Formicio

Transforming the performance of IT organisations
 
Founding partner
 
vaughan.merlyn@formicio.com
 

Overview

Vaughan Merlyn’s focus is on transforming the performance of IT organisations, aligning information technology and business strategies, and the implementation of technology-enabled business change. He unites the important disciplines of IT management and organisational change management. Vaughan brings 35 years of IT strategy and management experience as an IT industry executive, researcher, author, educator and management consultant.

Vaughan has led many multi-client research projects and his publications include Development Effectiveness: Strategies for IS Organizational Transition, The Annual CASE Report, and numerous articles on organisational change and IT management. He is a popular management educator, and has addressed over 450 major conferences and seminars throughout the world.

Expertise

Vaughan helps clients to strengthen business-IT relationships and increase the business value realised through IT investments and assets. He specialises in IT operating model design and increasing IT organisational clarity and performance through the use of Web 2.0 and 3.0 technologies.

Vaughan can provide advice, help and insight to:

• Improve the business value of information technology.
• Increase collaboration across your IT organisation and with your customers and consumers.
• Increase IT performance and effectiveness by increasing IT ‘organisational clarity’.
• Implement a Relationship Management or Business Partner function.
• Improve the effectiveness of those in a Relationship Management or Business Partner function.

Background

With a degree in Electrical Engineering, Vaughan started his career as a hardware design engineer. He moved into software engineering and joined a start-up software company where he quickly rose through the management ranks, leading Software Development, then International Sales and Marketing. Through this latter role, he relocated from London to the USA. After several successful years developing the US business, he established a management consulting company specialising in software development automation and IT productivity.

His consulting firm merged into Ernst & Young in 1990, and Vaughan became a Partner in the Center for Business Innovation, leading the firm’s research into IT effectiveness and organisational change management. He joined The Concours Group, a management consulting, research and executive education start-up in 1997, where he headed the firm’s IT practice. In 2009, he established Vaughan Merlyn Consulting, and became a founding partner of Formicio in 2010.

Vaughan’s guiding principles

• Creating client capability is the only sustainable approach to management consulting.
• Client capability is best nurtured collaboratively.
• Never collude with dysfunctional client behaviour.

Publications and speaking

• Development Effectiveness: Strategies for IS Organizational Transition (co-authored with John Parkinson) published by John Wiley & Sons.
• The Annual CASE Report, published by CASE Research, and numerous articles on organisational change and IT management.
• Vaughan is a popular management educator, and has addressed hundreds of major conferences and seminars throughout the world.