Gerald Adams

Gerald Adams

Gerald leads joint VISION and client teams to implement designs that heighten our clients’ ties to their customers and greatly improve enterprise-wide coordination to drive new value for our clients and for their customers. In 1984 he co-founded VISION to capitalise on new, human-scale personal computer and local area network technologies. Since that time, Gerald has helped VISION grow into a successful management consulting firm with an extensive portfolio of projects in Europe and the Americas.

From Gerald’s first job in 1979 with Arthur Andersen – programming a Material Requirements Planning system – to his most recent projects, Gerald has been involved on-the-ground in most of the technology-driven business revolutions of the past twenty plus years

In that period he helped design Ireland’s first full-service telephone and online bank and brought that experience to VISION’s international banking and insurance clients, helping them become leaders in this area. He worked closely with key IBM software labs on their first, substantial distributed object application, which pushed the practical limits of those technologies. As the Internet revolutionised the way we do business, Gerald led VISION’s move into Internet consulting with clients such as TheStreet.com, CitiBank and AOL Time Warner.

Gerald graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1979 with degrees in mathematics and engineering. He is a keen amateur photographer and painter with a love of history and technology.

Gerald was born and raised in Tullamore, a town in the centre of Ireland. He is married with two children.

VISION Consulting’s Principles of High-Trust Outsourcing Model

This document lays out the operating principles of a high trust model that we believe would be suitable to Scottish Water’s ambitions. Its principles would apply to business as usual as well as projects, to outsource partners and retained IT as a whole. It explains how to make high trust work and pay in an outsourcing arrangement. Read more here. 

Why do Investments in Enterprise Asset Management Systems not Generate the Value Promised in the Business Case?

When VISION and IBM pool our experience we see a pattern emerge in failed implementations. VISION brings almost forty years of experience in design and implementation that’s brought rapid, effective game-changing performance to world-class companies like SSE and Cadent. IBM is world-famous as a pioneer of innovative technologies and services. Our combined experience tells us that the potential value of an asset management system is most often destroyed in three ways. Read more here.