Chris.Doig

Chris Doig graduated from the University of Cape Town, South Africa with a bachelor of electrical engineering degree. While at university, he founded Cirrus Technology to supply information technology products to the corporate market. The focus at Cirrus was helping companies buy the best IT products for their particular needs. Cirrus also developed custom software for the South African 7-Eleven franchise holder and other corporate clients.

In the 1990s, Chris immigrated to the United States and worked at several companies in technical and IT management roles: Seagate, Biogen, Netflix, Boeing, Bechtel SAIC, Discovery Communications and several startups. At all of these companies he repeatedly saw software being purchased with an immature selection process. Invariably this software would take longer to implement than planned and cost more than budgeted. To make matters worse, the software seldom met expectations.

Having struggled with software selection himself, Chris founded Wayferry, a consulting company that helps organizations acquire enterprise software. He is also the author of Rethinking Enterprise Software Selection: Stop buying square pegs for round holes. While ERP projects account for much of Wayferry's work, other types of enterprise software acquisitions include CRM, HRIS, help desk, call center software, clinical trials management systems and so on. For Chris, the ultimate satisfaction is when clients report meeting or even exceeding expectations with their new software.

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