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Vince Cavasin

Professional Background

Vince Cavasin is a Partner with Morningstar Consulting Group, as well as a co-founder of the firm. He is responsible for leading engagement teams consisting of both clients and consultants and for intellectual capital and relationship development for the firm.

Vince's management and consulting experience spans eight years. Prior to co-founding Morningstar, Vince was a manager with DiamondCluster International, a leading Digital Strategy management consulting firm, where he worked with a variety of Fortune 500 clients on eBusiness projects ranging from high-level concept creation to detailed product definition.

Before joining DiamondCluster, Vince was an Associate in A.T. Kearney's Strategic Information Technology Practice, where he worked in the Strategic Information Technology Practice.

Prior to working for A.T. Kearney, Vince worked as a strategic product planner at Hewlett Packard's high performance server division.

Vince believes that business is a fundamentally philosophic pursuit and an integrated component of his life's purpose; this is evident in the guidance he gives to clients regardless of the type of engagement. Whether he's developing an eBusiness case for an industrial equipment manufacturer, or counseling an executive on leadership, Vince focuses on how each project fits into overall corporate strategy-and, at a deeper level, into corporate and individual Purpose.

Vince has an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin with a focus on business ethics; he also holds a Business Ethics Certificate from Colorado State University and is certified by Philosophy in Business, Peter Koestenbaum's organization, as a practitioner of the Leadership Diamond®. He received his Bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and English from Eastern Michigan University.

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Strategy Development Experience

Vince’s experience centers on enabling strategic innovation by providing clients with the analytical tools and guidance necessary to discover and realize their goals. Vince works closely with teams of clients and consultants to facilitate the discovery, analysis and prioritization of strategic initiatives. The output of this work typically includes analytical models and frameworks, high-level marketing and implementation plans, and often full-blown business plans.

For the U.S. subsidiary of a major European automobile company, Vince led a team of clients and consultants from partner firms in the investment analysis of four separate eBusiness initiatives, as well as project scoping and planning efforts for two initiatives. Deliverables included high-level executive briefings as well as detailed business cases, financial models, and requirements documents. Two of the six initiatives are currently being pursued, with the rest slotted for consideration in the 2004 fiscal year.

For the U.S. subsidiary of a European automobile company, Vince was responsible for leading teams of clients through both an IT spending analysis and an eBusiness Initiative change analysis. The outputs of these projects form the basis for an ongoing eBusiness Change effort underway at the company.

For a software subsidiary of a Fortune 100 industrial products company, Vince conducted an analysis of the market opportunities and implementation challenges for an early-stage Internet-based product offering. This study precipitated the redirection of the product and redeployment of its functionality into other offerings, actions which enabled balancing of the subsidiary's budget.

For a Fortune 100 agricultural equipment manufacturer, Vince helped define the strategy for an Internet-based portal and metamarket targeting all players in the agribusiness community with relevant content and e-commerce functionality. His specific responsibilities included leading concept ideation, performing market and competitive analysis, projecting customer adoption rates, defining products and services to be included and acting as the primary author of the business plan.

For a venture capital investment fund, Vince worked with a small team to identify investment opportunities in the communications infrastructure value chain. Vince specifically investigated the costs, benefits, and market opportunities associated with various last mile broadband solutions. His deliverables included recommendations of the most promising technologies, market segments, and rollout strategies, and an analysis of the investment attractiveness of various start-up companies in the industry.

For the North American subsidiary of a major European auto manufacturer, Vince was brought in during the final week of an intensive eBusiness initiative assessment in order to assure quality and continuity in the final project deliverables.

For a Fortune 500 business data management provider, Vince helped define an internet-based e-commerce engine and was the primary author of the resulting concept deck/proposal. Vince was also instrumental in selling the initial engagement.

At the formation of Morningstar, Vince developed a Corporate Purposing framework intended to help companies align their Purpose, Vision, and Values with their product and service offerings. Morningstar's corporate philosophy is built upon this framework.

At HP, Vince worked closely with top divisional management to set strategic directions for HP's future high-end computing platforms based on trends in technological hardware advancements, future market requirements, future software requirements and predictions of competitive offerings. Vince’s work with HP in 1997 helped set the architectural direction of HP's forthcoming Intel Itanium-based Superdome server.

Operational and Implementation Experience

Vince’s industry experience programming, writing about, and marketing supercomputers combines with the startup work he did as a consultant to create a broad perspective on business operations.

For the agricultural equipment client previously mentioned, Vince played a key role in bringing the new site to market. Specific responsibilities included managing the multidisciplinary client team effort to define both the limited-scope demo site and the fully-functional production site; managing use case and business requirement generation and their subsequent translation into technical requirements; managing many aspects of the demo release including development of training materials and analysis of participant feedback; managing the team that analyzed the site's value proposition; and contributing significantly to product positioning and marketing strategy work.

At A.T. Kearney, while staffed with a $3 billion Unix workstation manufacturer, Vince helped manage the creation of a Microsoft Windows NT workstation business unit which represented a major strategic shift for the company. As a member of the program management team his responsibilities included the identification, prioritization and documentation of functional requirements for implementation of an enterprise business model which would automate the entire customer acquisition through delivery process; an analysis of Post Sales Support (PSS) processes and technology providers’ PSS implementation plans for alignment with client objectives.

At HP, Vince began his marketing career as a competitive and market analyst. During this time, he initiated several knowledge management projects, including the transformation of a paper-based marketing library into an electronically-based resource, which improved accessibility for the entire staff and reduced maintenance efforts by 70 percent.

Prior to his marketing career at HP, Vince managed a team responsible for producing educational materials for programmers of supercomputer applications.

Vince Cavasin

Professional Background

Strategy Development Experience

Operational and Implementation Experience

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