Neil Ward-Dutton
Research Director
MWD Advisors
Neil Ward-Dutton has 15 years of industry experience - with many of those spent watching, thinking about and writing about trends in enterprise IT and their impact on real organisations.
Prior to founding Macehiter Ward-Dutton in February 2005, Neil spent just under 10 years playing a variety of analyst and consulting roles at the analyst firm Ovum - along the way writing around 15 published books. He started as a junior analyst focusing on the 4GL market in 1995, and by 2004 had moved to a leadership role across all the firm's technology-focused research programmes.
Neil started his career with a brief period as a business analyst at ICI, which was followed by a number of years working in a variety of companies as a software engineer (most of the time, as a Deloitte Consulting employee).
Neil's areas of technology expertise include application development, business integration, process management and application platforms, enterprise architecture and service oriented architecture (SOA). He has acted an advisor to leading IT vendors, including IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, BEA, Hewlett-Packard, SAP, and Borland; and to large IT user organisations in Media, Government, Transport, Financial Services, and Telecommunications. He's a regular industry commentator for both the European IT trade press, and business press. He is also an experienced conference speaker.
Contributions
There are a total of 190 articles written by Neil Ward-Dutton, the listing has been split over 10 pages:
- 21/08/12 - Savvion dusts itself down
- 17/08/12 - Lombardi's dynamo takes on a bigger challenge at IBM
- 26/07/12 - Kofax rides Singularity's train to Azure with BPM
- 10/07/12 - Process agility, meet business agility
- 06/07/12 - Fascinating insights on process mapping and modelling
- 29/06/12 - Innovation and process at BPM Europe 2012
- 28/06/12 - TIBCO needs more 'show', less 'tell'
- 11/06/12 - Innovation and wealth
- 01/06/12 - Combine tools with workshops to drive process discovery
- 28/05/12 - Not your father's process platform
- 15/05/12 - For IBM, Process Innovation is social and mobile
- 25/04/12 - Progress Software does a 180… and goes back to the future?
- 23/04/12 - Live blog from PEX Week Europe 2012
- 20/04/12 - The world's best way to organise work: a review of Appian World 2012
- 30/03/12 - BPM: "complicated" is not the same as "dead"
- 02/03/12 - BPM technology table stakes part 2: change management
- 24/02/12 - Outside-in, business-savvy: OpenText's BPS aspiration
- 22/02/12 - Amazon's SWF: workflow, the cloud, and the nature of applications
- 21/02/12 - Process mining - creating passive management systems?
- 17/02/12 - Taking the pulse of BPM in the cloud