Peter Fingar is an internationally recognized expert on business strategy, globalization and business process management. He's a former CIO and practitioner with over thirty years of hands-on experience at the intersection of business and technology.
He has held management, technical and advisory positions with GTE Data Services, American Software and Computer Services, Saudi Aramco, EC Cubed, the Technical Resource Connection division of Perot Systems, and IBM Global Services.
He has taught graduate and undergraduate computing studies at business schools in the U.S. and abroad, and has given keynote talks worldwide (including London, New York, Washington, Munich, Paris, Brussels, Tokyo, Beijing, San Francisco, Montreal, Chicago, Denver, San Diego, Las Vegas, Miami, Cairo, Johannesburg, Riyadh, Dubai, and Milan).
In addition to numerous articles (including CIO Magazine, Optimize, Computerworld, Intelligent Enterprise, Internet World (columnist), SiliconIndia, FirstMonday, EAI Journal, Logistics, Information Age, and the Journal of Systems Management), he is an author of nine books, including the landmark books Dot.Cloud: The 21st Century Business Platform Built on Cloud Computing; Extreme Competition: Innovation and the Great 21st Century Business Reformation; The Real-Time Enterprise: Competing on Time; and Business Process Management: The Third Wave, all published by Meghan-Kiffer Press.
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Article:Whither the CIO? - BPTrends, June 2010
In an environment where customers are increasingly turning to Social Networks for information required to make purchasing decisions, and where internal business units are increasingly turning to Cloud service providers for the resources required to get work done, what is the role of the CIO? Peter sees the next generation CIO as a strategic agent for business transformation.
Article:Enterprise as a Service (EaaS) - That’s Where BPM Comes In - BPTrends, April 2010
Are you in the Larry Ellison camp and wonder, “What the hell is cloud computing?” And furthermore, do you wonder, “What does it have to do with BPM?” If these are questions you’ve asked in the middle of all the hype around cloud computing, Peter offers some answers. Read his Column for his take on how BPM sets enterprise cloud computing apart from consumer cloud computing and why it will provide a competitive advantage, in the 21st century, to companies that embrace it.
Article:Social Networks, Innovation and the MITH Myth - BPTrends, February 2010
Fingar turns his attention to the compelling topic of social networks and their relevancy to the changing role of information technology in business. He sees social networks not as time-wasters but as a new source of business intelligence - places where work gets done and innovation is born. Your boss may not agree, but you should read Peter’s Column and form your own opinion.
Article:Cloud Computing: It’s about Management Innovation - BPTrends, December, 2009
Fingar describes the power of process-driven Cloud Computing and suggests that organizations taking a wait and see attitude are traveling at their own risk. In fact, he posits that the best way to undermine your competitors is to tell them that Cloud Computing is just a bunch of hype.
Article:Dot.Cloud – Business Platform for Our Century - CIO Magazine, July, 2009
A platform for global real-time collaboration is inexorably changing the way business operates. An interview with the author of Dot.Cloud.
Article:Cloud Computing and the Promise of On-Demand Business Innovation - July 2009 Intelligent Enterprise
A fascinating read arguing that Cloud computing is about much more than cool technology, cost savings, and high-bandwith access to unlimited computing resources. Explained in detail is how Cloud Oriented Business Architecture gives businesses the flexibility they need to form new bonds with customers and suppliers in real-time, allowing on-demand business innovation.
Article:Cloud Computing Set to Change Roles in IT - June 2009
Tech Target's IT Knowledge Exchange
A brief history of the evolution of technology and the introduction of cloud computing. In the past, information technology was about productivity; now it's about collaboration, a shared information base and collective intelligence - the wisdom of crowds, social networks and cloudsourcing of unimaginable computing power, all in the hands of everyday people.
Article:Cloud Oriented Business Architecture - June 2009 BPTrends column
Cloud Computing makes it possible to create new business platforms that can enable companies to change their business models and collaborate in powerful new ways with their customers, suppliers, and trading partners - stuff that could not be done before. What that stuff is, is up to entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. But no doubt there are cloudy new Amazons and Googles hard at work, and they will no doubt teach the business world new lessons.
Article:The Business Process Platform in the Sky - March 2009 BPTrends column
BPM will no doubt become BPM as a Service (BPMaaS). This trend could be similar to what client/server is to IT, where the IT staff has choices over what is to be handled by the server versus the client. By embracing the Cloud (Cloud Computing infrastructures, platforms, and services), a company can have choices over the best way to implement and manage Private, Public, and Collaborative process types.
Article:The Process-Managed Org Chart: The End of Management and the Rise of Bioteams - January 2009 BPTrends column
An overlay of end-to-end process management onto existing functional organizations has its rough edges, to say the least. In fact, the transformation to a process-managed enterprise could really mean the End of Management, as we know it. Here is an overview of what a process-managed org chart might look like.
Article:Get Your Head in the Clouds - February 2008 BPTrends column
An overview of what's driving the growth of Cloud Computing and how this new capability is driving the need to manage these advances as a unified Cloud.
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