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Robert J. Benson
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Robert Benson is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Business-IT Strategies practice and a Principal with The Beta Group. He applies more than forty years of academic and corporate experience to assist companies and government agencies with understanding the business value of information technology (IT), strategic and financial IT management, strategic IT planning, effective IT application development, and IT governance. Since 2001, he has written numerous Cutter Executive Reports and Business-IT Strategies E-Mail Advisors, and has consulted for and conducted workshops with Cutter clients in the USA, Mexico, and Poland.
Mr. Benson has been instrumental in the development of portfolio management methods and strategic and financial management methodologies based on Information Economics used by companies and consulting organizations around the world. He has conducted executive seminars and management courses on these subjects throughout the world, and consulted with over 100 companies and organizations in twenty countries.
Mr. Benson taught Computer Science and Information Management at Washington University in St. Louis for 40 years, where he also served as Associate Vice Chancellor for Computing and Communications and in other executive positions. He also has taught Information Management at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, for 20 years, and is member of the faculty there.
He is coauthor of several books and numerous articles and monographs, including From Business Strategy to IT Action: Right Decisions for a Better Bottom Line, Information Economics: Linking Information Technology and Business Performance and Information Strategy and Economics: Linking Information Systems Strategy to Business Performance. He can be reached at consulting@cutter.com.
"[T]he reality is that most companies today demonstrate a considerable gap between the goals of IT and those of the business -- and I believe the gap is growing."
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