Clive Longbottom is founder of Quocirca and has a focus on how technology can help businesses operate in an optimum manner. Although trained as a chemical engineer, Clive has worked in a number of different fields, as end-user, in IT teams, as a consultant and as an industry analyst. With a view that is strongly based around how a business is run by process, and how technology can be applied to the underlying tasks, Clive's take on an organisation's need for technology is markedly different to many others in the field. With a far more pragmatic and realistic approach to creating and managing a flexible technology platform, Clive has worked with large and small IT vendors, as well as government and standards bodies around the world.