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Bay Jordan
Biography
Bay Jordan qualified as a chartered accountant in what was then Rhodesia and subsequently again in South Africa. After eight years in public practice and several years as Internal Auditor for IBM, he moved into financial management and consultancy and has worked in blue chip organisations in South Africa, North America and the UK.
The drive throughout his career has been the ideal of properly designed systems with integrated controls and sound business intelligence. He argues that this would both save a great deal of the time and effort spent auditing them and provide meaningful management information. This enables proactive decision making and ensures better long-term business results.
For this reason, Bay claims he was a business process re-engineer before the phrase was even coined.
Despite some major success, Bay felt frustrated by the almost exclusive focus on financial data. He is adamant that you need to also track key non-financial data for meaningful business intelligence. This has, however, only become feasible relatively recently, and he concedes that he may have been a little ahead of his time. But he was also bothered by being involved in implementing new systems where users were only trained a few days before the system went live.
Things reached a new level a few years ago. He realised that successful change depends on people. Yet most organisations justify change initiatives by reducing headcount. Thus they are effectively alienating their people, and so undermining their own prospects of success.
This realisation led Bay to write Lean Organisations Need FAT People, and set him on the path to becoming “The People Accountant” – someone who helps organisations to value their employees and embed employee engagement into their DNA.
When he is not writing books (his second, A Feeling of Worth, was published in 2009) and papers to promote his vision, Bay relaxes by reading and by watching movies or sport. He is married with two adult children.
Tel: 020 7099 2621
Email: info@tcii.co.uk
A/V requirements: Laptop with speakers, digital projector and screen; 2 flipcharts and marking pens.
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- HR
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