Abrar Zafar
CEO ProAct
- Brussels Area, Belgium
We help businesses in clarifying & executing strategies so their teams easily make right decisions and be successful.
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Biography
Abrar received Balanced Scorecard Certified Graduate Consultant status from Dr. Robert Kaplan & Dr. David Norton after receiving training by Dr Kaplan and Dr Norton in London, UK and Orlando, USA. He has helped large multi-billion dollar organizations such as Baxter Healthcare International to implement Management Cockpit and Quality Scorecards in Europe, Africa, and Asia-Pacific.
Abrar also holds an MBA Degree in International Business Management (1998) from University College Dublin, Ireland.
With 20+ years of Information Technology experience in Asia, USA, and Europe, Abrar is a dynamic and visionary business leader with a strong focus on customer value creation and value for money.
Abrar is an expert is in 'ProAct' methodology. Deploying this easy to use methodology you may easily implement Key Performance Indicators specific to your team needs. KPIs instantly communicate organizational priorities to all levels of organisation to get the required action by briging clarity, focus, accountability and ownership. Even without a data-warehouse you may implement a simple and sohisticated Team Performance Scorecard to assist you and your Senior Management Team to quickly focus on 'pain points' by linking strateigc objectives with data to day operational activities.
Industry Expertise
Areas of Expertise
Education
MBA, Smurfit Graduate Business School, University College Dublin, Ireland
MBA
International Business Management
1998
Executive Leadership Program, Kellogg - Solvay Business Schools
Kellogg-Solvay 4-day Conference on “Re-Inventing Leadership: A Breakthrough Approach”
2005
1. A set of new perspectives and practical tools to lead others much more meaningfully and effectively by Dr. Pierre Casse of IMD Lausanne, and
2. Strategic Leadership in Turbulent Markets with Professor Raj Gulati (Kellogg School of Management).
3. Team Leadership with Professor Keith Murningham (Kellogg School of Management)
National University of Ireland, Galway
Technology Enterprise Executive 1-Year Program
Entrepreneurship
2005
1. Technology commercialisation process
2. Technology based business opportunities, with particular focus on how to assess their market potential and how to judge their appeal to the venture capital community
3. Importance of innovation in the exploitation of new technological developments and the transfer process for this technology to enable commercialisation
Kaplan-Norton Balanced Scorecard Certified Graduate
Graduate
Strategy Formulation and Execution using Balanced Scorecard and 6 Steps Execution Premium Process
2010
Affiliations
- Dr Kaplan and Dr Norton Balanced Scorecard