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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.
The Mix Will Shift Over Time, But IP WANs Are Here To Stay
Organizations of all sizes are abandoning legacy telecommunications technologies in favor of all-IP wide-area networks (WANs) to support intersite connectivity. Laggards are being pushed off of older...
Most global firms with distributed international operations will implement unified communications (UC) solutions gradually over the next three to five years. During the past two years, Forrester has...
Processes: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook
This report is an update to "Emphasize Flexibility In Communications Service Contract Negotiations To Reduce Risk," originally published on October 9, 2012. This updated report outlines Forrester's...

An Empowered Report: Sourcing Professionals Help Mobility Efforts Through Effective Supplier Due Diligence
Firms with distributed operations need to empower remote and traveling information workers (iWorkers) for internal and external communication and collaboration. This includes offering more...
How much of the total outbound long-distance traffic within an enterprise is between enterprise direct inbound dialing (DIDs)/extensions across multiple enterprise locations?
Telecom service providers, like companies in other industries, sometimes merge with, acquire, or divest other business operations. These events sometimes result in the service provider deciding to...
This tool is meant to serve as an inventorying checklist to be used by the IT sourcing and vendor management (SVM) organization during your audit of your company's current communications...
SVM Worries About Impact On Revenue Commitments And Discount Eligibility For Corporate-Liable Users — Don't!
This report answers three questions about enterprise mobile bring-your-own-device (BYOD) practices: 1) what the major trends are regarding BYOD adoption; 2) how firms are managing their BYOD programs...

What are the key considerations when developing a global telecom services RFP?
Take Seven Steps Now Under The Charter Of A Mobility Council
Smartphones, tablets, and the rise of bring-your-own (BYO) devices have put tremendous pressure on IT to revamp and rethink its mobile strategy: everything from procurement and development to...

Are unified communications (UC) components being sold as standalone offerings? Maybe it goes against the idea of "unified," but does Forrester see a trend of buying only one component or feature set...
Vision: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's vision for communications technology and services sourcing. To ensure effective sourcing of telecommunications and mobility (T&M) services, IT sourcing and vendor...

We're suddenly getting long-distance bills 10 times higher than before after we reassigned about half our lines to a competitor for business contingency reasons. Somehow, we lost our discount...
Enterprise telecoms market consolidation can disrupt your service delivery if your service provider is acquired by a competitor. Other disruptions that might have a negative impact on the quality of...
Fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) is used by many sourcing and vendor management professionals (SVMs) as a stepping stone on their company's path toward unified communications (UC). Enterprises with...
What is Forrester seeing as trends among large financial services firms around Ethernet WAN services?
What should we be avoiding during mobile contracting?
SoftBank plans to inject $20 billion ($12 billion cash and $8 billion of new capital) to acquire 70% of Sprint Nextel. The deal will give Sprint about $8 billion in new capital, which will be used to...
Tools And Technology: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook
Telecom and mobility services contracting challenges proliferate as distributed user firms implement advanced communications technologies like unified communications (UC) and telepresence that are...
Customers Have A Range Of Strong Options In This Mature Service Category
In Forrester's 55-criteria evaluation of facilities-based managed global MPLS service providers, we identified and qualified 11 global network operators that offer networking services to...
What are the trends in adoption and use of Ethernet WAN services by very large global organizations?
How are global enterprises tiering their sites for MPLS WAN services?
Are most companies accepting whichever broadband Internet users may have, or are they standardizing on specific providers and classes of service?
What are the typical rates for IT and business change consultancy services currently negotiated with key partners (consultancy firms)?
Telecommunications and mobility (T&M) technologies will play a critical role in the success of geographically distributed companies during the next ten years. Business professionals need their...