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Chip serves CIOs. His research focuses on IT investment strategies, justifying technology investments, IT portfolio management, business technology (BT) alignment, and IT satisfaction. Chip developed the Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) model and program to help clients quantify and communicate the financial value of technology investments and strategies.
Chip has 25 years of experience in the IT industry. He came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group. Prior to joining Giga, he was director of business development for Passport Designs, where he managed both the customer service center and the direct sales organizations. In 1992, he implemented a program where technical support agents would be rewarded if their interactions led to the sale of an upgrade or additional product. Chip also held senior positions at Ingres, where he was group manager of desktop and Unix platform marketing, as well as Ingres' representative to the X/Open ISV council.
Chip has delivered presentations and workshops worldwide to audiences ranging from four to 400. His work on calculating and communicating the value of IT and IT projects was the subject of a cover story in PC Week and has been featured in BusinessWeek, CIO Magazine (US and Canada), InformationWeek (US and Germany), and numerous other business and trade publications. He has also appeared as a panelist on Silicon Spin with John Dvorak on ZDTV.
Chip earned a B.A. in anthropology from Hamilton College.
Technology has become an integral underpinning of virtually all business interactions. However, just as a smoothly running infrastructure can enable business users to succeed, flaws in this...
Contracting with third-party providers to supplement and complement internal IT resources represents about 20% of IT spending globally. However, 15% to 30% of surveyed organizations are dissatisfied...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
Salesforce.com, a dominating force in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market, has emerged as a Leader in our record-centric customer service management software evaluation. The salesforce.com...
Build/Buy Capabilities: The Innovation Playbook
Few firms have the resources and wherewithal to go it alone in the face of the current climate of almost continual business disruption. Just as a firm may look to partners and suppliers to complement...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
Oracle's Siebel CRM On Demand offers many of the same benefits as other software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors — faster time-to-value, good usability, and lower upfront costs. The product...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
SAP, a Leader in our customer record-centric customer service evaluation, has progressively built out comprehensive functionality in its mySAP CRM product. SAP's customer service strengths lie in its...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
NetSuite CRM+ customer service modules are tightly integrated with the enterprise resource planning (ERP) and eCommerce modules, allowing customer service to take full advantage of customer order,...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
SageCRM provides basic customer service capabilities across phone, email, and self-service channels. For organizations with more sales than service needs, SageCRM can provide a basic infrastructure...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
Entellium's eCustomerCenter provides a low-cost hosted application, with good usability and customization capabilities that should meet most midmarket customer service needs. The agent activity...