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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.
Best Practices From Firms That Created Experiences With CARS Attributes
Forrester believes that four attributes will characterize the next phase of development of the web. Online experiences will be: customized by the end user, aggregated at the point of use, relevant to...

Business Case: The Open Innovation Playbook
Product strategists are constantly challenged to innovate products and services to satisfy short-term financial goals as well as create new benefits to meet consumer needs as they evolve over the...
Landscape: The Open Innovation Playbook
According to our most recent survey of product strategy professionals, 62% of all companies are not using social media to interact directly with their customers in order to influence product...
Lessons In Product Innovation From A Leader In Co-Creation
Ask someone to name a company that embraces co-creation, and, sooner or later, you will hear "Lego." The Lego Group has been pursuing customer-led innovation for more than a decade, and it hasn't...
Innovation Must Be Deliberate, Distributed, And Demonstrable
Marketing innovation is a business priority. But not all marketing leaders are meeting the challenge despite executive interest. CMOs who are better at driving their organizations are doing so by...
Governance: The Innovation Playbook
Does your organization struggle to innovate? As organizations work to acquire and maintain competitive differentiation in a global marketplace, they often look to innovation as a key strategic...

Don't Let Intellectual Property Concerns Hold Back Social Co-Creation
A groundswell of innovation has occurred around the use of social tools for the creation and improvement of consumer products. A number of large and influential companies have embraced the...
How Firms Can Best Capitalize On Software Development And Configuration Opportunities In India
The continued economic viability of software development in India, whether by independent software vendors (ISVs) or "captive" business units, depends less on pure labor arbitrage and more on...

Media companies face significant challenges as they address the impact of the media meltdown, compounded by an economic downturn. As they rebuild their industries and construct new business models,...
At Each End Of The Innovation Process, You Need A Different Kind Of Lab
In the technology industry, two types of labs exist, each contributing to different parts of the innovation process. The stereotypical lab, focused on pure research, is the source of good ideas from...
Use Serious Games To Generate New Insights About Your Customer
One of the most popular uses for serious games is requirements collection. Serious games change the rules for conversations about requirements, engaging stakeholders in a new (and, yes, fun) way. By...
Forrester's 2011 Tech Industry Predictions
In this report, we highlight macro trends and specific predictions that indicate the directions of growth and disruption for the technology industry in 2011.
Innovation Infrastructure Empowers Product Strategists' Success
Product strategists from software, media, finance, healthcare, and other industries can learn from the example of Intuit. Intuit's culture of innovation — including unstructured "white space"...
War Games Help Top Leaders Build Better Strategies
An increasing number of application development teams are using serious games to make better decisions about their work. Where other new techniques, such as Agile, have helped teams work better,...
How To Innovate Your Products Before Someone Else Does
Digital disruption is about to tear down and rebuild every product in every industry. Thanks to digital platforms, your customers live in a world of heightened expectations and abundant options; they...
