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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.
This report is designed to give sales enablement professionals an introduction to the sourcing and vendor management (SVM) role, as well as an overview of the general concerns facing people in this...


Regional Success Gives The Firm A Head Start, But The Global Enterprise Market Is A Whole New Ballgame
Huawei Technologies officially entered the global enterprise market in 2011, aiming to grow its market share by leveraging its experience in the carrier network equipment market and broadening its...

This report is designed to give sales enablement professionals an introduction of the infrastructure and operations (I&O) role, as well as an overview of the general concerns facing people in this...

The job title of most sales enablement (SE) professionals today should really be VP of Broken Things. The SE leaders with whom we engage often inherit a variety of seemingly disparate activities...
One of Postbank's strategic goals is to be the "No. 1 multichannel bank in Germany." To deliver this objective, the bank has implemented multichannel sales processes — like following up open...
Responding To Rising Customer Expectations Requires New Approaches
Organizations are struggling to deal with the increasing need to improve the customer experience. They must not only deliver best-in-class products and services, but also optimize the quality of the...

How Online Retail In China Is Evolving Differently From Other Major Markets
China's eCommerce market is both one of the largest and one of the fastest growing in the world. While Forrester estimates the traditional B2C online retail markets to be larger in the US and Japan...
An Empowered Report: 2D Bar Codes: Learn Why There's No Urgency
2D bar codes have captured the attention of eBusiness professionals in many industries who are looking to bridge the gap between online and offline media. The stakes are high. Those who execute well...
Strategic Plan: The B2B Online Community Playbook
Communities fail for many reasons, but you can avoid that fate if you focus on what you can control: selecting an appropriate approach that will deliver the best business results for your customers....
Technology Trends That Will Change The Way Government Operates
The US government, with its almost $80 billion annual IT budget, is one of the largest consumers of IT goods and services in the world. It is therefore not surprising that the same technological...
Leverage These Business Models And Features For Media App Success
Product strategists launching media applications on tablets have an opportunity to launch new products on these devices and enter a new era of media consumption. The tablet is a unique device with...
Tablets Cannibalize Netbooks; Desktops Slide But Still Live On
The CEOs of Apple and Microsoft may disagree about the future of the PC, but we see growth as consumers adopt multiple PCs to fit their lifestyle. Nearly half a billion PCs will be sold to consumers...
Tech Marketers Optimize For Their Product Categories, Not Customers' Problems
Throughout the technology adoption life cycle, including scoping approaches, choosing products, and implementing solutions, business technologists initiate information gathering with search tools....
A noteworthy 24.8 million US homes have watched online video on a TV set, most of it put there by Netflix with the help of dozens of different devices. Online video delivered over the top is so...

An Empowered Report: A Social Co-Creation Case Study
Earlier this year, Ford launched a social co-creation site called "Your Ideas," which is an offshoot of its "The Ford Story" site designed to engage Ford enthusiasts. At Your Ideas, customers are...
Design Products Using Feature Tradeoff Simulation
We find that not enough consumer product strategists employ conjoint analysis to aid product design and pricing. Conjoint subjects consumers to a simulated purchasing exercise, varying the features...
Amid the ups and downs of the global economy, the interest in innovation among senior business leadership has only increased. Most CEOs recognize that in a business environment characterized by...