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As a senior analyst, Claire supports Application Development & Delivery Professionals. She covers the strategy and technology associated with talent management, including performance, succession planning, formal and informal learning, and recruiting. She also researches the effect of retiring workers and the new generation of workers on human capital management and development.
Claire has more than 25 years of experience in education, management, and consulting. She came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group. Prior to joining Giga, she assisted organizations in creating the vision, development plan, and policy for HR departments working with educators and community members. She also developed and produced eLearning courses for educators.
Previously, Claire directed and managed math and science technology training institutes at Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley, which assisted educators in integrating technology into the public school curriculum. She also evaluated computer and video coursework and produced video programs.
Additionally, Claire served as director of Instruction Television Service for KQED in San Francisco. She developed the broadcast service for schools, advised administrators, and produced educational programs for children and adults.
Claire holds a B.S. from Bridgewater State College and an M.S. in education from Northeastern University. She has completed doctoral work in elementary education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The most important investments that businesses and government organizations make are in their people. In addition to direct expenditures on compensation and benefits, organizations invest in...
Core Components Show Maturity While Collaborative Elements Evolve
Human resource management (HRM) applications range from essential tools to hire and pay employees and administer benefits programs to strategic components for assessing and developing talent. More...
Plateau Leads In Learning; Cornerstone OnDemand Leads In Performance
In Forrester's 108-criteria evaluation of talent management vendors that offer suites for both learning and performance, we found that Plateau Systems edged out Cornerstone OnDemand, Saba Software,...
The Keys To Understanding The Evolving Solutions Landscape
Companies are more aware today of the importance of managing talent with the assistance of technology and the criticality of having a complete integrated solution including recruiting, talent...
Human resource management (HRM) applications — consisting of six categories of solutions ranging from core transactions to strategic talent management — represent a market in transition....
The Millennials, born between 1980 and 2000, are now entering the workplace. They bring sharp technology skills, a desire for challenging work, flexibility, mobility, and an ability to work well in...
HCM Software Market In Rapid Transformation
In today's hypercompetitive environment for attracting and retaining talented employees, business process owners must have the ability to seamlessly assess employee competencies and job performance...
HR Analytics Help Improve Workforce Recruiting, Performance, And Learning
Human resources (HR) analytics have taken on new importance as organizations strive to hire, develop, and retain the best employees to remain competitive in fields where efficiency and human...
A Mature Market Is Evolving Toward Broader HRM Offerings
Business leaders know that recruiting top talent is a corporative imperative. After hiring, new talent must be skillfully managed through onboarding, performance goals and evaluation, learning,...
The mobile landscape is changing daily — new devices and more secure device management platforms, easier accessibility to content from multiple devices, evolving mobile Web standards (e.g.,...
The Nine Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
Learning and talent development are closely aligned in the best talent vendor offerings. This area of human resource management (HRM) is fast-growing and innovative in its use of social, cloud, and...

Processes: The Human Resource Management Playbook
This report, the processes component of the human resource management (HRM) playbook, enables application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals, CIOs, and their HR business partners to...
Change Management: The Agile And Lean Playbook
This report outlines the change management for Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on Agile and Lean. This report is designed to help you...
Persistent Questions Business Process Pros Ask
The pace of continuous improvement and transformational change in business processes continues to accelerate, often outpacing employees' ability to keep up. In general, businesspeople don't embrace...
As Millennials, with their Digital Native technology skills and experience with social media, stream into the workforce, businesses must re-evaluate their approach to corporate learning so that...

The business world has long known and relied upon mentoring as a proven technique for developing in-house talent. Today, mentoring is experiencing a resurgence because business leaders not only...
The Interactive Virtual Classroom Replaces Selected Classroom Learning
An interactive virtual classroom is not your usual Webinar, Web conference, or online event. Instead, rather than a lecture, this online instructional approach involves learners who work from...
The world's economic woes present new opportunities for innovative forms of learning using technology that many organizations already have: informal learning, eLearning, and blended learning....
Succession planning ensures that key positions in an organization have qualified internal candidates who are ready to step into key roles, reducing the risk of business disruption from talent loss....
Put "People Change" Front And Center
Change management is an ongoing organizational process due to the continual change that characterizes today's business. The repercussions of not handling change well include lost revenue, lower staff...
Organizations thinking about purchasing a talent management solution want to know what to expect from the selection process through deployment and beyond. To aid in this, Forrester surveyed 63 users...
An Empowered Report
Rob Sharpe, Stanley Black & Decker's director of sales training, exemplifies a HERO persona (highly empowered and resourceful operative), described in Forester's book Empowered. Through his efforts...
Continuous Improvement: The Human Resource Management Playbook
This report, the continuous improvement component of the human resource management (HRM) playbook, will help application development and delivery professionals (AD&D pros), CIOs, and their HR...

3g Selling Gives A Glimpse Of The Future "Classroom"
3g Selling is a training company that transformed itself from a classroom training provider to a live virtual training organization using a format that maintains an 85% to 90% learner completion...
Technology Users Can Learn On The Fly With This Electronic Content Solution
An electronic performance support system (EPSS) provides on-demand learning when technology users need help to do their jobs. Demonstrations, practice exercises, and onscreen help all give users...