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Peter is the managing director of Longhaus and the primary voice of The Naked Chief blog. He founded Longhaus in 2006 following over a decade in international market research and publishing with Forrester Research and META Group (now Gartner). Over the last decade, and after personally participating in several thousand business and sales meetings, public and private presentations and research projects, and writing a few hundred articles, he has come to the conclusion that the profession of ICT analyst research is largely undervalued by the industry he serves. In the decade before starting Longhaus he was only ever asked to explain the research process (how he knew what he knew) once to a journalist and twice to a client. They just never asked. Since starting the company he and his team have been asked twice more in two years. Things are definitely improving, ICT analyst research in Asia Pacific is on the up, and Longhaus is somewhere amongst it all. Peter has also worked for international publishing conglomerates Pearson LLC., and Time Warner Inc., as a staff-writer and book reviewer as well as a strategy advisor to various CIOs of organisations rated within MIS magazine’s Australian Top 50 IT operations.

Tag >> cobit
May 21
2008

Fujitsu, ISACA, COBIT and Val IT

Posted by peter.carr in queensland, peter carr, paul campbell, mal grierson, isaca, fujitsu, cobit, brisbane, alan chapman

Active ImageEarlier this week I sat on a breakfast panel with Tony Waters, Tony Hayes and John Thorp (via video link from Canada) to provide industry insights into the state of IT portfolio management across Australia and New Zealand. Technically speaking I was there to provide the IT subset of the recurrent debates of enterprise innovation through IT, and running IT like a business.  

The event was hosted by Fujitsu and ISACA (as joint advocates of the COBIT-ValIT Framework)and drew a who's who from the Queensland Government ICT executive ranks with the beefy promise of Enterprise Transformation through Investment Management.

Photograph Left to Right: Tony Waters, Deputy Director-General Queensland Department of Public Works; Glen McMurtrie, ISACA Brisbane Chapter President; myself;  Tony Hayes, Executive Director Service Delivery and Performance Commission, Queensland Department of Premier and Cabinet and Chairman of IT Governance Institute; David Sparksman, Fujitsu Queensland State Manager; and Bernard Thorpe, Director Shape Consulting.

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