Runyan, Rick

Rick Runyan is Partner Advisor Experture – an Experton Group partner.

Mr. Runyan founder of Lighthouse Business Consulting, LLC, has been around application software his entire 35+ year career.

He's been consistently motivated by a simple basic belief: that the digital computer is a truly general purpose tool that has the potential to improve virtually every aspect of the human experience. In pragmatic terms that boils down to getting computers to do what one wants, and that translates to applications that work and are understandable. It also means getting people to use them, to adopt new paradigms for what they do. The consequence of this belief is the compilation of many years of experience, first in translating human and business needs into working systems, and later in driving paradigm shifts that enable their effective use. Today he specializes in the building of alliance ecosystems that determine the success or failure of technology in the marketplace. After hands-on design and development work for eight years in heavy industry and healthcare, Rick joined IBM where he held many different positions in sales, marketing, product management, product development, support and ultimately relationship management. Now retired from IBM, he consults on alliance strategy, its alignment with corporate goals, and on alliance program and portfolio execution. His consulting company tag line is, "How long have we been hearing 'partner or perish'? And how many alliances do you know of that really work.