About Me

Philosophically, blogs should do something. They should inspire, change and affect their readers. They should move people to do or feel something different.

This blog is about helping those who help/serve others. If something big, cool or useful is going on in professional services, you should know about it. This blog will be that and your help is always appreciated.

Brian Sommer is a former Accenture partner. He simultaneously ran three practice units (Finance Center of Excellence, HR Center of Excellence and Software Intelligence). He’s sold service projects in almost every continent and actually enjoyed his biggest sales successes in Europe.

Brian is currently CEO of TechVentive, a strategy consultancy servicing technology providers, and a fellow with Azul Partners, a marketing strategy and content firm. He can reached at content@techventive.net

Brian has authored a number of pieces for mainstream finance and IT publications. Here are several links to a small number of these:

www.optimizemag.com/issue/003/roi.htm - A piece on business case development

www.optimizemag.com/article/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=M3QIMCLMYTREUQSNDBECKH0CJUMEKJVN?articleId=174402500 – Latest piece on the need for CIOs to accept more risk

www.dmreview.com/whitepaper/wid598.pdf - One of two pieces on HR-BPO