Douglas Brown is an American author and market research executive who founded Black Book Research, a healthcare intelligence firm. He wrote The Black Book of Outsourcing (2005) and The Black Book of Reshoring (2026).
Biography Brown was born in 1959. He studied political science and public administration at the University of Florida, later earned a master's in healthcare administration from the University of Houston, and rounded out his training with postgraduate work in global marketing at the London School of Economics.
In 2003, he co-founded the Brown-Wilson Group, an outsourcing research consultancy whose Black Book of Outsourcing brand was later acquired by Datamonitor. He went on to found Black Book Research and, in October 2025, gave a keynote at openEHR's EHRCON25 conference in Barcelona.
Publications The Black Book of Outsourcing: How to Manage the Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities (with Scott Wilson). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2005. The Black Book of Reshoring. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2026 (256 pp.).
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