Bart Perkins Senior Consultant

Bart Perkins is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Business Technology Strategies practice and a member of Cutter's Government & Public Sector team. He has more than 30 years' experience leading IT efforts for major corporations and consulting firms, serving global organizations ranging from nonprofits to Fortune 500 firms. Mr. Perkins specializes in helping companies manage IT challenges such as program prioritization, program management, strategic planning, HR career paths, IT organization, and IT governance. His experience includes formulating global IT strategy; aligning IT objectives, strategy, and costs with business goals; creating IT organization structures to support IT strategies; defining the IT competencies required to successfully deliver the IT plan; creating metrics to monitor progress against plan; and creating management forums such as executive steering committees and IT leadership councils to review metrics and undertake appropriate actions.

Mr. Perkins also has extensive management consulting experience. He is currently a partner with Leverage Partners. Previously, he was a partner at KPMG Peat Marwick and an early member of the Nolan, Norton & Co. management consulting staff. His consulting career spans diverse industries, including not-for-profits, government, retail, consumer products, hospitality, healthcare, banking, insurance, brokerage, high tech, and pharmaceutical. Mr. Perkins is also a former CIO of YUM! Brands, parent to KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Long John Silver's, and A&W, where he created a culture change program, making IT more customer-focused and helping staff accept new methods of operation due to spinoffs, globalization, and shared services. Prior to that role, he was the CIO of Dole Food Company, where he established the IT Preferred Vendor Program, saving more than US $1 million in its first year.

Mr. Perkins writes a monthly column on IT management for Computerworld and is a judge for CIO magazine's CIO 100. He serves on the board of directors of i360technologies, NarrowCast Group, and American Printing House for the Blind as well as the advisory boards of New Scale Technologies, Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG), and the University of Louisville's Department of Computer Engineering. Mr. Perkins has a master's degree in computer science from the University of Virginia and a bachelor of science degree in mathematics from the College of William and Mary. He can be reached at bperkins@cutter.com.

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