William M. "Bill" Mayon-White is an independent adviser and consultant on technology, organisations and change. He has special interests in change, strategy and decision processes. He has extensive experience of working at a senior level with teams, and advising and supporting individual directors in leading international companies and UK Government Departments. He has considerable operational and strategic management experience in assisting clients to move from ideas and plans to clear decisions and the delivery of change.
He was originally trained as an applied biologist, and worked overseas and as a scientist in government service. This broadened his interests to encompass cybernetics, systems theory and decision-making in organisations. Bill has worked with many international organisations and has lectured extensively world-wide. Previously he held full-time academic posts, latterly as Senior Lecturer and Development Director at Cranfield University. Before that Bill held a lectureship with the Open University Systems Group where he was responsible for internationally recognised work on systems behaviour, methodology, and the management of change. He has a long association with the London School of Economics as a senior research fellow with the Institute of Social Psychology.
Bill is the author and editor of a number of books, monographs and papers. These include Managing Change, first published in 1987 as Planning and Managing Change, and now in its second edition. Other titles include Study Skills for Managers, and more recently, Principles of Good Practice for Information Management (re-published by the British Standards Institution).