Nick Fryars

Current

• Owner at Zebra Management Consulting

Past

• Managing Consultant at PA Consulting Group
• Field Manager at Data View Nederland BV
• Development Engineer at Philips

• Development Engineer at Reuters
• Programmer at Logica Ltd.

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Education

• Universiteit Twente
• TSM
• University of London

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Industry

Management Consulting

Websites

• Zebra Management Consulting

Nick Fryars’s Summary

Highly experienced strategy and organizational consultant. Has led international teams on many strategy and performance improvement projects in major multinationals.

Much of my work is done with global virtual teams using web conferencing and visualisation tools.

Researched factors contributing to success or failure of new strategic initiatives.

Teaches courses in hypothesis-driven problem solving, strategy development and action-oriented communication on complex subjects.

Nick Fryars’s Specialties:

Strategy, technology strategy, shared services, business process management, implementation project management, hypothesis-driven problem solving, pyramid principle stakeholder management, business modelling, mind mapping. See www.zebramc.com for details.

Nick is also a certified trainer in the use of MindJet MindManager, and uses this state-of-the-art tool in leading and moderating group sessions.

Nick Fryars’s Experience

• Owner

  Zebra Management Consulting

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

  December 2002 — Present (6 years 8 months)

  For overview of services provided and cases, please see my website at www.zebramc.com.

• Managing Consultant

  PA Consulting Group

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  1989 — 2002 (13 years)

  Worked primarily in PA's Strategy & Marketing Practice, with spells in Manufacturing, Computers & Telecommunications and Benelux (regional) practices. Conducted projects in multiple European countries and the United States. For overview of cases during this period, please see my website at www.zebramc.com.

• Field Manager

  Data View Nederland BV

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1982 — 1989 (7 years)

  1982-3 developer and project leader, largely working on communications networks. 1984-5: set up a software engineering consultancy within this firm; developed and ran software engineering courses for a major multinational in electronics. 1986-9 member of the Management Team responsible for 30-40 developers, project leaders and consultants. Work included projects in Denmark and Norway.

• Development Engineer

  Philips

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

  December 1979 — February 1982 (2 years 3 months)

  Developed operating systems for fault-tolerant telecommunications networks. Worked on extensions to the CCITT CHILL language for programming in distributed computer environments.

• Development Engineer

  Reuters

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Online Media industry)

  January 1978 — November 1979 (1 year 11 months)

  Developed the first scale-up of the Reuter Monitor network infrastructure.

• Programmer

  Logica Ltd.

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 1975 — December 1977 (2 years 4 months)

  Worked in banking, nuclear research and the computer services sector, including a 6-month project in Italy.

Nick Fryars’s Education

• Universiteit Twente

  MBA , Business Administration , 1988 — 1990

• TSM

  1988 — 1990

• University of London

  B.Sc. , Computer Science & Mathematics , 1971 — 1975

Additional Information

Nick Fryars’s Websites:

• Zebra Management Consulting

Nick Fryars’s Interests:

Research interest: effectiveness in strategy implementation.

Nick Fryars’s Honors:

Led the team which received the top award in the Road Pricing competition held in 2002 by the Dutch Ministry of Transport.

Nick Fryars’s Contact Settings

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