Neil Ward-Dutton, founder and Research Director of MWD Advisors offers his perspective on key software infrastructure issues, IT-business alignment and related things.
Neil Ward-Dutton
Neil Ward-Dutton is a co-founder of and Research Director at
Macehiter Ward-Dutton,
a specialist IT advisory firm which focuses exclusively on issues concerning IT-business alignment – including IT architecture, integration, management, organisation and culture.
Neil is an accomplished and experienced IT industry analyst and public speaker. He advises clients on technology and management issues relating to enterprise architecture, application development, business integration, process management and application platforms.
Immediately prior to forming Macehiter Ward-Dutton, Neil was Ovum’s Director of Technology Practices - where he had direct responsibility for all Ovum's software and telecoms technology research, and led a global team of technology analysts. In his nine years at Ovum, Neil led and contributed to a diverse range of technology research programmes.
Neil has acted as an advisor to leading vendors, including IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, BEA, Hewlett-Packard, SAP, and Borland; and to large IT user organisations – particularly in financial services, government and telecommunications sectors.
Before working at Ovum, Neil worked as a software engineer and project manager for two highly-respected consulting and systems integration companies. Neil is a regular speaker at conferences throughout Europe and is regularly quoted in mainstream and IT specialist media, including CNBC, Computerwoche, The FT and The Times. View more
