Managing Director Strategos, London and Visiting professor to the Management School at Lancaster University, UK

Jim Scholes is a Director of Strategos, a strategy consultancy, and a Visiting Professor of Management Science at Lancaster University Management School. His focus is business strategy and systems thinking.
An experienced practitioner of strategy and systems thinking, Jim has worked with public and private sector organizations in Europe, the US and Asia. Prior to his consulting and academic activities, he worked in a variety of management roles in the UK government and the private sector.

He has spoken at several international conferences and authored articles on business strategy and systems thinking including the following: “Soft Systems Methodology in Action”, co-author Prof P.B. Checkland, Wiley 1990; “Techniques in Soft Systems Practice”, co-author Prof PB Checkland Journal of Applied System Analysis 1990; “The Quest for New Wealth”, co-author Prof G Hamel, Leader to Leader Journal, The Drucker Foundation, April 1997, reprinted in “Leader to Leader, Enduring Insights on Leadership”, Editors Hesselbein and Cohen, Jossey-Bass 1999; “Using SSM in Practice”, Systemic Practice and Action Research, December 2000 Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers; “The Search for CEO-ness”, Human Resources Decisions International, 2002, Sterling Publications; “Steps to Implementation European Business Forum” (Issue 21) April 2005; and “Why it’s tough at the top for the 21st Century CEO:Power, Knowledge and Dissent”, co-author Prof K Grint, to be published in Ivey Business Journal 2008.