Guy Fitzgerald
 
 
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Guy Fitzgerald is Professor of Information Systems at Brunel University. He took up this post in October 1998. Prior to this he was the Cable and Wireless Professor of Business Information Systems at Birkbeck College, University of London.  And before this he held positions at Templeton College, Oxford and Warwick University.

He has also worked in the computer industry for many years with companies such as British Telecom, Mitsubishi and CACI, Inc. International, in a variety of roles, including those of programmer, systems analyst and consultant.

His research interests are concerned with information systems and information management and he has published widely in these areas.  In particular his research has been concerned with the effective development of information systems and methodologies.  More recently he has addressed the area of information systems strategy and has developed a framework for ensuring the effective linking of business and IT strategy and has undertaken an in-depth study of IT outsourcing in the UK.  He is Editor of the Information Systems Journal from Blackwell Scientific and Editor of the Information Systems Series of texts from McGraw-Hill.