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Kevin Behr is an American author, speaker, researcher, entrepreneur, futurist and adviser on IT management issues for everyday business challenges. He is the founder of the Information Technology Process Institute (ITPI) and Chief Scientist for Praxis-Flow. He is an active mentor and coach to senior executive and IT leadership, where Kevin mentors and coaches IT organizations to increase their business effectiveness and competitive advantage over the long term. Primary disciplines: generating business flow and agility. 25+ years IT management. Communication, collaboration, problem-solving. Authorship: Kevin is the author or co-author of six IT management books, including: The Phoenix Project, co-authored with Gene Kim and George Spafford, Amazon's number one bestseller in the Business Productivity and Operations category; The Visible Ops Handbook, coauthored with Gene Kim and George Spafford, and The Definitive Guide to IT Management, published by Hewlett Packard. ____________________ The Visible Ops Handbook: Implementing ITIL in 4 Practical and Audible Steps book was co-authored by Gene Kim and George Spafford and published by IT Revolution Press in January 2013. The book outlines how successful technology companies like Etsy, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon.com, Twitter and Google transformed their ITIL practices to implement effective change control. The Visible Ops Handbook is now considered an IT "cult classic" by the industry. _____________________ "The Phoenix Project" co-authored by Kevin Behr, Gene Kim and George Spafford and published it through IT Revolution Press in January 2013. It is a business book in novel format in the fashion of “The Goal,” by Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt. The novel tells the story of Bill, the IT manager at Parts Unlimited. The company’s new IT initiative, code named Phoenix Project, is critical to the future of Parts Unlimited, but the project is massively over budget and very late. The CEO wants Bill to report directly to him and fix the mess in ninety days or else Bill’s entire department will be outsourced. With the help of a prospective board member and his mysterious philosophy of The Three Ways, Bill starts to see that IT work has more in common with manufacturing plant work than he ever imagined. With the clock ticking, Bill must organize work flow streamline interdepartmental communications, and effectively serve the other business functions at Parts Unlimited. The book has been called a "must read" for IT professionals and quickly reached #1 in its Amazon.com categories. Kevin is a popular keynote speaker and frequently called on to address a broad range of technology and management topics by organizations such as the National Academy of Sciences, Hewlett-Packard, Devopsdays, AFCOM and The IT Service Management Forum. Additional and relevant links, most of which could be viewed as promotional but they are third-party from any professional affiliations like PraxisFlow currently or Assemblage Point previously.
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Integrating Controls and Process Improvement http://www.slideshare.net/realgenekim/kevin-behr-at

IT Process Institute: http://itpi.org/

Amazon author's profile: http://www.amazon.com/Kevin-Behr/e/B001JS6SXU

Wired: The Ultimate Experimenter http://www.wired.com/2013/06/the-ultimate-experimenter-an-interview-with-phoenix-project-co-author-kevin-behr/

IT Revolution Press: http://itrevolution.com/authors/kevin-behr/