Being a Change Agent and driver of Innovation during three fascinating decades gave me ample opportunity (and need!) to deliver interesting results.
I share this page because as you read it you may find unexpected areas where you can partner with me to solve interesting challenges in your organization.
Solving Information Overload
- Was probably the first person worldwide to identify and address the Information Overload problem at a corporate level.
- Developed many organizational solutions to reduce email overload, which have been deployed with good results across Intel and in a number of other major companies.
- Founded (and serving as president of) the Information Overload Research Group, an international Industry/Academia non-profit group working on Information Overload solution R&D.
- Advised numerous large and small companies worldwide on how to solve IO.
- Led pilot evaluations in Intel of “No Email Friday” and “Quiet Time”.
- Developed the “Email Effectiveness Coach”, a real time software tool that helps users achieve productive mailing behavior; and the “Email Wizard”, a web-based best practices training application. Both were put to good use in Intel and in other companies.
- Published a seminal paper on the impact of Information Overload.
- Consulted to multiple companies about solving their IO problems.
Technical Leadership Development
- Drove creation of the “IT Technology Community” serving some 3000 IT engineers across Intel.
- Developed and co-chaired Intel’s first global professional IT conference.
- Lectured on “Technical Leadership career path” to internal audiences and employee development workshops in a number of companies in Israel and worldwide.
- Co-developed and coached a week-long “Leading through Technology” workshop for IT engineers.
- Initiated and mentored the Learning Center of the Intel Jerusalem campus.
- Advised Intel groups in Israel and worldwide on the design of programs for career development and mentoring for Individual Contributors.
- Created and managed the Engineering Training function in Intel’s Jerusalem plant.
- Coached and mentored numerous individual engineers seeking career advice.
Teaching and Lecturing
- Developed and delivered hundreds of lectures on diverse subjects to audiences of managers, engineers, educators, students and the community at large.
- Taught “New Employee Orientation” at Intel University on a regular basis for over 20 years, to continued acclaim.
- Taught a lecture series for HR managers at a Haifa University MBA course.
- Developed and delivered a “Global Skills” lecture to workshops on global culture.
- Serving as a student project advisor in the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Jaffa.
- Lecturer at the “CS, Academia and Industry” high school student program at the Weizmann institute of Science.
- Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Global Innovation Program.
Mobility and Work/Life Balance
- Initiated, developed and drove adoption of the Telecommuting program that is now an integral part of HR practices across Intel Corporation.
- Played a key role in the transformation of Intel from a Desktop-tethered workplace to a fully mobile Notebook-based environment.
- Advised a number of companies in Israel, as well as the Israel Civil Service commission, on Telecommuting implementation.
- Served on the “Distance Working” committee of the Israel telecommunications ministry.
- Advised Intel product groups on future trends and opportunities in Mobility space.
- Lectured widely on “Work Anywhere” in various external forums and conferences.
High-tech Startup incubation
- Served as Intel sponsor of the HiTec business incubator in Jerusalem.
- Evaluated startups for Intel’s Business Development (VC) arm.
- Advised over 20 startups from Israel, Europe and America about their product design and business strategy.
- Mentored five startup companies over longer periods of time.
- Served as a member of the Customer Advisory Council of Microsoft’s Innovation Greenhouse.
- Serving as a mentor and judge at the MassChallenge Israel accelerator since 2017.
Internet and Web 2.0 adoption
- Defined Intel’s Internet policy, including the HR/Legal aspects of balanced personal use, thereby accelerating the company’s adoption and harnessing of the Web’s potential.
- Facilitated a successful process in a client company’s management aimed to make the transition to “Company 2.0”.
- Drove Internet assimilation into Intel’s Israel site, including the development of the site’s Intranet presence and user training development and deployment.
- Increased Internet literacy and employee trust by driving a program of Personal Web page creation, including development of page creation tools and diverse marketing actions.
- Served on Intel Corporation’s global Intranet advisory board.
- Published extensively on the external Intel IT blog.
- Taught a variety of Internet and Social Media literacy classes at Intel and outside.
Effective Virtual (Distributed) Team collaboration
- Founded and led Intel’s Virtual Collaboration Research Team, a group of visionaries that identified new collaboration paradigms, defined best practices for effective meetings, and prototyped and patented innovative products for enhancing trust in global teams.
- Created with the VCRT a web-based training program for Effective Virtual Team meetings, and deployed it across the corporation.
- Advised a number of large corporations about Collaboration technology.
- Defined a set of best practices and policies for optimal adoption of Instant Messaging in an enterprise, then developed and deployed the required behavior training program.
- Ran pilot evaluations of a variety of innovative collaboration tools.
Education and Community Relations
- Initiated and built Intel’s Academic and Research relations program in Israel, including systems for academic research grants, student scholarships, and extended education for Intel employees.
- Led a program for training Intel engineers to become volunteer assistant high school teachers.
- Helped Intel community relations in the design of visitor centers, visitor presentations, events and exhibits, and created the “Century of Computing” exhibit displayed by Intel worldwide.
- Led the creation of a computer lab at the Hebrew University’s Belmonte center for high school students.
- Served as curator and scientific advisor in three youth oriented science museum exhibitions.
- Defined and launched a program for drug abuse education in the schools, in cooperation with the relevant government agencies.
- Advised colleges, schools and science museums on a variety of education subjects.
- Represented Intel in the advisory committee of the High Technology college in Nazareth.
- Led Intel’s involvement in the Junior Achievement program, and taught in it personally.
- Served for two years as managing editor of Coller Venture Review, the journal of the Coller Institute off Venture at Tel Aviv University.
Knowledge Management
- Initiated and realized ITshareNet, a joint effort of eight companies and universities that allowed IT practitioners to upload and share complete solutions and research results.
- Participated in the “Millennium Project”, a collaboration between Intel and other large corporations to explore and cooperate on developing knowledge management strategies.
- Advised Intel Israel centers on the preservation of knowledge in the face of employee reassignment.
- Coached workgroups for “The learning organization” in Intel’s Jerusalem manufacturing plant.
- Developed and applied a formal “Knowledge Packet” methodology for sharing internal knowledge among companies.
- Member, Israel KM Managers’ Forum.
Innovative Training methods
- Created and managed the Intel Israel site IT training function, serving over 5000 users.
- Invented the “Email Effectiveness Coach”, a Just-in-Time training tool integrated with the email client that helps users improve mailing behavior. Used at Intel and by other companies.
- Developed the “Email Wizard”, a lightweight web-based best practices training application. Used at Intel and by other companies.
- Co-developed “WizGen”, an application generator that permits rapid creation of Web based training wizard tools. This has been used at Intel and commercialized externally.
- Developed a rapid flash-based training concept applied at Intel and elsewhere.
- Developed a Personal Coaching paradigm enabling relatively unskilled personnel to deliver effective one on one IT Productivity training.
Alternative Office paradigms
- Led the Intel Israel site “Office 2000+” team that examined new workplace paradigms.
- Led definition and implementation of a meeting center and nomad worker hub in the Tel Aviv area.
- Defined and implemented a “Virtual Office” solution for location-agnostic mobile employees.
- Initiated and implemented development of a “Unified Inbox” solution for email-integrated faxing, in support of mobile workers.
- Advised Intel groups worldwide on alternative office options and lessons.
Total Quality Management
- Started up and managed the Intel Jerusalem plant’s Q&R department, which was Intel’s first in-plant QA setup and a model for future plants.
- Introduced the Deming methodology, Baldrige prize requirements and ISO 9000 to Intel’s Israel site, and coached employee groups in Total Quality Management.
- Developed and deployed a comprehensive Statistical Process Control implementation in a VLSI manufacturing plant.
- Invented and deployed a Self-Audit system that was then copied across Intel corporation.
- Implemented and facilitated the 7-step problem solving methodology across Intel’s Jerusalem plant.
- Coached Quality improvement teams (“Quality Circles”) of manufacturing employees.
Forensic Science
- Served as lab officer and expert witness on tool marks & materials crime scene evidence.
- Developed new technologies and methods for the application of Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Microanalysis to criminal evidence.
- Brought up and managed a Scanning Electron Microscopy laboratory.
- Developed and delivered a training program for Crime Scene Technicians nationwide.
Well – see anything of relevance to you? If you do, let’s talk and discuss it!
