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Decision Management Solutions is Proud to Welcome Gagan Saxena as Vice-President of Consulting Services

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Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) July 25, 2012

Decision Management Solutions, the leading professional services firm specializing in decision management, today announced that Gagan Saxena has joined as Vice President of Consulting Services and Principal Consultant. Gagan specializes in technology driven business transformation and brings more than 20 years of experience to his new role. He has assisted organizations with Business Design, Market Analysis, Business Process Reengineering, Organization Change Management, Technology & Information Strategy, Contract Management, Enterprise Architecture and Program Management.

We look forward to Gagans leadership in meeting the growing demand for our Decision Management consulting services, said James Taylor, CEO. An increasing number of businesses are being forced to be more agile, adaptive and analytical due to the new empowered social customer, the opportunity created by Big Data and by lowered barriers to entry for powerful decision-making technology. Our Decision Management framework allows enterprises to approach these challenges in a coherent fashion.

In his most recent role as the Chief Information Officer at Apple Vacations, Gagan initiated a new consumer sales organization based on Decision Management technologies. An intelligent core delivers real time personalization of the consumer experience based on a comprehensive set of business rules driving product and pricing presentation. A wide variety of travel product supplier systems have been integrated to provide the most relevant offers for consumers. Automated decisioning uses data from web analytics, social media and competitive monitoring bureaus. Most importantly a new organization structure, processes, skill-sets and performance metrics have been designed to support the advanced technology stack.

Decision Management is poised for rapid growth as a natural link between business strategy and business operations. This is a powerful new way to consider business design that aligns business processes, enterprise data and numerous technologies in the most business-friendly fashion. I am excited to join James Taylor and team as we build out our consulting capabilities in this field, said Gagan Saxena.

Gagan is experienced in business technology management in healthcare, financial services, telecommunications and services industries. He has managed several rollouts of SAP ERP systems to locations across the US as well as numerous e-commerce and web implementations. Gagan also created and led an Enterprise Architecture group for business technology alignment and to explore innovations in business and in technology.

An active Tweeter himself, Gagan assists with social business strategy and champions enterprise 2.0 collaboration constructs. Related areas of interest include big data, cloud solutions, mobile strategy, digital marketing and integrated customer experience. Gagan is member of various communities like Social Business Pioneers, The Connected Company, Business Model Generation and NextWork from Wired Magazine among others.

Gagan has spoken at various events including IBMs IMPACT, SAPs Blueprint to a Billion, Cloud Security Alliance, Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), CIO Executive Summit, Hospitality Technology Expo (HITEC), CIO Forum & Executive IT Summit. He also lectures at a number of graduate and post graduate classes. Gagan blogs at StructuredThoughts.com

For more information on Decision Management Solutions please contact info(at)decisionmanagementsolutions(dot)com

About Decision Management Solutions

Decision Management Solutions is the leading professional services firm specializing in Decision Management, a proven approach for rapid and cost effective deployment of predictive analytics and business rules technology in operations. http://www.decisionmanagementsolutions.com







DRS and Associates proud to announce Five Top Clients’ Building-Product Brands Win Prestigious GREEN GOOD DESIGN Award 2012: Museum of Architecture and Design

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Sherman Oaks, CA (PRWEB) June 25, 2012

The Chicago Athenaeums Museum of Architecture and Design today announced the winners of their 2011-2012 GREEN GOOD Design Award, which recognizes the worlds leading sustainable design in products, technology and research. DRS and Associates is proud to be the agency of record for five winners: Caroma, Creative Systems Lighting (CSL), LAUFEN, Watermark Designs and Zephyr, and we are sending out this joint release on their behalf.

Presented by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, the GREEN GOOD DESIGN Awards are an extension of the GOOD DESIGN Awards. GOOD DESIGN is the worlds oldest and most coveted international design award, bestowed only to the most important and influential industrial and graphic designers. Current and previous winners of GREEN GOOD DESIGN are world-class brands such as BMW, Electrolux, Bosch, Hansgrohe, Herman Miller, Cuisinart and Mercedes Benz. To stand with such recognizable brands is an honor that these manufacturers do not take for granted. “Having multiple clients once again be recipients of a world recognized award such as the Green GOOD DESIGN is quite an honor for my DRS team and me. It reinforces that our clients innovations tied together with our strategic brand building efforts are yielding wonderful returns,” stated David Schlocker, president of DRS and Associates. Each of these five brands stands on their own merits for their contribution to green design and we encourage you to take a look at them individually and as a whole.

Here are the winning brands and their respective products:

Caroma