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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.
How Companies Are Preparing For The Unstoppable As-A-Service Offerings
Developing a centralized software-as-a-service (SaaS) strategy has become a bigger priority for sourcing and vendor management professionals over the past year. Firms are not only expanding their...

Thinking about setting up a relationship or renegotiating a contract with an SAP implementation services provider? We have some exciting new insights on these third-party firms pulled straight...
Market Consolidation Continues; New Delivery And Pricing Models Prevail
The past two years have seen significant change in the SAP services market: acquisition and consolidation have run rampant, and new delivery models have changed the game for buyers and providers...

Findings From Our Recent Study Of 186 SAP Clients Using Third-Party SIs
Trends And Tradeoffs Of Leading Microsoft Services Players
Microsoft technologies span a wide range of products and services, including enterprise applications such as Dynamics AX and Dynamics CRM; desktop and collaboration applications such as Office,...
How To Sift Through A Crowded Field Led By Accenture, IBM, And Infosys
Forrester evaluated 14 leading global services providers in the Oracle applications market to assess strengths, weakness, and differences in strategy. This report will help Oracle application buyers...

What are other companies who have cloud sourced some of their apps doing about cloud-based app support team setup? Is it centralized or dispersed?
What are the rates for SAP resources?
Can Forrester supply any general benchmarking on hourly IT consulting rate ranges for various skill sets for the major players?
Innovation is again the hot topic for clients, as it was before the economic downturn. Clients have a renewed interest in innovation and business growth, and they seek services partners who can help....
Forrester Sees Spike In Inquiries On Pricing, SLAs, And Vendor Viability
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) contracting has become more important to organizations; firms are now scrutinizing deals before signing. Why the extra attention? SaaS agreements matter more than ever...

What are some supplier candidates for a request for proposal (RFP) for SAP Basis work?
Outreach: The Services Sourcing Playbook
Clients issue requests for proposals (RFPs) for a wide range of IT services needs. RFPs are a critical part of evaluating suppliers and ensuring a fair selection process. In many cases, an RFP not...

Sourcing Execs Must Drive Successful Vendor Selection, Governance, And Pricing
Forrester's Q2 2010 survey of more than 2,800 IT services buyers across the globe shows that firms are again investing in more strategic initiatives, with IT strategy consulting and systems...
What are some examples of SaaS availability metrics?
What should be considered when putting together a contract for a partnership with a SaaS supplier?
The cloud continues to get a lot of attention — and scrutiny — from IT buyers. Most IT buyers have accepted the value of the cloud for process areas such as human capital management and...

Considerations For A New Economy
Many clients are asking Forrester about rates and contract clauses as they renegotiate offshore contracts, including questions around what to expect in light of the economic downturn that started in...
Forrester recently surveyed nearly 3,000 technology decision-makers worldwide and found that emerging geographies -- Latin America, China, India, Russia -- are heavy adopters of...
With the Sourcing and Vendor Management Forums coming up next week in Miami and at the end of the month in London, our team is busy finalizing content and rehearsing sessions. Personally the hottest...
Are there any studies that compare the trends of software-as-a-service (SaaS) versus traditional perpetual software licensing and/or the right to use licenses?
We are working through contracting with a company and are trying to avoid the pitfalls we have faced with other vendors regarding pithy SLAs. We are looking for advice/best practices and real-world...
How can sourcing executives work with business executives to ensure that service-level agreements (SLAs) translate into high availability of software-as-a-service (SaaS) for users?