Baan Appoints Three Regional Consulting Vice Presidents; Launches Global Centers of Expertise; Delivers on Key Milestones in New Global Consulting Initiative.MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif./EDE, The Netherlands--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Oct. 28, 1996--The Baan Company (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BAANF; Amsterdam Stock Exchange
The Amsterdam Stock Exchange is the former name for the stock exchange based in Amsterdam. : BAAN) announced today the appointment of regional Consulting Vice Presidents for the Americas, Asia Pacific, and Europe/Middle East/Africa (EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. ): John Cordio, Jimmy Cheah, and Stefan Kurbadt respectively. The company also launched three new Centers of Expertise (CoE), which bring together talent around the world to deliver knowledge transfer services, empowering customers to be self sufficient. These announcements fulfill two essential elements of Baan's new Global Consulting strategy, also announced today. With this new strategy, Baan is building the framework to insure rapid, cost effective BAAN IV An integrated family of client/server applications from Baan. It included manufacturing, distribution, finance, transportation, service, project and features enterprise modeling via its Orgware modules. Earlier versions of the software were named TRITON. implementations, and enable customers to achieve the highest degree of self reliance desirable. "John Cordio, Jimmy Cheah, and Stefan Kurbadt bring tremendous experience to their new positions, and will be instrumental in the success of these programs worldwide," said Christine Pittman, Vice President of Global Consulting at Baan. "Additionally, the new Centers of Expertise demonstrate Baan's focus on knowledge transfer, and puts our most talented experts at the disposal of customers and consulting partners to insure successful implementations and on-going success." 40 Years of Expertise The new global executive team reinforces Baan's commitment to consulting as a strategic business element, and will insure local accountability and success for the new consulting initiative. The combined experience of Cordio, Cheah, and Kurbadt brings Baan more than 40 years of experience in providing services and satisfaction to customers in the technology industry. John Cordio, Vice President Consulting, Americas - Cordio, 35, is a 13 year veteran of the consulting and manufacturing industry. Most recently, he was a partner at Ernst & Young. As a key member of the leadership team for the manufacturing consulting practice, his responsibilities included building the Baan global service line. Over the years, Cordio has led many enterprise-wide business process re-engineering See reengineering. (business) Business Process Re-engineering - (BPR) Any radical change in the way in which an organisation performs its business activities. BPR involves a fundamental re-think of the business processes followed by a redesign of business activities to and system integration projects for Fortune 1,000 companies. He holds a MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration and BBA BBA abbr. Bachelor of Business Administration , both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison “University of Wisconsin” redirects here. For other uses, see University of Wisconsin (disambiguation). A public, land-grant institution, UW-Madison offers a wide spectrum of liberal arts studies, professional programs, and student activities. . He is also a Certified Public Accountant Certified Public Accountant (CPA) An accountant who has met certain standards, including experience, age, and licensing, and passed exams in a particular state. , and a Certified Management Accountant  This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. , and is Certified in Production and Inventory Management by the America Production and Inventory Control Society. Jimmy Cheah, Vice President Consulting, Asia Pacific - Cheah, 36, brings more than 13 years of experience in the IT industry, including a decade of consulting-focused expertise while at Ernst & Young, and Coopers & Lybrand. Working with these leading consulting firms, Cheah managed more than 20 information technology (IT) projects around the ASEAN ASEAN: see Association of Southeast Asian Nations. ASEAN in full Association of Southeast Asian Nations International organization established by the governments of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand in region. His hands-on experience includes IS planning, software implementation, and project directing. In 1994, Cheah launched Baan Malaysia, serving as General Manager. By 1996 he was promoted to General Manager for the ASEAN region, where he was responsible for all sales, marketing, services, and field operations. Cheah holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales, also known as UNSW or colloquially as New South, is a university situated in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. , Australia. Stefan Kurbadt, Vice President Consulting, EMEA - Kurbadt, 38, is a 15-year veteran in delivering products and services to customers in the computer industry. He has been with Baan for more than three years, working as Baan's Germany Service Director prior to his new appointment. Kurbadt has extensive knowledge in this market, having worked as General Manager at CS Unternehmensgruppe consulting for nearly five years before joining Baan. Prior to that, he worked with the management trainee program at Siemens AG Siemens AG German electrical-equipment manufacturer. The first Siemens company, Siemens & Halske, was founded in Berlin in 1847 to build telegraph installations. . Global Centers of Expertise Strengthen Knowledge Transfer Offerings Baan is also announcing today three new Centers of Expertise (CoEs) which provide a global pool of technical, application, and business process specialists to assist customers, partners, and resellers worldwide. These centers are "virtual organizations," pooling the best application and technical talent across each geographic region. The three centers are based in the US (Americas), The Netherlands (EMEA) and India (Asia Pacific). The CoEs are central to Baan's unique knowledge-transfer offerings, which have the two-fold purpose of increasing the customers ability to control implementation and on-going system refinement by achieving self-reliance, and improving the success rate of consulting partners. "Giving customers increased power over implementation and continuous improvement is fundamental to empowering a company to quickly renew itself by taking advantage of new market opportunities," said Pittman. The CoEs are staffed by Baan professionals with extensive, specialized training in areas such as application functionality, information technology, Orgware, project management, and assisting in the establishment of customer competence centers. CoE experts advise, plan, and consult with customers and consulting partners before, during, and after implementation. Additionally, the CoEs provide two-way information exchange between Baan Development and field consulting organizations, consulting partners, and customers. About The Baan Company The Baan Company (NASDAQ:BAANF; Amsterdam Stock Exchange:BAAN) is a leading provider of enterprise-wide business software applications and consulting services. Companies in the hybrid manufacturing, automotive, electronics, industrial project, and process industries use its products to streamline processes across the enterprise, as well as external processes involving business partners. The company offers the BAAN family of integrated, open-systems based applications and tools developed for the client/server architecture. The foundation for the products is Orgware, a suite of implementation tools and methodologies which provide a framework for mapping the applications closely to an organizations processes and business model. The Baan Company, founded in 1978, has more than 2,000 employees, 1,700 customers, and 1,900 installations worldwide. Customers global industry leaders such as Asea Brown Boveri Group (ABB n. 1. Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, Noun 1. ABB - an urban hit squad and guerrilla group of the Communist Party in the Philippines; formed in the 1980s ), The Boeing Company, GEC GEC Gaseous Electronics Conference GEC Gigabit EtherChannel GEC Geriatric Education Center (US government; HRSA) GEC General Electric Co. GEC Google Earth Community (online community) Alsthom, NORTEL, and Philips. 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