Adrian Apthorp

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• Senior Director, Head of Enterprise Architecture at DHL Express Europe, Prague / Brussels

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Adrian Apthorp’s Summary

Adrian is an acknowledged “pioneer” and “navigator” of information systems enabled business change, having worked for over 20 years in a global business and IS environment. He has been successful in finding approaches to enable cross business integration that was required as a result of significant acquisitions made across many countries. As an IS architect working on a number of global strategic planning and business process engineering initiatives he has facilitated major changes in worldwide business operations. This expertise is coupled with extensive experience in international express transportation.

Adrian has a reputation for working with the business to understand their needs in order to identify pragmatic IS solutions. He has a noted ability to communicate information systems issues at senior business levels, to illustrate the "big picture”, and to gain agreement in a multicultural federated organisation. Adrian has been based in London, Singapore, Brussels and Prague.

Many of the approaches and technologies he has used have subsequently become more widely applied in industry. Adrian is a recognised thought leader and practitioner, contributing to conferences and publications on business process management, service oriented and enterprise architecture, as well as being the subject of articles himself.

http://www.cio.co.uk/article/772/the-importance-of-enterprise-architecture/?pn=4

Adrian's interest is in demonstrating the "art of the possible" in designing businesses that realise the organisation-wide potential of information systems and how this is achieved in practice.