Sashihara, Steve (Princeton Consultants, Inc.)
Steve Sashihara
CEO of Princeton Consultants, Inc
Two Research Way
Princeton, NJ 08540 USA
Phone: (609) 987-8787
Fax: (609) 987-0033
Email: ssashihara@princeton.com
Website: www.princeton.com
Topics:
5 Steps to a Successful Optimization Project
Optimization is a 'breakaway' strategic capability that demands both technical excellence and business intelligence. To achieve success that can be measured from the boardroom to the operation's floor and to avoid pitfalls that plague many projects' optimization must be designed and implemented by the right team with the right vision and capabilities. Author Steve Sashihara will discuss best practices from opportunity identification through implementation and scale-up, using real-life examples at companies such as Intel, McDonald's and UPS, which have used optimization to drive up value, re-allocate resources, streamline processes and optimize their assets. The discussion is based on Steve's new book, The Optimization Edge , (McGraw-Hill, 2011) the first step-by-step guide to optimization for the business executive. (Elementary)
Background:
- AB Philosophy Princeton University
Steve Sashihara is the CEO of Princeton Consultants, Inc. (www.princeton.com), which he founded in 1981 and which specializes in a unique blend of information technology and management consulting. While many firms today provide both services, they invariably do so with separate staffs: typically, "computer scientists" for IT and M.B.A.s for management consulting. Princeton Consultants blends the two together, and the same staff members are responsible for both software design and process design, which the firm believes are inextricably mixed. Over one third of the firm's professionals staff hold Ph.D.s.
The firm's specialty is "optimization": the application of mathematical programming to business problems, where the software gives concrete recommendations. Steve is an active member of the academic society INFORMS (www.informs.org) and the INFORMS Roundtable, which includes the leading businesses in operations research.
Since 2009, Steve has served as cochairman of the Association of Management Consulting Firms (www.AMCF.org), the association's highest elected office. As an active leader in the AMCF, Steve has spoken at and moderated dozens of events with top leaders of other consulting firms.
Steve is a 1980 graduate of Princeton University, where he received an A.B. in philosophy. His undergraduate thesis was titled "The Legal Protection of Computer Software Property" and was an early study in intellectual-property aspects of software algorithms. While at Princeton, Steve worked at Princeton's Computer Center "Clinic," a software help desk for professors and scholars to help them harness the university's large mainframe computers for their research.
In 2011 Steve was appointed to Princeton University's Advisory Council for the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering.
Steve and his family reside in New Hope, Pennsylvania.