Neil Wasserman, Managing Partner

Neil Wasserman has been involved with IT strategic planning, enterprise architecture, systems analysis and software implementation for twenty years.    Dr. Wasserman received his baccalaureate degree in physics and then pursued graduate studies in physics at Cornell and MIT before earning his doctorate in the History of Science at Harvard University.   He has addressed a wide variety of issues for businesses and public sector organizations and has specialize in enterprise architecture and governance concerns, most recently as  technical lead for Enterprise Planning in the Office of the CIO in the Navy’s NAVSEA Systems Command.  

Following a decade as a senior consulting services manager for Unisys, Dr. Wasserman left to set up his own consultancy, Adaptive Service Engineering, which promoted a new service-based approach to business-technology integration. Using a concept of adaptive service components within a Service Component Architecture, the Adaptive Service Generation framework establishes a means for constructing business services from reusable components. The adaptive model can be used to leverage service capabilities among related business units and in so doing lower costs and improve responsiveness to customer needs. Wasserman has also been active in promoting business-technology integration as a member of the OASIS Open Business Centric Methodology standards committee, whose specification has been approved by Oasis member companies.

During the past two years, Dr. Wasserman has developed methods which form the methodological foundation for Timewave Analytics.  These methods grew out of a desire to overcome obstacles that inevitably emerge in implementing strategic goals and organizational change.   The methods are both descriptive and prescriptive in terms of problem analysis and solution design.  The study of time-behavior models is the basis for a book on the subject and for consulting applications in a variety of business and public sector environments. 

Dr. Wasserman has spoken at a number of conferences, most recently at meetings on Homeland Security and Complex Systems, and has published a book on early applications of physics to telephone transmission published by Johns Hopkins University Press, for which he received an award from the American Publishers Association.   He lives in Boston with his wife Hope, and two teenage children, Lily and Thomas, and plays music and tennis with equal enthusiasm.