Mark Williamson

Partner of Excellence is a particularly important award for us as we have now been voted either first or second in this category by our customers every year since its inception," said Mark Williamson, managing director, Diagonal Consulting UK.

Mark WilliamsonManaging Director, Diagonal Consulting UKMark is a consultant practising in business performance improvement; change management and implementation; business and information strategy planning; and workshop facilitation.Prior to moving into these areas, Mark obtained a thorough grounding in the business application of Information Technology and systems development and implementation as a business analyst and project manager, gaining experience in both the UK and USA.

During his career Mark has undertaken assignments in a wide variety of industries and business functional areas, giving him a very broad base of programme and project experience.He has excellent communication skills which allow him to liaise effectively at staff, management and board levels.

If you delve into SOA and look at what it really is you realise that it's much more than marketing hype, it's actually an approach to organising and managing the IT function to ensure it is aligned to and supporting business processes and objectives," said Mark Williamson, Managing Director, Diagonal Consulting.

The research also revealed that there is confusion around SOA, with 28% of IT directors stating that SOA is simply about software development and architecture.When you consider that it was first only really talked about in relation to web services and over time has become a major focus area for all the major software vendors it's easy to see why this perception exists.

"Organisations will be making a fundamental mistake if they simply look at SOA in terms of development and architecture.In fact, it is only one area of the SOA puzzle, at its core, SOA is about re-engineering the IT function so that it is able to embrace the development and re-use of services, that can then be pieced together to support a business process," Williamson continues.
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This is how IT directors need to pitch it to their boards, they need to explain to CEOs and FDs that going down the road of SOA will enable their organisations to be more agile and respond faster to changes in the wider business environment," Williamson concludes.

The research was undertaken by Vanson Bourne, with 100 UK IT Directors in large enterprise organisations with over 1000 employees.

The Partner of the Year Award is a particularly important one for us as we have now been recognised in this category for the second year running," said Mark Williamson, UK managing director, Diagonal Consulting.

Mark WilliamsonBusiness Consulting DirectorMark is a consultant practising in business performance improvement; change management and implementation; business and information strategy planning; and workshop facilitation.Prior to moving into these areas, Mark obtained a thorough grounding in the business application of Information Technology and systems development and implementation as a business analyst and project manager, gaining experience in both the UK and USA.

During his career Mark has undertaken assignments in a wide variety of industries and business functional areas, giving him a very broad base of programme and project experience.He has excellent communication skills which allow him to liaise effectively at staff, management and board levels.

"Organisations must recognise that SOA is not just about gluing technology together, it's about changing your technology architecture so IT systems no longer hold you back from undertaking business improvement or transformation project," says Mark Williamson, managing director at Diagonal Consulting.

"Acronyms have become a fact of life in the IT industry and get hyped so much that people start to see them as marketing terms," said Mark Williamson, managing director at Diagonal Consulting.
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"The danger, however, is that people miss what's actually behind the acronym, " said Williamson.