Simulation: A Path To Creativity, Counterintuitive Thinking and Innovation

 Dr. William Killingsworth

Senior Business Advisor, Alabama Technology Network
University of Alabama at Huntsville
Director, Northeast Alabama Small Business Development Center

Invited Luncheon Speaker, Thursday, October 10, 2002, 12:00p.m.

William R. Killingsworth holds S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from M.I.T.  He founded and was President of Killingsworth Associates, a management consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  This firm conducted consulting assignments across the U.S., as well as in Europe and Africa, specializing in strategic planning, feasibility studies, budgeting and capitalization forecasts, and the development of start-up businesses.  For a number of years, Dr. Killingsworth was an independent consultant working in the areas of: i) developing business plans and marketing strategies for start-up ventures; ii) securing capital investment for new firms; and iii) planning for organizational growth and change.  In March of 2001, Dr. Killingsworth accepted a position as Senior Business Advisor with the Alabama Technology Network at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.  In this capacity, Dr. Killingsworth consults with a broad array of emerging technology based businesses.  On these consulting assignments, he applies organizational and management change concepts along with technical planning techniques, market assessment, and financial models to assist organizations in the successful achievement of corporate growth and profitability.  In late 2001, in addition to his duties at the Alabama Technology Network, Dr. Killingsworth was named Director of the Northeast Alabama Regional Small Business Development Center that is administered by UAH, Alabama A&M University, and the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce.