Cyber Security
Drawing on 30+ years' experience in IT security, including nearly 20 in Security and Intelligence agencies, I can help assess your security needs and plan investments.
Metrics are a critical component of performance management programs. Selecting what to measure, and how to interpret the data, can be a challenge. I'll be glad to help you with this.
An experienced public speaker, I will present findings on your behalf, can coach presentation skills to staff, and am available for keynote and other speaking engagements.
I have found mentoring to be a critical component of development, and have helped organizations set up formal and informal mentoring programs.
Facilitated sessions can help you develop business plans, and review reporting and communication documents.
Project Risk Analysis can help select among different project approaches, and can help identify and quantify the value of mitigation strategies for identified risks.
Vision and Strategy
I can help you develop or update your department's vision and strategy statements, with review, facilitated sessions, and mapping against business objectives; and I can help you develop processes so that vision and strategy inform and influence your annual planning cycle.
Business Process Mapping
An independent viewer can be valuable in capturing, documenting, and challenging your business architecture, prior to process improvement exercises or IT architecture development.

Recent Blog Posts

Depth vs Breadth

At my last few employers I used to blog regularly and encourage other executives to blog. I will be reproducing slightly modified versions of some of those blog posts here. This one, on the subject of when and how to expand skills and knowledge, was first published in early 2019.... Continue reading

Blogging about Blogging

At my last few employers I used to blog regularly and encourage other executives to blog. I will be reproducing slightly modified versions of some of those blog posts here. This one, on the subject of executives blogging, was first published in 2014 and re-published in 2018. Original Blog Post... Continue reading

Thoughts on Mentors and Mentoring

At my last few employers I used to blog regularly and encourage other executives to blog. I will be reproducing slightly modified versions of some of those blog posts here. This one, on the subject of Mentoring, was first published in 2014 and re-published in 2018. Original post follows I... Continue reading

Project Risk Analysis

Consulting firm The Right Door Consulting & Solutions occasionally publishes white papers written by their consultants. A couple of white papers I wrote were included in their collection and distributed at a recent government management conference. The following is one of these. (The version distributed at the conference is available... Continue reading

IT Funding Models

Consulting firm The Right Door Consulting & Solutions occasionally publishes white papers written by their consultants. A couple of white papers I wrote were included in their collection and distributed at a recent government management conference. The following is the long version of one of these. (The formatted versions are... Continue reading