About Me
Mark K. Clare, M.S. Physics, M.A. Analytic Philosophy, Six Sigma Black Belt, has over 20 years of experience in strategic change, design thinking, innovation, and technology with leading Fortune 200 companies and a Silicon Valley start-up that include 3M and Allstate. Mark Clare is author of many publications including the book Knowledge Assets and a series of articles in KM Review on Solving the Knowledge-Value Equation. He holds two patents, with others pending, in artificial intelligence and knowledge management. Before starting New Value Streams Consulting, Mark held several executive positions including Vice President for Parkview Health where he was involved in major service design, technology and quality efforts at an eight-hospital health system in Indiana. Mr. Clare is an adjunct instructor at Northwestern University and teaches graduate students, with an emphasis on applied cognitive science, in the Learning and Organizational Change Program and the Medical Informatics Program.
Mr. Clare has built a career by designing and implementing socio-technical systems that improve organizational performance. He is a design generalist with experience in product, service, process, program, business model, organizational and software design. Mark specializes in cognitive design, or designs optimized for how minds (people, groups, machines) actually work. He pioneered a course on cognitive design at Northwestern University, publishes the Cognitive Design and YourNextBrain! Blogs and founded New Value Streams, a firm focused on innovations that link key value drivers to employee and customer cognition. Mark is currently working on a new book, Design for How Minds Really Work: Using the coming revolution in cognitive science and design thinking to innovate, achieve breakthrough performance and solve social problems in the 21st century.
Contact: mark.k.clare@gmail.com or 260-426-8454
