Welcome to my website and blog.

I am Richard J. ("Rick") DeLotto, MBA, knowledge wrangler, meme rancher, ignorance manager, Cassandrist, Former Gartner Analyst and aspiring metal bender... currently developing some interesting intellectual property and wandering around unattended exercising my curiosity.

My work is based on one principle: enough can be known with adequate clarity in sufficient time to make a difference in the outcome. For everything else, it is hard to mess up too badly if you stick with the Scout Oath and Law.

 Mostly, I find things out and think of stuff. Unlike many of my ilk, I am not fixated on technology as the solution to all problems, and tend to sequence my approach in this order: People, Ideas, Technology. I am really good at kicking down the walls of those boxes you were supposed to think outside of, “jumping from unwarranted assumptions to forgone conclusions”, and "Being Right 39 Months Early". I can also lead or coach teams in the most effective ways to manage corporate situational awareness. I can no more predict the future than any human, but I can help you plot likely outcomes of current events with enough lead-time to make a difference in your results.  

I wrote a lot, as a sole practitioner, joint author and as part of often world-wide, telelinked project teams, and I had a excellent reputation among my colleagues for being able to help them focus and sharpen both their written work and presentations. I usually managed at least one high-visibility team publication project each year while at Gartner, all too often picking it up in mid-stream and carrying it to a successful conclusion.

I am not going to dredge up past history here, though (or even provide links). You can

“Check my work" at www.gartner.com, by googling "DeLotto" and "Gartner" together, or by reading my blog, "Circumspections" which you can link to from a tab at the top of this page. Note that I am still trying to decide what I can give away for free, and what I should be charging for. You can still buy copies of my early work directly from Gartner, Inc.

Find my public resume, professional contacts and what I will admit to have been reading recently on Linkedin.

Meet my friends-and-relations on my Facebook page, though you might not get all your fingers back.

Follow me on Twitter, where I used to Tweet as "delotto4gartner”, and now do so as "rickdelotto" whenever I remember to.

Finally, I have been known to respond to e-mail. Honest. For some reason, though, I still have an aversion to answering telephones.

 Rick DeLotto 
richard.delotto@briarpatchresearch.com