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Larry Downes
is a consultant, educator and speaker on developing business strategies
in an age of constant change caused by information technology. He
works with Fortune 500 businesses in a variety of industries, and
serves on the advisory boards of several startups. He has held faculty
appointments at both The University of Chicago Graduate School of
Business and Northwestern University School of Law, where he taught
courses on corporate strategy and technology law.
His new book,
"The Strategy Machine: Building Your Business One Idea at a
Time" (HarperBusiness 2002) teaches executives how to design
and execute winning business strategies that can withstand turbulent
market conditions and exploit the coming wave of technology disruptions.
Downes is co-author
of the Business Week and New York Times business bestseller, "Unleashing
the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance" (Harvard
Business School Press, 1998), which has sold nearly 200,000 copies
in a dozen languages. The book describes how executives can harness
the power of information technology and provides twelve design principles
for developing "killer apps."
His clients
include leaders in the travel, financial services, chemicals, publishing
and telecommunications industries. During 2000, he was Chief Strategy
Officer for Spyonit, a mobile Internet software company, and was
strategist-in-residence for Atlanta-based incubator eHatchery.
His previous
work includes large-scale systems integration and development, technology
research and strategy, and corporate law for Silicon Valley companies.
Mr. Downes was Founding Director of Accenture's Center for Strategic
Technology Research and a Principal in the Silicon Valley office
of McKinsey & Co. From 1997-2000, he was a Fellow with Diamond
Technology Partners.
Mr. Downes holds
a B.A. from Northwestern University, and received his J.D. Magna
Cum Laude from the University of Chicago, where he was a John M.
Olin Fellow in Law & Economics and a member of the Law Review.
From 1993-1994, he served as law clerk to the Honorable Richard
A. Posner, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh
Circuit. He is a founding fellow of the Cyberspace Law Institute
and a member of the State Bar of California.
He has written
for a variety of publications, including Optimize, The Industry
Standard, The American Banker, CIO, The American Scholar, Strategy
& Leadership, Business 2.0, Wired, Context, USA Today and the
Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. From 1999-2001, he wrote
the popular "E-Business Strategies" column for The Industry
Standard, and produced the magazine's annual Net Returns conference
in Aspen, CO.
Mr. Downes makes
his home in Berkeley, California. He can be reached at larry@larrydownes.com.
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