James W. Cortada

Member of the IBM Institute for Business Value within IBM Global Services. Jim Cortada joined IBM in 1974 as a salesman, and held a variety of sales and marketing management jobs prior to joining the IBM Consulting Group in 1993. He led numerous management consulting engagements concerned with process reengineering, distance learning strategies, change management, and strategic use of IT. His clients included utility companies, universities, IBM, manufacturing firms, and grocery chains. He was responsible for managing a series of business research projects in the Pharmaceutical Industry.

Dr. Cortada held a BA, MA, and Ph.D. in modern history. He was a member of the American Historical Association and Chairman of the Board of the Charles Babbage Foundation, and served on the board of editors of several journals. Cortada was a frequent speaker at business conferences and universities. Dr. Cortada was the author of 50 books and over one hundred articles on the history and management of information technologies, and was writing a three-volume study of the role of computing and telecommunications in 46 American industries from the mid-twentieth century onward.