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Clay serves Enterprise Architecture Professionals and is a leading expert on business process management (BPM) software, services, and methodologies. Clay delivers strategic guidance to professionals seeking to improve collaborative and operational business processes. Clay specifically helps enterprises establish BPM strategies, governance standards, and BPM centers of excellence; identify Agile and Lean methodologies best suited for BPM projects; and establish vendors and technologies that help automate and optimize mission-critical business processes.
Clay comes to Forrester with many years of experience in business process improvement projects, BPM platforms and solutions selection, systems analysis and design, and project management for enterprise software implementations. Clay has led projects to successfully deploy BPM solutions for government and commercial organizations around the world and has specialized in helping create BPM centers of excellence.
Most recently, Clay served as BPM practice leader at Project Performance Corporation, a system integrator based in Washington, D.C., where he launched and managed the company's BPM practice. Prior to that, Clay directed a team of 30 consultants, trainers, and support engineers in delivery and support of BPM solutions, as the director of professional services at HandySoft Global Corporation, a pure-play BPM vendor.
Clay is active with several BPM industry associations, including the Workflow Management Coalition, where he served as founder and co-chair of the organization's public sector chapter.
Clay earned a B.S. in computer science from the University of South Carolina and a BPM professional certificate from Boston University.
Assessment Framework: The Business Process Management Playbook
Establishing a sustainable and high-impact business process management (BPM) excellence program requires that teams build a portfolio of new capabilities that blend business and technical skills,...
These data charts present the results of Forrester's 2011 BPM Center Of Excellence Online Survey.
These data charts present the results of Forrester's 2011 Process Data Management Online Survey.
These data charts present the results of Forrester's 2011 Process Data Management Online Survey.
Value streams and capability maps are both business architecture tools that can create a platform for strategic discussion and executive decision-making. Architects, business analysts, and process...

A Total Economic Impact™ Analysis Uncovers Real Transformational Benefits
Companies waste millions of dollars each year on ineffective and inefficient business processes. Many companies attack this waste with process improvement exercises using approaches such as Six...
Answering Hard Questions About Business, Process, And Technology Best Practices
Business process pros at health payers work at the intersection of business and technology, bringing process methodologies, business knowledge, and technology insights to business transformation...
Don't Panic! Combine BPM And Agile Approaches To Conquer A Brave New World
Business innovation increasingly comes from the application of technology. Forrester labels this phenomenon as the transformation from IT to business technology (BT). At the heart of this...
Traditional process improvement initiatives often resemble top-down social engineering, in which management identifies re-engineering opportunities, processes undergo changes and automation by...
This is a self-assessment tool to use along with Clay Richardson's Best Practice Framework For BPM Suites.
After getting started with business process management (BPM), many business process pros quickly find that they need to beef up their process skills to effectively deliver continuous improvement and...
An Empowered Report: Empower Process HEROes With The Right Social Techniques And Tools
As business process management (BPM) adoption continues to spread, more business process professionals are tapping social techniques to extend the reach and impact of their process improvement...
Today, enterprises swim in an endless ocean of business data used to power mission-critical business processes, executive decisions, corporate policies, and business rules. Many organizations kick...
Pegasystems, Appian, IBM, and Software AG Lead The Pack
Forrester evaluated 11 leading business process management (BPM) suite vendors against 148 criteria reflecting the requirements of business process professionals running large-scale BPM programs. We...
This set of data charts presents findings from Forrester's May 2010 Global BPM And Process Improvement Online Survey.
Signals Major Change For Enterprise Applications
For quite some time, Pegasystems (Pega) has pursued customer experience and customer service business through its strong rules-based business process management (BPM) offering and customer process...
Combined Portfolio Targets Improve Capabilities For Process Professionals
In a move that completely reshuffles the deck in the business process management (BPM) software market, IBM recently acquired Lombardi Software, a leader in human-centric BPM suites. Estimated at...
BPM Technology Will Be Much More Prominent; You Need A Plan For It
IBM's acquisition of Lombardi Software is key to its plan to take business process management suites (BPMSes) from their current niche as a sometimes-used tool for developing and delivering...
Lean Thinking Is Central To The Shift From IT To BT
Everyone wants to be lean these days, whether when stepping off a scale in the morning or reviewing the cost of running a successful business. But just how do you define "Lean" — especially in...
Synchronize Your Business Process And Master Data Strategies
Business process management (BPM) professionals understand the need for data but often only pay it lip service, doing little to take responsibility for ensuring data quality within their processes....
Data chart with key findings from the April 2009 Global Lean BPM Online Survey. Results include data on BPM initiative ownership, budgets, tools, and SaaS.
Single Vendor Solutions Are Not Ready Yet To Meet Customers' Full Needs
The world is a complex place, and business process management (BPM) is no exception. Forrester defines BPM as a discipline for continually improving cross-functional business processes. In contrast,...
The Need For Increased Business Agility Drives BPM Adoption
Business process management (BPM) refers to a broad category of software, typically sold as a suite, that automates, improves, and optimizes business processes across the full range of process...
The cat's out of the bag: Business processes are not always as structured and straightforward as you've been led to believe. Although the majority of business processes are structured and capable of...
In these lean economic times, business process professionals watch their budgets get slashed, while at the same time, the hunger for business process management (BPM) and process improvement...