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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.
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...
Performance Management: The Workforce Enablement Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution for developing effective metrics to measure the performance of your workforce computing initiatives. Identifying and implementing a comprehensive, relevant...
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...


Customer experience — its relationship to loyalty and satisfaction and the likelihood that it will lead to future business — is now a well-established discipline. However, measuring...

Continuous Improvement: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
How effective is your information strategy? You can't answer that question without a comprehensive assessment process and key performance indicator (KPI) reporting mechanism that specifically targets...
Performance Management: The Channel Partner Loyalty Playbook
Program performance management is about systematic measurement and relentless adjustment, in this case, of your channel partner loyalty program. Identifying the right metrics and implementing the...

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...
Metrics: The Strategic Software Sourcing Playbook
This report describes the metrics that form part of Forrester's solution for sourcing and vendor management (SVM) executives who are moving to strategic software sourcing. Too many sourcing...
Business Case: The Governance, Risk, And Compliance Playbook
As the governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform market matures, product vendors struggle to point to credible return on investment figures, and potential buyers similarly struggle when asked...
The BT Governance Collection: Practitioners' Experiences
As technologies and markets change rapidly, senior executives need to revisit traditional IT governance. They need to identify and deploy next-generation practices to support the CIO's transition...

Best Practices For CIOs
Customer experience (CX) is too often thought of in terms of the IT help desk. But CIOs and their IT teams are increasingly being challenged with improving the customer experience for the...
The BT Governance Collection: Communications
Implementing strong business technology (BT) governance is on the agenda for many organizations as they continue the seemingly endless pursuits of aligning IT and business strategy, getting more...
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...
The Information Security Metrics 3R Dashboard should be used as a template to present information security metrics organized across three dimensions: Readiness, Response, and Recovery. Forrester...

Performance Management: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
The benefits of improved information sharing and collaboration from deploying enterprise social computing are hard to quantify. With the exception of email and audioconferencing, collaboration...
Benchmarks: The IT Infrastructure Playbook
This report provides IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals with strategic benchmarks to compare their IT infrastructure budgets, priorities, motivations, and technology adoption to...
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...

Performance Management: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook
Information security programs have struggled with legitimacy with senior leaders for a long time. There are many reasons for this, but they all can be traced back to the historical inability of chief...

This tool assesses clients' outsourcing maturity level, identifies clients' weaknesses, and automatically prioritizes those weaknesses based on clients' scores. Additionally, it...

Strategic Plan: The I&O Practice Playbook
The writing is on the wall: As-a-service technology, tech-savvy workers, and increased business complexity are widening the gap between business demand and traditional IT supply. This era is making...
Benchmarks: The Business Architecture Playbook
Strategic change initiatives are proliferating in organizations. To facilitate execution of these initiatives, firms are investing in business architecture (BA) to help assess and plan them —...
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...
Today, many companies see outsourcing as a strategic function and seek help from IT services providers to build and operate their IT environment. Yet the result of the outsourcing trend is the...

Assessment: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook
Given the continued metastasizing of the threat landscape, it comes as no surprise that enterprises should possess mature incident response capabilities that are built on staff, augmented by...

Performance Management: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook
Mobile will touch and change everything in your business — from the way your sales reps use catalogs on iPads to engage customers at the point of sale to the way your finance team empowers your...