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Steve Andriole
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Dr. Stephen J. Andriole is a Fellow with Cutter's Business-IT Strategies and Business Technology Trends & Impacts practices. Dr. Andriole's career has focused on the development, application and management of information technology and analytical methodology to complex business problems. These problems have been in government and industry; Dr. Andriole has addressed them from academia, government, his own consulting company, a global insurance and financial services company, and from the unique perspective of a venture capitalist.
Dr. Andriole was the Director of the Cybernetics Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) where he managed a $25M program of research and development that led to a number of important scientific and technological advances in the broad-based information, decision and computing sciences.
Dr. Andriole served as the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. where he was responsible for identifying technology trends, translating that insight into the Safeguard investment strategy, and leveraging trends analyses with the Safeguard partner companies to help them develop business and marketing strategies. Dr. Andriole was also a Principal at TL Ventures, the Philadelphia region's largest private equity fund.
Dr. Andriole was the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President for Technology Strategy at CIGNA Corporation, a $20B global insurance and financial services company, where he was responsible for the enterprise information architecture, computing standards, the technology research & development program, and data security, as well as the overall alignment of enterprise information technology investments with CIGNA's multiple lines of business.
As an entrepreneur, Dr. Andriole founded International Information Systems (IIS), Inc., which designed interactive systems for a variety of corporate and government clients. He is also the founder of TechVestCo, a new economy consulting consortium that identifies and leverages technology trends to help clients optimize business technology investments.
Dr. Andriole is currently the Thomas G. Labrecque Professor of Business Technology at Villanova University where he teaches and directs applied research in business/technology alignment and pervasive computing. He is formerly a Professor of Information Systems & Electrical & Computer Engineering at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and a member of the faculty of George Mason University as a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Information Systems & Systems Engineering; he was awarded an endowed chair from the university becoming the university's first George Mason Institute Professor of Information Technology.
Some of Dr. Andriole's 28 books include Interactive Computer-Based Systems Design and Development (Petrocelli Books, Inc., 1983), Microcomputer Decision Support Systems (QED Information Sciences, Inc., 1985), Applications in Artificial Intelligence (Petrocelli Books, Inc., 1986), Information System Design Principles for the 90s (AFCEA International Press, 1990), the Sourcebook of Applied Artificial Intelligence (McGraw-Hill, 1992), a (co-authored with Len Adelman) book on user interface technology for Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. entitled Cognitive Systems Engineering (1995) and a book for McGraw-Hill entitled Managing Systems Requirements: Methods, Tools & Cases (1996). He has recently published articles in Software Development, IEEE Software and the Cutter IT Journal . Overall, he has published over 200 articles and papers. IGI/CyberTech published Dr. Andriole's most recent book -- The 2nd Digital Revolution -- in 2005.
Dr. Andriole received his BA from LaSalle University in 1971 and his Masters and Doctorate degrees from the University of Maryland in 1973 and 1974. His masters and doctoral work was supported by a National Defense Education Act fellowship. His Ph.D. dissertation was funded by DARPA. He can be reached at consulting@cutter.com.
[I]t's actually getting easier to develop business technology strategies but much, much tougher to execute them. The old constraints are still with us, but execution complexity has increased considerably. It all starts with the amount and quality of human capital at our disposal.
— Steve Andriole
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