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"Free, Perfect and Now"
Tues., March 28, 8:30 to 9:30
Robert Rodin, Chief Executive Officer
and President, Marshall Industries
 As
the CEO and President of Marshall Industries, a 1.7 Billion
Dollar Industrial Electronic Distributor with 38 locations
in North America and joint ventures in 36 countries, Rob Rodin
is the champion of one of the most remarkable corporate change
efforts in business today. Rob will share the inside story
of this change effort which created disbelief and outrage
in the industry media when it was first announced.
Rob's book "FREE
PERFECT and NOW:  Connecting
to the Three Insatiable Demands",
(Simon & Schuster 1999), chronicled
the radical transformation of Marshall Industries from
a traditional distribution company to being recognized as
the number one Business to Business website in the world (as
recognized by Advertising Age Magazine and Business 2.0.)
Information Magazine highlights Marshall Industries as the
number one company in the world in the use of technology.
CIO Magazine recognizes Rob and Marshall Industries as one
of the 100 leaders for the next millenium.
Marshall Industries' transformation is now a Harvard Case
Study, a USC Case Study and discussed in "The New Economics"
by W. Edwards Deming", "The Trust Factor" by
John O. Whitney, "Management" by Richard L. Daft,
"Customer Intimacy" by Fred Wiersema, "Killer
App" by Larry Downes, Chunka Mui, Nicholas Negroponte,
"Opening Digital Markets" by Walid Mougayar, and
"The Clickable Corporation" by Jonathan Rosenoer,
Douglas Armstron, J. Russell Gates.
Rob also serves as a Director of SEI (a $700 Million European
Distributor), a member of the Advisory Board of Distribution
Management at USC, a Director of CommerceNet, a Director of
RosettaNet, President of the National Electronic Distribution
Association Education Foundation, and Trustee of the W. Edwards
Deming Foundation. |
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