Harris Kern is an IT Management Consultant who has worked with over 450 Global 2000 companies. His focus is on people, process and overall organization performance. Mr. Kern is an authority on best practices. His solutions are documented in the Enterprise Computing Institute and the best-selling series of books published by Prentice Hall. The series includes titles such as: Managing IT as an Investment, CIO Wisdom, and IT Organization, among others.
Staff and leadership development is an area Mr. Kern is extremely passionate about. He has developed a Professional Growth Program (PGP), which provides your organization (individual contributors and management) with an actively monitored performance-enhancement strategy/roadmap. Individuals are able to integrate goals (career and personal) that allow them to be more motivated, focused and productive. The PGP focuses on leadership development, self-management skills (time/goal management), EQ (communication, relationship building, etc), knowledge in best practices and business aptitude.
Harris Kern delivers solutions that revolve around a comprehensive set of IT methodologies that concentrate on identifying, measuring, improving the ability of IT to deliver against the business value-chain. Most importantly, the results enable our clients to articulate that value to the business, demonstrating alignment with key value streams such as revenue, market share, cost reduction, customer satisfaction, and operating efficiencies.
Harris Kern is hoping that his experience in building high-performance organizations, which are aligned with business objectives, will allow for an opportunity to sit down and discuss how he may be of some assistance.
Features Harris Kern's 10 Commandments for IT Excellence
World-renowned industry expert, author, and publisher Harris Kern, delivers a lively presentation on the challenges of managing your enterprise's mission critical applications in a networked computing environment. He also highlights his 10 commandments (guiding principles) for designing the ideal computing environment.
Features Harris Kern's IT Performance Mentoring Program
The pressures of everyday life to do more with less are enormous. Today you have no choice but to structure your life to do as much as possible in the time you have. Learn how to effectively:
Features Harris Kern's Discipline Mentoring Program
Discipline is the prerequisite to having the life you want. The amount of discipline you possess determines the level of happiness, success and ultimately the overall quality of your life. Learn how to effectively:
Establish goals and priorities
Manage time with PRIME (Personally Regulated Improvement Model to Excel)
Train the mind to manage your life
Maintain values, etc.
My goal is not to motivate people. My goal is to educate and mentor people to acquire discipline. Motivation is a temporary feeling that will not sustain. By acquiring discipline you will motivate yourself to effectively manage your life.
Read more on my Discipline Mentoring Program
IT Services
The IT Assessment
The objective of the IT Assessment is to take a high-level snapshot of your IT organization. This 1-2 day assessment is the foundation for building a competitive IT organization. The focus is on the people, organization structure, and the processes. The data from the assessment becomes the foundation for the Organizational Planning and Development Workshop.
The IT Organization Planning and Development Workshop
The objective of the workshop is to help your organization design a strategy to build a competitive IT organization. This strategy allows your IT staff to achieve their personal and professional goals, while aligning those needs with the goals and objectives of the IT organization.
IT Performance Mentoring
Harris Kern introduces the formula for success in building a competitive IT organization by resolving the people issues. His vision brings the world of IT and discipline together to properly address the people issues in IT. His goal is to arm IT professionals with the right tools to empower them to become more productive not only in their career but for their personal life as well.
Process Implementation and Improvement
There are many processes that make up a 'world-class' IT Organization. These processes must be properly designed to support all mission critical systems with very clear ownership and accountability. These critical processes provide the functional disciplines necessary to build and manage a successful computing environment.
Enterprise Solutions For IT Service Providers
Executive Consultancy
This service offering provides C-Level consultancy services that will be provided by Harris Kern himself.
Accelerate the Sales Cycle
(Boot Camp For IT Service Providers)
There are thousands of IT Service Providers effective at selling technology solutions at the middle-management layer within the IT organization. Given today's economy, technology downturn and commodity priced products; you may be looking for a way to differentiate your organization from your competitors in a professional and effective manner.
Increase Self Productivity
Discipline Mentoring Program Whether individuals are seeking daily motivation, structure in their life,
accomplishing more, becoming successful, doing more with less, or something
else, the answer is discipline. To be successful in every facet of life and
to accomplish more than you ever thought possible, the key ingredient is
discipline. One can establish many goals, but without discipline the chances
of consistently accomplishing them are slim to none. However, Most people
cannot acquire discipline on their own. My role as your discipline mentor
will be to guide you through the process of acquiring discipline, ensuring
they stay on track by being there every step of the way.
