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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.
Size Up Your CRM Initiative Compared Against 99 Projects
How does your customer relationship management (CRM) project compare with those at other organizations? Forrester surveyed 99 organizations that are using one of 19 leading CRM suite solutions to...
Speak Your Business Partners' Language To Show And Grow Your Worth
The business/IT divide still exists in many organizations, and bridging that gap is difficult if you can't demonstrate the business value your teams deliver. It's past time to transition from...
Business Case: The CRM Playbook
Customer relationship management (CRM) initiatives must not only be technically sound but must answer the question, "What will we get for our money?" Application development and delivery (AD&D) pros...


Incremental Changes Can Have A Big Impact On Quality
All software has bugs. Application development teams do the best they can to avoid and fix them. But developing quality software is hard. Why? Virtually all application development teams are squeezed...
Performance Management: The CRM Playbook
This report outlines the method for defining metrics as part Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives looking to implement customer relationship management...

Performance Management: The Business Intelligence Playbook
Business intelligence (BI) is often defined as processes and technologies to manage business performance, with the ultimate goal of making more informed decisions based on real data, not hunches. But...

Assessment: The Business Intelligence Playbook
Forrester's business intelligence (BI) maturity self-assessment model helps BI professionals quickly assess the maturity of their current-state environments. It also allows BI pros to benchmark their...
Findings From Forrester's Digital Customer Experience Online Survey
Forrester recently surveyed 233 digital customer experience professionals with decision-making roles in digital experience (DX) technologies, asking them about their strategies for the coming 12 to...
Can you provide a list of sample metrics to use to monitor vendors during the course of a software development project? We would like to measure the performance of the vendor on an ongoing basis for...
Use This Holistic And Actionable Approach To Drive Real Improvement
Modern problems require modern solutions. As firms wrestle with transforming application development and delivery to embody business technology (BT), leaders require clear measurements to justify,...

Benchmarks: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook
This report outlines the method for defining metrics as part Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives looking to implement customer service metrics. This report...

Application Assessments Are Only A First Step Toward Rationalization
Application rationalization is a hot topic for many applications professionals and also draws the attention of enterprise architects and CIOs. Most organizations begin by compiling an inventory of...

Business Case: The Business Intelligence Playbook
As the demand for pervasive and comprehensive business intelligence (BI) applications increases, so do the complexity and cost of large enterprise BI implementations. Organizations must demonstrate...
Business Impact: The Agile And Lean Playbook
This report outlines the business impact of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives looking to implement Agile and Lean. It is designed to help AD&D execs...
Put "People Change" Front And Center
Change management is an ongoing organizational process due to the continual change that characterizes today's business. The repercussions of not handling change well include lost revenue, lower staff...
Assessment: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook
This report outlines for IT professionals more than 100 essential practices for organizations looking to deliver their digital experience transformation strategies. It asks questions such as: Do you...