Joe Barkai
HOW SUCCESSFUL COMPANIES MANAGE INFORMATION FOR BETTER DECISION MAKING!
Joe Barkai is Practice Director at Manufacturing Insights, a business unit of IDC. His research and analysis concentrates on the type of investments that companies make that result in operational efficiencies and improved responsiveness to customer requirements. At the Resource Planning Summit, Barkai will cover the criticality, in these times, of companies excelling in their capacity to deploy and redeploy their human assets. He will also point out the necessity of effective decision making, and why decision making is so difficult. He will pepper his remarks with relevant stories from his consulting experience, and will conclude with a recent Resource Planning case study from Medtronic, Inc.
Joe Barkai is Practice Director for Manufacturing Insights' Product Life-Cycle Strategies research service. In this role he is responsible for research and analysis on the types of product investments that introduce operational efficiencies to the domain while improving the responsiveness to customer requirements. Mr. Barkai examines discrete manufacturing, with a focus on complex, mission-critical capital equipment to identify business imperatives, best practices and emerging technologies. Mr. Barkai's near term activities will include the creation of agile manufacturing and service organizations,and effective product lifecycle management. A senior executive with over 20 years industry experience in product management and business development, Mr. Barkai is a thought leader with strong focus on the business value of technology in manufacturing.
Prior to joining Manufacturing Insights, Mr. Barkai was the founder and principal at Diagnostic. Mr. Barkai is founder of the Transportation Industry Knowledge Management Consortium that has become the Service Technology Program Office of the Society of Automotive Engineers where he now serves in an advisory role. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, SAE, AFSM, and HDI. Mr. Barkai holds a technical degree from Hadassah College, Israel, and a B.A. in Fine Arts, with a minor in mathematics from Haifa University, Israel. In addition, he studied computer science at the State University of New York and attended the School of Executive Development at the University of Texas at Arlington.
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