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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.
Assessment: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook
This report outlines the capabilities assessment of Forrester's solution for customer intelligence (CI) professionals working on marketing technology. Transforming marketing programs into...
The Nine Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
Since Forrester published its first Wave™ evaluation on marketing mix modeling in 2011, the market has undergone significant growth and evolution as marketers demand more in-depth, real-time,...
Continuous Improvement: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook
Congratulations! Your mobile banking web, iPhone, iPad, and Android apps are live, and adoption has surpassed your wildest expectations. But what now? Digital banking teams need to test and optimize...

Twenty Solutions For Delivering Differentiated Experiences
Customers demand superior service and support as the price for their ongoing loyalty and patronage, and they are increasingly leveraging the chat channel for customer service. The chat vendor...
Performance Management: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
Successful optimization of the marketing mix requires careful coordination of multiple data streams, generation of insights from marketing mix models, and careful review of budget allocation...
Organization: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Finding and acting on insights gleaned from online and social discussions is a tricky practice. It takes the right combination of clarity of objective, business planning, technology, and, most...
We believe we can increase sales with our call centers in our direct marketing organization if we can figure out how to transform our phone interactions into selling activities instead of...
How 13 Vendors Stack Up In An Emerging Market
In Forrester's 19-criteria evaluation of emerging customer engagement agencies (CEAs), we found that only OgilvyOne Worldwide has made a significant-enough shift in this segment of its business to be...

Assess Your Current State To Inform The Online Marketing Suite Road Map
The online marketing suite is a well-regarded framework for coordinating interactive marketing, but it consistently proves difficult to implement. Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals struggle to...
Performance Management: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook
Mobile has reached critical mass due to improved infrastructure, advances in device utility, and overall market penetration. Engaging with customers via mobile is unavoidable: Whether or not...

Incorporating testing into marketing and customer experience management programs is crucial because consumer behaviors change continually and vary by a multitude of dimensions that are nearly...

Agencies Reinvented As Mediators Will Win While The Rest Wither
The agency model is crumbling under the weight of continual innovation in digital channels, the changing media behaviors of the always-addressable customer, and marketers' frustration with a siloed...

Processes: The Customer Analytics Playbook
Marketers continue to emphasize acquisition and are willing to take the risk of acquiring customers with low long-term profitability. While retention efforts typically enjoy the spotlight in an...
What are some great examples of automated, highly personalized, multichannel communications programs? My company has a few programs in pilot mode, but it seems that this concept of highly automated,...
As the demand for customer intelligence (CI) from business stakeholders grows and more organizations increase their CI maturity, organizations' marketing agency needs have also changed. A few...

Vision: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook
Today's customers interact with brands via a wide variety of touchpoints and at different stages of the brand life cycle. But companies measure campaign success using last-touch methods that fail to...
Tailored Experiences Are Critical As Mobile Rewrites Customer Engagement Standards
The drumbeat of mobile is increasingly difficult to ignore as usage and revenue gain momentum and smartphones become tightly woven into multichannel customer experiences. But developing engaging...
Assessment: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook
This report outlines for IT professionals more than 100 essential practices for organizations looking to deliver their digital experience transformation strategies. It asks questions such as: Do you...
Forrester Applies Its Web Site Brand Experience Review Methodology To Four Top Sites
The hotel industry features highly recognized brand names like Crowne Plaza, Hilton, Marriott, and Sheraton. But how good is the brand experience offered by major hotel brands' Web sites? To find...