Gerald Blaesing Senior Executive Advisor – Chicago, IL
Areas of expertise
- Business & IT Strategy
- Digital Transformation & Technology Integration
- Performance Improvement & Process Redesign
- Enterprise Systems & ERP Solutions
- Change Management & Global Operations
Jerry currently advises Phronesis as a Senior Executive Advisor on overall strategic direction, global operations anddelivery. Along with Jerry’s advisory role with Phronesis, he recently was a senior consulting partner with TCS in theManagement Consulting (Consulting & Services Integration) practice. His practice focus includes performanceimprovement, application enabled transformation, and technology Integration. For the majority of his professionalcareer his industry focus has encompassed the broad range of Consumer Markets: retail, QSR, wholesale/distribution,and consumer packaged goods. In addition to consumer markets, Jerry has significant experience serving global clientorganizations in media and entertainment, telecommunications, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, medical devices,utilities, services and hospitality to name a few. Jerry has significant experience across all aspects of global enterpriseproviding business and IT strategy, solution alignment, process redesign, change management, and business systemsdelivery for the Global 2000.
Jerry is a strategic advisor known for aligning business and technology to drive performance. His expertise enables organizations to execute complex transformations with confidence.
Jerry was most recently a Senior Managing Director with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in the Advisory Consumerpractice. Prior to joining PwC he held leadership positions with several organizations: KPMG/BearingPoint, ParsonConsulting, and Siemens IT Solutions and services (SIS). He was elected to the Partnership with KPMG LLP in 1993 andeventually became a Senior Vice President with Bearing Point. Jerry’s roles included leading the enabling technologyand ERP solution practices, while establishing and leading the global media and entertainment practice, and for severalyears he led the Consumer Industries Practice.
Jerry began his career with Kraft Foods working in distribution and traffic and production planning. He also served as ITDirector with Budget Rent-a-Car. He graduated from Northern Illinois University earning degrees in Marketing/Financeand Math/Computer Science.
Jerry enjoys spending time with his wife, children and grandchildren and golfing
Publications
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Narrow Your Focus to Prevent Overanalysis
What is this highly valuable asset? Its own people. Says Morgan Fraud, the author of The Thinking Corporation, “Given that we are all capable of contributing new ideas, the question becomes how do you successfully generate, capture, process and implement ideas?”
January 25, 2024 -
Three Social Media Hacks for the Busy Entrepreneur
The teams focused their efforts on a few of the highest-value S&OP levers in order to review the current planning process, identify gaps in the planning infrastructure and analytically understand demand and supply variability.
December 6, 2023 -
Stick with Your Concept but Do Your Homework
With hundreds of medications in the market, Pharm Ltd. needed a proper method to predict and manage their inventory. Using a mean absolute percentage analysis (MAPE), the teams defined appropriate levels for raw materials and finished products by mapping.
December 6, 2023
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