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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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Business Goals: The BT Strategic Planning Playbook
Clear business goals lie at the heart of good strategy. Unfortunately, many organizations have aspirational goals that make strategic planning difficult at best, and they lack the mechanism to...

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...
A number of Forrester analysts from the Asia Pacific region attended the recent SAP analyst event in Singapore. Meetings with SAP global and regional executives and a large number of detailed...
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...
Springboard Research foresees several major forces that are coalescing to drive the next generation/evolution of IT infrastructure. While not all organizations will transform themselves within the...
Springboard Research witnessed strong uptake of the development of mobile "micro-apps" within Asia Pacific (AP) enterprises during 2010. The majority of these applications were driven by internal...
Reporting Manager. Computer Systems Manager. MIS Director. IT Manager. Chief Technology Officer. Director Of IT. Chief Information Officer. It's not just a change of job title. It's the...
Springboard Research notes a variety of factors that drive SMBs in growth markets either toward, or away from, Linux. Though a significant proportion of adoption today remains server-based, Linux...
This report provides an overview of the virtualization adoption trends in Asia Pacific, excluding Japan (APEJ) for vendor strategists. Survey data reflects over 450 interviews with CIOs, IT managers,...
Email has emerged as one of the leading enterprise applications for cloud computing over the last 12-18 months. Both Microsoft and Google have become the dominant enterprise players with VMware...
The maturity and sophistication of existing data warehousing (DW) implementations across the Asia Pacific (AP) region has been variable, to say the least. If the hype around big data is to be...

This document provides vendor strategists with an evaluation of Cisco's corporate restructuring announcement. Cisco's vision is explained and its network-centric offerings are analyzed. Additionally,...
In a previous post I highlighted that disruptive technologies don't even need to be implemented to be disruptive. The mere fact that vendors and other organisations are either creating or being...
Australian Banks have often been at the forefront of global banking trends, or at the very least, fast followers that learn quickly from the mistakes of others. In Australia, mobile banking has...
IBM has just announced that one of Australia’s “big four” banks, the ANZ, will adopt the IBM Watson technology in their wealth management division for customer service and...
"Google Apps," a suite of online productivity applications developed by Google, has remained a curiosity for the majority of business users in Asia Pacific (AP). While mainstream media frequently...
Indian CIOs Risk Losing Business Credibility If They Do Not Improve Their Understanding Of BT
A slow but relentless global revolution is sweeping traditional technology management. Historically, only IT organizations delivered technology for employee use. But this is changing: Technology use...

A Self-Assessment Framework To Focus And Accelerate Your Transformation
Many CIOs struggle to answer two deceptively simple questions: 1) How are we doing, and 2) what should I prioritize? These questions invite a host of complexities, raising questions about the role of...
The Top 10 Trends Affecting Market Maturity And Growth
Business intelligence (BI) adoption drivers, technology understanding, and organizational process maturity continue to vary widely across Asia Pacific. The one constant in this market is the...

Springboard Research notes continuing concerns around information security and data residency when evaluating potential cloud service providers/solutions. We are also witnessing a slow - but growing...