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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.
Mastering The Customer Data Flow Requires Marketing And IT To Join Forces
Today's marketing organization must use technology to deliver compelling brand experiences and drive business growth. Today's IT organizations must tune their efforts to needs of the business. This...
Assessment: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook
This report outlines the capabilities assessment of Forrester's solution for customer intelligence (CI) professionals working on marketing technology. Transforming marketing programs into...

How M&A Activity Brings Pain And Opportunity To CI Professionals
The online marketing suite transforms organizations' customer relationships through coordinated, relevant multichannel experiences. To satisfy this vision, all participants in the marketing...
Publishers Must Expand Ad Products To Address Advertiser DMP Adoption
Advertisers are adopting data management platforms (DMPs) and planning for more sophisticated audience targeting tactics, including the use of first-party advertiser data. These tactics will put...
A Readiness Framework For Successful Implementation
Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals are increasingly tasked with assessing marketing effectiveness across all channels within the organization. But without access to next-generation attribution...
Insights For Publishers On The Evolution Of The Media Buyer
Agency display media buyers are rapidly investing in both new ad products like audience targeting and custom creative while adopting new buying methods like real-time bidding. Major publishers lag...
New Technologies Push The Boundaries Of Customer Engagement
CMOs need to keep an eye on emerging technologies that have the potential to improve customer engagement levels. This third report in our series on emerging technologies explores tools and...

How CORE Can Help Improve Your Interactive Sophistication
Interactive marketer maturity today looks strikingly like it did when we introduced our original interactive marketing maturity model in 2008. This is likely due to increased market complexity and...
Small and medium-size business (SMB) marketers, much like their enterprise counterparts, find that challenges — like limited budgets, resources, and customer insight — interfere with...
Marketing success is increasingly dependent on using technology to understand and communicate with customers. IT must develop a thorough understanding of marketing technology and the potential for...

Vision: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook
The need to calibrate marketing spend to revenue generation was the seminal driver of lead-to-revenue management (L2RM). But savvy B2B marketing leaders are going beyond revenue performance...

Forrester recently surveyed 137 Customer Intelligence professionals to understand their marketing technology priorities, plans, and budgets. Marketers own technology decisions and consider cost and...

Forrester Applies Its Web Site User Experience Review Methodology To Four B2B Software Vendors
Forrester evaluated the user experience of the Web sites of four large business-to-business (B2B) marketing software vendors: Alterian, Oracle, SAS, and Unica. Overall scores were mediocre: No site...
Assessment: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
Marketers fall into four categories of digital media buying maturity, based on their strength across their organization, planning and execution, measurement, and technology. This report of the...

C&C Pros Must Define The Role Of Content In The CXM Ecosystem
A new type of solution is emerging from a variety of content management, eCommerce, and marketing technology products. To manage cross-touchpoint customer experiences, vendors like Autonomy, Adobe,...
Changing buyer behaviors require business-to-business (B2B) marketers to communicate with prospects and customers in new ways, by delivering content that is personalized to their needs, role, level...
Four Technologies For Engaging Customers With Content
CMOs need to keep an eye on emerging technologies that have the potential to drive improvements in customer engagement. This second in a series of reports on emerging technologies explores tools and...
CCP Games, a massive multiplayer online game provider, knew that its existing approach with key channels like display was suboptimized and that it could drive more efficient customer acquisition if...
Tech Marketers Have A New Buyer And Channel To Consider
Businesses engaged in digital marketing will seek a new generation of service provider — one that combines technology competence with marketing strategy and digital creativity. These providers...
Business-to-business (B2B) marketing and sales teams perform poorly when it comes to demand generation across the board, which results in continuous tension to support goals to create qualified...
Rio SEO Leads, With BrightEdge Following As A Strong Performer
Forrester's 21-criteria evaluation of SEO platforms evaluates the four largest providers of tools for organic search auditing, ranking support, measurement, and project management: BrightEdge,...

CI Professionals Are Fighting Wars On Multiple Fronts In Order To Evolve
As Customer Intelligence (CI) matures, CI professionals must adapt how they capture, integrate and manage, analyze, and apply knowledge about their customers. As we look ahead to 2011, we expect CI...
Road Map: The Email Marketing Playbook
This report provides a road map for interactive marketers responsible for email marketing. It will help you unify your customer view, organize your teams by customer instead of by channel, and...