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[email protected] 845.418.2839 Stop wasting money on IT projects that don’t meet expectations Bob Kantor – Management Consultant and Executive Coach Are your senior Business and IT Executives working effectively together to grow your business, as more and more business is digital? “As the IT leader in the c-suite, sometimes I don't have true thought partners on the executive team that understand IT. My sessions with Bob allow me to validate challenges and brainstorm solutions with someone that has been there & done that” VP IT, cars.com Kantor works with senior execs to simplify business processes and enhance cross-organizational engagement. This leads to process and product innovations that reduce time-to-market, improve quality and reduce stress for leaders and their teams. Consulting: There are no technology projects - only business change initiatives. Many of these business changes require new technology. But calling them technology projects distracts us from leading the essential business change. To optimize the business impact of all such initiatives requires that the basic business change be fully addressed in each project. This requires a direct linkage between initiatives and the firm’s business drivers. Executive Coaching: Realizing the expected business value of the resultant strategic portfolio of change investments requires full engagement between the IT leaders and their key stakeholders. Kantor finds that in addition to the more obvious need for innovation in an IT strategy, there also needs to be a close partnership between these two groups to maximize business impact. Bob helped with our IT Strategy and decision-making. He quickly and concisely crystallized issues and challenges and offered terrific guidance in terms of tools and advice.” SVP Engineering, C&M Corp Kantor has consulted with over 400 leaders across 60+ companies, and logged over 3,500 executive coaching hours since 2010. He provides IT management consulting in governance, program management, strategy and organizational change to leaders in corporations such as
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[email protected] 845.418.2839

Stop wasting money on IT projects that don’t meet expectations

Bob Kantor – Management Consultant and Executive Coach

Are your senior Business and IT Executives working effectively together to grow your business, as more and more business is digital? “As the IT leader in the c-suite, sometimes I don't have true thought partners on the executive team that understand IT. My sessions with Bob allow me to validate challenges and brainstorm solutions with someone that has been there & done that” VP IT, cars.com

Kantor works with senior execs to simplify business processes and enhance cross-organizational engagement. This leads to process and product innovations that reduce time-to-market, improve quality and reduce stress for leaders and their teams. Consulting: There are no technology projects - only business change initiatives. Many of these business changes require new technology. But calling them technology projects distracts us from leading the essential business change. To optimize the business impact of all such initiatives requires that the basic business change be fully addressed in each project. This requires a direct linkage between initiatives and the firm’s business drivers.

Executive Coaching: Realizing the expected business value of the resultant strategic portfolio of change investments requires full engagement between the IT leaders and their key stakeholders. Kantor finds that in addition to the more obvious need for innovation in an IT strategy, there also needs to be a close partnership between these two groups to maximize business impact.

“Bob helped with our IT Strategy and decision-making. He quickly and concisely crystallized issues and challenges and offered terrific guidance in terms of tools and advice.” SVP Engineering, C&M Corp Kantor has consulted with over 400 leaders across 60+ companies, and logged over 3,500 executive coaching hours since 2010. He provides IT management consulting in governance, program management, strategy and organizational change to leaders in corporations such as

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Stop wasting money on IT projects that don’t meet expectations Recommendations for Bob Kantor from LinkedIn Igor Bondarenko – Director, Applications …I consider Bob to among the most influential advisors in my career as a leader. Bob's ability to connect with people and tailor his insight is remarkable… Mike Norton – SVP, Engineering and Quality …We hired Bob as a management consultant to help with our IT Strategy and decision-making. He was able to quickly and concisely crystallize issues and challenges and offer terrific guidance both in terms of tools and advice… Aaron Amendolia – VP, IT …The ability to disrupt comfortable practices for impactful improvement is the rare gift Kantor possesses as a business strategist and executive coach. He has taught me tools by which to increase productivity and reframe my best ideas… Pete Krockta – AVP, Application Support and IT Operations …Bob has an uncanny ability to ask just the right questions to get to the heart of the matter… Kevin Steele - CTO …Bob has provided invaluable advice and immediately applicable tactics. As the IT leader in the c-suite, sometimes I don't have true thought partners on the executive team that understand IT. My work with Bob allows me to validate challenges and brainstorm solutions with someone who has ‘been there & done that’... Renee Furr – Director, IT …Bob helped me take an unstructured IT department without many formal processes and quickly guided me to turn that around. He has a great depth of knowledge in IT Governance processes and IT Strategy work. He has challenged me to think more strategically and has helped me to position the IT department of my midsized company to be more effective and more strategically aligned with the business… Dan Cernich – VP, IT Customer Applications …Bob provided immense value. Each session had a direct and positive impact on challenges I was facing in that moment. Each built upon the previous ones, having a cumulative effect that was beyond expectations… Ed Markovich – Manager, Development …Bob's great at adopting his communication styles to the needs of his client. He clearly has ‘seen it all’ and was able to understand and relate to diverse situations, as well as help me think about them in different ways… David Brackenwagen – SVP, Sales and Marketing …We had a need to overhaul our IT infrastructure and applications strategies, which required an interim CIO with skill sets beyond our internal talent. Bob gathered an intimate understanding of our business needs and provided the leadership team with options linked to those needs and that minimized our business risks… Claudine Schoenherr – Senior Manager, IT Strategy …Bob challenged me to see different perspectives and work through potential scenarios. All the while he was focusing on developing my leadership skills and maximizing my potential as a successful professional…

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Stop wasting money on IT projects that don’t meet expectations Big Issues – Big Results Most companies are wasting money on their IT investments, but not for the reasons they think. They focus on managing technology rather than on managing business change, and fail to align their IT investments with their key business drivers. “We know that 70 percent of business change programs fail to achieve their goals…” McKinsey & Company Their IT leaders do not have the business skills to enable full engagement and collaboration across the organization. “Ninety-one percent of the 1,271 CIOs surveyed by Deloitte in 2015 acknowledge lacking at least one of the key skills they identified as critical to their success as a tech leader.” WSJ 11/09/2015 Improving alignment of IT investments with business drivers is simple when the right business processes are used. But few companies know how to do this. Technology innovation without this alignment and engagement creates operational disruptions that kill productivity, even when good tech investments are being made. “77% of respondents believe that speed in IT is important to their ability to enter new markets and launch new products quickly.” BUT… “63% feel their organization responds too slowly to exploit opportunities.” Corporate Executive Board Kantor has 30 years experience fixing these problems, including ten with KPMG. He’s served over 400 leaders at over 60 companies. Business and Technology executives from many of the world’s best-known companies turn to him to help shape their leaders and execute on core strategies.

• We help ensure short-term project success and long-term operational effectiveness.

• We leave behind sustainable process and leadership performance improvements.

• We deliver results quickly, keeping your costs and risks low and making the best possible use of your organization’s time.

• We earn your trust and respect, based on our experience and performance.

• Your Business and IT leaders actually enjoy working with us.