Alan Simon

Alan is a Principal Lecturer at Arizona State University in the Information Systems Department at WP Carey. He has been teaching at ASU since 2013, and was an undergraduate in the CIS program at ASU back in the mid- and late 1970s when that program was first beginning. He also has a master’s degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona. He has also been an adjunct instructor at Carnegie-Mellon, Drexel University, and the University of Denver.

Before joining the ASU faculty, Alan led global, national, and regional business intelligence and data warehousing practices at leading consulting firms and software companies, and is also the Managing Principal of his boutique consulting firm, Thinking Helmet, Inc. that he founded in 2006. He is a long-time thought leader and authority on aligning data and analytics with business process improvement initiatives, and is the author of 32 business and technology books dating back to the mid-1980s.