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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.
PowerVM Is A Critical Advantage For IBM's Power Systems
IBM's POWER7 system — arguably the most dramatic server design development since the first POWER4 dual-core microprocessor architecture — makes advanced virtualization stacks a core...
Benchmark: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution for infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to benchmark the performance of their business continuity (BC) programs as part of their broader business...

Measure Your Green IT Baseline Or Risk Being Caught With Your Pants Down
Is green IT your emperor with no clothes? It is if you've invested in green IT with the promise of reducing energy costs but haven't measured your energy baseline. Without a baseline, IT leaders...

The Cloud On IT's Horizon
Interest in cloud technology and cloud economics abounds. While the technology delivers immediate reductions in capital costs, Forrester believes that cloud computing's greatest benefits will come...
How can I find out if such a component is operated in an efficient way without having relevant benchmark information? Are there any other criteria to look at to get at least a classification of the...
Strategic Plan: The I&O Practice Playbook
The writing is on the wall: As-a-service technology, tech-savvy workers, and increased business complexity are widening the gap between business demand and traditional IT supply. This era is making...
Use Six Key Indicators To Start Measuring And Remediating I&O Complexity
Complexity is a recurring theme for today's infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives. Complexity is currently cited as the root cause of all IT operations ills. I&O teams are desperately trying...
Despite the IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) budget traditionally representing 70% of total IT spending and overall IT expenditure becoming a greater percentage over overall corporate spend,...

If we do a four-year operating lease for $1.6M of EMC equipment, what would be the remaining life of the equipment after four years (i.e., 10%, 15%)?
Performance Management: The Workforce Enablement Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution for developing effective metrics to measure the performance of your workforce computing initiatives. Identifying and implementing a comprehensive, relevant...
Customers Achieve ROI, But Configuration Is More Difficult Than Expected
Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) is rapidly emerging as a solution to help IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals improve data center operations and management. As...
Exploding Complexity Mandates The Consolidation Of Tools, People, And Knowledge
IT inexorably moves to more sophisticated models of dynamic services and cloud computing. Unfortunately, the most common operational functions remain less than dynamic and continue to focus on...

A customizable Forrester companion tool to the Economics of IT series docs.
We Calculate A 74% Cost Reduction, But It's Hard To Compare Apples To Apples
There's a great deal of hype surrounding cloud delivery models of all flavors, with the assumption that it will usher in a new era of cheaper, better IT. But most I&O organizations struggle to...
We are looking for some metrics for IT service desk (ITSD) support. Can you please provide some numbers around first-contact resolution, number of incidents, abandonment rate, average incident...
Strategic Plan: The Service Management And Automation Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution for IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to develop their service management and automation (SMA) strategic plan. This is important as the...

Metrics are the Achilles' heel of many infrastructure and operations (I&O) departments. Many firms don't know which metrics to use, or how to collect the data they need for the metrics, while others...

Vision: The I&O Practice Playbook
By 2020, the proliferation of as-a-service technology, tech-savvy workers, and increased business complexity will widen the gap between business demand and traditional IT supply. In this new era,...

Benchmarks: The IT Infrastructure Playbook
This report provides IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals with strategic benchmarks to compare their IT infrastructure budgets, priorities, motivations, and technology adoption to...