JOHN MCKEAN is the Executive Director of the Center for Information Based Competition, which provides thought-leadership and practitioner-level guidance to help businesses advance to a mastery level of customer information, interactions, and communities ranging from human-to-human to social media/mobile conversations – both as rational consumers and high-order intuitive people. He is frequently called on by the world’s leading businesses to inspire new levels of customer awareness and effectiveness through fact-based insights and a passion for customer excellence. John McKean’s real world customer work is balanced with the academic rigors of guest lecturing at MIT Sloan Graduate School and postgraduate work at Harvard University.