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Ken Craddock
Researcher, Writer and Consultant
Self employed

Current role and interest

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.

Distinguishing experiences that provided the foundation for my RO-related roles

In the early 1990s Craddock was assistant to W. Edwards Deming, the man who gave quality to the Japanese. He has consulted to 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 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 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.

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.

Major resources on this website

Contributions to the field of Requisite Organization

 Mentored a number of Masters and Doctoral students in their Requisite Organization-Related Theses and Dissertatons.

 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 Unpublished.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, posted on the GO Society website

 Craddock, Kenneth, 2007, “All The World of Movies Is Requisite,” 38 p. essay, posted on the GO Society website

 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.

 Produced 6 Editions of the Requisite Organization Annotated Bibliography - 6th Edition over 20 years.

 Wrote and published Secrets of a Competent President: Getting Things Done: JFK to Biden (1960-2025), 2024, Kindle Publishing

Contributions to the Global Organization Design Society

Served as:

  • The GO Society's Bibliographer,
  • The GO Society's Research Advisor
  • Member of the Editorial Board

Wrote a chapter for the GO Society's book Organization Design: Levels of Work Complexity and Human Capability in 2007. (as above)

Presented at several GO Society World Conferences (as above)

Degrees and 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

Contact Info

Major organizations and consulting firms that provide Requisite Organization-based services

A global association of academics, managers, and consultants that focuses on spreading RO implementation practices and encouraging their use
Dr. Gerry Kraines, the firms principal, combines Harry Levinson's leadership frameworks with Elliott Jaques's Requisite Organization. He worked closely with Jaques over many years, has trained more managers in these methods than anyone else in the field, and has developed a comprehensive RO-based software for client firms.
Ron Capelle is unique in his multiple professional certifications, his implementation of RO concepts through well designed organization development methods, and his research documenting the effectiveness of his firm's interventions
Former RO-experienced CEO, Ron Harding, provides coaching to CEOs of start-ups and small and medium-size companies that are exploring their own use of RO concepts.  His role is limited, temporary and coordinated with the RO-based consultant working with the organization
Founded by Gillian Stamp, one of Jaques's colleagues at Brunel, the firm modified Jaques;s work-levels, developed the Career Path Appreciation method, and has grown to several hundred certified assessors in aligned consulting firms world-wide recently expanding to include organization design
Requisite Organization International Institute distributes Elliott Jaques's books, papers, and videos and provides RO-based training to client organizations