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Thomas Nies

Thomas M. Nies is the founder and CEO of Cincom Systems, Inc. Since the company’s founding in 1968, Cincom has matured into one of the largest international, independent software companies in the world. Cincom's client base spans communications, financial services, education, government, manufacturing, retail, healthcare and insurance. In 2004, Ernst & Young inducted Nies into its Entrepreneur of the Year Hall of Fame. In 2005, along with the CEO of Adobe, Nies won the International Stevie Award for Best Executive in the International Business Awards - “the business world’s own Oscars,” according to the New York Post.

Published on 07/26/2009

In an influential 1985 book, still relevant today, Gifford Pinchot III coined the phrase “intrapreneurship” to describe the marriage of an entrepreneurial spirit – complete with its fierce independence and lack of deference to established views and the strictures of conventional wisdom – with the resources of a large corporation. While these two spirits may seem in conflict, they actually thrive in many of the world’s best-run companies.