 | Major studies for the International Air Transportation Association (IATA) on the impact
of information technology on the marketing systems for air travel and freight |
| A review of the organization of the information systems function for a major oil company
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| Preparation of reports on banking and information technology for senior executives at a
major North American bank |
| Development and presentation of seminars on Information Architecture and Managing
Distributed Technology to I/S managers for a major hardware vendor |
| Led the Information Architecture team in a major reorganization and reengineering
project at a municipal electric utility company. As one of the key members of the team,
Mr. Blunt was responsible for coordination of the IT strategy of the concurrent
organizational and process changes. The IA team had the primary responsibility for
identifying the computer and communications strategy, preparing the bid strategy, and
monitoring the design implementation. |
Mr. Blunt has delivered seminars on database systems at the London Business School; was
a keynote speaker at Seybold Executive Forum, where his topic was using and managing
groupware, and a presenter to presidents of the international airlines of Africa on the
opportunities and challenges of telecommunications. He discussed the characteristics of
successful Information Architecture groups at a recent meeting of the Society of
Information Management, and served as Technical Advisor to the U.S. Chapter of DECUS
(Digital Equipment Corporation Users Society).
Mr. Blunt oversees a continuing project on professional development for information
systems professionals for a major international bank. His article “Critical IT
Issues: The Next Ten Years”, co-authored with Bob Benjamin, appeared in the September
1992 edition of the Sloan Management Review.
Prior to founding Info|Ed, Mr. Blunt was vice president of Infoscope, a London-based
consulting firm. Before joining Infoscope, he was with the Management Consultancy practice
of Arthur Andersen in London, working on major projects in Chicago and Amsterdam.
Mr. Blunt received a master's degree in International Finance and Economics from MIT's
Sloan School of Management. He graduated from the University of Bristol in the UK with a
bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Mathematics, with first class honors.
