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Nick Carr
- Leading Tech and Business Writer
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Former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, Nicholas Carr set the stage for a global debate on the strategic value of information technology in business with his 2003 article "IT Doesn't Matter," and follow-up best seller Does IT Matter?: Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage. His new 2008 book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, examines the future of computing and its implications for business and society. The Wall Street Journal says The Big Switch is "destined to influence CEOs and the boards and investors that support them as companies grapple with the constant change of the digital age."
Carr has written more than a dozen other articles and interviews for Harvard Business Review and writes regularly for the Financial Times, Strategy & Business and The Guardian as well as in his blog, Rough Type.
In 2005, Optimize magazine named Carr one of the leading thinkers on IT, and in 2007 eWeek named him one of the 100 most influential people in IT. Earlier in his career, Carr was a principal at Mercer Management Consulting. He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.A., in English literature, from Harvard University.
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Michael Raynor
- Deloitte Research Distinguished Fellow
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Michael Raynor is the Deloitte Research Distinguished Fellow, and a key figure in Deloitte's global Strategy & Operations practice. He is also an adjunct professor at the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada where he teaches innovation, advanced strategy and executive education.
Michael is a prize-winning essayist, including a McKinsey award-winning article in the Harvard Business Review. Author of the best-selling "The Innovator's Solution", his latest book "The Strategy Paradox" breaks significant new ground on both of the fundamental problems of strategy: driving the competitive success of your business without taking on the risk of failure. In this book he provides a fact-based and practically applicable approach to strategy that will change the way you look at every aspect of your business.
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