Chris Potts: Thought Leadership on the Role of CIOs and Enterprise Architects
Biography
Chris Potts: Thought Leadership on the Role of CIOs and Enterprise Architects

The Role of CIOs and Enterprise Architects

Chris Potts has radical proposals for the roles of CIOs as leaders of strategic investment management and of Enterprise Architects as providers of the underpinning architecture for an enterprise's business strategy and change.

Books

Chris is a leading writer on the role of IT leadership in business.

fruITion by Chris Potts

fruITion: Creating the Ultimate Corporate Strategy for Information Technology

by Chris Potts

In fruITion, Chris Potts sets out his views on the best place for IT within the organisation and extracting the best business value from investment in a very easy to read fashion. His main themes are that having IT as a separate department has failed to deliver business benefits from investment, that IT should be (largely) integrated into the business units and that initiatives should be treated as business change projects rather than IT projects.

Also available: ebook edition

RecrEAtion by Chris Potts

 

RecrEAtion: Realizing the Extraordinary Contribution of Your Enterprise Architects

by Chris Potts

RecrEAtion takes the reader through a similar journey for Enterprise Architects, that fruITion did for CIOs. Chris Potts sets out his views on the best place for Enterprise Architecture via a story of someone coming into the role in a large corporation and exploring how to make the best of the role.

Also available: ebook edition

Biography Chris Potts

Award winning speaker Chris Potts is a hands-on corporate strategist, speaker and writer who specialises in investing in change, exploiting IT, and the destiny of the CIO. He works with CIOs and executives helping them to formulate, communicate and execute their corporate strategy for investing in change and IT. He is the author of “fruITion: Creating the Ultimate Corporate Strategy for Information Technology”, and the architect of The fruITion Strategy®.

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

He has been called “a world-leading specialist in IT strategies” and “the world’s leading thinker on IT investments”.