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Rod Collins

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Rod Collins is the Director of Innovation at Optimity Advisors, a national management consulting firm. Rod is leading expert on the next generation of business management. He works with forward thinking executives who understand that managing great change means changing how we manage. Rod helps business leaders leverage the power of innovation and collaboration to drive extraordinary performance and to master the challenges of a world reshaped by the sudden and unprecedented combination of accelerating change escalating complexity, and ubiquitous connectivity. Rod is the former Chief Operating Executive of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal Employee Program, one of the nations largest and most successful business alliances, which today has over billion in annual revenues. Under his leadership, the business experienced its greatest five-year growth period in its -year history, as year after year, it set new records for operational and financial performance. Rod is also the author of the upcoming book, Wiki Management A Revolutionary New Model for a Rapidly Changing and Collaborative World (AMACOM Books, November , ). His previous book, Leadership in a Wiki World Leveraging Collective Knowledge to Make the Leap to Extraordinary Performance, won the EVVY book award for BusinessFinance. Specialties Leadership of complex business alliances change management business and management innovation business strategy business process management read more ...