Dion Hinchcliffe

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About Dion Hinchcliffe

Dion Hinchcliffe is an internationally recognized business strategist, bestselling author, enterprise architect, industry analyst, and noted keynote speaker. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in digital strategy, the future of work, and enterprise IT. He works with the leadership teams of large enterprises as well as software vendors to raise the bar for the art-of-the-possible in their digital capabilities.

He is currently Vice President and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research. Dion is also currently an executive fellow at the Tuck School of Business Center for Digital Strategies. He is a globally recognized industry expert on the topics of digital transformation, digital workplace, enterprise collaboration, API strategy, CIO topics, digital business, and next-generation enterprises. His thought leadership can be found on ZDNet and On Digital Strategy. He also co-authored Web 2.0 Architectures for O’Reilly as well as the bestselling Social Business by Design (John Wiley & Sons).

He currently curates the well-known Business Transformation 150 with Constellation Research CEO and co-founder, Ray Wang, and judges the SuperNova awards in the Future of Work: Employee Experience category.

Dion was recently identified, through data analysis by Robert Half Technology, as one of the top 3 people mentioned most by CIOs worldwide. Industry analytics firm Onalytica ranks Dion as the #2 influencer globally on the subject of digital transformation. He remains a practicing enterprise architect with over a dozen in-production cloud/SaaS services in the social, mobile, and enterprise industries. He has keynoted or spoken at hundreds of leading industry conferences including CeBIT, Enterprise Digital Arena, KMWorld, IT Roadmap, Dreamforce, CIO Perspectives, AIIM Conference, IOM Summit, Reworked Connect, the ASAE AI Summit, and numerous other industry events. You can find Dion on Twitter at @dhinchcliffe.

Coverage Areas

The New C-Suite (with a CIO focus)
Digital Workplace

Major Research Areas for 2024

A Strategic Rebalancing of Cloud Priorities
The Evolution and Maturation of Hybrid Work
Generative AI and CIO/Board Strategy
The Transformation of IT Services
Digital Adoption Platforms

Previous Experience

Hinchcliffe was previously Chief Strategy Officer at 7Summits, LLC. Mr. Hinchcliffe serves as an advisor to a number of startups and enterprise IT departments. A veteran of software development, Hinchcliffe has worked for two decades with leading-edge methods to accelerate project schedules and raise the bar for the effective development of software. He served as Enterprise Software Architect (Independent) at GEICO from 2000 to 2003. Hinchcliffe previously served as Chief Strategy Officer of Adjuvi, LLC. Prior to his tenure at Adjuvi, Hinchcliffe served the Chief Strategy Officer of Dachis Corporation, Inc. from September 2012 to March 2014, Executive Vice President of Strategy from April 2010 to September 2012 and Executive Vice President of North America until September 2012.

Dion has also led digital transformation and digital workplace strategy engagements at the C-suite level for dozens of large organizations on six continents.

Hinchcliffe is a widely read columnist for ZDNet, InformationWeek, and Enterprise Irregulars. He was an Editor-in-Chief of Social Computing Journal from June 2007 to April 2010, AjaxWorld Magazine from April 2006 to May 2007 and Web 2.0 Journal from January 2006 to May 2007. He founded and led Hinchcliffe & Company, a boutique digital management consultancy, from 2006 to 2010, when it was acquired by Dachis Group. He was Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Sphere of Influence from 2004 to 2006.