Frank Buytendijk

Who is Frank Buytendijk?

Frank Buytendijk is a Dutch author of management books. He studied business and information technology at the Hogeschool Utrecht, was a consultant at various firms in his home country, a research analyst and held executive positions in various large, medium and small software companies. He has a background in business intelligence, corporate performance management and business process management. Buytendijk is also a visiting fellow at Cranfield University School of Management. In 2012, he was appointed fellow at The Data Warehousing Institute. Currently, Frank is a Research vice president at analyst firm Gartner, where he served before as well, between 2001 and 2006.

He wrote five books, related to strategy, organizational behavior and performance management. A common theme throughout these books is the application of stakeholder theory in business.

According to managementboek.nl, his first book, on balanced scorecards, briefly reached the #1 sales position for management books in the Netherlands, and remained in the top 100 for 890 days. The second book, on data warehouses, quickly followed. This was a more technology-oriented book. Both the first and second book were in Dutch.