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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.
An Empowered Report
The ability of consumers to self-provision their own technology resources has become one of the most talked-about trends in the technology industry. This trend, which will shape workforce behaviors...
As many readers know, I have a strong interest in understanding the practical realities of innovation and want to help companies define what that "buzzword" means -- what it is, who manages it, and...
Executive Overview: The Services Sourcing Playbook
A major gap is growing between the technology demands of your organization and your IT organization's ability to keep up. This gap, which increases with the adoption of every new technology, has the...


An Empowered Report: Sourcing Can Do More To Adapt To Changes In Business Technology
I spent two days last week at an IBM Global Business Services (GBS) analyst event titled “Transforming the Front Office.” The event was designed for IBM to share its view of the future of...
I am just back from the whirlwind that is Nasscom India Leadership Forum 2013 in Mumbai, India. The Nasscom event is the premier event for the Indian IT services marketplace. Besides...
With Halloween just around the corner, it’s time to get creative about how you can scare the pants off of the people in your IT organization. I’ve been attending a fair amount of CIO...
Much has been made over the past few years about the “new” digital technology imperatives – social, mobile, analytics and cloud (collectively referred to as “SMAC”)....
After two weeks at Forrester’s IT Forums (in Las Vegas and Barcelona) the Sourcing and Vendor Management research team came back more energized than ever. Why? We were able to spend a...
Services budgets represent 10% of annual IT operating and capital budgets[i], but Forrester sees considerable evidence that the influence of these IT Services vendors is proportionally higher —...
Amid the ups and downs of the global economy, the interest in innovation among senior business leadership has only increased. Most CEOs recognize that in a business environment characterized by...
When it comes to evaluating emerging technologies for adoption, sourcing and vendor management (SVM) and enterprise architect (EA) professionals play complementary roles. EA professionals typically...
Many sourcing and vendor management (SVM) professionals who Forrester speaks with know that they need to play a proactive role in sourcing emerging technologies but have difficulty identifying which...
Tools Will Be Critical To Maturing And Expanding Vendor Management
Forrester fielded 85 formal client inquiries on the topic of vendor management and the development of the vendor management office (VMO) over the past 12 months. These inquiries come from a variety...
Year over year, Forrester hears from clients who are frustrated with their providers’ inability to provide innovation. In 2011, 60% of respondents to Forrester's Sourcing and...
Recent Forrester data about the role of social technology in the enterprise confirms what many business professionals already suspect: more people are using social technologies, and these...
Today, Forrester and Harvard Business Review Press released the print version of Empowered, a book by Forrester veterans Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler. This book is a quick and worthwhile...
I recently finished the draft of my report on the ecosystem of innovation services providers. This report, to be published in July, explores the landscape of companies that are unified by a...
This is a guest post from Kerry Bodine, a Forrester vice president and principal analyst serving Customer Experience Professionals. Kerry will deliver a keynote on the critical role Sourcing & Vendor...
Digital capability – social, mobile, cloud, data & analytics – disrupts business models, introduces new competitive threats, and places new demands on your business. Highlighting this...
An Empowered Report: Your Company's HEROes Need Your Help
Marketing and strategy professionals show an increased interest in videoconferencing as a collaboration tool. They are also interested in the vendor landscape and want to understand who the key...
While many sourcing and vendor management (SVM) professionals frequently play a critical role in evaluating emerging technologies, their exact responsibilities in this process are not always clearly...
Videoconferencing Players Are Ready To Deliver With Better Solutions
Although the videoconferencing market has existed for more than 20 years, several trends indicate that the market is at an inflection point. Across the marketplace, leading videoconferencing vendors...