John Weathington - Excellent Management Systems, Inc.

Compliance
"I want to thank you very much for your support in our GSA litigation effort. We appreciate your ability to quickly model the client’s landscape, and provide insightful data investigation, discovery, and statistical analysis. Because of your incredible turnaround we were able to build a solid, data-based defense very quickly." --Michael F. Mason, Partner, Hogan and Hartson
Leadership Development
"Just a quick note of appreciation for your contribution to the [Sr. Director's] executive coaching project. I find it fantastic how I can just throw you into almost anything and you use your knowledge of process and technical organizations to do the job well." --Jennifer Selby Long, Owner, Selby Group
Information
At Visa, Inc. John mobilized and managed the company's enterprise data strategy, consisting of 150 projects over 45 initiatives and 5 major tracks galvanizing the company's vision and mission in its use of data and information.
Strategy
"John has served the association diligently and with a high degree of professionalism and integrity. John has been a pleasure to work with on the board and in the Executive Committee. The more I’ve gotten to know John, the more I appreciate his skills. In addition to deep subject matter competence John is also a good communicator, collaborator and team player." --Brett LaDove, Past President, Institute of Management Consultants
Excellent Results
For over 20 years, John Weathington, President and CEO, has delivered excellent results to Fortune 500 companes including Visa, eBay, Hewlett-Packard, and Sun Microsystems.

Strategic Planning and Implementation

Get crystal clear on your mission, values, and philosophy. Understand your driving force, and the key capabilities needed for your future organization
Bring your strategy to life with clear priorites and robust long-range planning covering risk, governance, and stakeholder consensus.
Understand how your culture helps or hurts your strategy with a cultural assessment and tactical action plan to leverage diversity.

Innovation and Product Development

Achieve strategic goals and bring new products tand services to life with high quality, cross-functional consensus, and customer-facing alignment.
Build a competitive edge by innovating with data and information products.

Program and Project Management

Address changing requirements and foster stakeholder buy-in with agile methods from Scrum to Extreme Programming.
Build or improve high-quality products, services, and processes with quality management methods from Six Sigma to Lean.

Process Improvement

Bring critical processes to the highest quality with Six Sigma and other quailty management methods.
Fortify high-risk processes with contingent processes and triggers.
Reverse-engineer and document current processes to understand the real process being executed.

Information Exploitation

Create an enterprise data strategy to maximize the potential of the organization's data.
Mine, leverage, and exploit internal information with advanced analysis and discovery.
Integrate internal data with third-party data for synergistic information solutions.
Bridge communications between strategic business units and information technology teams to deploy powerful information systems.

Compliance Systems Development

Fortify your comliance program with direction, policies, processes, and proper organiztion and storage of evidence.
Build government business with confidence by ensuring effective contract (e.g. General Services Administration ) compliance.
Ensure financial controls (e.g. Sarbanes-Oxley) are effective by building an audit and self-assessment program.
Align governance, risk, and compliance into a holistic system that protects the interests of all stakeholders, and insulates your organization against the effects of the unknown.

Strategic Planning and Implementation

Innovation and Product Development

Program and Project Management

Process Improvement

Information Exploitation

Compliance Systems Development

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