E-MailBob Benson | Tom Bugnitz | Bill Walton
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Robert J. Benson
Senior Consultant
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Bob Benson is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Business-IT Strategies Practice and a Principal with The Beta Group. His consulting features business value, effective IT application development, consulting methodology development, IT infrastructure planning, and facilitated planning.
Mr. Benson has been instrumental in the development of Information Technology Investment Evaluation and The Business Value RoadMap, methodologies based on Information Economics used by companies and consulting organizations around the world. He has conducted executive seminars on these subjects throughout the world and has taught graduate courses in schools of business and engineering in Holland and the US. Mr. Benson is an Affiliate Professor of Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also served as Associate Vice Chancellor for Computing and Communications for 20 years.
Since 1965, Mr. Benson has lectured and consulted; created and managed academic programs and organizations, developed large-scale computer systems; and worked with countless companies and agencies in their information technology applications. He is coauthor of several books and numerous articles and monographs, including Information Economics: Linking Information Technology and Business Performance and Information Strategy and Economics: Linking Information Systems Strategy to Business Performance. He is codeveloper of Information Economics and Enterprise-Wide Information Management. These methodologies are used by companies and consulting organizations worldwide to better manage information technology resources for business improvement. He can be reached at consulting@cutter.com.
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Tom Bugnitz
Senior Consultant
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Tom Bugnitz is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Business Technology Trends and Impacts Practice and Business-IT Strategies Practice. He is also President of The Beta Group. His specialties include business and organization transformation through information systems, information systems organization management, technology planning, the impact of new and emerging technologies, the impact of technology on business strategies, information systems operations, strategic systems applications, and leadership for executives.
Mr. Bugnitz has lectured widely on these subjects and has codeveloped methodologies in these areas. In addition, he is closely associated with Washington University in St. Louis and participates actively in the development and execution of research in the field of Information Management. He is coauthor of several books on computers and computer programming. Since 1974, he has worked in the field of business and information management. He has consulted around the world with numerous companies and government organizations.
Mr. Bugnitz brings practical experience to bear on his consulting and teaching assignments, having worked at all levels of information systems organizations, including 10 years managing large data centers and telecommunications operations. He has also served as an expert witness for the last five years in the field of software acquisition and development. He can be reached at consulting@cutter.com.
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William B. Walton
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Bill Walton's areas of special interest and expertise include performance measurement, integrated strategic planning, IT/business value, organizational change management, and technology driven change. Previously, Mr. Walton spent 17 years with Gartner Group and Real Decisions, where he was responsible for the development of several innovative IT measurement services and their associated analytical methods. Most recently, Mr. Walton was involved in the development of a set of management frameworks and tools that support IT strategic alignment and planning processes. Additionally, he has been active in the adaptation and application of Balanced Scorecard methodologies to IT change management issues. Mr. Walton has been active in the information and technology management field since 1977.
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