About Larry Hawes

Larry Hawes

Larry Hawes is a nationally recognized consultant, researcher, author, and educator on the strategic use of collaboration and knowledge management technologies to drive high-value business transformation. He is also an experienced organization, program, and project manager. Larry has an uncommon ability to holistically analyze business issues, explain them and potential courses of action in clear language, and work with others to implement viable solutions.

As a consultant, Larry helps his clients understand, implement, and use people-centric technologies to improve business results on personal, departmental, and enterprise levels.  He lives and breathes people, process, and technology — in that order.  Larry has deep experience in the following areas:

Business Functions: Organizational Management; Human Capital Management; Strategic Research, Analysis, and Planning, Operations Analysis and Design; Information Technology

Technology Domains: Collaboration, Knowledge Management, Enterprise Portals, Document/Content Management, Business Process Management, Learning

Industries: Government, Defense, Education, Information Technology, Professional Services, Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, Music, Non-Profit

Larry has also consulted to many independent software vendors on the business of technology. He has provided strategic guidance on market assessment, positioning and messaging, and mergers and alliances to vendors in the knowledge managment, collaboration, enterprise portal, content management, enterprise search, and e-business infrastructure software markets.

As an industry analyst, Larry has contributed opinions and technology evaluations to major industry publications, including Wired, Financial Times, Upside, CFO, InformationWeek, C/Net, eWeek, Line 56, ZD Net, ebizChronicle, Application Development Trends, and Knowledge Management Magazine.  He has written feature articles for Intelligent Enterprise and Enterprise Business.  Larry’s research has been presented at numerous conferences and seminars, in webinars, and published in the Delphi Group Insight Research series.

Larry holds a BA degree from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and an MA degree from the University of Michigan. He earned the MBA degree, graduating with honors, at Babson College’s F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business.

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