Edwin Ellis (Ed) Tozer (born 1943) is a British retired management and IT consultant and SF author,[1] particularly known for his early work on business information systems in the 1970s and 1980s.
In 1984 he founded Edwin E. Tozer Limited, specialized in data management study, which he dissolved after his retirement in 2008.
He argued: Developments in the database field have tended to emphasise programming technology, with a dearth of accompanying progress in systems analysis and design methods.
In his 1988 Planning for effective business Information systems, Tozer developed a particular view on Enterprise Data Planning, that dealt with the complexities of extracting key business needs from senior management and then defining relevant architectural visions for the specific enterprise.
He was one of the first to identify data as being an enterprise wide asset that required management, and had developed a series of tools and methods to support that process.