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Connie is a member of Forrester's Business Technology Futures team, which serves CIOs and their business partners by predicting the long-term business impact of information technology. Her research focus is on smart computing and analytics.
Connie came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group in 2003. She has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry and has been an analyst for 19 years. Most of her research focuses on business process management and business optimization. Prior to joining Giga, Connie managed BIS Strategic Decisions' European IT consulting group, headquartered in the UK. Before then, Connie was vice president of product marketing at TDC (now part of BancTec), a manufacturer of high-end document capture systems. She was also a manager with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), specializing in document management, document imaging, and end user computing. Earlier, Connie was with Wang Laboratories, where she managed Wang's technical support resources for the US Department of Defense and intelligence agencies. She began her career in IT and management at Mathematica Policy Research.
Connie was the co-champion of Forrester's 2009 Business Technology Forum, with its theme of "Lean: The New Business Technology Imperative." Connie also co-championed Forrester's 2007 Technology Leadership Forum, with the theme of "Design for People, Build for Change," and Forrester's 2008 Technology Leadership Forum, themed as "Embrace Technology Chaos, Deliver Business Results." Connie is a widely sought speaker. She has keynoted at many industry events, chaired 10 business process and workflow conferences in Europe and the US, and co-chaired Giga's "Leveraging Knowledge" conference. Connie also served as a director of AIIM International, the premier association for the content management industry, and is a member of the Association of Business Process Management Professionals.
Connie attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds a B.A. in political science and history from East Carolina University and an M.B.A. in information systems from George Washington University.
Road Map: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
One of the most difficult aspects of an information architecture (IA) practice is engaging stakeholders to buy into your strategy and contribute to your architecture development. The architect's best...
As business executives develop an appreciation for the potential value in their information assets, they're looking to architects to help them dramatically improve their information management and...
Strategic Plan: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
A new era of information agility is upon us that promises an explosion of opportunities similar to that of the dot-com boom period. But these opportunities are completely dependent upon an...


Align Data Management Roles To Create Stronger Business Value
The continuing explosion in data volume, increasing numbers of business users, growing data complexity, compliance requirements, need to support global operations, and growing need for real-time...
Developing a cohesive information strategy that can deliver on current and future business needs is challenging. Building an information architecture is a highly collaborative endeavor, and to...
Advances in technology that enable real-time data integration and analysis raise the bar for organizations' in-house information management capabilities, but they can provide significant advances in...
Five Artifacts Underpin An Effective Program
Architects in any domain have no time to waste creating deliverables that wind up collecting dust on a shelf. Information architects, who have historically had a particularly difficult time engaging...
Creating An IA Program That Works
It has been more than five years since Forrester first published this report outlining a simple approach to information architecture, but this domain of enterprise architecture (EA) has matured...
This tool kit discusses the role and importance of solution architects, the solution architecture process, templates for solution architecture deliverables, and solution architecture best practices.

Continuous Improvement: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
How effective is your information strategy? You can't answer that question without a comprehensive assessment process and key performance indicator (KPI) reporting mechanism that specifically targets...
Executive Overview: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
Enterprise architecture (EA) professionals face the challenge of burgeoning business interest in maximizing the potential of new and existing information assets in the face of immature information...
Performance Management: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
As capability maps become the prevailing form for modeling business architectures, capability-based planning is growing into an effective practice to map organizations' general path forward....
Forrester's survey data shows that both business and information architecture practices are currently far less mature than enterprise architecture (EA) teams' technology and application architecture...
Please describe approaches to enterprise information management in terms of the following groups: laggards, middle-of-the-pack, early adopters, and government.
Vision: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
A veritable flood of information coming from widespread digitization has created new opportunities and risks that business executives can't ignore. Forrester is seeing a dramatic uptick in the...
Tools And Technology: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
Enterprise architects carry the heavy responsibility of planning for elaborate implementations of complex technology. They must weigh the implications of the plans for all of the related architecture...

Organization: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
This report outlines the organization element of the information strategy and architecture playbook for enterprise architecture (EA) professionals. The definition of the information architect role...

What is the role of the data architect in support of EA?
Business Case: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
Business cases to fund information management capabilities traditionally characterize information problems in ways that elicit little more than yawns from business executives. Data redundancy and...

Business pressures have forced IT management to begin applying formal management disciplines to the delivery of IT services. In the past decade we have seen the rise of portfolio and project...
I am continually having delivery teams question enterprise solutions as costly and time prohibitive. They spend considerable time investigating other vendors and custom solutions as cheaper...
Assessment: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
Information workers thrive or falter depending on their ability to get the information they need quickly and easily, with high confidence that it's the right information. Enterprises need to protect...
Organization: The EA Practice Playbook
This report outlines the organizational structures, roles, and skills you'll need to make sure that your enterprise architecture (EA) program is strategic, business-focused, and pragmatic. Building a...

I am looking for some basic but important definitions in the context of my road map work. For example: application service technology. A definition of application might be: An application is a...