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Jonathan Spira

CEO and Chief Analyst, Basex
Director and VP of Research, IORG

Web site: http://www.basex.com

Jonathan B. Spira, CEO and Chief Analyst, founded Basex in 1983. The author of Managing the Knowledge Workforce: Understanding the Information Revolution That's Changing the Business World (Mercury Business Press, September 2005), he is recognized as one of the technology industry's leading thinkers and pundits, having pioneered the study of Collaborative Business Environments, the intersection of content, knowledge and collaboration within the enterprise and beyond. He is an authority on the productivity of knowledge workers and how information technology affects them, and helped create the Knowledge Worker Impact Quotient (KWIQ) to answer the needs of IT buyers for a better understanding of the impact tools and technologies have on both the workplace and on the people who use them.

Mr. Spira, who directs all Basex research and analytic activities, is a widely published author and acclaimed speaker who makes frequent appearances speaking on the future of technology and has authored hundreds of papers on technology issues. He is the co-author of The History of Photography (Aperture, November 2001), which was named a best book of the year by the New York Times, and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. He conducted graduate-level research at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (Munich).