2007-10-16 - "CEO-CIO Relationships"

Bruce Rogow, Odyssey Consulting 

Since 1992, Bruce has been a private counselor for CIOs and CEOs related to the management of information technology. His practice is based on over 120 face-to-face, one-on-one Odyssey visits he makes annually with senior executives that are involved with the management of IT. The visits are designed to determine what is happening in the industry, what is working, what isn’t, how executives are increasing IT yield and what management challenges are emerging. He combines these up to date findings with his nearly forty years of IT management observation to create a unique perspective on what it takes for IT to continually enhance its business contribution. His presentations, workshops and counselor work are focused on how the IT landscape is changing and what leading executives are doing to meet the challenge.

Bruce’s career has allowed him to build a pre-eminent understanding of the issues, mindsets and agendas of senior IT executives. These observations, perspectives and insights apply to both the demand and supply sides of the IT equation. He is a Principal of ICEX, which manages private Knowledge Exchange Programs for major non-competing firms. He is co-director for the ICEX Enterprise Architecture Strategy and Data Center Excellence programs. Bruce’s quarterly feature, A View from the Odyssey, appeared in Optimize magazine. He is responsible for the work on the IT organization of the future and Enabling Wikinomics in Don Tapscott’s research programs. During the 90’s, he served as an Executive Fellow of Gartner. Previously, he was Executive Vice President, Head of Research for Gartner. During his leadership, Gartner’s Total Cost of Ownership, Magic Quadrants, Hype Cycles, Symposiums and Gartner’s position as the premier IT user research firm became industry standards. From 1977 through 1987, as a Senior Managing Principal of Nolan, Norton & Co, he was a major contributor to much of the NNC methodology. He led major management assessments in over twenty Fortune 200 firms. He led the NNC Education efforts and was among their most sought after and effective communicators. He started his career at IBM in sales. Bruce spent five years in Advanced Technical Training pioneering what became known as systems management. He was also the originator, curriculum developer and lead instructor of their IT Complex Systems Management course that introduced systems management principles to both customer executives and IBM field personnel. He holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the University of Florida and has lived in Marblehead, MA for over twenty-five years. His wife, Winnie, is a retired Partner of Nolan, Norton & Co/KPMG and was the program manager for the work that became the Balanced Scorecard by Norton & Kaplan. His son Mark is the Minor League Training Coordinator for the New York Mets. His daughter Michelle is a Registered Professional Engineer serving as an Emergency Response On-Site Coordinator with the EPA in San Francisco. His other son, Geoff is a Copy Editor with Dow Jones NewsWires in Jersey City.