Dan Hawker
Director and Consumer Business Lead
Dan is a founding Director of Bluefin Solutions, and Director of the Consumer Business Centre of Excellence (CBCoE). He assists consumer business organisations to achieve their strategic goals through business change, enabled by their investment in SAP.
Dan's 10 years of personal experience in building and growing a successful services company gives him a deep and broad range of subjects on which he can credibly advise, and he is driven by a genuine curiosity for how businesses grow and succeed.
With a dynamic skill set built through his career in leading consultancies, such as KPMG and Axon, Dan has chosen to focus on the consumer business sectors, covering Consumer Products, Logistics and Wholesale, and Retail. Dan works with his customers to deliver results in areas as diverse as Supply Chain Performance, Trade Promotions, Integrated Business Planning, and Business Performance Management.
Dan has worked customers including Premier Foods, Smiths News, Vodafone, Xerox, Honda, Bosch, Hays, Royal Mail, Hitachi and Guinness, among others.
02 Feb 2012
Consumer Business: Invest in strategy AND achieve short term goals
categories: Consumer Products, Planning, Retail & Trade, Consumer Business
17 Jan 2012
Listening in on shopper conversations....and acting upon them
categories: Consumer Products, Retail & Trade, Social Media, Consumer Business
05 Apr 2011
The Bluefindex April 2011 Review
categories: Business, Consumer Products, Media, Consumer Business
23 Mar 2011
Why you can’t have separate initiatives for BPM, Trade Promotions Optimisation and IBP
categories: Consumer Products, Planning, Trade Promotions Management, Consumer Business, Integrated Business Planning
25 Nov 2010
Trade promotions: competitive edge or fact of life?
categories: Consumer Products, CRM, Planning, Trade Promotions Management, Consumer Business
23 Nov 2010
The Bluefindex - putting my money where my mouth is
categories: Business, Consumer Products, Finance, Consumer Business
11 Nov 2010
Differing approaches to Facebook and Twitter for Consumer Products. Do you need to keep it real?
categories: Business, Consumer Products
08 Nov 2010
What levers does a company have for reducing working capital?
categories: Business Intelligence (BI), Consumer Products, Manufacturing, Procurement, Telecoms, Consumer Business
05 Nov 2010
How can you drive up speed of execution in purchasing while increasing, not decreasing, compliance?
categories: Consumer Products, Finance, Manufacturing, Procurement, Telecoms, Consumer Business
04 Nov 2010
Differing approaches to Global Spend Analytics
categories: Business Intelligence (BI), Consumer Products, Finance, Manufacturing, Procurement, Telecoms, Consumer Business
See more Insights by Dan Hawker
RT @applebyj: Wow. @BluefinSolution logo on stage at #SAPPHIRENOW. Hugely honoured by @vsikka
7 hours ago
dodgy sales @WorldDutyFree. Telling me the EDT is only 1 size. But failing to point out its >100ml, so hand luggage returns in hold! #fail
1 week ago
RT @pipholland: Great to hear about another @bluefinsolution #SAP enterprise #mobility go live, this time in Malaysia, well done all inv ...
2 weeks ago
