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Christine leads a team of advisors that manages the Sourcing & Vendor Management Council -- a peer community of senior SVM Professionals at large organizations. She creates the strategic direction for the council, including the creation and implementation of council-specific research and deliverables to help SVM executives achieve their annual objectives.Previously, Christine was the research director for the SVM role. Her primary responsibilities included setting the research agenda to best serve sourcing clients. She worked with clients to help them set their sourcing strategies, create and execute RFPs, and develop vendor management approaches to get the most value from their service providers and product vendors.Previously, Christine was Forrester's lead analyst on consulting and systems integration. She is an expert on the IT services industry. In her nine years at Forrester, she has written on multiple aspects of the consulting industry as well as on outsourcing, offshore, and BPO.
Christine joined Forrester from AnswerThink Consulting Group, where she helped build methodologies and tools used by the consultants in engagement delivery. Prior to AnswerThink, Christine was an analyst at Dataquest, following the consulting and systems integration market. She began her career in public relations at Brodeur Porter Novelli.Christine has been seen on CNBC and quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and CIO Magazine. She is a popular speaker, having presented to public forums and major companies.
Christine has a B.A. in international relations and a B.S. in mass communications from Boston University.
Outsourcing in the context of today's IT organization means partial or complete delivery of an IT service by a third party. Outsourcing promises significant benefits, but those benefits are achieved...
A Five-Phase Approach Bolsters Success By Balancing Vendor And Market Knowledge With Internal Preparation
Busy sourcing executives often get into "fire-fighting" mode when deals need finalizing — urgent contracts thrust on them by impatient business or IT users that "must get signed in the next two...
One year into our role-based transition, the Forrester Sourcing & Vendor Management (S&VM) team distilled all of the knowledge gained from our research and conversations with sourcing executives at...
Forrester's Best Practices For Risk Mitigation
The issue of vendor risk has become an increasingly critical topic among sourcing professionals. With that in mind, we wanted to highlight this great report on mitigating supply chain risk —...
Demand Management With The Business Is Key To Avoiding New Proliferation
The theoretical basis for vendor consolidation and its potential profits has been out there for quite some time. Yet, many companies are struggling with their supplier base in terms of the number of...
The integration of sourcing in the company is here to stay and Forrester sees the need to guide their clients in the governance of their processes by outlining the different processes that should be...
The vendor management office (VMO) is becoming an increasingly important competency in well-run IT organizations. Forrester tracked all of the inquiries sourcing and vendor management (SVM)...
Heightened Spending Concerns Can Bring Sourcing Professionals Closer To Their Business Users
In general a recession — or even the fear of one — forces companies to focus obsessively on cost-effective solutions. Many companies turn to their (sometimes newly created) sourcing teams...
Forrester's inquiry analysis shows that sourcing and vendor management (SVM) professionals are thinking more holistically and strategically about their role. Forty-two percent of the 966 inquiries...
Sourcing and vendor management (SVM) clients tell Forrester that vendor risk is becoming a critical issue. Most firms have intense due diligence processes when hiring providers, but those processes...
This model is based on conversations with many end users and providers over the past six to nine months. It is an aggregation of rates from multiple firms for many different project types.
This data chart presents results from Business Data Services that explores trends in client satisfaction with IT outsourcing services.
IT Initiatives To Allow Self-Provisioned Devices Could Cause Big Headaches For Sourcing Professionals Who Don't Get Involved Early
Bring your own PC programs are gaining a lot of interest with infrastructure groups today. Why? Because the idea of lower IT costs, less complaints from employees, and overall less conflicts with the...
The Coming Upheaval In Tech Services
Since the end of 2008 and continuing today, sourcing and vendor management (SVM) professionals have been telling Forrester that they are rationalizing the number of providers they use, renegotiating...
Business Change Will Drive Conflicting Demands On Sourcing And Vendor Management
Most business people would regard volatility as a given even in the best of times. Even so, volatility looks set to be historically high for the coming decade. In this context, sourcing professionals...
Forrester's sourcing and vendor management (SVM) clients frequently ask, "What are my peers doing?" To help SVM professionals gain insights into their peer group, we tracked all of the inquiries...
Many sourcing and vendor management teams are looking for ways to cut costs — and consolidating vendors is a logical part of that effort. But doing spend analysis only starts the ball rolling....
This data chart presents results from Business Data Services that explore how much enterprises allocate from the overall IT budget to IT services.
Forrester's Workforce Technographics® US Benchmark Survey, Q2 2009 provides insights into how workers spend their time with computers and smartphones, as well as key productivity and...
Consolidating Vendors? Make Sure EA's Voice Is Heard On Strategic Products And Services
When focusing on the cost-cutting elements of your sourcing strategy, vendor consolidation is likely top of mind. However, simply eliminating service providers or product vendors based on low spend...
Sourcing and vendor management (SVM) teams can use this document to standardize understanding of common sourcing and vendor management terms across their organizations. SVM executives may also find...

This data chart presents results from Business Data Services that explores how much of IT services budgets at enterprises are devoted to new initiatives.
Answer each question and place your score in the adjacent box. Tally the scores for each section to find your sourcing readiness level and service scope.
A Fact-Based Approach To Workforce Technology Needs Assessment
How well do you know your stakeholders? Business users today expect consumer-like usability and functionality from their work tools. And much of what they want to use can be purchased with a credit...