I bring over 35 years of IT strategy and management experience as an IT industry executive, researcher, author, educator and management consultant. I have focused on transforming the performance of IT organizations, aligning information technology and business strategies, and the implementation of technology-enabled business change. My career experience and perspective brings together the important disciplines of IT management and organizational change management into a unique and powerful combination.
My roles have included:
- Leading breakthrough research into IT Transformation and Value Realization at the Center for Business Innovation
- Helping large, global companies align IT capabilities with business strategies, and establishing mechanisms and structures to maintain continuous alignment
- Improving the performance of IT organizations through the adoption of leading practices and Web 2.0 technologies
- Working with senior IT and business executives and their change implementation teams to address the people implications of IT-enabled change to accelerate and strengthen value delivered
- Educating IT and business executives on the strategic and innovative use of IT
I have led many significant multi-client research projects from a groundbreaking IS Leadership Program that studied IT transformation initiatives over a 3-year longitudinal study at 30 leading multi-national corporations, to Capability on Demand, Contemporary Practices in IT Benchmarking, Sustaining Enterprise Architecture and IT Value Realization Strategies. I am a seasoned public speaker, lecturing around the world to business and IT audiences.
My publications include Development Effectiveness: Strategies for IS Organizational Transition (co-authored with John Parkinson) published by John Wiley & Sons, The Annual CASE Report, published by CASE Research, and numerous articles on organizational change and IT management.
Previously, I was an Executive Vice President of nGenera (formerly, The Concours Group) where I led the firm’s IT transformation practice and a Partner at Ernst & Young’s Center for Business Innovation, where I headed the firm’s global research into IT effectiveness and business change implementation. I received my bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Salford in the United Kingdom, and began my career as a computer hardware design engineer. I quickly transitioned from hardware into software, and eventually into management consulting.
Today, in addition to leading The Merlyn Group, LLC, I’m on the Faculty of the Next Generation Enterprise Think Tank, a Founding Partner of Formicio, a Partner with Stryve Advisors, and an Associate with IT Renaissance. Welcome to the world of Charles Handy’s Shamrock Organization!
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