Company

Y-Change is founded on the principles that increasing the efficiencies of strategy deployment will lead to increased business success

News

Press

February 2012
Y-Change, Inc. Launches 7.2: Strategy,Portfolio Management and Dashboards with Timesheets
December 2011
Y-Change, Inc. Launches 7.0: Portfolio Management and Dashboards

Clients

  • Cisco Systems

    Cascading Vision, Strategy, Execution and tactics/projects down through selected organizations; Six Sigma Portfolio. Program and project management

  • Amgen

    Cascade and manage goals, objectives & projects. Program & project management

  • Tyco Electronics

    Selected dept’s linking corporate strategy, goals, objectives and tactics and project management

  • Alameda County | Dept. of Public Works

    Linking and cascading initiatives, programs and work plans throughout the organization

  • Financial Services

    Baldridge award winning arm of a large equipment manufacturer

    Aligning, reporting and cascading corporate goals and objectives to all unit and dept action plans

Partners

  • Association for Strategic Planning

    ASP provides opportunities to explore cutting-edge strategic planning principles and practices that enhance organizational success and advance members' and organizations' knowledge, capability, capacity for innovation, and professionalism.

  • Globalinkage Consulting

    Provides services for business leaders in assessing the effectiveness of strategic planning, initiative portfolio and metrics performance management process linkages, designing new processes to strengthen them, as well as training and coaching of global cross-functional teams in their adoption and execution.

  • Resman Group International

    A team of executive consultant/implementers with an average of more than 30 years of experience in business, financial,operations and technical management, and information technology/systems integration.

  • GoalSpan

    GoalSpan bridges the strategy to execution gap through online Employee Performance Management tools. These include Goal Planning, Goal Management, Performance Journaling, Electronic Acknowledgements and fully customizable two-way Employee Reviews

  • Haines Centre for Strategic Management

    Haines Centre is a global consortium of strategic management consultants who empower their clients to achieve superior results in their business activities using a holistic approach to planning, integrating strategy and actions.

Management Team

  • Alan Leeds, CEO

    Alan Leeds is the president of Y-Change, a software company enabling companies to convert strategy into action. For 20 years, Mr. Leeds was President of Leemak, a mid-sized management consulting firm. Alan's experiences in consulting provided the foundation for the methodology upon which Y-Change is based; successful deployment of a company's goals and objectives occurs when the strategy is cascaded throughout the company.

    His expertise in strategy deployment and change management methodologies has helped companies deliver tangible operating results. He has led numerous Fortune 500 companies such as Raytheon, Cisco Systems and Texas Instruments to effect these changes, pioneering both innovative processes and tools. Alan holds a Masters from SUNY and a BS from Syracuse University. Prior speaking engagements have included 2007 National conferences for the ASP and the CSCMP (Council of Supply Chain Professionals).

  • Jay Snow, MANAGING DIRECTOR

    Mr. Snow has over 35 years experience in line management and consulting and is the President of Resource Management Associates, as well as an associate of Y-Change, Inc., an internet-based enterprise initiative management services provider.

    He has been responsible for the development and management of consulting projects at Hoechst, Xerox, Honeywell, Kodak, Litton Industries, Bank of America, Unocal, Cardinal-Bergen, Teledyne, Hughes, Textron, Cubic Corporation, as well as many other large and small companies. These projects have ranged from designing and implementing manufacturing & material systems, re-engineering, product development, forecasting and senior executive coaching. His career includes service as President, International Textiles and American Flower Corporation along with various executive management positions in multi-national manufacturing and financial firms with extensive international service.

  • Kris Ramasamy, DEVELOPMENT

    Kris is helping to streamline the Y-Change development cycle with greater productivity and shorter development cycle times. He spent the past five years managing three development groups including outsourced cross functional teams. Kris is responsible for application and project development, defining business requirements, designing technical solutions and developing those solutions. He actively plays project lead role and senior designer role in development of the web based Y-Change Enterprise Management Solution, ASP, ASP.NET technology, JavaScript and SQL/XML.

Overview

Mission

Y-Change is focused on ensuring our customers' success by providing powerful, intelligent, internet-based applications to drive business results from individual projects to company wide strategies.

About

Y-Change is dedicated to the delivery of strategic, innovative and collaborative management solutions. Established in 1998, their online management tools have been designed to take advantage of the Internet using original applications at the forefront of web-based technologies. Y-Change serves both traditional and next generation management needs, creating the "edge" needed to succeed in today's volatile market.