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Alex serves CIO Professionals. His coverage includes business technology strategies, business sustainability, business-driven governance frameworks, process-oriented organizational design, change management, and continuous improvement. He is also a leading expert on best practices for making technology organizations more effective and business relevant through the implementation of service-oriented structures and process frameworks.
Alex helps clients partner with business peers to drive growth and customer engagement; develop business technology people and processes for future success; and adopt business process management (BPM), Lean, and Six Sigma to deliver business outcomes.
Prior to taking on his current role, Alex focused his research on Business Process Professionals' challenges, such as the development of business process architectures, portfolio management capabilities, centers of excellence, and deployment of change management programs. Before joining Forrester in 2005, Alex developed the IT consolidation program and managed the data center of a large European automotive company. Previously, he spent 10 years at IBM and EDS as an executive senior consultant and led several international customer projects in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, IT shared services, sourcing, organizational change, process, and technology management. Alex also worked for five years as a research scientist in the area of high-performance computing at the IBM Scientific Center Heidelberg, publishing in refereed journals and co-editing three proceeding books.
Alex received a master's degree in engineering from the Civil Engineering Institute in Bucharest, Romania, and a Ph.D. in engineering from the Technical University Aachen, Germany. He received a postdoctoral fellowship from Princeton University.
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Total and online travel spending for unmanaged business and leisure travel. Travel spending is segmented by air, rail, hotel, and car hire. Includes regional and individual country data for...
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Adoption, ownership, and life cycle for Blu-ray Disc players, console game devices, and HDTVs. Contains data for each device on connectable and connected households. Includes historical data going...
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Forrester recently launched its first global tablet forecast. This report provides color and insight into the numbers behind the forecast. We examine some of the key drivers from both a consumer and...
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Includes audience, buyers, and revenues for online content, including news, video, games, and music for the EU-7. Regional data and individual data for France, Germany, Italy, the...
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Details the market size and analyzes the key drivers behind the growth in digital games, music, and video spend on mobile and tablet devices. The forecast breaks down consumer behavior of mobile...
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Sales and installed base for tablet and eReader devices as well as book market spending. Breaks out installed base of consumer- and business-owned tablets and new and replacement tablet sales. Also...
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Total mobile subscribers, total handsets, and mobile Internet users. Includes installed base of mobile handsets by technology (2.5G, 3G, and 4G/LTE) and phone type (smartphone, quick messaging, and...
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Dedicated eReader device unit sales, users by demography, and installed base, with eBook and physical book spending. Includes historical data going back to 2008 plus a five-year forecast.
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Total mobile subscribers and subscriptions including prepaid subscriptions. Installed base and sales of mobile handsets segmented by speed (2.5G, 3G, and 4G/LTE) and feature set (basic devices,...
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Spending by companies on mobile and tablet marketing segmented by display and search. Includes data on mobile Internet users and spending by company size. Includes data dating back to 2005...
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Includes audience, buyers, and revenues for online content, including news, business and finance, sports, games, video, and music for the US. Includes historical data going back to 2009...
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Online retail spending by 22 retail categories for each of the 17 Western European countries. Includes online retail sales as a percent of total retail sales. Also includes online buyers, online...
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Includes mobile commerce buyers and revenue segmented by retail sales, travel, daily deals, and gaming app downloads. Country level detail for France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands,...
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Details the market size and analyzes the key drivers behind the growth in digital games, music, and video spend on mobile and tablet devices. The forecast breaks down consumer behavior of mobile...
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Spending by companies on mobile and tablet marketing segmented by display, search, and social. Includes data on mobile Internet users and spending by company size as well as mobile video...
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Global sales and installed base of eReader devices in 53 countries. Also includes total book (physical and digital) and eBook spending for each country. Includes historical data back to 2010 plus a...
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Global sales and installed base for tablet devices in 53 countries. Breaks out installed base of consumer- and business-owned tablets by country and new and replacement tablet sales. Also...
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Sales and installed base for tablet and eReader devices as well as book market spending for 16 Western European countries. Breaks out installed base of consumer- and business-owned tablets by country...
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TV households by subscription service and digital TV households with DVR households by service. Includes historical data going back to 2000 plus a five-year forecast.