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Thornton May
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Thornton May is Futurist, Executive Director, and Dean of the IT Leadership Academy. His extensive experience researching and consulting on the role and behaviors of Boards of Directors and C-level executives in creating value with information technology has won him an unquestioned place on the short list of serious thinkers on this topic. Thornton combines a scholar's patience for empirical research, a stand-up comic's capacity for pattern recognition, and a second-to-none gift for storytelling to the information technology management problems facing executives.

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The next frontier of IT value creation

While doing research for my book The New Know: Innovation Powered by Analytics I asked the chieftains of the various corporate tribes roaming the value forest [e.g., finance, HR, marketing, operations, IT, and legal] two framing questions: What/how did they feel about themselves and the future trajectory of their discipline.