Featured Expert
David Foote - cofounder, president and chief research officer, Foote Partners
David Foote has a long history as a leading industry analyst tracking, analyzing and reporting on IT and business management practices and IT workforce trends and issues. At Foote Partners, a management consultancy and IT workforce research firm he cofounded in 1997, he leads a team of experienced senior analysts, consultants and researchers (McKinsey, Gartner, META Group, Towers Perrin, former corporate executives) that continuously monitors the compensation, activities and attitudes of 50,000 IT executives and professionals in more than 1,800 U.S., Canadian and European private and public sector organizations.
The firm publishes the IT Insider research series, one of the industry's most comprehensive sources for IT organization, compensation and workforce trends research. Included in this quarterly series are: IT Insider Professional Salary Survey; Hot Technical Skills and Certifications Pay Index; IT Insider Workforce Trends Series.
David combines an analyst's capacity for pattern recognition and radar for bullshit, a consultant's common sense for what works in practical application and an appreciation of the power of both empirical and statistical research to real-time business problem solving.
David's editorial opinion columns, articles and contributions appear regularly in leading newspapers (including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times and The Times of London), business and IT industry periodicals (including BusinessWeek, Fortune, CIO Magazine, Computerworld, InfoWorld, Information Week, SC Magazine, Network World and World at Work), online (including TechTarget Web sites), in appearances on network and cable television and National Public Radio and on global webcasts and podcasts.
An compensation research innovator, David created in 1994 the first survey-based IT compensation research in the U.S. that defined and benchmarked emerging "new breed" information management positions in Unix, data warehousing, Web/e-commerce, business technology, information security and enterprise applications development.
Prior to Foote Partners, David was a technology executive and consultant in the Silicon Valley for 10 years and IT industry analyst and consultant with Gartner Group and Meta Group, where he cofounded and directed Meta's Executive Service for CIOs/CTOs and led its IT compensation and human capital management research practices.
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