Who are we?

We're an advisory service. We're practitioners, who have held or managed every role there is to hold or manage in IT, and quite a few different executive, staff and management responsibilities in the business.

We help IT organizations become more effective, and help businesses become more professional at achieving planned and designed change.

Quickly.

Efficiently.

Without huge, tedious studies and reams of shelfware. Without an invasion of “3-piece suits” in your office. Without disruptions. We have no sales force to pressure you and no large integration teams to keep busy. We have, in other words, no incentive to sell you anything you don’t need.

We succeed by helping you succeed by identifying high-potential opportunities and creating concrete programs you can act on, not by helping ourselves to a huge slice of your budget.

Principals

President and Founder

Robert Lewis, president and founder of IT Catalysts, is one of the most respected advisers and commentators in the IT industry. He is the award-winning author of ten books and more than 800 columns dealing with how to effectively lead information technology organizations, integrate them into the enterprise, and use them as part of effectively planned and executed business change programs.

Known for his unique blend of vision and pragmatism, Mr. Lewis is recognized internationally as an authority on how to maximize the value delivered by information technology organizations and to achieve designed and planned organizational change.

Prior to founding IT Catalysts, Mr. Lewis held a wide variety of executive, management, staff, and consulting positions in the field of information technology, as well as positions in manufacturing, product development, business planning, and consulting.

He, personally, is your IT Catalysts contact.

Senior Consultant

Stephen Nazian has spent most of his career as an internal consultant responsible for delivering business change through the innovative application of information technology. He brings with him more than 30 years experience in general, financial and automated systems discipline and methodology, including more than two decades of financial services industry experience.

Mr. Nazian’s professional experience has included enterprise-level responsibility for feasibility studies on new or improved business processes, business and financial viability analysis for IT-related initiatives, and review, policy development and implementation of security for facilities and digital assets, including internal and external vulnerability analyses, disaster recovery and business continuity planning, procedures and preparation.

Mr. Nazian specializes in working with Executive and Senior management to elicit clear vision and requirements for the success of the enterprise.