John Thorp is an internationally recognized authority on value and benefits management and the author of The Information Paradox. With more than 50 years of experience across technical, management, consulting, and executive roles, his work has focused on helping organizations realize meaningful value from technology enabled change.
John’s perspective goes beyond frameworks and methodologies. He believes sustainable value requires a fundamental shift in how organizations approach leadership, governance, decision making, and accountability. His work has helped leaders connect technology investment with business outcomes and strengthen the disciplines needed to ensure change produces measurable benefits.
Working with the IT Governance Institute, John led the development of Val IT™, a framework designed to help organizations optimize the value of IT enabled investments and complement the COBIT™ governance framework. His expertise spans strategic planning, benefits realization, value management, change management, IT governance, strategic governance, and facilitation.
John has contributed extensively to the advancement of professional practice through international standards work, industry groups, speaking, consulting, and thought leadership. He has served with ISO’s IT Service Management and IT Governance subcom
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Four years ago, I wrote a post reflecting on my 50 years in IT, and the pursuit of value from the use of IT (you can read the full post here). I described the changes that had occurred over that time since I started my working life as a computer operator on an IBM...
Editors Note: This piece by Institute Fellow, John Thorp, was originally published on his personal website at www.thorpnet.com. While we generally only publish original content, we felt that the content of this piece is especially important to our members and readers,...
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