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Dane serves CIOs and leads an Asia Pacific team that guides business technology professionals across various roles including Sourcing & Vendor Management, Application Development & Delivery, Security & Risk Management, Infrastructure & Operations, and Enterprise Architecture. Dane provides strategic guidance and advice to clients in the areas of organization design, innovation, emerging technologies, and supporting business technology operations in Asia Pacific markets. His research focuses on helping clients mature from an IT-centric role in their organizations to a business-embedded one.
Dane's views on the Asian IT market are commonly cited in prominent publications and broadcast media, and he is a sought-after speaker at industry events in both Asia and the US.
Dane was both the cofounder and the CEO of Springboard Research (which Forrester acquired in May 2011), where he oversaw the business and all research activities.
Prior to founding Springboard Research, Dane worked for IDC Asia/Pacific for nearly a decade in both Hong Kong and Singapore, playing a major role in the firm's regional expansion and leading a number of key research areas including personal systems, enterprise systems, vertical markets, and consulting. His last position with IDC Asia/Pacific was as vice president of consulting and vertical markets.
Dane graduated with a B.S. degree in business administration from The Citadel in the US.
This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the results from the survey on the India Datacenter market dynamics based on 102 interviews with Indian CIOs and top IT executives of...
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This report provides vendor strategists with an assessment of the IT opportunities available in the Indian retail industry. The report examines the eight key segments in India's retail sector, which...
This document presents vendor strategists with insights, observations, and analyses gained from IBM India's most recent industry briefing in New Delhi. Overall, the event was a success for IBM...
This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of IT in the media and entertainment industry in India in 2009. Having attracted an estimated $2B in foreign investment, the industry...
This document provides vendor strategists with an overview and analysis of key IT skills trends in Asia Pacific with particular focus on Australia, China, India, Malaysia, and the Philippines. It...
This report explores India's fast-growing media and entertainment industry (M&E) to help vendor strategists assess the market. Driven by India's healthy economy, rising middle class, higher incomes,...
This report provides vendor strategists with an assessment of the IT opportunities available in China's retail industry. The report examines the eight key segments in the country's retail sector,...
This report assesses the Australian retail industry and market opportunities for vendor strategists, and examines eight key segments in the dynamic and extremely competitive retail sector: food,...
This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of enterprise software adoption in Asia Pacific in 2009 based on 442 interviews with IT decision-makers and line-of-business heads in ASEAN,...
This document presents for vendor strategists the insights gained from IBM's Asia Pacific Insights Forum 2008. During the forum, IBM detailed three focus areas for growth in Asia Pacific, which were...
This report identifies and analyzes the leading system integrators and independent software vendors (ISVs) in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region (excluding Japan) to enable vendor strategists to...
This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the impact of the Oracle-Sun deal on IT industry in the key Asian markets, which account for roughly 15% and 18% of global revenue for...
This report provides an overview for vendor strategists of the service-oriented-architecture (SOA) market in Asia Pacific. Particular focus is given to key adoption drivers and inhibitors, SOA...
This report provides vendor strategists with a comprehensive overview of the uptake of service-oriented architecture (SOA) in the public sector in Asia Pacific (APAC), excluding Japan, to enable...
This document provides vendor strategists with an analysis of the key trends in Asia Pacific's IT market in 2007, and previews the top 10 trends that will shape the regional market in 2008. As the...
This document provides vendor strategists with a 2007 mid-year review of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) market in the APAC region, along with perspectives on the global trends and major...
This document provides vendor strategists with insights, observations, and analysis from HP's Software Universe event held in Brisbane, Australia from March 5-9, 2007. The insights offered in this...