Gary S. Kahn

Gary is a management consultant and program manager with over 25 years of business and technology experience. He works with executives and senior managers to strategize, plan, initiate and realize programs for business process improvement through the effective use of information technology. Gary is a versatile solution designer and skilled at ensuring stakeholder consensus through enterprise analysis and facilitation.

Gary has held positions with major consulting companies, including PriceWaterhouseCoopers and IBM.  As a research scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, Gary developed innovative designs for knowledge-based systems.  He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago. He has taught classes on information-based marketing and e-commerce at the Boston University School of Management. Gary is a PMI-certified project manager (PMP).

 Experience & Skills:

• Guided and facilitated the development of knowledge management strategies
• Assessed needs and made recommendation for community-specific Intranet/portal solutions
• Managed development of information-delivery portals and provided guidance on Information Architecture
• Facilitated stakeholders in building a consensus for ecommerce web-site objectives and requirements
• Led projects to assess information needs for business processes and make recommendations for solution approach
• Analyzed knowledge needs and developed classes and training programs
• Published articles on knowledge management  and presented at several conferences
• Co-founder of the Boston Knowledge Management Forum
• Broad range of operational improvement and IT strategy and planning consulting experiences
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills
• Results-oriented project manager