Leveraging the New Infrastructure

Biography: Professor Weill is the Foundation Chair of Management (Information Systems) and a member of the board of directors of the Melbourne Business School at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Weill has also held visiting professorial positions at the Sloan School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the College of Business Administration at Georgia State University. He has developed and presented in several countries MBA programs that focus on the business value of information technology as well as public and private programs for senior management executive education. His research and advising activities center around the role and value of information technology (IT) in organizations. Dr. Weill has been published widely, including award-winning books, case studies, and articles in both the business and academic presses. He regularly advises corporations and governments on issues of IT investment and advises corporations and governments on issues of IT investment and pay off and the alignment of the IT portfolio with business strategy. Recently, Peter testified about IT outsourcing in front of the Australian Government Senate Enquiry on Contracting Out of Government Services. Peter was educated at the University of Melbourne and New York University and lives in Melbourne.

Dr. Marianne Broadbent was appointed Gartner Group's IT executive program director for Australia and New Zealand in January 1998. Dr. Broadbent was previously a professor of the management of information systems at the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, a visiting researching at Boston University, and head of the department of information services at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Her industry research, consulting, and advising activities have involved more than eighty businesses in nine countries, and she has managed her own successful consulting and advisory services firm. Marianne has been published extensively in both the industry and academic presses. Recently, Marianne was the lead author of two papers that won international awards, as well as an article in Sloan Management Review on linking business strategy and long-term information technology investments. Marianne has a bachelor's and master's degree from Sydney and Macquarie Universities, respectively, and a doctorate from the University of Melbourne.

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