# Kadence Group

> Kadence Group is Mike Sommer's advisory and build firm. We remove the operational, political, and technology bottleneck in stalled programs and get them back to green.

Kadence Group is Mike Sommer's advisory and build firm. It removes the operational, political, and technology bottleneck in stalled enterprise programs and gets them back to green.
Ways to work together: the read (4 to 8 weeks), forward deployed architecture (embedded term), and build and enablement.
Approach: See, Quantify, Sequence, Govern. Business MRI is the diagnostic method Mike Sommer built across 75+ engagements. It reads four platform dimensions (data quality and trust, integration health, security and access model, change velocity) through three lenses (operational, political, technology), dollarizes each finding, and ends in a Fix-First Sequence of 3 to 5 moves. Outputs: a Clearance verdict (Cleared, Not Cleared: Targeted Gaps, Not Cleared: Foundational), dollarized findings, the Fix-First Sequence, and an AI readiness determination. Ways in: 90-minute Clearance Debrief, Vitals (4 to 6 weeks), full Business MRI (6 to 8 weeks).
Selected results: $1.6M to $2.4M in annual drag found in one MedTech Salesforce org; $4.5M in savings from a telecom Salesforce center of excellence Mike led at IBM.
Founder: Mike Sommer. 20 years and 75+ enterprise engagements. Former Senior Director at IBM. CGEIT. Certified Business Intermediary. Stanford GSB. Based in Oklahoma.

## Pages
- [Kadence Group](https://www.thekadencegroup.com/): Kadence Group removes the operational, political, and technology bottleneck in stalled enterprise programs and gets them back to green. Led by Mike Sommer.
- [Business MRI: The Method](https://www.thekadencegroup.com/business-mri): Business MRI is the diagnostic method Mike Sommer built across 75+ enterprise engagements. It reads how a program really runs, puts a dollar figure on each bottleneck, and sets the order of fixes.
- [Selected Work](https://www.thekadencegroup.com/work): Selected Kadence Group work: a MedTech Salesforce read that found $1.6M to $2.4M in annual drag, and a telecom center of excellence that saved $4.5M.
- [How We Work](https://www.thekadencegroup.com/approach): The Kadence Group approach: See, Quantify, Sequence, Govern. Four moves, run on Business MRI, the diagnostic method Mike Sommer built, that get stalled programs back to green.
- [About Mike Sommer](https://www.thekadencegroup.com/about): Kadence Group is Mike Sommer's advisory and build firm. Twenty years and 75+ enterprise engagements. Former Senior Director at IBM. CGEIT, CBI, Stanford GSB.
- [Contact](https://www.thekadencegroup.com/contact): Book a conversation with Mike Sommer at Kadence Group, or email info@thekadencegroup.com. Start with what's stuck.
- [Trust Center](https://www.thekadencegroup.com/trust): How Kadence Group handles access, data, and confidentiality: least privilege, read only where possible, access limited to the engagement, and client names kept private.

## Contact
- Email: info@thekadencegroup.com
- Book a conversation: https://calendly.com/mike-sommer/1-hr-meeting-block