Peter Fingar

About

Peter Fingar, Executive Partner in the digital strategy firm, the Greystone Group, is one of the industry's noted experts on business process management, and a practitioner with over thirty years of hands-on experience at the intersection of business and technology. Equally comfortable in the boardroom, the computer room or the classroom, Peter taught graduate and undergraduate computing studies in the U.S. and abroad. 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. In addition to numerous articles and professional papers, he is an author of the landmark books: The Real-Time Enterprise: Competing on Time, just-released, and Business Process Management: The Third Wave, now in its fifth printing (www.mkpress.com).

Real-Time Reality

Once upon a time, there seemed no end in sight to the magic that the Internet could work on public markets. Then came the dot-com crash of 2000, where over an 18-month period almost $3.5 trillion evaporated as financial markets imploded. Many concluded that the Internet era was over. Others, like GEs legendary CEO, Jack […]

Why IT Matters

A torrent of debate followed the harvard business reviews publication May 1 of the article “IT Doesnt Matter.” Although the article embodies several truths, its assumptions, premises and conclusions merit closer examination if, as in the story of the Blind Men and the Elephant, the whole picture of IT and competitive advantage is to come […]