Francis McInerney

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Francis McInerney was born in the United Kingdom in 1950 and is also a citizen of Canada and the United States. He spent his teenage years in Paris, and studied economics at the University of Toronto.

He is Managing Director of New York-based North River Ventures LLC[1] a consultancy that advises CEOs in the information industry and grades their management performance.

In 1976, Francis McInerney co-founded Northern Business Information, a telecommunications industry market research company. In 1988, McGraw-Hill Inc. purchased the company.

Francis has written four books on the impact of falling information costs on business organizations, the first three of which he co-authored with Sean White:

Beating Japan, E.P. Dutton, 1993.
The Total Quality Corporation, E.P. Dutton, 1995.
FutureWealth, St. Martins, 2000.
Panasonic: The Largest Corporate Restructuring in History, St. Martins, 2007.

The largest reorganization in history, Matsushita Electric Industrial (also known as Panasonic), uses Francis McInerney's Management Grading System.