Welcome to the LeveragePoint Applications blog. In this blog I will cover the various methods and technologies that lie behind the LeveragePoint solutions. Emerging applications of new methods and technologies to performance will also be explored. My role at The Monitor Group is to provide technical leadership for the LeveragePoint solutions.
I joined the group in the fall of 2006, drawn by Jonathon Levy's vision of the potential to greatly improve human performance in all areas of life by providing support for action and learning in the context of action. This vision is deeply rooted in an approach that values people as people who act together in communities, and are well able to take responsibility for their own actions.
I was also attracted by the community of thought leaders that The Monitor Group has brought together. These include people responsible for the development of leading-edge methods in competitive strategy, such as Michael Porter, organizational development, such as Chris Argyris, and scenario building - the entire team at GBN, led by Eamonn Kelly. Monitor also has the most powerful approaches to marketing, in its GrowthPath offering and to Strategic Pricing, that I have encountered. The opportunity to work in such an environment was too good to pass up.
My own background is varied. In the 1980s I lived in Japan, working at first as a translator (Japanese to English) and then in various media and software development projects, with a focus on software localization and multilingual computing. In the 1990s I was based in Vancouver, BC, where I led companies involved in software localization, multimedia and website development and knowledge management. From 2001 I became involved in the learning industry, where I focused on middleware to integrate the many different types of software application and content used to support learning. I am glad to be at Monitor, where our focus is directly on how to help organizations grow in the ways that are meaningful to themselves, and to do this by delivering cutting-edge software that helps people and teams directly.
To get a better feeling for my interests, you can explore my tags at CrowdTrust.net http://crowdtrust.net/user/Steven+Forth/memos
