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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.
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Strategic Plan: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
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Assessment: The Data Management Playbook
Enterprise architects who drive data management strategy must contend with new data source platforms and complex consumption and analysis scenarios. Current data management systems were built as...

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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...
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...
Processes: The Data Management Playbook
Forrester clients describe their data governance work as long on effort, but limited in success. Clients describe an inability to sustain data governance beyond a project, feel it is too...

Putting senior managers in place to lead content and collaboration initiatives for their organizations is a growing imperative. Our ongoing work with Forrester clients indicates that the skills mix...
Most enterprise architects (EAs) instinctually recognize the value that clean and trustworthy metadata can provide in terms of delivering IT efficiency, business agility, and improved information...
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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...

Landscape: The Emerging Technology Playbook
Emerging digital technologies are a primary driver of business evolution and disruption. Firms are grappling with an accelerating pace of business change while also trying to make IT simpler and more...

An Empowered Report: High-Impact Technologies That You Should Track
Forrester began summarizing technology trends last year to help enterprise architects create their organizations' technology watch lists. For this year's list of top trends, we've used the same...
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...
Tools And Technology: The Data Management Playbook
Today's enterprise data architecture is changing to accommodate models and definitions that are frequently abstracted from data sources, federated sources, and data analytics performed during the...
Technology Advancements, New Patterns, And Customer Successes Make This Enterprise Technology Both A Short- And Long-Term Solution
Firms are looking to solve tough data and process integration challenges as they once again begin to invest in new business capabilities. Multiple data warehouses (DWs) and business intelligence (BI)...
A Critical Component For Data Agility
The increasingly complex task of managing data requires new master data management (MDM) capabilities. While the first MDM implementations focused on a single domain — such as customer data...

The purpose of this road map is to illustrate the implementation timing of the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) technologies evaluated in Forrester's...
Positioning Your Firm To Capitalize In A Sea Of Information
Opportunities to improve the bottom line exist in a flood of information; however, gaining insight from data becomes challenging as it grows extremely large. Emerging technology applies the power of...
Future Look: The Business Process Management Playbook
Enterprise architects leading business process management (BPM) excellence initiatives live at the crossroads of business strategy and process execution, providing BPM insights to technologists and...
