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Michael Connolly |
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As a Chicago-based senior vice president with Booz & Company, Michael Connolly serves the health and financial services industries; he is also the leader of the firm's global Technology practice. His skills and insight enable significant performance improvements, especially in projects that require the strengthening of cost and management competitiveness and efficiencies, and successful organizational, process, and system transformation.
Mr. Connolly provides valuable expertise in:
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Technology strategy
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Strategic architecture development
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Program assessment
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Strategic transformation
His client engagements have included:
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Evaluating, designing, and implementing cross-enterprise operational improvements for a major health plan to improve organizational cost competitiveness
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Creating a direct-to-consumer IT strategy for one of the nation’s largest health plans
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Developing strategy-aligned technology blueprints for multiple business sectors of a leading payer, including acquisition integration, medical management, behavioral health, fund management, financial solutions, pharmacy, channel management, financial analytics, billing, claims processing, member and plan sponsor services, and project management
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Serving as a member of an executive team and developing the strategy that managed the transformation of a national payer’s core processing platforms (i.e., product management, quoting and rating, member and plan sponsor services, and claims processing) to improve product competitiveness, drive cost efficiencies via straight-through processing, and increase flexibility to support diverse acquisition requirements
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Conducting a series of assessments of strategic projects that had not been providing the anticipated ROI for a major health insurer; identified required course corrections and managed associated remediation efforts
Mr. Connolly has more than 18 years of consulting experience, and is the former CTO/Deputy CIO of Aetna.
He holds an M.B.A. in management information systems from Northern Illinois University. Mr. Connolly also attended Indiana University, where he received a B.S. degree in finance with high distinction and was admitted to the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society.