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“You have given us an exciting tool to help us maximise the business value from IT investments”

CIO - Global company North America
 


"Thank you very much for the excellent and ‘alerting' seminar you delivered to us in
London last week."

Delegate at Chris's London Seminar
2008
 


"Incredible depth"

Delegate feedback on Chris's keynote conference presentation
Sydney, 2007
 


"The journey of Ian was a true wake up for me, and my perception of how IT can be exploited to deliver value totally changed"

Feedback on fruITion European CIO
2009

About Chris Potts

"It's rare to meet someone who challenges like you, and makes you think. 
I feel a lot of our current success sits with your inspiration." 

CIO - UK top 50 company


Chris is a hands-on corporate strategist, speaker and writer who specialises in investing in change, exploiting IT, and the destiny of the CIO.  He is the author of fruITion, and the originator of The fruITion Strategy®.

He works with CIOs and executives in industry-leading companies around the world, helping them formulate and execute their next-generation Corporate Strategy for IT.  He has been called "a world-leading specialist in IT strategies" and "the world's leading thinker on IT investments".

Chris has over twenty years’ experience in corporate, business and IT strategies, investing in change, enterprise architecture, hands-on business management and IT delivery.   

His hallmark techniques, like
one-page strategies, investment culture diagnoses, inverted investment portfolios, 'true' enterprise architectures and 'expert IT customer' operating models, have been used by industry-leading companies around the world.
 

As an award-winning-speaker he delivers conference keynotes and hosts seminars, entirely founded on his own groundbreaking work with his clients.  He has trained partners and consultants from some of the world’s leading consultancies.

He is a thought-provoking writer on corporate strategies for IT, the CIO’s destiny, investment management, and 'true' enterprise architecture.


Chris is an accredited Expert on CIO.com, also a member of the Center for CIO Leadership, the Strategic Planning Society, the Center for the Advancement of the Enterprise Architecture Profession (CAEAP), the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), and  Computer Weekly’s panel of Strategy Clinic experts,

He is Chair of the Board of Trustees for the charity Teach Africa, which offers children from the slums of Nairobi a full secondary education and, through their own efforts, a granted university place.
 
Follow Chris on Twitter
as 'chrisdpotts'
In November 2008, Chris was presented with an Honour Award by IT One ICT Community in Luxembourg.  The previous recipient of the Award was Niklas Zennström, co-founder of Skype.
Chris has been on the 2009 Judging Panel for the CIO 100 Awards
for CIO Magazine and CIO.com in the USA
Chris delivered the Opening Keynote "The Next Generation of Enterprise Architects" at the Enterprise Architecture Conference 2009 in London, England on 9 June 2009. 
Chris's next public Seminar is The Corporate Strategy for IT
in Brussels, Belgium, 28-29 October 2009
Listen to Chris talking 'First Person' with Claudia Imhoff about the Four Generations of Corporate Strategy for IT, and what they mean for the CIO and everyone else involved.


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