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Biography
Layna Fischer Chair General Manager/Secretariat Ms. Fischer is editor and publisher of the business book series, New Tools for New Times: which includes The Workflow Paradigm, now in its second edition, an anthology about the impact of information technology on business process reengineering, and Electronic Commerce, an anthology by leading experts in the fields of all aspects of making profits online (now out of print). Her first book in the Excellence in Practice series, called Excellence in Practice, Innovation and Excellence in Workflow and Imaging. This is a collection of Case Studies from the North American, European and Asian winners of the 1996 annual Giga Excellence Awards. The 1997 Awards were profiled in Excellence in Practice, Innovation and Excellence in Workflow and Imaging Vol II published in March 1998. Excellence in Practice, Volume III: Innovation and Excellence in Workflow/Process Management and Document/Knowledge Management, was published in January 2000. Excellence in Practice, Volume IV: Innovation and Excellence in Workflow and Knowledge Management, was published in October 2000. Also published in October 2000, and in association with the Workflow Management Coalition, Ms Fischer is editor of the prestigious Workflow Handbook 2001. As chair of WARIA, she is also the Awards Director for the annual Workflow Excellence Awards. Future Strategies Inc., a publishing and information technology company, specializes in international research and dissemination of information about information and workflow technology, business process redesign and electronic commerce. As such, the company contracts and works closely with individuals and corporations throughout the USA and the world, collaborating on joint projects using state of the art information technology. Ms. Fischer also heads up WARIA, the Workflow And Reengineering International Association, and chairs the board of its recently formed Academy of Business Process Improvement. Ms. Fischer is conference co-director of the Giga Information Group Business Process and Workflow Conferences produced annually in Europe and the USA and was director of the Workflow '94 Boston Conference and The Workflow Conference on Business Process Technology, of which her company, Future Strategies Inc., was the joint producer. She also sits on the Advisory Boards of Project World and Business Change and Reengineering: The Journal of Corporate Transformation. Her experience in the computer industry includes being the president and CEO of a multi-million dollar high-technology export company for seven years, during which time she also founded an offshore franchise distribution company called Computer Direct. Ms. Fischer was also a senior editor of a leading computer publication for four years and has been involved in international computer journalism and publishing for over 18 years. She was a founding director of the United States Computer Press Association in 1985. Future Strategies Inc. |
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