GO Academic Honour Roll: Kenneth Craddock

Kenneth Craddock
530 East 84th Street - 1F
United States of America

Contact Information:
Telephone:     (212) 628-2986

Recognition for significant work supporting the dissemination, teaching, & research on Elliott Jaques' concepts


M.A. in Business History at Columbia University. His thesis was Requisite Leadership: A Model of Organization Effectiveness, which described the development of this theory.

Produced six editions of, Requisite Organization Annotated Bibliography on Elliott Jaques, Wilfred Brown, and Requisite Leadership (covering 1942 to 2009).  His first edition played an instrumental, indispensable role in convincing requisite practitioners around the world that there was a substantial management literature and sound research underlying their work. This insight and confidence directly led to the foundation of the Global Organization Design Society.

Taught courses in the business school at Columbia University and City College of New York based on requisite organization theory
Provided coaching to doctoral students working on requisite theory related dissertations around the world.

Wrote papers linking the world of Edward Deming and Elliott Jaques for presentation at Quality conferences including  "Elements of Intersection between Quality Management and Requisite Organization".

Wrote "All the World of Shakespeare is Requisite"  Working paper for the GO Society

Wrote "All the World of Movies is Requisite"   Working paper for the GO Society
 

Contributions to the Global Organization Design Society:

Ten? years of volunteer work being the GO Society's bibliographer publishing six editions of the bibliography on the GO web site.

Wrote article for the book, Organization Design, Levels of work complexity and levels of human capability

Attended and presented at the GO Society's world conferences in 2005 and 2007
Wrote with Herb Koplowitz the Frequently Asked Questions article - one of the most frequently downloaded articles on the site.

Wrote a history of requisite organization in the United States.

Supported senior requisite practitioners with research to support their practices.

Serves on the GO Society Editorial Board

Writes a regular monthly blog on the web site.


Recognition by the Global Organization Design Society:

Senior Fellow of the Society

Named by GO Board to the GO Society Academic Honour Role.

 Awarded the GO Society's LIfetime Achievement Award


Biography:

Ken Craddock is a consultant specializing in requisite organization and in quality. He has developed insightful recommendations integrating the operational concepts of Elliott Jaques and W. Edwards Deming. He provides support to managers for organizational transformation to increase effectiveness and improve strategy.

In the early 1990s, Craddock was assistant to W. Edwards Deming, the man who gave quality to the Japanese. He has consulted with firms of varying sizes, including a Fortune 100 firm, where he trained mid-level managers on creative thinking in week-long sessions.

He has also worked as an analyst and management planner, as a consultant for metropolitan government, and supervised the development of a PC-based tracking system to monitor services provided to clients. As a management planning analyst, he developed the first MBO business plans for 16 offices, with 2300 staff and $146 million budget.

While at Columbia he initiated surveys that led to the first revision of the business school curriculum in 30 years, made proposals to improve morale, wrote cases, and helped develop new courses.

Ken has been a guest lecturer at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business on quality, strategy, and requisite organization design. He has published 8 articles and papers and has made several conference presentations.

Academic Degrees and Professional Certifications:

M.A. - Business History (Thesis: Requisite Leadership: A Neglected Model of Organization Effectiveness) - Columbia University, New York City, United States

M.P.A. - Management - Kennedy School at Harvard University, Massachusetts, United States
 

GO Society Roles/Positions:

GO Editorial Board (2005-Present)

International Advisor - United States (2005-present)


Articles:

Craddock, Kenneth, 1997, “Role of a Manager of People by W. Edwards Deming. Translated into Spanish and published online by Arturo Inda Cunningham of Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico, “El Mapa” (2002), 36 p., ElMapaVersionEjectiva-17Atributos.pdf.  Also translated into Spanish, amplified and published online by Rogelio Carrillo Penso of Caracas, “Los 17 Atributos del Gerente de la Gente” (2000), 13 p., 17AtributosGerenGente(1).pdf.  Misc.

Craddock, Kenneth, 2001, “A Note on Art Kleiner’s article in Strategy + Business: ‘Elliott Jaques Levels With You’,” (q.v. The Creative Mind Column, Booz-Allen Hamilton, New York, NY, January, 1st Quarter, 22(1):106-115).  530 East 84th Street, 1F, New York, NY 10028. Unpublished.  Factual corrections and clarification comments.  Slightly revised 2004.  Available from author.  (Kleiner-S+B-1Q2001.doc)  D.

Craddock, Kenneth, 2001, “FIRMness: Organization Design for Speed and Power.”  Book-length manuscript describing requisite organization.  Unpublished.  ~

Craddock, Kenneth, 2002, “Strategy - By What Method?  How Deming and Jaques Can Be Used to Implement Strategy (reply to Michael Porter),” Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Research Seminar, W. Edwards Deming Institute, New York, NY, February 19-20, 2002.  Conference held at Fordham University.  Dr. Joyce N. Orsini, chair. Paper published in the Proceedings.  Reviewed.  See Lieberman and Dhawan 2005 for refutation of Porter.  See also hoshin kanri.  Strategy-Method.doc  Rp.

Craddock, Kenneth C., 2002, Requisite Leadership: A Model of Organization Effectiveness, M.A., thesis in Business History, Columbia University, May, New York, NY.

Craddock, Kenneth, 2002, Requisite Organization: Supporting Research.  Published by Core International, Toronto, ON, Canada, 14 p.  Revised September 2003.  Ru.

Craddock, Kenneth, 2002-9, Requisite Organization Annotated Bibliography on Elliott Jaques, Wilfred Brown, and Requisite Leadership (covering 1942 to 2009), Columbia University, New York, NY, 4th edn., online at GlobalRO.org   First edition published on the internet, January 2002 (194 pages).  Second edition published, October 2002 (316 pages).  Third edition, May 2004 (524 pages; 1142 downloads).  Fourth edition, March 2007 (1008 pages; downloaded 2,422 times in first 18 months).  Fifth edition: August 2009 (1350 pages).  Brought down to today.  Posted online at:  canadiancentre.com  and GlobalRO.org   Ru.

Craddock, Kenneth, 2004, “A Manager’s Introduction to Requisite Organization.” (April. 13 pages.)  RO-Intro-4-Managers.doc  Ru.

Craddock, Kenneth, 2004, “The Managerial System of Elliott Jaques – Key to Implementing Quality,” Presentation, Deming Scholars MBA Program, Fordham School of Business, NY, NY (Feb. 2004). (April.  32 p.)  RO-Key-to-Quality-2004_Fordham.doc  Ru.
Craddock, Kenneth, 2004, “Requisite Engineering: some links between Jaques’ organization theory and engineering, technology, and project management.” (Unpublished.  Aug.  11 p.)  Engrg-Tech-Jaques-2004.doc  Ru.

Craddock, Kenneth, 2005, “How Did Jack Welch Do It?” (5 pages.)  RO-GE-Jack+Mahler+Brown.doc   Ru.

Craddock, Kenneth, and Herb Koplowitz, 2005, “Frequently Asked Questions,” posted online at GlobalRO.org, Toronto, ON, CA, Cinco de Mayo, 20 pages.

Craddock, Kenneth, 2007, “Teoría de la Organización Natural en el Mundo - Requisite Organization Theory across the World,” for presentation at Buenos Aires conference at ITBA in April (which did not happen but it became part of Harold Solaas’s presentation to conference), an unpublished essay, 9 p.

Craddock, Kenneth, 2007, “All The World of Shakespeare Is Requisite,” 36 p. essay, unpublished.

Craddock, Kenneth, 2007, “All The World of Movies Is Requisite,” 38 p. essay, unpublished.

Craddock, Kenneth, 2007, “Requisite Organization: Theory and Validation,” chapter in Organization Design, Levels of Work and Human Capability, Global Organization Design Society, Toronto, ON, CA, p. 429-440.

Craddock, Kenneth, 2010, e., Entrepreneurship and Requisite Growth.  Paper in progress.
 

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Panel: Capturing the Synergies of RO with Quality/Six Sigma
Date: 2007
Duration: 15:18
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Major organizations and consulting firms that provide Requisite Organization-based services

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