Derek Miers

Principal Analyst serving Enterprise Architecture PROFESSIONALS

Derek serves Enterprise Architecture Professionals. He is an internationally recognized expert in business process management (BPM) and organizational transformation. He has worked in this area for more than 20 years, dealing with major brands, governmental organizations, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Derek's research focuses on the methods, approaches, frameworks, tools, techniques, and technologies of business architecture; BPM; business process improvement; business transformation; and organizational change. He places special emphasis on an outcome-based, customer-focused approach.

Previous Work Experience

Derek is a well-known keynote speaker and chair of major EA conferences. As co-chair of BPMI.org, he helped merge the organization with the Object Management Group (OMG).


Education

Derek completed the Early Growth Program at London Business School.

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  • Application Development
  • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

    Report:APeJ IT Services Report: 2010

    This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the IT services market in APeJ in 2011. The research is based on interviews with key MNCs and local vendors in the Asia Pacific IT...

    • Downloads: 39
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Tool:Evaluated Vendors: Product Information And Selection Criteria

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Hiring Creative Developers

    10 Questions You Should Ask Prospective Developers

    High-performance software development organizations get that way because of their culture. One of the most important ways that frontline managers can help evolve a culture toward high performance is...

    • Downloads: 356
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Charts & Figures:Evaluated Vendors: Product Information And Selection Criteria

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Client Inquiry:Application Development Knowledge Transfer Best Practices

    What are the best practices for ensuring that requirements/knowledge in software development is passed along to the next team? We encounter this problem with every single project because the...

    • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

      Tool:Mobile Development Popularity Is Now On Companies' Radar More Than Ever

    • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

      Report:Mobile Technologies That Drive Sales

      Tools And Technology: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook

      New phone features and capabilities are cropping up seemingly by the day. At the same time, this fast-paced change is dramatically affecting how eBusiness professionals interact with their teams and...

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    • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

      Report:Here Comes The Open Web — Embrace It

      The New Web Platform For Customer Engagement And Much More (Part 1)

      The Web is moving on to a new era of openness, mobility, and digital business. The open Web is a platform built on HTTP (the fundamental web protocol), a new generation of HTML, dynamic languages,...

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    • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

      Report:It's Time To Take Agile To The Next Level

      Tool Up, Lean Out, And Deliver More Often To Drive Business Agility

      Agile adoption continues to grow, but organizations will not be able to harness the benefits of business agility without adding additional approaches to Agile. Forrester has observed three additions...

      • Downloads: 1360
    • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

      Report:Build An Agile BI Organization

      Organization: The Business Intelligence Playbook

      Earlier-generation business intelligence (BI) support centers — organized along the same lines as support centers for all other enterprise software — fall short when it comes to taking...

      • Downloads: 1320
    • For CIO Professionals

      Report:Understanding The Future (Potential) Oracle stack

      Springboard Research believes the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle will continue to have a significant impact on the enterprise IT landscape for years to come. For individual IT...

      • Downloads: 13
    • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

      Report:Optimize Your Mobile Banking Strategy

      Continuous Improvement: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook

      Congratulations! Your mobile banking web, iPhone, iPad, and Android apps are live, and adoption has surpassed your wildest expectations. But what now? Digital banking teams need to test and optimize...

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    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Tool:Forrester Wave™: Online Testing, Q3 2010

    • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

      Report:Cloud Computing Brings Demand For Elastic Application Platforms

      EAPs Ease Delivery Of Elastic Apps, Smoothing A Path To Cloud's Benefits

      Promises that cloud computing can save money and reduce time-to-market by automatically scaling applications (either up or down) oversimplify what it takes to develop application architectures to...

      • Downloads: 1182
    • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

      Report:Mobility Adoption Is Poised For Strong Growth In India

      An Improving Mobility Infrastructure And Ecosystem, Combined With Business And Workforce Demand, Is Fueling Growth

      The enterprise mobility market presents a huge opportunity for tech vendors in India, especially for telcos and systems integrators (SIs). Mobility is among the top priorities for business...

      • Downloads: 361
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    • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

      Tool:Forrester Wave™: Open Source Business Intelligence, Q3 '10

    • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

      Report:Sustain Agile With Formal And Informal Training

      Change Management: The Agile And Lean Playbook

      This report outlines the change management for Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on Agile and Lean. This report is designed to help you...

      • Downloads: 553
    • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

      Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Public Cloud Platforms, Q2 2013

      One Size Does Not Fit All Developer Needs

      Public cloud platforms are the keys that unlock the flexibility, productivity, and economic advantages of cloud computing. Application development and delivery (AD&D) pros use a wide variety of...

      • Downloads: 205
    • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

      Report:Delivering Custom Apps For Competitive Advantage

      Global Firms Assemble Custom Apps To Support Key Processes

      Manufacturers in mature industries such as automotive or more recently aerospace have evolved from making every component to focusing on market requirements and designing and managing "bought in"...

      • Downloads: 415
    • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

      Client Inquiry:Job Description Posting For An SOA Architect

      Can you please send some key requirements, skills, areas of focus, and areas of demonstrated expertise for an SOA architect?

      • For CIO Professionals

        Report:A Market Taxonomy For ICT

        Forrester's Definitions For Tech Product Categories, Industries, And Geographies

        Forrester is expanding the breadth and depth of data that we provide to vendor strategists on the size and growth trends of the market for information and communications technology (ICT) solutions....

        • Downloads: 961
      • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

        Report:CMOs Must Merge Marketing With IT To Win In The Digital Decade

        Assessing Your Marketing-IT Partnership Readiness To Develop A Custom Action Plan

        In the future, only companies that understand and anticipate their customers' needs and can consistently deliver unique, tailored customer experiences will be able to attract and retain loyal...

        • Downloads: 721
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      • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

        Report:Evaluating Application Fit With Cloud

        Questions You Should Be Asking To Determine Where To Run Your Apps

        Faced with a multitude of public and private infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings, firms must determine their approach for leveraging these options. Enterprise architects should begin mapping...

        • Downloads: 1080
      • For Sales Enablement Professionals

        Tool:Human Capital Management (HCM) Software Adoption

      • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

        Report:Market Overview: Business Rules Platforms 2011

        Which Are The Safe And Best Choices Now

        After two years of vendor consolidation, which are the best business rules platforms for application development and delivery professionals to consider? In our judgment, based on growth rates, market...

        • Downloads: 1132
      • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

        Report:Align BAs And Quality Assurance Professionals To Drive Higher Quality — And Happier Customers

        The need to develop applications that return high value at a reasonable cost is driving applications organizations to assemble highly productive teams that can deliver high-quality outcomes....

        • Downloads: 812
       
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