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Information Technology -- CIO
As CEO and founder of Research & Planning, Inc. (R&P), Dr. Gruber built a multi-million dollar consulting and software business with a client base of many large users of information technology and many of the leading information technology and data vendors, including: IBM, DEC, H-P, Wang, Lotus, IBI, Reuters, Telerate, Knight-Ridder, National Computer Systems, Group Bull, Data Resources Division Of McGraw-Hill, Chase and Citibank treasury workstation services, and Bankers Trust loan syndication software product. R&P assignments for information technology and data vendors included business strategy, niche domination strategy, business services such as outsourcing strategy, competitive intelligence, market intelligence, and customer and staff training. Dr. Gruber’s consulting assignments were facilitated by his forecast of the strategic use of information technology, when the information revolution was still very immature, and his development of the job title and responsibility of the chief information officer (CIO), a concept that he co-invented with one his clients who was senior vice president of information services at the Bank of Boston. As president of R&P, Dr. Gruber was responsible for a number of assignments with large users of information technology and data which included assistance in technology strategy, technology-based business strategy, technology architecture and vendor selection, staff development and training, and information services management practices. R&P clients included multiple pharmaceutical companies, multiple health care providers - hospital, nursing home chain, HMO, and multiple bank, insurance, securities companies; money managers and Institutional Investor. Dr. Gruber has also consulted with multiple large consulting firms. Dr. Gruber was on the Advisory Board of PC Expo, and he served as judge on the CIO Magazine evaluation of top100 CIO Global leaders. Publications on IT and CIO include: Information Resource Management: Opportunities and Strategies for the 1980s, New York, Wiley, 1981. (Widely recognized as the seminal book that launched the Chief Information Office (CIO) concept.) "Global Information Officer: The CIO Grows Up", Global Magazine, March 1990 "The Different Faces of IS Integration," Leaders Magazine, 1987 "Chief Information Officer: A Management Concept Whose Time Has Come," IBM Bulletin, February, 1986. "Competitive Advantage Systems in Value Chain Strategy" R&P Executive Briefing, March, 1985, Basis for BusinessWeek cover story on "Information Power", October, 1985 "Planning Amid Change", Computerworld, 1985. "The Care & Feeding of Users", Datamation, March 1982. "Step-by-Step Management Innovation", Management Advisor, 1972. "Next Generation Technology for PC Users," Micromanagers Association Annual Meeting, 1988. "Technology Transfer Strategy for American Express," for the Technology Strategy Group, 1988. "The Chief Information Officer's Role in The Integration Of Technology and Strategic Business Planning," the National Financial Computer & Automation Conference, New York City, 1987. "CIO Position Emerges as a New Strategic Force," PC Week, 1987. "Potential of Computers in Management Still Unrealized," Management Review, 1982.
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