About The Rhythm of Business
The Rhythm of Business is a Boston-based consultancy and research group specializing in the emerging discipline of collaborative business. Collaborative business is an inclusive and reciprocal way of working that spans organizational boundaries and hierarchies and offers advantage to all parties to an endeavor. It combines the innovative nature and relationship focus of entrepreneurial thinking with the multiplier effect of purposeful networks.

For more than 15 years we've built collaborative business models and managed networks of suppliers and partners. Through our consulting and educational activities we've developed comprehensive frameworks and measurement tools to enable executives to innovate and grow through collaboration.

Our work spans both the civic and private sectors, from Global 10 corporations to entrepreneurial ventures, as well as with governments, not for profits, and international networks. Our methodologies have been developed, applied, and validated in diverse arenas including

• Oil and gas
• Pharmaceuticals
• High technology manufacturing
• Enterprise software
• Economic and community development
• Higher Education

A History of Breakthrough Business Thinking
Named after an acclaimed business book by Jeffrey Shuman, Ph.D., The Rhythm of Business, Inc. was co-founded in 1999 by Shuman, a 30-year veteran entrepreneur, strategic consultant, and business educator, and Janice Twombly, CPA, an expert on business performance measurement and formerly partner in a leading Boston accounting firm. Since then, based on their practice and research, Shuman and Twombly have co-authored numerous books, articles, and white papers and regularly speak at a variety of venues around the world. Their methodologies inform Shuman's popular MBA courses at Bentley College where he is a professor of management and director of entrepreneurial studies.

Through its consulting, research, and teaching, The Rhythm of Business continues to deliver on its commitment to provide organizations and executives with the mindset, skillset, and toolset for successful collaborative business in today's interdependent, global economy.