This website is professionally crafted and maintained by Solcom limited, with my appreciation & thanks. Nonetheless, I am fully responsible for its content. - Richard Sykes, February 2010.

I am an experienced businessman with a breadth of involvement & experience that spans the chemical industry, the IT industry and the world of arts. I have held senior executive roles in a major global multinational and non-executive chairmanships in a number of smaller ventures – and have lived and operated internationally.

In my personal practice 'Dr Richard Sykes' I work as a board-level strategic analyst & advisor in information technology & business process sourcing, outsourcing and offshoring. My particular focus is the transformation of the classic outsourcing business models by new business models based on the direct sourcing of information technology and business process services – including through the agency of 'the Cloud'.

I currently advise the independent sourcing consultants Alsbridge on the emergent practicalities of 'CloudSourcing', and the UK Government's 'G-Cloud & Apps Store' initiative. I am co-author of the business study 'Global Services – Moving to a Level Playing Field' (BCS 2007). I am an elected member of the Board of Intellect (the UK business association of the IT, Telecoms and Electronics industries), and also serve on the European Advisory Board of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP).

My philosophy as a businessman working at the heart of the contemporary ICT industry was well expressed by the 20th C European artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: "Technical progress should never be the goal, only the means."

	Read my monthly Opinion column in CIO Magazine in which I draw on my broad practical experience to comment on current industry developments. www.cio.co.uk/opinion/

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