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Brad serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. He is a leading expert on multi-channel strategy, digital channels, social media, customer behavior and trends in the financial services industry. He is also a noted authority on technology developments that affect the digital channels and vendors that facilitate digital sales, service, onboarding, and payments.
In his research, Brad covers financial service channel topics such as digital sales and merchandising, new customer onboarding, channel metrics and measurements, organizational design, mobile wallets/payments, servicing and self-service, and social computing in the financial services world. He developed and authored the well-respected annual sales and service website rankings as well as “The State Of North American Digital Banking,” a joint study conducted with the Consumer Bankers Association and a key industry benchmark publication.
Prior to joining Forrester, Brad spent more than 10 years developing and managing online services for consumers. Most recently, Brad was a vice president in Wells Fargo's Internet services group. During his tenure there, Brad led the development of Wells Fargo's eBusiness strategy and managed a team dedicated to driving online sales, including marketing, platform development, cross-selling, and channel integration efforts. He also developed and managed the company's highly respected online banking service, which included money movement, bill payment and presentment, personal financial management integration, person-to-person payments, and personalization. Prior to his employment at Wells Fargo, Brad spent four years as product and marketing manager for a respected healthcare information provider in St. Louis.
Brad has been widely quoted in the press, including such media outlets as BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, and American Banker. An accomplished public speaker, Brad has delivered speeches at many events, including Forrester's Finance Forum, Technology Leadership Forum, and European Finance Forum.
Brad earned a bachelor's degree in advertising from the University of Kansas and an MBA in marketing and information systems from the University of Missouri.
Part 3 Of A Three-Part Series On Why Key IT Roles Fail
Certain roles in IT can significantly change the organization for good or bad. Through a combination of surveys, interviews, and consulting engagements, we gathered in-depth information on the common...
Part 1 Of A Three-Part Series On Why Key IT Roles Failed
A number of roles in IT can significantly change the organization for good or bad. When they fail, the consequences are severe. From a combination of surveys, interviews, and consulting engagements,...
Many shops, particularly global ones, want to increase the percentage of processes that are globally consistent. To meet this need, Wipro Consulting Services provides an interesting service package...

What Works And What Doesn't In Motivating IT Staff
What Works And What Doesn't In Motivating IT Staff
The secret behind many CIOs' success is a great staff that supports and executes the vision and strategy for IT. There are many ways to keep the IT staff motivated; they vary in effectiveness, cost...
Look over a list of CIO requirements and you come up with Superman. Great skill in communication, strategy, business knowledge, IT knowledge, consistency with culture, operational...
Part 2 Of A Three-Part Series On Why Key IT Roles Failed
There are a number of roles in IT that can significantly change the organization for good or bad. Through a combination of surveys, interviews, and consulting engagements, we gathered in-depth...

New technologies, service offerings, business changes, and other factors are driving CIOs to change the structure, processes, governance, and culture of IT organizations. However, redesigns are an...

We’d like to know what job responsibilities give CIOs insomnia, either by responding to this blog or by contacting us directly to be interviewed. The interviews will take less than an hour and...
The recession gave CIOs the opportunity to consider new models for IT. But what new models and what parts of IT are they considering? And which models will stand the test of time? To answer this...

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...
I’ve been researching why IT roles fail (or at least struggle mightily and often futily). The roles that come up most often are the ones that are not directly building or...
The reporting structure of an IT organization affects how roles operate in that shop. The structure must support the goals of the organization and be consistent with its culture and capabilities....

Several new IT models are emerging from the experiments by IT shops and the innovative thinking of management consulting firms. These models attempt to overcome the silos both within IT and between...

Execution, Consistency, And Business Growth Drive Increased Demand
What factors are changing the demand for roles in IT? To help answer this question, Forrester surveyed 140 IT decision-makers about why demand for some roles in IT is decreasing while for others it's...
I was talking with a client the other day about the reporting structure of her applications organization. The group had a single leader, but underneath, it was subdivided into groups that were a...
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,...

To redesign an IT organization, you need to know the potential organizational models, their pros and cons, and how they would meet the needs of your organization. Fortunately, there are a relatively...

At our recent CIO Forum in D.C., I had a number of conversations with clients who either had gone through or were going through a business transformation. From our talks, one theme jumped out at me...
Executive Overview: The BT Strategic Planning Playbook
Today's executives are totally dependent on technology to achieve their organization's goals and objectives — without technology they cannot compete. CIOs increasingly play a vital role in...
