PRTM

PRTM

Company type	Private limited corporation
Industry	Management consulting
Founded	1976
Headquarters	16 offices on 3 continents
Key people	Gordon Stewart, Mike Aghajanian- Managing Directors
Products	Management consulting services: Operational strategy, Product Development, Supply Chain, and Customer Management
Number of employees	More than 500 consultants worldwide
Website	www.prtm.com

PRTM

PRTM is a privately owned management consulting firm that helps C-level and other senior executives to innovate their organizations for market leadership and greater shareholder value. The firm’s business centers on the areas of operational strategy, supply chain management, product development, and customer management. PRTM has been named by Consulting Magazine as one of the “Top 10 Firms to Work For” annually since 2002.

PRTM has 16 offices worldwide and 500 consultants. It offers expertise across these industry sectors: automotive, aerospace, chemicals and process, communications and media, consumer goods, electronics and computing, energy, financial services, government, industrial, life sciences, and software.

History

The firm was founded in 1976 in Palo Alto, California. When the firm established eastern United States operations in 1977, it was incorporated as Pittiglio, Rabin, Todd & McGrath. Its founding partners were Theodore Pittiglio, Robert Rabin, Robert Todd, and Michael McGrath. Today, the firm is known as PRTM.

The firm began benchmarking business performance for its clients in 1982. PRTM’s international expansion started in 1985. In 1988, PRTM pioneered its Product And Cycle-time Excellence (PACE©) framework to provide companies with a multi-disciplinary approach to product and service innovation and leadership. PRTM co-developed the Supply-Chain Operations Reference-model (SCOR) with the Supply-Chain Council in 1996. In 1997, the firm launched a subsidiary, The Performance Measurement Group, LLC (PMG). Rabin and McGrath were the last of the original founders to retire, in 2002 and 2004, respectively. Michael Aghajanian now serves as managing director of PRTM’s Pacific Region and Gordon Stewart is managing director of the firm’s Atlantic Region.

Publishing and Public Relations

PRTM has authored numerous books, including: Strategic Supply Chain Management: The Five Disciplines for Top Performance (McGraw-Hill, 2004), Strategic IT Portfolio Management (2005), Next Generation Product Development: How to Increase Productivity, Cut Costs, and Reduce Cycle Times (McGraw-Hill, 2004), Setting the PACE® in Product Development: A Guide to Product And Cycle-time Excellence (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1992), Voices into Choices: Acting on the Voice of the Customer (Joiner Associates, 1997), and Product Strategy for High-Technology Companies: How to Achieve Growth, Competitive Advantage, and Increased Profits (McGraw-Hill, 1994).

A quarterly print and online publication, PRTM Insight, provides senior executives with the latest thinking on operational strategy and innovation.

External links

• PRTM Home Page