The thesis, in my own words.
A selection of where I have made the argument in public: technology is capital, and the outcome is the only thing that counts.
Technology as Capital Allocation
Why enterprise technology budgets now rival major capital projects, and what changes when a board judges them the same way.
Read the pieceHarrison-authored and contributed work.
- CEO Weekly, contributed article, June 2026Read →
How Harrison Allen Lewis Helps Strengthen IT Security Across Multi-Location Organizations
A framework for securing IT across hundreds of locations: standardized architecture, constrained and role-based access, aggressive data minimization, and operational resilience measured against business continuity rather than a checklist of controls.
- Glenrowe, contributed article, 2026Read →
What CEOs Should Expect from Technology Leadership in 2026
The cost of treating a CIO as an infrastructure manager, and what the leaders pulling ahead do instead.
- CXO Dispatch, contributed article, 2025Read →
Discovering Your X Factor
Every company has an advantage worth scaling. Most have never aligned their technology to it.
- TechBullion, contributed article, 2025Read →
Turning Technology Investments into Measurable Business Outcomes
Staying rooted in the business problem, so every technology decision traces back to a real need.
The thinking, tested in conversation.
- Founder's Story, interview, June 2026Read →
The Career Rule That Took Him From Bagger to Three-Time CIO
A conversation about outcome-first transformation, leadership judgment, mentorship, and building change with people rather than doing change to them.
- RetailTech Podcast, interview, 2019Read →
The Role of the CIO in the Modern Organization
How technology leadership moved beyond running IT toward growth, integration, data, architecture, security, and business partnership.
- Algonomy and AWS, executive session, 2021Read →
AI-Powered Personalization in Retail
A Grocery Outlet-era discussion of customer relevance, personalization, and the practical role of AI in the retail experience.
The work, used to teach.
- Wiley, textbook
Business Intelligence: Practices, Technologies, and Management
Rajiv Sabherwal and Irma Becerra-Fernandez
Uses Haggen’s business intelligence work as an instructional case and names Harrison Lewis as Haggen VP and CIO within it.
Independent and partner records of the work.
- CIO Insight, Samuel Greengard, October 28, 2014Read →
Northgate Markets Heads to the Cloud
CIO Insight documents Northgate’s move to a cloud integration platform, connecting more than 64 integrations in about five months, improving real-time transaction visibility, and reducing reliance on offshore development.
- Los Angeles Times, Paresh Dave, July 2015Read →
Windows 10 upgrades may not ramp up until next year
Harrison, then Northgate González Markets CIO, explained why a major platform upgrade should follow business need and application readiness rather than a vendor release cycle.
- Grocery Retail Online, case study, 2008Read →
Haggen Deploys Real-Time Business Intelligence
A widely cited industry case on moving margin and revenue visibility from a 24-hour lag into the selling day.
- Supermarket News, trade coverage, 2008Read →
Breaking the Mold
Coverage of Haggen’s Top Connection customer platform and its early use of RFID identity and customer data to build a more useful relationship.
- Network World, case study, 2018Read →
SD-WAN: The Inside Scoop from Real-World Deployments
How Northgate improved bandwidth, network resilience, and operating economics across a distributed store environment.
- Computerworld, interview and coverage, 2010Read →
IT Embraces Its New, Leaner Lifestyle
An on-record case for keeping differentiating technology internal and sourcing commodity capabilities more economically.
- Druva, customer case studyRead →
Northgate Markets Goes All In on Cloud Data Protection
A vendor-documented account of approximately 60% lower backup and recovery cost across a large virtual estate.
- Progressive Grocer, Sponsored by Invatron, 2019Read →
Technology Helps Bring Fresh Food into the Future
Sponsored partner coverage of Northgate’s fresh-food technology roadmap, product availability, and demand-led production.
Where the writing becomes the work.
The same thinking drives every engagement at the firm.