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Professional Resume
Christopher Sprague
Selected Relevant Experience

• Procurement Strategy Developed a shared services
  strategy and technology vision for one of the top
  ten global organizations that identified ways to
  achieve savings of 10 - 30 per billion of
  procurement spending. These savings came from
  price reductions, demand management and
  administrative processes.
• Procurement Multi Client Study Led study that
  defined how organizations must transform
  end-to-end procurement that will deliver
  sustained benefits. The resulting procurement
  maturity model identified five levels, key
  requirements/level and trigger points to move
  forward. This thinking has been used across
  Andersen in selling and leading client thinking.
• Corporate Strategy Led the executive leadership
  team of then the third largest title insurance
  company through a scenario based visioning
  process that repositioned this company for the
  industry transformation now underway. With a
  clearer understanding of the changing industry
  economies, senior leadership engineered a merger
  with their next smallest competitor and are now
  the largest title company in the country. We are
  now involved in the post merger integration work.
• Growth Strategy Developed a market segmentation
  strategy that divided the domestic market into
  four segments rapid growth, fix and grow, leave
  as-is and rapidly exit. This effort relied on the
  development and analysis of integrated internals
  performance data with external market and
  demographic data.
• Operational Strategy and Plans Led the
  development of a field office transformation plan
  that used a combination of imaging, workflow
  technology and the Intranet to streamline work.
  These technologies provided the platform for a
  five year field office consolidation strategy
  that will reduce operating costs annually by 50
  million while increasing the effectiveness of the
  field operations and reducing policy issuance
  cycle time.
• Recent Publications/Lectures Mr. Sprague is
  widely published and most recently wrote an
  article featured in Montgomery Research on
  Transforming Procurement to Deliver Shareholder
  Value. Mr. Sprague is also is visiting lecturer
  at MIT for Dr. Jack Rockarts class. Within
  Andersen Consulting, he is a faculty member in
  the eCommerce College and frequently addresses
  internal groups on the use of IT to enable
  strategies.

Background Mr. Sprague is an Associate Partner
who specializes in the use of eCommerce to
deliver operational and strategic benefits. Over
the past ten years, he has worked with the
largest federal agencies, financial services,
insurance, consumer products and
telecommunications firms. Most recently, he has
been named head of ACs eProcurement market
offering. His group is responsible for 20 plus
projects that include procurement best practices,
operational diagnostics, procurement strategies,
business cases and benefits realization plans.
Prior to Andersen Consulting, Mr. Sprague led
Geminis IT practice. Mr. Sprague holds degrees
from the MIT Sloan School of Management and
Babson College.
Personal Profile

• location Boston/Wellesley
• direct dial number 617 454 4703
• Internet ID Christopher.Sprague_at_AC.COM
• Father of two children, an active organic
  composter and gardener, sailor, and tennis player