Dr. Charles M. Savage Dr. Charles M. Savage, President and Mentor, Knowledge Era Enterprises, Inc., helps companies discover the tremendous potential of knowledge era enterprising. He consults and speaks widely in the United States, Asia and Europe. His book, Fifth Generation Management has been widely acclaimed and translated into Japanese and Korean. Tom Peters named it his business book of 1991. A revised edition, subtitled, Co-creating through Virtual Enterprising, Dynamic Teaming and Knowledge Networking, is now available, as are German and Portuguese translations.

Dr. Savage works with company presidents, division managers and other senior executives committed to improving their business strategy, organizational agility, market responsiveness, and customer focus. An initiator of the Millennium Project, he has been working with Siemens, Intel and others for over a year to find ways to position knowledge dynamics on center stage. He has developed the World Cafe Executive Discoveryshop model as a way to tap and team the creative capabilities of professionals within and between companies. In particular, he focuses on helping companies make the shift from the steep hierarchies of the Industrial Era to flatter network organizations based on dynamic teaming and virtual enterprising in the Knowledge Era. His clients include ABB, CIBC, Digital, Dow, Electrolux, Hyatt, Intel, ITT, Martin Marietta and Siemens.

Prior to forming his own company, he was responsible for Digital Equipment Corporations world wide Organizational Effectiveness Practice. He has worked as a Vice President of Gray Judson, Inc., a management consulting firm in Boston; a Principal in the D. Appleton Co., Manhattan Beach, CA, where he pioneered the human side of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM); and as Director of the Boston Office of the Scandinavian Institutes of Administrative Research (SIAR). He has been active in the Computer and Automated Systems Association of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (CASA/SME) where he served many years on their Board of Advisors and headed their Technical Forum.

He has a wide range of publications on CIM and other management topics. He serves on the Editorial Board of SME's Manufacturing Review. He speaks to a wide range of audiences in manufacturing, engineering, government, human resources, accounting, information systems, and sales training about ways they can help revitalize their organizations and better use their knowledge assets.

Dr. Savage has a BA from Pomona College, Claremont, CA, an M.Div. from Andover Newton Theological School, Newton Centre, MA, and a Ph.D. from Boston College. His doctoral thesis, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, Manpower Administration, focused on work and meaning. He was born and raised in Hawaii.