David Feeny is a Fellow of Templeton College, University of Oxford; and Director of the Oxford Institute of Information Management. His teaching and research interests center on the connections between strategy, organization, and IT. Mr. Feeny has worked with large organizations in many different sectors around the world and is a regular contributor to Oxford's executive education programs. Research topics in recent years have included the role of the CIO, IT sourcing strategy, inhouse IS capabilities, the role of the CEO in the Information Age, e-business opportunity, and business process outsourcing. Mr. Feeny's work has won international recognition, and he has been published in leading academic and general management journals, such as Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and McKinsey Quarterly. In the recent book What's the Big Idea, he is identified as one of today's 200 leading management thinkers.

Mr. Feeny is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. He holds an MA from Oxford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He was VP of Templeton College from 1995 to 1999 and is currently an Advisory Board Member of two new venture companies. Before returning to Oxford in 1984, he was for many years a senior marketing manager with IBM. He can be reached at David.Feeny at templeton.ox.ac.uk.