by Ken Craddock Senior Fellow of the Global Organization Design Society, and the society's Bibliographer, Research Advisory and Member of the Editorial Board formerly Columbia University City College of New York
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Ken Craddock is a consultant specializing in requisite organization and in quality. He has integrated the operational concepts of Elliott Jaques and W. Edwards Deming both vertically and horizontally. He provides support to managers for organizational transformation to increase effectiveness and improve strategy. He has been a member of the faculty at Empire State (SUNY) and at City College (CUNY) where he has taught strategy, microeconomics, management of public organizations, and requisite management skills.
Craddock completed this on-line annotated research bibliography on Requisite Organization after his 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.
While at Columbia he initiated surveys which 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. He has been a guest lecturer at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business on quality, strategy, and requisite organization design.
In the early 1990s Craddock was assistant to W. Edwards Deming, the man who first taught quality to the Japanese. He has consulted to firms of varying sizes, including a Fortune 100 firm. He has also worked as an analyst and management planner, as a consultant for metropolitan government, and supervised development of a PC-based tracking system to monitor services provided to clients. He developed the first MBO business plans for 16 offices.
He also holds an M.P.A. degree in Management from the Kennedy School at Harvard. He has published 8 articles and papers and made numerous conference presentations.
Please contact/e-mail Ken Craddock at [email protected] with your comments, suggestions, corrections, new material or encouragement in his ongoing work
