Mission

Colbridge & Company provides consulting and training services in strategic planning, sustainable business, and green supply chain design and optimization to corporations and nonprofit organizations. The firm also designs, plans, and presents conferences around sustainable business themes.


Consulting Services

Colbridge engages with companies to modernize their strategic and tactical business processes in support of growth and expanded mission focus. It works with its clients to improve the quality of their operations through a combination of revitalized business processes and more creative application of modern computer tools for information management and sharing, and decision support.

Colbridge also works with companies who are interested in lightening the environmental footprint of their operations but are not sure how to go about it. Colbridge brings a unique set of skills to these clients, blending many years of experience in delivering state-of-the-art supply chain optimization solutions to numerous companies across many industries with a broad knowledge of the latest tools and techniques for making companies simultaneously profitable and environmentally sustainable.

Training Offerings

Colbridge offers a variety of tutorial and classroom based training offerings related to supply chain design and environmentally sustainable operations. Examples are:

• Building an Effective Operations Management Plan
• Executive Programs
  - Supply Chain Design Basics
  - Principles of Green Supply Chain Design
• Incorporating Industrial Ecology Principles in Corporate Operations Management

These offerings can be tailored in terms of industry focus and level of detail based on the desired learning objectives, management environments and experience of the training recipients.

Retreat and Conference Design

Colbridge & Company organizes retreats and conferences around sustainable business themes. For example, the firm recently designed, planned, and presented a retreat which focused on opportunities through which business can be profitable and environmentally sustainable simultaneously. This April 2003 retreat, held on the central California coast, was cosponsored by the San Francisco based Future 500 and the Basking Ridge, NJ based Collins Family Foundation. Proceedings of the retreat can be found at www.future500.org/documents/ie2003-retreat.pdf. More recently, Colbridge and Company partnered with others in the design, planning, and presentation of a benchmark September 2004 Seattle based conference on Profitable Sustainability. This conference was cosponsored by the Seattle based Network for Business Innovation and Sustainability, the Future 500 and the Collins Family Foundation. The program can be found at www.nbis.org/conference/PDF/ NBISProgramFinal.pdf.


About Us

Dwight Collins, Ph.D., is founder and president of Colbridge & Company. He also teaches Sustainable Operations Management at the San Francisco based Presidio School of Management.

Prior to founding Colbridge, Dwight directed Aspen Technology’s Strategic Planning Practice, which provided strategic planning optimization consulting services to senior executives. Common goals included planning acquisitions, divestitures, post-merger capacity rationalization, production consolidation, and distribution network redesign. Clients included BP Chemicals, NOVA Chemicals, Borden Chemicals, and Abbott Laboratories. Prior to this, Dwight founded a Semiconductor Industry Practice at Chesapeake Decision Sciences through which he was instrumental in devising strategic enterprise planning and customer order promising systems for several semiconductor companies including IBM Microelectronics, LSI Logic and Cypress Semiconductor. In this time frame, Dwight also implemented supply chain optimization capabilities for Shaw Industries, the largest carpet producer in the US, and chemical company Rohm & Haas.

Earlier in his career, Dwight worked as a Senior Operations Analyst at Exxon Corporation, a Senior Consultant at the Logistics Management Institute (LMI) (a Washington, D.C. think tank) , and as Captain in the US Air Force. Dr. Collins earned a BS degree in Engineering Physics, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Operations Research, all from Cornell University.