John Critchley helps senior managers unlock the potential of their business technology through structured advice and best practice disciplines.

John is an experienced, business-focused technology consultant, providing advice to clients in senior management positions (C-level, MD, and ‘Heads of’), with particular strengths in financial services, telecommunications & media, and public services.

John passionately believes in his mission to help clients discover and exploit the potential of their business technology, combining management consulting techniques with the disciplines of enterprise architecture and business needs analysis. The result is business technology by design, on purpose, not by chance.

For more than eleven years, John has been involved in a number of exciting projects, including:

• Establishing and building a new advisory business for a boutique professional services consultancy, with a particular focus on the financial services industry
• Conducting the survey of a government agency’s technology landscape to establish a baseline and identify areas to improve cost effectiveness
• Reviewing the IT delivery maturity of a large, Global bank to compare with best practices and outline a plan to improve, which led to the implementation of an improvement programme
• Design of the enterprise architecture blueprint for a road-tolling business, and outlining of vendor solution options, with a recommended implementation roadmap
• Delivery of the end-to-end enterprise solution architecture for two generations (first and second) of a national wireless broadband product, where this also included business process design / integration.

John has been an active member of the developing technology architecture community, publishing his own blogs (SolutionArchitecture.org and JohnCritchley.com) and is a member of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA) and the British Computer Society (BCS).