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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.
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,...
Landscape: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
Marketing mix modeling is no longer just a tool for consumer packaged goods (CPG) marketers to measure the effect of traditional marketing on overall sales. Today, marketing mix modeling can help all...

Why GRPs Will Fade As The Metric But Endure As The Currency For TV And Video
Consumers are rapidly shifting the way they watch TV, embracing a wide variety of digital platforms to watch on their own terms. But the vast majority of advertising investments are still planned,...

Business Case: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
Marketing mix modeling is a powerful tool that provides a holistic understanding of marketing performance across channels. With marketing mix modeling, marketers can positively affect business...
Processes: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Social media provides customer intelligence (CI) professionals with a wealth of customer data. But every piece of valuable insight is surrounded by noise. Cutting through that noise and getting to...
Continuous Improvement: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook
Managing brand health has become more complicated as the expansion of marketing, sales, and service channels creates a vast array of consumer data that can be used for analysis in the 21st century....
Business Case: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook
Enterprise marketing technologies promise to better engage customers, improve marketing performance, and boost efficiency. This report, part of Forrester's marketing technology playbook, helps...

Assessment: The Mobile Marketing Playbook
This report for interactive marketers explains how to assess your mobile marketing capabilities. We find that although mobile budgets are beginning to increase, the majority of interactive marketers...

Strategic Plan: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook
A key piece in cross-channel attribution is developing a strategy that outlines where the organization needs to progress to achieve attribution nirvana. To be successful at cross-channel attribution,...

In The Long Term, Cross-Channel Measurement Is An Enterprisewide Concern, But In The Near Term, eBusiness Must Act Now
eBusiness and channel strategy professionals have a lot on their plates these days: Consumers are moving across channels for sales and service, spanning digital touchpoints like Twitter and public...
Communicating The Right Data To Different Internal Stakeholders
Social media contributes value to interactive marketing programs in many ways — but measuring that value is difficult. The sheer volume of social media metrics can quickly become overwhelming...

Harnessing Digital Data To Monitor The Brand's Past, Present, And Future Health
Big data holds big promise for marketers who want to understand and manage their brand's health with greater precision. But challenges abound. While the technology is available to process new sources...

Performance Management: The Email Marketing Playbook
This report, part of the email marketing playbook, provides interactive marketers with advice on email marketing performance management, with a focus specifically on list maintenance. We've outlined...
Assessment: The Social Marketing Playbook
Customers and employees are becoming increasingly empowered by social technologies, dramatically changing the way they communicate and collaborate. To succeed in this new world, companies must make...
Landscape: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Over the years, we've evaluated the tools that marketers use to monitor, measure, and learn from online conversations. These listening platforms capture social media to help users analyze data and...
Benchmarks: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Forrester recently polled 108 listening platform customers to learn about the evolution in companies' social intelligence practices. We reviewed their vendor partnerships, the ways they use listening...

How Customer Intelligence Can Unify Audience Intelligence Across Channels To Enable Advanced Advertising
Marketers constantly seek ways to design addressable marketing programs that reduce media waste and create targeting efficiencies: Direct marketers turn to marketing databases to inform audience...

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...
CCP Games, a massive multiplayer online game provider, knew that its existing approach with key channels like display was suboptimized and that it could drive more efficient customer acquisition if...
Tools And Technology: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook
Customer intelligence (CI) professionals increasingly look to attribution experts for guidance and tools to help calculate true channel and customer purchase path. While there is a broad array of...
Deliver Comprehensive Measurement Using A Tiered Framework
Organizations have a rich trove of data resources and analytics technology at their disposal to support effective customer interactions and process efficiencies. Yet many firms struggle to translate...

Rio SEO Leads, With BrightEdge Following As A Strong Performer
Forrester's 21-criteria evaluation of SEO platforms evaluates the four largest providers of tools for organic search auditing, ranking support, measurement, and project management: BrightEdge,...

Benchmarking: Measure Marketing Performance
During the recent Forrester Wave™ evaluation of cross-channel attribution providers, we surveyed 34 customers about their cross-channel attribution efforts and their vendor partnerships....
Landscape: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook
With more than 1 billion smartphones in consumers' pockets at the beginning of 2013, mobile is driving a second Internet revolution that's even more profound than the first one. Mobile creates new...
