Murray Wills

Director / Principal Consultant

Murray has over 35 years of in-depth IT and business experience. He has hands-on experience in many areas of business and IT to senior management level, and he has a passion for IT enablement of business strategies and achieving results.

Industry-wise, Murray has extensive experience in the corporate, banking and finance, government secondary and tertiary education sectors. His years in consulting and sales has exposed him to a significant number of other industries.

Murray facilitates courses in IT/Digital Governance and a range of topics of interest to CIOs, CEOs and Board members.

Murray’s expertise includes:

Virtual CIO/CDO Services
IT Governance advice and training for Boards, CEO’s and CIO’s
IT Governance Health Checks
Business requirements definition
Tender preparation, evaluation, and selection
Strategic information systems planning
Programme and Project management
Information technology management
IT and IT Governance reviews
IT education consulting, accreditation and monitoring
Training of CIO’s and Boards
Change management
Business Case Development
IT Contracts and Negotiation
Mentoring staff
Transition management
Advice on IT staff recruitment and interviewing
Website development, project management and reviews
IT Training in management, CIO skills, and articles on topical IT topics.

Professional

We take professionalism, qualifications and experience seriously.

Not only are we qualified to offer you advice, but we maintain a commitment to professional development. It’s a requirement of the various professional membership organisations that we belong to.

Actually we love being up to date 🙂

Qualifications

Master of Business Studies, Information Systems with Distinction, Massey University
Post Graduate Diploma in Business and Administration, Massey University
Management Diploma, NZ Institute of Management
Diploma for Graduates (Pastoral Studies), Otago University
Certified Management Consultant (CMC)
Chartered IT Professional (CITP)

Professional Memberships

Awards

ITPNZ President’s Award for Contribution to the IT Profession
Fellow of the Institute of IT Professionals (FIITP)

Giving back to Tertiary Education and the Profession

NZQA Bachelor and Master’s of Digital Technologies Monitor, MIT
NZQA Bachelor of IT Monitor, WINTEC
Bachelor of IT Monitor, The Open Polytechnic of NZ
Seoul Accord Delegate, ITPNZ
Accreditation Visit Manager, ITPNZ Seoul Accord Degree Accreditations
NZQA Accreditation Panel Member
Better Business Cases Approved Trainer
Assessor for ITPNZ
CIO and IT Governance course facilitator
Judge – Multiple CIO Awards
Editorial Advisory Board Member CIO Magazine
Papers reviewer various Conferences
NZ member of International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) Committee for ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 40 IT Service Management and IT Governance