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BTM Founder Faisal Hoque Named One of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Technology
Business Wire, April 8, 2008
Ziff Davis Enterprise Editors Select Those Shaping the Future of Technology
STAMFORD, Conn. -- Faisal Hoque, Founder, Chairman and CEO of the BTM Corporation, has been named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Technology by the editors of Ziff Davis Enterprise. The ranking, put together by the editorial staffs of eWEEK, CIO Insight and Baseline, sought those who had a tangible track record of technology success, a far-reaching influence and the ability to affect change through developing emerging technologies.
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Hoque (#55) was ranked alongside luminaries including Oracle's Larry Ellison, Apple's Steve Jobs, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, IBM's Sam Palmisano, HP's Mark Hurd, Google's Larry Page & Sergey Brin, One Laptop Per Child's Nicholas Negroponte, Wikia's Jimmy Wales, Venture capitalist John Doerr, Author Gary Hamel, Professor Tom Davenport and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. A full list can be found at http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/100-Most-Influential-People-in- IT/. (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.)
Hoque founded Business Technology Management (BTM) in 1999 to converge business and technology, transforming companies into 'whole-brained enterprises.' Along the way, Hoque has written five management books, established a non-profit institute, and become a leading authority on effective interaction between business and technology. BTM Corporation has twice been named one of the fastest growing technology companies in North America in the annual Deloitte Technology Fast 500. CIO Quarterly magazine recently nicknamed Hogue 'Mr. Convergence.'
Two of his books, Sustained Innovation and Winning The 3-Legged Race, were included in the "Top 5 Transformation Books" of the last few years, while Sustained Innovation also ranked in CIO Insight magazine's "Editor's Picks: The 10 Best Business Books of 2007."
In 2003, Hoque founded the BTM Institute, a non-profit global think tank, promoting the collaborative research efforts for the science of business technology management. More recently, he dedicated his attention to those less fortunate by establishing BTM Agrim in an effort to develop innovative social business models in emerging markets.
About BTM Corporation
Founded in 1999, the BTM Corporation (Business Technology Management Corporation) innovates new business models, enhances financial performance, and improves operational efficiency by converging business and technology with its unique products and intellectual property (IP). The company focuses on executing solutions from a concept to value lifecycle with management processes, software applications, and cross-disciplinary domain expertise, allowing its customers to build better businesses through strategically using technology.
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