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Joe Mernagh
Joe Mernagh, ICT Specialist

Joe Mernagh is a highly successful IT Strategy Consultant and interim IT Director and also the ICT Practice Area leader. He has substantial experience of helping UK and international clients to align IT with their business strategy, culture and management. His approach is based on removing complexity, reducing cost and refocusing investment on the things that add value to the business. Joe is a thought leader in the use of knowledge management approaches and techniques to foster innovation and maximise value.

Practice Areas

Primary Capabilities
Able to operate at a senior strategic level as well as dealing with detailed technical and line management issues. Track record of supporting major business change programmes with innovative IT strategies and programme management. Combines skills in technology architecture, programme management and IT management. Operates as a project-based consultant or as an interim CIO or IT Director, as required.

Preferred Activities
Working closely with business leaders to align IT with business strategy, helping companies to dramatically reduce the cost of IT and managing IT programmes in support of major business change.

Core Offer
A highly successful IT Strategy Consultant and IT Director with the following characteristics:

  • High-energy approach
  • Strategic thinking with practical hands-on management
  • Wide sector experience gained at major consulting company
  • Operates at board level
  • Experienced and respected line manager
  • Creates highly effective teams
  • Good communicator and presenter

Other Disciplines Offered
  • Change management
  • Knowledge management
  • Coaching of IT Managers and Programme Managers
  • IT risk assessment
  • B2B sales and marketing

Primary Sector Experience
Joe has worked in a variety of business sectors, including:

  • Intellectual property
  • Financial securities
  • Insurance
  • Drug discovery and development
  • Outsourced services
  • Energy
  • Transport

Areas of Distinctive Performance and Value Addition
A track record of trouble-shooting assignments, working closely with business leaders in the following:

  • Developing IT strategy in circumstance of major business change
  • Award-winning knowledge management programmes
  • Rescue failing IT programmes or organisations
  • Management of major change programmes
  • Outsourcing of IT services
  • Getting cost out of IT operations

Qualifications and Professional Memberships
B.Eng.

Employment Summary
  • Self-employed Consultant and Interim Manager, 2004 - current
  • Chief Knowledge Officer, Evotec Ltd, 2000 - 2004
  • Consultant and Senior Manager, Cap Gemini PLC, 1985-2000

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