Dr.
Soren Kaplan's practice-area focus is in strategy Innovation.
His
passion for innovation and business strategy is exemplified through
his diverse experience - from managing Hewlett-Packard's internal strategy
consulting group, to co-founding an enterprise collaboration software
company, to consulting to start-ups and Fortune 1000 companies.
Prior
to joining Sapience Group, Soren co-founded iCohere, an enterprise software
company that provides intranet/extranet collaboration software for distributed
workgroups and organizations. Before starting iCohere, Soren served
as Manager of Business Strategy Consulting at Hewlett-Packard Company,
where he led an internal consulting group that assisted management teams
across HP with strategic planning, product and service innovation, and
new market discovery and development.
Prior
to joining HP, Soren was a consultant with Cambridge, MA based IdeaScope
Associates and consulted to global 500 companies-including Kodak, Siemens,
Nestle, Avery Dennison, and 3M-in the areas of new opportunity identification,
new product and service development, and business process design to
support ongoing innovation. Soren holds Master's and Ph.D. degrees in
Organizational Psychology. He has presented at institutions and universities,
including the Creative Education Foundation and the Harvard Business
School, and has written and published a number of articles, including
Discontinuous Innovation and the Growth Paradox, which appeared in the
journal Strategy and Leadership.
