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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.
This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the IT services market in APeJ in 2011. The research is based on interviews with key MNCs and local vendors in the Asia Pacific IT...
This document provides a comprehensive background of the dynamics in the public sector market in Pakistan. This analysis will allow vendor strategists to address market opportunities in Pakistan more...

These are the data tables for the report "Public Sector Market Analysis: Pakistan." The report provides a comprehensive background of the dynamics in the public sector market in Pakistan. This...

This document provides a comprehensive background of the dynamics in the public sector market in Turkey. This analysis will allow vendor strategists to address market opportunities in Turkey more...

Following the recent successful integration of its latest acquisitions, Oracle is ramping up its marketing messages around cloud enabling enterprise data centres via what it is positioning as an...
Cisco's Smart+Connected Communities strategy has moved beyond concept stage with real business opportunities now emerging in several key hypergrowth markets. As distinct from other vendor's attempts...
SAP's "dominance" as an enterprise application platform has slowly diminished over the past five years. Previously fueled by market optimism, relatively strong economic growth, and a heavy emphasis...
Springboard Research believes the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle will continue to have a significant impact on the enterprise IT landscape for years to come. For individual IT...
Unisys has continued to evolve its hosted data center offerings and, along with many other vendors, rebranded to take advantage of rising customer interest in "private cloud." Unisys' offering is...
Springboard Research notes rapid, rising interest in software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud-related offerings - despite the impending and inevitable fatigue from over-hype. As distinct from managed...
This document provides a comprehensive overview of IT procurement in the government-related market in China, with a focus on how new policies to foster local innovation and limit IT procurement from...
This document provides a comprehensive background of the dynamics in the public sector market of the African country of Nigeria. This analysis will allow vendor strategists to address market...

Springboard Research notes that rising interest in the implementation of private clouds is creating confusion in the market. More importantly, misaligned business expectations and unrealistic...
To survive, and thrive, Springboard Research believes "traditional" web hosting providers must accept the new reality of cloud-based offerings as a viable, and in many cases, preferable sourcing...
The primary objective of this document is to provide a comprehensive background of Australia and New Zealand data center market dynamics. It provides an end user perspective to enable vendor...
This document provides an overview of cloud computing in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and concerns,...

In multiple recent announcements and company events across Asia Pacific including Japan (APJ), Symantec outlined its strategy for regional (and ultimately global) growth. Not surprisingly, cloud...
This document provides an overview of cloud computing in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and concerns,...

Apple iPads are rapidly gaining attention in the consumer world, forcing enterprise IT to re-evaluate tablets as a potentially supported business device. Springboard Research believes that Apple...
This report provides a comprehensive background of India's data center market dynamics from the end user perspective so vendor strategists can address market opportunities more successfully and...
These are the data tables for the report "Nigeria Public Sector Market Analysis." The report provides a comprehensive background of the dynamics in the public sector market of the African country of...

This document provides an overview of cloud computing in India for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and concerns, market awareness and user...
Springboard Research has witnessed strong interest - and uptake - from telco providers in delivering cloud computing services to both enterprise and small to medium-size clients. However, structural...
This document provides an overview of cloud computing in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) for vendor strategists. The report will allow vendor strategists to understand cloud-related market trends...
There Are Huge Opportunities For Vendor Strategists — If You Know The Landscape
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) today represents one of the most dynamic growth segments of the global tech sector. The markets across Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) in this context are exposing...