About Accelare

Accelare is an Operational Innovation and Business/IT Alignment Company. The software and services from Accelare help our customers reduce their operating expenses, increase revenue growth, improve customer satisfaction, and manage the performance of their business.

Our software and services are used by some of the world's top performing and most admired companies. Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare again ranked #1 on the U.S. News & World Report/NCQA "America's Best Health Plan" list for 2007. The same publication has named The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia the #1 Children's Hospital in America for the 5th year in a row. Just two examples of organizations with an operating model designed in partnership with Accelare.

Accelare services include solutions for Operating Model Innovation, Capturing New Growth Platforms, Creating a Fact Based Business, Right Sourcing, Simplifying IT, and Radically Faster Application Innovation.

These services are delivered through our proven and repeatable framework for operating model design and implementation; The Accelare Performance Framework.

In 2006 Accelare introduced WhatFirst, the leading software platform for Enterprise Capability Management.

Accelare and our associates have been at the forefront of much of the innovation in business operational improvement of the last decade. Accelare’s founders were key contributors to best-selling books of Michael Hammer and James Champy including: REENGINEERING THE CORPORATION, THE REENGINEERING HANDBOOK, AND X-ENGINEERING THE CORPORATION. Accelare was fundamental in partnering with Microsoft to create the Microsoft Business Architecture Framework.

Accelare was founded by Jack Calhoun and Mark McCormick in 2001, with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts. Today, Accelare services customers nationally and internationally, with additional offices in Dallas and Minneapolis.

Accelare founder and CEO, Jack Calhoun, is the leading expert in technology-enabled strategy and operating model design. Prior to founding Accelare with Mark McCormick, Jack was a group director of Perot Systems. He had sold his previous company, Business Architects, to Ross Perot in 1997. Jack began his consulting career with Arthur Andersen and CSC. Jack is an Executive in Residence at Babson College and faculty member of the Process Management Research Center. Jack was a contributor to the best-selling book REENGINEERING THE CORPORATION by James Champy and Michael Hammer. Jack recently co-authored the article, THE NEXT REVOLUTION IN PRODUCTIVITY, which was was featured in Harvard Business Review in June of 2008 

Mark McCormick is the President of Accelare, leading the company's consulting practice and operations. As company cofounder with Jack Calhoun, Mark brings expertise in business strategy, business process reengineering, application development, and financial management to help clients overcome their challenges. Prior to founding Accelare, Mark was a director for Perot Systems and worked with clients creating and implementing their e-commerce strategies. His client work has contributed to several books, including X-ENGINEERING THE CORPORATION by James Champy, and he has authored and spoken on the transformative power of business process management in a number of client and industry-sponsored forums.