Key areas of Expertise
- IT Strategy
- Business-IT Fusion
- IT Leadership
- IT Marketing and Communications
- The Digital Revolution beyond Web 2.0
- Content and Collaboration Strategies
- Technology as an Innovation Enabler
Biography
Peter Hinssen (1969) is one of Europe's esteemed thought leaders in the field of technology and its impact on business life and society. His focus is on the consumer adoption of technology, on the impact of the networked digital society, and on the Fusion between Business and IT. Peter collaborates with organizations in the areas of IT Strategy, Transformation, Fusion and Coaching, in Europe as well as in North America.
Peter Hinssen is co-founder of Across Group and CEO of Across Technology. An entrepreneur, lecturer and writer, he is also the former chairman of Porthus and has been an Entrepreneur in Residence with McKinsey & Company.
In the Nineties, Peter Hinssen was founder and CEO at e-COM Interactive, a leading Internet consultancy firm, where he implemented some of the first large-scale Internet and e-commerce projects in Europe.
Peter is currently involved as a coach to executives to develop future innovation perspectives, and is a board advisor on subjects related to innovation and IT. He develops executive education workshops and awareness sessions to bridge business challenges with IT solutions, and to leverage the innovation potential of IT.
He lectures on IT Strategy at various business schools in Europe such as London Business School (UK), TiasNimbas Business School (Netherlands) and Vlerick Management School (Belgium).
Peter is a passionate key note speaker frequently welcomed at Global CIO forum and conferences around the world.
His book Business/IT Fusion. How to Move Beyond Alignment and Transform IT in Your Organization (2009) is a best-selling management book in Belgium and the Netherlands, and is rapidly spreading throughout Europe and the US. For more information, please visit: http://www.it-fusion.com/.
In September 2010, Peter publishes his second book The New Normal in which he demonstrates how changing customer behaviour causes organisations to innovate in terms of products, services and organisation. For more information on The New Normal, please visit: http://www.neonormal.com.
Languages
NL, EN, FR
Nationality
Dutch