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Craig serves Enterprise Architecture Professionals. He is an internationally recognized expert in business process management and initiated Forrester's series on untamed business processes, including customer on-boarding, invoice management, medical health records, financial compliance, and customer communications management. He specializes in helping companies transform from manual and paper-based processes to the mobile and digital world, as well as in information management, dynamic case management, enterprise content management, electronic signature; document imaging and capture; and document output for customer communications management. Craig is the leading analyst on the outsourcing of document processing services, including managed print services.
Craig brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to Forrester through his 20 years' experience in IT and business process transformation. Prior to joining Forrester, Craig was a vice president at ADP, focusing on next-generation solutions for its document management business. Craig was also a cofounder of docHarbor and has held senior positions with several document management providers during the past 15 years. Craig has both a strong business and technology background, including time at MITRE and BBN. He is deeply experienced in the software industry, having authored How To Succeed In The Enterprise Software Market (2005).
Craig earned a B.S. in economics from Georgetown University and an M.B.A from George Washington University.
AirFrance-KLM Saved Valuable Time And Money Through Optimization Of Its Deployment Process
AirFrance-KLM strives to achieve profitable growth that contributes to both its own corporate aims and economic and social development. Today's airline industry needs to keep its balance in the face...
When faced with austere budget challenges, California State University, Fresno (Fresno State), with a student population of 21,000 and about 2,300 faculty and staff, realized the need to integrate...
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How Novell Transformed Its Global Technical Support Operations
In the services industry, the ultimate goal is to increase customer satisfaction while lowering support costs with improved productivity. Unfortunately, introducing new tools for productivity gains...
How Service Portfolio Management Transitioned Cisco IT To A Partner Player
Cisco's CIO and several of her IT leaders introduced an IT-wide change in how they manage their organization and communicate their performance both within and outside of the IT organization. The...
For Loyola Marymount University's (LMU's) Information Technology Services (ITS), underdeveloped process, limited communication and transparency, as well as outdated tools and a siloed organization,...
The service desk is your IT organization's first line of response to business user incidents and requests. Because these interactions shape your business' perception of IT, it's critical to not just...
Can you recommend packages that out of the box can easily handle workflows for change requests and tickets?
The healthcare industry is faced with the challenge of integrating all its informational resources from across notoriously siloed operations. Existing tribal knowledge, multiple applications...
Service management and automation (SMA) is a closed-loop control system that enables the design, development, maintenance, and adoption of services that support business teams in their capabilities...
How Holcim Corporate IT Transitioned From IT Infrastructure Management To Business Service Management
Holcim, a global supplier of construction materials, needed to move from being an organization that provides support on infrastructure and technology to one that functions as an internal IT service...
Road Map: The Service Management And Automation Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution to help IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders develop their road map of service management and automation processes (SMA) using Forrester's...

From Reactive To Proactive: Using Service Management To Leverage Integrated Event Correlation
The IT and business alignment discussion is not new: Many IT organizations have been trying to become aligned with their business units or overall business goals. Understanding what it means to be...
Ensuring Uninterrupted Service Availability And Performance
Service management promises to reorganize infrastructure and operations (I&O) to provide better value to the business. But, there's a catch. The service must be designed, transitioned, and delivered...
Vision: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook
This report outlines the vision of Forrester's solution for infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives planning their organization's business technology (BT) resiliency strategy — the...

Improve Service Management By Automating Operational Workflows
Technology use is exploding, creating an exponential increase in the complexity of IT operations while pushing beyond the limits of manual infrastructure management. The ongoing "do more with less"...
During a self-evaluation, the Orrick service desk team realized a shortcoming around knowledge management. The issues ranged from out-of-date information and lack of common terminology to...
Companies with distributed operations often struggle with managing customer experience. This report summarizes some of the major lessons learned from Cornerstone OnDemand, a cloud-based talent...
I would like to know what kind of support enterprises typically purchase for software that's used for system monitoring. I'm trying to decide if the more expensive 24x7 support is needed when...
Metrics are the Achilles' heel of many infrastructure and operations (I&O) departments. Many firms don't know which metrics to use, or how to collect the data they need for the metrics, while others...

Assessment Framework: The Service Management And Automation Playbook
This report introduces Forrester's solution for IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to assess the maturity of their service management and automation (SMA) program. This is important,...
The global adoption of ITIL v3 is occurring, but gradually. It is most visible in the growth of selected processes as organizations travel their ITSM journey. Forrester anticipates that many...
We're suffering a breakdown in communication. The release team seems to act without regard for the rest of the organization, specifically the operations folks. Can you please provide us with some...
Forrester's Service Management And Automation Assessment Framework consists of four SMA domains (oversight, technology, process, and people) and 26 SMA functions. This abbreviated version of the...