James P. McLaughlin

James P. McLaughlin has been an information systems professional for 38 years, holding positions in government, distribution, manufacturing and consulting. His most recent position was Vice President, Global Process and Support Management for the Gillette business unit of The Procter & Gamble Company. Mr. McLaughlin’s professional experience includes financial management, information technology strategic planning and development, consulting practice management, and applications development management.

Mr. McLaughlin has a deep understanding of Supply Chain from process, data, people, measurement, and systems perspectives. He is passionate about information being used as an asset cross-functionally and throughout the enterprise, and he has many years’ experience developing solutions that benefit functions from the shop floor to the General Manager’s office.

Mr. McLaughlin has been on the forefront of change management, dealing with strategic, technical, and human resources challenges associated with change management: He has been involved with applications development/support and Help Desk services on a global scale; he has introduced and managed Six Sigma into the Information Technology function to improve functional effectiveness. In addition, he has lead many IT-business simplification initiatives including IT support centralization and IT organization integration, both internal and through acquisition.

Mr. McLaughlin has served as a consultant for national, multinational and global corporations in the consumer packaged goods, telecommunications, high technology instrumentation, retailing and consulting industries. These organizations have had diverse business and information systems requirements and operating practices. Mr. McLaughlin has been responsible for the acquisition, development and operation of technology products and services that enable business to meet the corporation’s goals and objectives. He has sponsored, managed or facilitated business process redesign initiatives where enabling technology was a key to success.