River Road Consulting brings over 20 years of cross-disciplinary expertise at the intersection of business strategy, technology, and digital innovation. I specialize in leading mission-critical initiatives, combining strategic insight with deep operational and technical acumen. My approach is grounded in building long-term, trusted partnerships with CEOs, CIOs, and CMOs—delivering complex projects on time, on budget, and with lasting impact.

As Principal, I provide hands-on leadership in shaping business direction, creating new operating models, guiding long-term strategy, and designing integrated process, product and technology solutions. River Road Consulting operates as a technology-agnostic partner, bringing objective insight and broad platform experience to every engagement. This ensures unbiased vendor evaluations and tailored solutions that align with each client’s unique needs and ecosystem.. View the Simon Metz - River Road Consulting client list for strategic and implementation projects.

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See my thought leadership article on the “Shiny Object Syndrome”, leveraging 20+ years of digital transformation and IT strategy and execution for clients: Shiny Object Syndrome in Enterprise Technology Ecosystems

Core Service Offerings

  • Program and Project Management

  • Product Development and Management

    • Create new or modify existing B2B and B2C applications and platforms. Build business and IT requirements

  • Data Analysis and Strategy

    • Analysis of legacy systems, transformation strategy and what and how to leverage data

  • AI Transformation

    • Discovery, use case and POC tool planning, TCO and change management for AI teams

    • AI Program Management across IT, marketing, business unit teams as AI is adopted

  • Technology & Platform Analysis Integration & Eco-System Optimization

    • Risk Analysis, documentation, integration planning, future state architecture, vendor & system due diligence, TCO (Total Cost of Owernship) for new technology licenses, sunset legacy apps

River Road Consulting works with clients and guides their projects and strategic initiatives with one key principle: listen to the client. As I understand the client's goals, which should include the goals of their end users as well, then it's time to start looking for issues with resources, operating model(s) legacy technology, data acquisition, business process, application quality, and content strategy & governance. Here again it's important to not make an assumption about the source of the problems. Don't assume that it's a design, content, analytics, or technology challenge, it's probably a combination of these.

I believe that at this point it's important to know what the clients sensibilities are, what they appreciate, and what drives their users (B2B, B2E, or B2C) to engage with their platform. Ultimately a good consultant will guide the client to the strategy which will increase the efficacy of their digital systems, businesses and platforms.

Data Strategy & Analysis

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