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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.
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Stakeholder Needs: The EA Practice Playbook
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Strategic Plan: The Emerging Technology Playbook
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Change Management: The EA Practice Playbook
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