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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.
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in March 2012 of 4,518 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,518), there is 95% confidence that...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in June 2012 of 11,413 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 11,413), there is 95% confidence that...

Some Polish Net Users Research, But Few Buy Financial Products Online
Few Polish consumers turn to the Web to research or buy financial products — but their numbers are growing fast. In Q2 2005, 7% of Polish adults had researched and only 1% had bought a...
Emerging Technologies Spur New Insurer Thinking And New Vendor Applications
North American insurers are reorienting from business as usual, where actuaries and underwriter drive product creation and sales, to a "business-as-unusual" model in which insurers sell a customer...
Taming The Insurance Claim Experience
At its highest level, a business process is any activity that helps an enterprise achieve its goals. In insurance, industry-specific applications form the transactional backbone of claims processing;...
Woodmen of the World, a fraternal benefit society that provides insurance and investment products, was consolidating the operations of three divisions into one and needed a solid knowledge management...
Improvements Can Add More Than $1 Billion In Revenue For Wireless Carriers And Hotels
Customer experience professionals must clearly articulate the business benefits of improving customer experience. Years of Forrester data confirm the strong relationship between the quality of a...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in December 2010 of 5,575 Canadian individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 5,575), there is 95%...
Usage Is Rising Driven By First-Time Users And Younger Generations
In 2009, 21% of financial product online applicants — more than 50 million Americans — used a third-party online comparison Web site, and 36% of these applicants did so for the first...
Forrester assessed the secure websites of five American private passenger auto insurers: Allstate Insurance, Geico, Liberty Mutual Insurance, Progressive Casualty Insurance, and State Farm Mutual...
Use The Forrester Marketing Flywheel To Assess Budget Allocation
After several years of making cuts, B2B marketing leaders have larger budgets in 2011, but they come with a catch: more scrutiny and greater expectations for results. Budgeting is no longer an annual...
Online affluent consumers who buy insurance in the US are older and more technology-savvy when compared with online Americans who buy insurance. These millionaire insurance customers are self-made,...
A large P&C insurance company is looking to replace its current policy administration platform that is being sunsetted by the software vendor and is having trouble coming up with a list of...
The Age Of The Customer Drives Four Insurance eBusiness Mega Trends
Four market forces are putting the squeeze on insurance eBusiness professionals in 2012. What should eBusiness and channel strategy executives be thinking about as they forge ahead this year? This...

Canadians still use the phone as their primary channel for insurance. In fact, the phone was the only channel used by a majority of online Canadian insurance customers in the past year, while fewer...
Forrester enterprise clients with distributed organizations want to simplify management of an increasingly complex communications environment. This includes defining and then periodically reviewing...
Dissatisfied with its customer retention rates and satisfaction scores, and looking to set itself apart in the highly competitive insurance industry, Progressive Casualty Insurance launched its...
Insurance Transformation Exposes Key Opportunities For Technology Vendors
The US insurance industry represents 3.2% of gross domestic product (GDP) and generated nearly $1 trillion in revenues in 2009, but even with that big number, premium growth has been declining for...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in October 2012 of 5,612 Canadian individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 5,612), there is 95%...