Frank Buytendijk (The Hague, 1969) is a Dutch author of management books. He studied business and information technology at the Hogeschool Utrecht (University of Applied Sciences Utrecht), was a consultant at various firms in his home country, was 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 (TDWI).Fellow at TDWI Currently, Buytendijk is a research vice president at analyst firm Gartner,Gartner analyst profile where he served before as well between 2001 and 2006.
Buytendijk wrote five booksWorldcat author record 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, Buytendijk's first book on balanced scorecardsBalanced Scorecard: Van Meten Naar Managen (Dutch), Buytendijk, F.A. & Brinkhuis-Slaghuis, J., 2000, Kluwer, briefly reached the #1 sales position for management books in the Netherlands; it remained in the top 100 for 890 days.#1 sales position on managementboek.nl His second book - on data warehouses - quickly followed.Datawarehouses: Bron van Kennis voor Marketing en Sales (Dutch), Buytendijk, F.A. & Groot, C. de, 2000, Kluwer, This was a more technology-oriented book. Both the first and second book were written in Dutch.
Buytendijk's third book, titled "Performance Leadership," was published by McGraw-Hill; it discussed the relationship between performance management and organizational behavior.Performance Leadership, Buytendijk, F.A., 2008, McGraw-Hill, The book has its roots in behavioral economics. "Dealing with Dilemmas", published by John Wiley & Sons, followed in 2010.Dealing with Dilemmas, Buytendijk, F.A., 2010, Wiley & Sons, It argues, following Henry Mintzberg, that strategy is full of dilemmas that require a different approach than traditional analysis, namely the opposite, synthesis. Part of the book on scenario planning and strategy maps is also available as a case study in the Harvard Business Review database.Harvard Business Review case study The fifth book, called "Socrates Reloaded," consists of a number of essays diving deeper into philosophical aspects of business and technology that started to emerge in "Dealing with Dilemmas".Socrates Reloaded, Buytendijk, F.A., 2012, Beingfrank,
Bibliography Balanced Scorecard: Van Meten Naar Managen (Dutch), Buytendijk, F.A. & Brinkhuis-Slaghuis, J., 2000, Kluwer, Datawarehouses: Bron van Kennis voor Marketing en Sales (Dutch), Buytendijk, F.A. & Groot, C. de, 2000, Kluwer, Performance Leadership, Buytendijk, F.A., 2008, McGraw-Hill, Dealing with Dilemmas, Buytendijk, F.A., 2010, Wiley & Sons, Socrates Reloaded: The Case for Ethics in Business & Technology, Buytendijk, F.A., 2012,
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