Tom Dibble

Tom Dibble has 25+ years of broad experience as a senior management consultant to higher education, government, and the for-profit sector, assisting clients with issues concerning strategic planning, organization design, performance measurement, process and operations analysis, benchmarking, procurement, management systems and procedures design, and management training. He has assisted organizations of all types and sizes in the development and execution of improvement strategies and programs, as well as operational audits of effectiveness and efficiency. Most recently within higher education, he has been involved in working with clients to design innovative approaches to restructuring student service and business office functions, in addition to providing process redesign analysis and training and the development of benchmarking methods for several clients.

Dr. Dibble began his career as a methods engineer with General Motors in Kansas City, Missouri, and later served as a cost analyst at Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He then joined Booz, Allen & Hamilton in Atlanta, Georgia, where he consulted with several large utilities, industrial products companies, and banks in operations improvement and management systems. His career as an educator includes faculty appointments as an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Business Administration at The University of Michigan, and as an Assistant Professor in the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. At Michigan and Vanderbilt he taught courses in Strategy, General Management, Operations Strategy, and Purchasing. Formerly he was a co-founder and partner of The Innovation Network, a general management consulting partnership focused exclusively on assisting public and private colleges and universities, multi-campus state systems, and consortia across the United States seeking to initiate and successfully manage large-scale institutional change and renewal.

Tom holds a B.S. (Industrial Engineering) from General Motors Institute, an M.B.A. in Accounting from Emory University, and the Ph.D. in Strategic Management from The University of Michigan.

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Posted on May 23, 2007