Introduction by Andrew Berger 
I am pleased to host a guest blog post by Robert Kotch. Bob is an experienced management consultant and business executive with extensive background in business strategy development and deployment, financial management and technology leadership. His experiences include integrating diverse IT organizations, serving as CIO and financial head of a division of a Fortune 50 company, and many technology focused successes including CIO and executive team coaching, web strategy development, IT process deployment, business process improvement, management of major programs and evaluation of acquisition targets.