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Boris serves the Application Development & Delivery role. He is a leading expert in business intelligence (BI) — a set of processes, methodologies, and technologies used to transform raw data into meaningful, useful, and action-oriented enterprise information. Boris delivers strategic guidance, helping enterprises define BI strategies, governance, and architectures and identify vendors and technologies that help them put information to use in business processes and end user experiences.
Boris' current research focuses on the practical and actionable best practices for building BI infrastructure and applications, such as BI business cases, architectural options, organizational structures, and vendor selection. Boris continues to explore emerging trends in next-generation BI, such as agile BI architecture and development approaches, in-memory analytics, advanced data visualization, convergence of structured data and unstructured content analytics, process-driven and operational BI, and many others.
Boris has more than 30 years of experience with enterprise software and applications implementation, management consulting, and strategic advisory skills. Most recently, Boris was a managing partner at Textra, a boutique strategic advisory firm serving all IT constituents: users, vendors, and investors. Boris cofounded Textra after spending several years as a VP and a strategic technology advisor at JPMorgan/LabMorgan, where he led many successful internal BI initiatives, advising the bank's large enterprise software clients on enterprise adoption issues and product and marketing strategies. Prior to JPMorgan, Boris served as a senior manager of data warehousing and customer relationship management (CRM) practices at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Boris started his career at Citibank, where, among many other successful projects, he implemented the bank's first global credit risk data warehouse.
Boris holds a degree in music education from Moscow Gnessin School Of Music, Russia.
The BT Governance Collection: Maturity Self-Assessment
The Forrester BT Governance Maturity Self-Assessment consists of four capability areas and 40 governance-specific capabilities. This model is designed to provide a self-assessment that gives insight...
The BT Governance Collection: The Maturity Self-Assessment
Business executives have always asked CIOs to drive down IT costs, but now they are also challenging IT leaders to enable and directly support business outcomes. The best response to these challenges...

Globalization, BT Sourcing Strategies, And Digital Business Networks Define The Strategy
CIOs' interest in emerging technologies to drive innovative new business value is at a three-year peak — having been significantly throttled by the recession but coming back at a feverish...

Technology Vision Toolkit: The BT Strategic Planning Playbook
This toolkit is a companion to the "Track Tech Trends That Influence Business Strategies" report from the BT Strategic Planning playbook. It presents a simple yet effective tool for targeting...
Technology Vision: The BT Strategic Planning Playbook
Technology is the foundation for the CIO's contribution to the success of the enterprise. And it is the dream of most CIOs that they partner with business organizations to co-create a business...

Competitive Strategy In The Age Of The Customer
The empowered customer is driving new models of business success that are rapidly redefining the CIO's investment agenda in successful firms — the inauguration of what Forrester calls the age...
Enterprise Leadership Drives CIOs To Perform As An Empowered BT Or An Aligned IT Archetype
The empowered era has transformed the role of IT within the enterprise. Five years ago, we identified three archetypes for the IT organization: Solid Utility, Trusted Supplier, and Partner Player....

Sustained Innovation Succeeds Best Through Broad-Based Involvement
This report identifies the resources and skills business technology (BT) organizations require to successfully manage sustained innovation and establish innovation policies and practices that drive...
Build/Buy Capabilities: The BT Strategic Planning Playbook
Forrester's BT Strategic Planning playbook helps CIOs build a BT technology road map — starting with business goals and identifying the business and technology strategies to achieve the goals....
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...
Change Management: The Innovation Playbook
Companies that don't innovate risk becoming marginalized, and CIOs are often expected to help accelerate innovation within their firms. Key to success in this role is creating and sustaining an...

A Road Map For CIOs To Succeed In An Empowered World
Many pundits are writing the CIO's obituary. Your employees and the business are no longer relying on IT to provision and deliver technology. They are using technologies like social, mobile, cloud,...

New Business Realities Favor Flexibility And Business Value Over Efficiencies
Many CIOs are just beginning their journey to a shared services model — consolidating common functions and systems to reduce costs and improve efficiency. But global competitive demands are...
Executive Overview: The Innovation Playbook
Innovation has become a primary source of growth and competitive advantage, and the need for innovation underpins senior business leaders' top three issues. But how do CIOs help their firms realize...

Vision: The Innovation Playbook
Now is a critical time for CIOs to focus on innovation. The pace of change is too fast, the opportunities too great, and the risks too dire to relegate it to the annual funding process. Digitally...
The Forrester BT Leadership Maturity Model consists of four domains (leadership, strategy and planning, BT service design, and BT service delivery). This model is designed to provide a brief...

What are research findings around enterprise organizational effectiveness (OE)? In particular, I need trend data on models that large, matrixed organizations use to align, govern, and deliver OE...
The Future IT Organization And Its Implications For CIOs
The empowered era has brought about a paradigm shift for IT organizations. Employees and customers are no longer relying on IT to provision and manage technology. They are using social, mobile,...
