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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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Our Software Decision-Maker Survey Shows A Shift In Emphasis From Systems Of Records To Systems Of Engagement
During November 2011 and December 2011, Forrester surveyed 676 software decision-makers across Germany, France, and the UK to determine their spending priorities around software. With new systems of...

Landscape: The Strategic Software Sourcing Playbook
This report describes the software pricing and licensing landscape and explains why it makes it so important for sourcing and vendor management executives to implement Forrester's strategic software...
Channel Partners' Plans And Needs For Business Model Transformation
As technologies and tech decision-makers' needs evolve at a livelier pace, channel professionals need to consider channel partners' perceptions and investment plans and develop their own game plan to...

Understanding The Cloud Broker Opportunity
The rapid innovation of technology and business models spurred by cloud computing provides CIOs, as well as external providers, with a unique opportunity to redefine their relationships with the...

In Asia, the CIO no longer has sole responsibility for making tech investment decisions. Consumerization and the increasing role of technology as a business enabler are pushing...

Aligning Strategies With Key Government Priorities Is The Key To Success
The Indian public sector is an extremely difficult market for IT vendors due to its extended business cycles and high levels of diversity, hypercompetition, bureaucracy, and procurement complexity....

Which Channels Are Customers Sourcing From?
In 2010, Forrester published a report on channel sweet spots to address how small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) source their software needs. Two years later, we're revisiting this topic to...

The ASEAN3 countries (Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines) represent 78% of the IT spending of the ASEAN countries excluding Singapore. Indonesia and the Philippines will experience dynamic...
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...
New Flexible Business Models Cannibalize Traditional Software Markets
Software is the biggest and fastest growing of all tech industry segments. However, its growth is fueled by disruption — new technologies and changing market demand are cannibalizing...
Changes Will Accelerate Over The Next 24 Months
The IT services industry is in the middle of a fundamental transformation of who it sells to, what services it sells, and how it delivers those services. Upstart vendors specializing in new...

Hosters And Tech Vendors Are Drafting Amazon's Slipstream
The infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud business, with its high margins, is a strong attractant to a slew of provider channels. But customers view different provider types differently in terms...
Indian Partners Outpace Chinese
China and India are two of the largest emerging markets with strong economic growth. China represents the third largest single country tech market by market size; India ranks 11th. Homogenous...

New Models Better Align BI Services Buyers And Sellers
Business intelligence (BI) is high on the list of technology investments as organizations try to make informed decisions with the growing masses of data available to them. But several significant...

Understanding The What And Why Of Business Executives' Spending On Technology
After nearly a decade in hibernation, the business buyer has re-emerged as a major spender and force in IT spending. To better understand the return of tech spending outside the formal IT budget and...

Provider Capabilities Vary By Vertical And Domain Focus
The product development services market is transforming. Stagnant growth in the telecom and independent software vendor (ISV) markets has forced a shift in focus toward industries such as healthcare,...
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