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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.
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).
Derek completed the Early Growth Program at London Business School.
Forrester's Data Security And Control Framework
Forrester segments the problem of securing and controlling data into three areas: 1) defining the data; 2) dissecting and analyzing the data; and 3) defending and protecting the data. We refer to...

Rethinking Data Discovery And Classification For Data Security
Defining data via data discovery and classification is an often overlooked, yet critical, component of data security and control. Security and risk (S&R) pros can't expect to adequately protect data...

Stakeholder Needs: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution for security and risk executives seeking to develop a data privacy and protection program and gain stakeholder support. As a security and risk (S&R)...

Benchmarks: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook
Benchmarks: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook
This report outlines the benchmarks of Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) executives working on mobile security and operations initiatives. This report provides a benchmark of budgets,...

Policy And Procedures US Government Spotlight: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook
US federal law, specifically the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), requires US federal government agencies to adhere to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...
Benchmarks: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook
This report outlines the benchmarks for Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) professionals looking to develop their organization's data security and privacy strategy. Throughout the year,...

A Snapshot Of Adoption From The InformationWeek 500
Smart Computing, the latest cycle of tech innovation and growth based on new technologies of awareness, analysis, and alternatives, began in 2008. Since then, a growing number of companies have...