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Tom Gilb

Tom Gilb has been consulting on management problems, for top management since 1962.  As a result he has developed and refined his own powerful methods for management planning. He has worked for many of these years with his son Kai Gilb. 

These methods are jointly called ‘Planguage’ – a Planning Language. They are unique in helping managers to think quantitatively about the qualitative aspects of their decisions. For example how to quantify ‘engineering productivity’, or general product quality?

Most of the consultancy work is done at the CTO level. Most of it is for technical multinationals, and some financial groups. Most of the work is for planning organizational improvement in productivity and quality (for 10,000 engineers for example). The rest is about big projects (like 1,000 engineers, $100 million).

Tom does not profile himself as a management consultant. In fact he  works at the grass roots of advanced engineering, systems, software, aircraft, IT, telecoms, electronics. 

This often leads to meeting top managers who appreciate his methods, and become clients. There is a well-documented successful spread of his methods at HP, IBM (CMM 4) and Intel (20,000 engineers trained there in his methods). Other interesting famous method-user organizations are Boeing, Citigroup, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, Philips,  Ericsson, Nokia, Tata Consultancy, Microsoft, Equinor and many others, smaller and less famous.

Tom has been invited to lecture at dozens of  universities worldwide (including Berkeley, Stanford, London School of Economics, Imperial College). 

He has previously published nine paper books. The 2005 book is ‘Competitive Engineering’.  

He has spent 2 years  (2014-2015) working on his new book ‘Value Planning’, especially for top managers. Published initially on LeanPub 2016.

In 2018-2021 He produced about 20+ books digitally. Most at Leanpub, or Gilb.com

In 2020, long course length videos were made by Oslo Software Architecture (OSWA), based on the SEA Systems Enterprise Architecture book https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb508f8y_d0PqRZKPCVVVxQ,

And many long videos about the books were made by BCS SPA SG such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaBhijqVWYA for the Sustainability Planning book.

and

BCS made: Value Requirements video 22 April 2020, 3 hours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHrwQtG6IMw&list=PLKBhokJ0qd3_wlvr0j85YhmNfNj8ZJ8M-

and many other of my book videos are below this one on that site.

In 2012 he was made Honorary Fellow of the British Computer Society. 

More information, and many publications, at gilb.com.

He lives in Norway and London, and is both Norwegian (as of December 2015) and US Citizen (1940).

Published Books

Value Planning von Tom Gilb, deutsche Version
Value Planning von Tom Gilb, deutsche Version
Tom Gilb and Rolf Götz
Value Planning
Value Planning
Tom Gilb
Value Planning by Tom Gilb, Russian Version
Value Planning by Tom Gilb, Russian Version
Dmytro Mindra and Tom Gilb
12? Twelve Tough Questions
12? Twelve Tough Questions
Tom Gilb
Governeering: Government Systems-Engineering Planning
Governeering: Government Systems-Engineering Planning
Tom Gilb
KEN: A Knowledge Engineering Notion of Education
KEN: A Knowledge Engineering Notion of Education
Tom Gilb
Planalysis: How to Analyze Plans and Make Them Better
Planalysis: How to Analyze Plans and Make Them Better
Tom Gilb
QUANTeer: How To Quantify Values
QUANTeer: How To Quantify Values
Tom Gilb
SEA: Systems Enterprise/Engineering Architecture
SEA: Systems Enterprise/Engineering Architecture
Tom Gilb
Value Requirements: Critical Stakeholder Objectives Engineering
Value Requirements: Critical Stakeholder Objectives Engineering
Tom Gilb
Value Design: How to get the Qualities you need to win and succeed, using advanced design thinking
Value Design: How to get the Qualities you need to win and succeed, using advanced design thinking
Tom Gilb
Value Management: Super Management Techniques
Value Management: Super Management Techniques
Tom Gilb
Value Agile: Agile As It Should Be
Value Agile: Agile As It Should Be
Tom Gilb
Sustainability Planning: UN Goals deep analysis and clarification methods
Sustainability Planning: UN Goals deep analysis and clarification methods
Tom Gilb
Datocracy: How to Get Rid of Politicians and Political Parties - a story and an Architecture
Datocracy: How to Get Rid of Politicians and Political Parties - a story and an Architecture
Tom Gilb
Stakeholder Engineering: The ‘Stakeholder Systems Engineering’ Discipline
Stakeholder Engineering: The ‘Stakeholder Systems Engineering’ Discipline
Tom Gilb

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