 10 months)

Roles ranged from product management, business development through to sales and management. Directly responsible for successfully establishing a new line of business (Internet Backup Service). Mark was key to capturing and managing Accellion's biggest and most important customer (the worlds largest PC manufacturer). Mark managed the relationship and maximized the revenues until they became the biggest source of revenues.
Vice President, Product Management

SPH ASIAONE

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

December 1999 — May 2000 (6 months)

Led Revenue improvements of over 30% during term. Initiated and led formation of Joint venture with Quicken to create Asian Financial Portal
Director, Financial Services

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 1999 — December 1999 (6 months)

Revitalized critical customer account, peronal interventions directly led to renewed contract with Singapore’s largest Bank, the companies largest revenue source. Developed vison and framework for new unique positioning "Smarter eBusiness". leading to Goldman Sach's direct investment in the business.
Manager, Advanced Business Systems

ALLIANZ

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AZ; Financial Services industry)

1997 — July 1999 (2 years )

Managed & Led successful development & delivery of Allianz Australia's most important new business system for over a decade. Delivered on time, ready for launch of privatized market in Workers Compensation. At the time Allianz Australia's No.1 Strategic Priority, now earning revenues over 100M p.a.
Senior Knowledge Engineer & Consultant

Computer Sciences Corporation

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

1994 — 1997 (3 years )

Led CSC into many successful sales engagements & large successful project implementations, including COLOSSUS, the worlds most successful commercial Expert System.
IT Consultancy & Teaching (awarded DFE licence)

BTC

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

1991 — 1994 (3 years )

Introduced breakthrough Virtual Reality systems, developed IT Plan, Awarded DFE licence
Knowledge Engineer

WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WBC; Banking industry)

1987 — 1991 (4 years )

My first job after graduating. I developed a successful FOREIGN EXCHANGE charting system combining the pattern matching excellence of Neural Networks (to detect emerging FOREX data patterns) with the rule based decision making of Expert Systems (capturing expert opinions on what data patterns and various factors implied for probable chart movements), possibly the worlds first.

Mark Ranford’s Education

University Technology Sydney

MBA , Business & IT , 1997 — 1999
University of Essex

MSc , Knowledge Based Systems , June 1986 — June 1987
University of East London

BSc , Computing & Mathematics , September 1983 — June 1986

Graduated with First Class Honours

Additional Information

Mark Ranford’s Interests:

strategy, value creation, strategy management, strategic agility, balanced scorecard, values, entrepreneurship, social media, experiential learning, business simulation, evolutionary complex adaptive systems, emergence, change management, semantic web, open source, participatory culture, change management, communities of practice, knowledge management, enterprise 2.0, innovation & creativity, artificial intelligence, collective intelligence, networks, distributed organization, self organizing systems.