Terry White

Research Director

• Terry is the Research Director at CXO Advisor.
• Terry’s strategic expertise in IT is recognized worldwide: “Terry White is one of the most original thinkers in IT to surface in recent years. He was one of the first IT gurus to identify the need for IT departments to radically transform themselves to accommodate the realities of the twenty-first century”. Professor of IT (UK).
• Terry runs workshops and Master Classes in Europe, England, and Russia, with Ovum, as well as facilitating numerous IT strategy sessions at the highest level in South Africa. Terry is a regular invited speaker at influential IT forums throughout the world.
• Terry is an expert in IT Finance, and offers CIO's ways of managing their IT finances using market economics as a model. IT Finance is one of the key elements of King III governance, and as such provides the Board with an approach to meeting their governance responsibilities from  a business mindset (rather than an IT mindset).
• Terry is the author of three books on IT management: Reinventing the IT Department; What business really wants from IT; and Speed up the mess. He writes regularly for numerous IT magazines, both locally and overseas. One book has been translated into Russian.
• He is a working member of the IVI (Innovation Value Institute) developing maturity frameworks for IT Value with a worldwide team. This initiative is sponsored by Intel, Microsoft, Boston Consulting Group and many other international players to institute a value perspective to IT.
• He has a Masters in Commerce (IT) and has lectured at a number of tertiary institutions on IT, change management and strategy. He is currently studying for his Doctorate in IT Finance.