Howard Smith is the Chief Technology Officer (European Group) of Computer Sciences Corporation. With more than 25 years in the IT industry, he is a sought after keynote speaker and advisor. His work in predicting and shaping technology at the intersection with business led him to take an active role in the development of business process management (BPM) in the post-reengineering era.

The innovation of BPM is described in his book, Business Process Management: The Third Wave, co-authored with Peter Fingar, The book has become the bible for those who seek to obliterate the traditional divide between business intent and IT realization. A featured recommendation of Harvard Business School, the book was reviewed by the editor of Manyworlds.com, a thought-leadership network, as "rich in big ideas … defies adequate reviewing. Yet the skeptical eye of this reviewer cannot help count the large number of nuggests of wisdom, and the seeming inevitability of this vision."

Howard has provided thought leadership to the BPM community since 2000, the year in which he co-founded BPMI.org. Elected as co-chair for three consequetive years, the initiative grew to over 200 members under his leadership. During this period the group successfully created the first industrial strength, concurrent, distributed, transactional, persistent programming language, BPML, the basis for commercial Business Process Management Systems (BPMS). These technologies are now being applied in business, and major companies are now also developing BPM products.

Howard is currently researching the application of business process management to corporate sustainability, innovation and growth, for which he has global research and development responsibility at CSC. He is a leader of CSC's Global BPM and Enterprise Architecture Centre of Excellence.

Howard regularly consults for Global 2000 firms and has written over 100 articles on BPM for publications and communities such as CSC World, CSC Research Services Journal, BPTrends, Computing, Darwin Magazine, Developer.com, EAI Journal, eBizQ.net, Finance Magazine, Forbes, Intelligent Enterprise, Internet World, LooselyCoupled, MIS Magazine, Optimize Magazine, The Pitch, Transform Magazine and the Web Services Journal.

Howard's latest book - also co-authored with Peter Fingar - is IT Doesn't Matter? Business Processes Do. The book debunks the "IT Doesn't Matter" myth and shows how IT of the right kind is a source of breakthrough competitive advantage.

Howard can be contacted at hsmith23@csc.com.