Robert Lewis is president of IT Catalysts, a consultancy specializing in business agility, IT organizational effectiveness, and the strategic integration of information technology organizations into business strategy and operations. He is the award-winning author of more than 800 articles and ten books on these and related subjects.
Mr. Lewis currently publishes two columns: Advice Line – a weblog and electronic newsletter – for InfoWorld – and Keep the Joint Running, published by IS Survivor Publishing as a weblog and e-letter, which also appears on CIO.com. Prior to that he wrote “Survival Guide,” which appeared in InfoWorld for six years. His nine books are:
• Leading IT: (Still) the Toughest Job in the World - Second Edition (IS Survivor Publishing, 2011).
• Bare Bones Change Management: What you shouldn’t not do (IS Survivor Publishing, 2010).
• Outsourcing Debunked: What’s real and what’s baloney in IT’s longest-running controversy (IS Survivor Publishing, 2011).
• Bare Bones Change Management: What you shouldn’t not do (IS Survivor Publishing, 2010).
• Keep the Joint Running: A Manifesto for 21st Century Information Technology (IS Survivor Publishing, 2008).
• Bare Bones Project Management: What you can’t not do (IS Survivor Publishing, 2006).
• ManagementSpeak: What managers say/What they mean (IS Survivor Publishing, 2005).
• Leading IT: The Toughest Job in the World - First Edition (IS Survivor Publishing, 2004).
• Bob Lewis’ IS Survival Guide (SAMS/Macmillan Computer Publishing, 1999).
• Telecommunications for Every Business (Bonus Books, 1992).
• Selling on the ’Net, co-authored with Herschell Gordon Lewis (National Textbook Company, 1996).
Mr. Lewis is a popular presenter who has spoken to a wide variety of audiences, both at commercial and sponsored conferences, and at seminars conducted on behalf of IT Catalysts clients.
Prior to founding IT Catalysts, Mr. Lewis was a senior consultant with Perot Systems Corporation, and has also held a variety of staff and executive positions in information technology, as well as positions in business and product development. He graduated from Macalester College and performed his graduate work, in Ecology and Behavioral Biology, at the University of Minnesota.
Among his other credentials, Mr. Lewis has taught a graduate course in Computer Communications for the University of St. Thomas, and served as president of the Minnesota Telecommunications Association. He was awarded a silver medal by the West Coast Chapter of the American Business Press Editors Association for his Survival Guide columns and a bronze medal for Advice Line, and in 1997, Executive Book Summaries declared Selling on the ’Net to be one of the 30 most important business books of the year.
rdlewis [at] issurvivor [dot] com
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