Kenneth Rau
Senior Consultant

Kenneth Rau is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Business Technology Strategies practice. He is an internationally recognized authority on IT strategic planning, governance, control, and performance measurement. He has conducted research, written, spoken, consulted, and practiced in these areas for more than 30 years, helping businesses increase the business value of IT. His current areas of focus are IT performance measurement, governance, financial and risk management, and IT organizational change management.

Mr. Rau has developed new technology product and service offerings in these areas for KPMG; Deloitte & Touche; and Nolan, Norton & Co. Most recently, he was responsible for developing the CIO Dashboard service offering and methodology, which combine such techniques as the balanced scorecard, IT modeling, performance management, and activity-based costing for IT.

Mr. Rau coauthored, with David Norton, MIS Performance Management: A Guide to Design and Installation and is the author of Human Resource Performance Management in IT: A Guide to Productivity Improvement. He is a frequent speaker at industry events in the US, Europe, and the Far East. He received his MBA from Harvard University and currently resides in North Carolina, USA. He can be reached at consulting@cutter.com.