ALAN M. DAVIS is Professor of Business Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and president of Offtoa, Inc. He was a member of the board of directors of Requisite, Inc., acquired by Rational Software Corporation in February, 1997, and subsequently acquired by IBM in 2003. He has consulted for many corporations during the past 27 years, including Boeing, Cigna Insurance, Federal Express, General Electric, IBM, Mitsubishi Electric, and many more. Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Software from 1994 to 1998, he has published numerous books and more than 100 articles in journals, conference proceedings, and trade press, and has lectured 2,000-plus times in 28 countries.